Collection consists of an impartial 19th-century transcription of Franquet's "Voyages et mémoires sur le Canada" (https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/oclc/49159386) by an unknown author, along with its English translation.

The collection consists of books, periodicals, and published ephemera related to alternative media between roughly the 1960s and 1998. The collections has a special focus on Quebec alternative, grassroots, and political publications as well as journalism trade publications and ephemera, and union and labour movement publications. Some publications are from Cuba and China, including Cuban calendars and some documents, books, and newspapers on China.