McCord Stewart Museum

Annual 19—20 Report Message from Message from the the Chair of President and Chief 1 the Board 2 Executive Officer P. 4 P. 6

Collections and Knowledge and Acquisitions Research 3 P. 8 4 P. 16

Conservation Exhibitions 5 P. 20 6 P. 22

Education, Marketing, Community Communications 7 Engagement and 8 and Visitor Cultural Programs Experience P. 32 P. 38

Sustainable The McCord Development Museum Foundation 9 P. 42 10 P. 44

Museum and Donors and Foundation Partners 11 Financial 12 P. 62 Statements P. 54

Board of Trustees and 13 Museum Team P. 70 To reduce our environmental impact, this report is being published in electronic format only. The PDF file may be downloaded. 2 McCord Stewart Museum Monique Jérôme-Forget A balanced Chair of the Board 1 Message budget, despite of Trustees from the Chair the pandemic The 2019-2020 fiscal year was marked by unusual reversals. Up to the end of the third of the Board quarter, the Museum could take pride in the remarkable success of its various initiatives, the development of numerous successful projects, and record attendance at both institutions. However, this exciting momentum came to a recognizing the Museum’s role in educating and sudden stop in the first quarter of 2020 with enhancing awareness of Indigenous cultures the arrival in North America of the COVID-19 within Montreal’s arts community. pandemic, the resulting economic slowdown and the unexpected closure of the Museum. Thanks also go to all the members of our Board of Trustees, particularly Daniel Fournier, who This sudden reversal of fortune obviously resigned as Chair of the McCord Museum generated a number of problems for us as well Foundation after filling this position for over six as for all cultural and economic organizations. years; previously the Chair of the Museum Board We are nonetheless proud of having maintained of Trustees, Daniel has made an outstanding a balanced budget and finishing the year without contribution to our success for many years. a deficit, thanks to careful management, strict cost controls and the Foundation’s ability to It gives me great pleasure to welcome two new respect its financial commitment. In short, we members to the Board: Catherine Desbarats, closed the year on a positive note, despite the an associate professor in McGill University’s dramatic impact of the health crisis. Department of History, who joined the Board several months ago, and Claude Gendron, a In the past few years, we have often deplored member of our Foundation’s Board, who has the lack of space in the Museum. However, to agreed to serve as interim Chair of the Foundation. date, no concrete steps have been taken to improve the situation and our needs are Finally, thank you to our President and Chief becoming more and more pressing. Clearly, Executive Officer, Suzanne Sauvage, and her there is an urgent need to move forward with entire team. The work they have managed to our new Museum project. For example, we have accomplish in this year of both welcome and had to declare a two-year moratorium on our unwelcome surprises has been remarkable, and collecting activities, given the lack of storage I would like to express my sincere appreciation. space to accommodate new artefact donations and the tight quarters of our conservation and production workshops. In addition, we also lack space to adequately meet the growing demand from schools for our educational programs. It is therefore critical that the provincial and federal governments hear our plea; the Museum’s upcoming centenary is the ideal opportunity for them to finally grant the support needed to carry out this project so crucial to the Museum’s future.

Government support is also key to the Museum’s ability to pursue its mission and development. On behalf of my fellow Board members and Museum stakeholders, I would like to sincerely thank the Quebec government and its Ministère de la Culture et des Communications, as well as the Conseil des arts de Montréal, for involving us in many of their indigenization initiatives, thus

Dress, bustier and skirt, Jean-Claude Poitras, 1990, Musée de la civilisation, Gift of Jean-Claude Poitras, 2001-352-1 to 3 4 McCord Stewart Museum 5 2019-2020 Annual Report Suzanne Sauvage The indigenization of the President and Chief 2 Message from Museum: A recognized, Executive Officer the President successful process While the COVID-19 pandemic had a serious impact on the Museum in the last quarter and Chief of its fiscal year, the first nine months were exceptional. One of our proudest achievements was our continuing effort to indigenize the Executive Officer Museum, notably by increasing our focus on Indigenous cultures in our exhibitions and photographic commissions to document the activities and by welcoming Jonathan Lainey city’s neighbourhoods, Robert Walker was as Curator, Indigenous Cultures. A member of asked to chronicle the radical transformation of the Huron-Wendat Nation, he is working with Griffintown. Thirdly, we participated once again all of our departments to ensure a fair and in MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image by hosting inclusive representation of Indigenous cultures artist Celia Perrin Sidarous and her exhibition The throughout the Museum. Archivist, a lively dialogue between her personal collection and that of the Museum. Of the 12 exhibitions presented last year in our two museums, several had a link—either Our tenth toys exhibition, It’s Your Move! Board direct or indirect—with Indigenous cultures: in Games: Larger Than Life, along with the second collaboration with guest curator Kwiaahwah annual presentation of Ogilvy’s mechanical Jones, Sding K’awXangs—Haida: Supernatural holiday window displays, made the McCord end Stories magnificently highlighted our remarkable the year 2019 on a happy note. collection of Haida artefacts, while Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience by Cree Moreover, Notman: A Visionary Photographer was artist Kent Monkman reflected on the 150 presented at the Canadian Museum of History years of Canada’s history—a period marked in Gatineau, while the Art Gallery of Ontario in by the adoption of genocidal policies—and Toronto hosted Illusions – The Art of Magic. honoured the incredible resilience of Indigenous peoples. We also welcomed Hannah Claus as We were proud to launch EncycloFashionQC, the Artist in Residence this year. A visual artist of first and only online reference on the history of Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk) and English ancestry, fashion in Quebec, created with the generous she drew inspiration from our Archives and support of the company SAJO. Material Culture collections to create the exhibition there’s a reason for our connection. Finally, it is important to highlight two major The Museum once again paid tribute to a initiatives of our Education, Community Quebec fashion designer with the exhibition Engagement and Cultural Programs team: firstly, Jean-Claude Poitras: Fashion and Inspiration. its engagement with Indigenous communities, This presentation of the prolific designer’s which was recognized by the Conseil des arts four-decade career was the McCord’s first de Montréal; secondly, The Story Factory, a co-production with the Musée de la civilisation. collaborative educational space at the Stewart Museum that enables children to develop their For its part, the Stewart Museum produced creativity while learning about history. the innovative Nights, an original exhibition combining literature, theatre and museology, In closing, I would like to thank my incredible which displayed objects from our collection in team, whose creativity, determination and a theatrical setting inspired by original stories commitment drive the success of the Museum. by four prominent Quebec authors. I would also like to express my appreciation to the members of the Board of Trustees and its In line with our mission as a museum of Chair, Monique Jérôme-Forget, for the trust they photography, the Museum presented The have placed in me for so many years. Polaroid Project - At the Intersection of Art and Technology, produced by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography in collaboration with the MIT Museum and the WestLicht Museum for Photography in Vienna. As part reflections on time and space through material production, digital print, 2019. © Hannah Clauss of Evolving Montreal, our new program of

6 McCord Stewart Museum 7 2019-2020 Annual Report 3 Collections and New acquisitions The McCord Stewart Museum continues to (covering the years 1972 to 1996), Montreal expand one of Canada’s leading sources of banker Jackson Dodds (1914 to 1961), the documents and objects in the field of social Drummond family and the Smeaton Brothers Acquisitions history research. In 2019-2020, this collection studio (1868 to 1915). In addition, some 15% of was enhanced by 144 donations representing the artefacts acquired are political cartoons a total of 8,839 artefacts and 16.56 linear by Chapleau (La Presse), Garnotte (Le Devoir), metres of textual records. Photographs R. Pier (Le Journal de Montréal), Bado (Le Droit) accounted for approximately 80% of these and Fleg (Le Soleil). objects, thanks to the acquisition of archives from photographer Michel Élie Tremblay

Collections Donations Objects/Documents

Archives 21 16.56 linear metres

Documentary Art 6 1,326 (cartoons)

Documentary Art 8 123 (other)

Stewart Collection 1 108

Dress, Fashion and 38 167 Textiles

Material Culture 16 232

Indigenous Cultures 5 20

Photography 17 6,863

Mixed Donations 32 (included above)

Total 144 8,839 objects and 16.56 linear metres

Deaccessions

The McCord Stewart Museum considers transferred to other museums. A second deaccessioning a sound collections man- deaccession committee was scheduled for agement practice. Since collections must March 25, 2020, but the meeting was cancelled serve an institution’s mission, it is sometimes because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 87 objects necessary to re-evaluate their relevance, and groups of items selected will therefore be preferably on a recurring basis. Over the past evaluated at a later date. From now on, the year, the Museum disposed of 90 objects and Museum will conduct deaccessioning activities groups of items that were deaccessioned in as part of its regular practice. the spring of 2019, many of which were

Normand Rajotte, Child in the Centre-Sud neighbour- hood, schoolyard at the corner of Beaudry and Robin, Montreal, 1979. Gift of Normand Rajotte, 8 McCord Stewart MuseumM2019.97.14 © McCord Stewart Museum 9 2019-2020 Annual Report Indigenous Cultures Several remarkable Spruce root basket woven by Primrose donations Adams and painted by Robert Davidson, 1985. Gift of Shimshon Hamerman

Textual Archives The painted image, entitled Hands that hold Document given to the Honorable John the world, depicts a person holding the sides of Young, 1863. Gift of Kenneth Hague the basket. With some 500 woven baskets and birchbark containers, the McCord Museum has Written on a roll of paper over 10 feet long, this an extensive collection of basketry from First declaration signed by 561 individuals expresses Nations across Canada and the United States. gratitude that John Young, a tireless promoter Most of these objects were collected in the late of Montreal’s commercial development, and 19th and early 20th centuries. Basketry remains his family had survived the sinking of the a highly respected art form among Indigenous Anglo-Saxon off the coast of Newfoundland. peoples, and this basket is a welcome addition When John Young’s archives were donated to the to our contemporary pieces. Queen’s University Archives in Kingston, Ontario, this document was kept in the family. The donor is a descendent of Young. He presented it to the McCord Stewart Museum in light of Montreal’s Address to the Honorable John Young signed by 561 connection to the event and the individual. notables and citizens of Montreal on May 5, 1863. Gift of Kenneth Hague, M2018.108.1 Basket, Hands that hold the world, 1985. Woven © McCord Stewart Museum by Primrose Adams, painted by Robert Davidson, Haida. Gift of Shimshon Hamerman, M2019.100.1 © McCord Stewart Museum

Material Culture – Domestic Objects Documentary Art "Prince of Wales" stove, after 1861, made Maurice Cullen, The Montreal Stock Exchange, Robert Pilot, Old military barracks, île by William Clendinneng, Montreal. Gift of 1904. Gift of the Montreal Exchange Sainte-Hélène, about 1965. Gift of the David H. Clendenning Montreal Exchange The former Montreal Stock Exchange, a building This stove was made by the foundry of William inspired by a Greek temple, was constructed Painted by Robert Wakeham Pilot (1898-1967), Clendinneng, Senior (1833-1907), a Montreal on St. François-Xavier Street in 1903-1904. It this view of the fort on St. Helen’s Island businessman, politician and philanthropist. was created by American architect George B. illustrates the Montreal Military & Maritime Established in 1810 near the Lachine Canal in Post, who also designed the prestigious New Museum, now the Stewart Museum, when it Griffintown, the foundry, which started with York Stock Exchange. This painting was done by opened its doors in 1965. Part of the arsenal a single forge, grew to become the largest Cullen for the building’s 1904 inauguration. The and the island’s lighthouse can be seen in the foundry in Canada by 1838 and a key actor artist has depicted the building’s full original foreground, across the water from the Port of in Montreal’s early industrial development. width with its monumental portico set behind Montreal and downtown Montreal’s first iconic It produced cast iron stoves and ornamental six Corinthian columns; the two towers of skyscrapers, including the Stock Exchange ironwork, agricultural and railway castings, Notre-Dame Basilica can be seen in the Tower, CIBC Tower and Place Ville-Marie. John Henry Walker, Catalogue illustration of a stove, drains and gas pipes, and household goods. about 1861. M930.50.7.491 background. The Centaur Theatre has occupied The foundry closed its doors in 1904. © McCord Stewart Museum the building since 1969.

William Clendinneng registered this stove model in 1861, making it “Canada’s first industrial design” under the Industrial Design Act adopted by the Province of Canada before Confederation.

Maurice Cullen, The Montreal Stock Exchange, Robert Pilot, Old military barracks, île Sainte-Hélène, 1904. Gift of the Montreal Exchange, M2019.55.5 © about 1965. Gift of the Montreal Exchange, McCord Stewart Museum M2019.55.6 © McCord Stewart Museum

10 McCord Stewart Museum 11 2019-2020 Annual Report Photography A series of 40 prints by photographer Applications for Normand Rajotte on the theme of Children certification of cultural in my neighbourhood, Montreal’s Centre-Sud neighbourhood, 1979. Gift of Normand Rajotte property

Born in Drummondville, Quebec, in 1952, Normand Rajotte lives and works in Montreal During the year 2019-2020, the McCord and the Eastern Townships. A self-taught Stewart Museum submitted two applications photographer, he began by working in the for certification to the Canadian Cultural documentary tradition, creating series like Property Export Review Board, which was Trans-Canada Highway, Exit 109 (published scheduled to meet March 24-27, 2020. How- in book form in 1978, with him as co-author), ever, the Board had to cancel its meeting to Normand Rajotte, Children in the Centre-Sud Children in my neighbourhood (Centre-Sud, neighbourhood, Visitation Street near Robin Street, minimize the health risks associated with Montreal) (1979) and Agricultural fairs Montreal, 1979. Gift of Normand Rajotte, M2019.97.28 the COVID-19 pandemic; it will resume its © McCord Stewart Museum (1980-1981). His photographic practice took activities when federal organizations are a new direction in the early 1980s, when he authorized to do so. developed what would turn out to be a lifelong passion for landscapes. Halloween – Montreal, Quebec (Canada), 41 photographs by Serge Clément, 1995. Gift of Philippe Gervais

The series Halloween – Montreal, Quebec Fonds of photographers Charles Smeaton (Canada) by Serge Clément is comprised of and John Smeaton, 1866-1915. Gift of 41 scenes photographed in Montreal during W. James Smeaton the four days leading up to the 1995 Quebec referendum, that is, October 27, 28, 29 and The sons of Scottish immigrants, brothers 30. The series was commissioned by the Charles Smeaton (Quebec City, 1838 – Rome, magazine Canadian Art, more specifically 1868) and John Smeaton (Quebec City, 1842 – by editor Sarah Milroy. Serge Clément sent Montreal, 1904) began running a Quebec City the magazine 10 photographs per day, plus a photography studio in 1862. Charles left in 1865 41st image (M2019.141.41) taken during the Serge Clément, Café Porté disparu, Mont-Royal and ended up in Italy, where he was one of the period following the referendum. A selection Street, Montreal, 1995. Gift of Philippe Gervais, first to photograph the catacombs of Rome of these photographs was published under M2019.141.9 © Serge Clément using the new process of burning magnesium the title Four Days in the Life of Quebec in Charles Smeaton, Fresco depicting early Christians ribbon. John left the Quebec City studio in on the walls of the Catacombs of Rome,1866-1868. Canadian Art, vol. 12, no. 4, winter 1995-1996. 1870-71 and moved to Montreal, where he Gift of W. James Smeaton, M2019.7.2.36 focussed on photoengraving, notably for the Montreal Star newspaper. The Art World in Montreal, 1960-1980, 45 photographs by Gabor Szilasi. Gift of Gabor Szilasi

These photographs of art openings taken in the 1960s and 1970s by Gabor Szilasi (Hungary, 1928) document Montreal’s art scene and how it evolved during this period. The photographs depict exhibition spaces, artists, gallery owners, critics and art lovers. The silver prints were produced by Gabor Szilasi in 2017. This series was presented at the McCord Museum in the exhibition Gabor Szilasi: The Art World in Montreal, 1960-1980, which was held December Gabor Szilasi, Jessie Ogilvie and Susan Caine 8, 2017, to April 29, 2018. The images in this at the opening of the Susan Caine exhibition at series were also published in 2019 in the book the Mansfield Book Mart, Montreal, January 1969. Gift of Gabor Szilasi, M2018.39.19 Gabor Szilasi: The Art World in Montreal, 1960- © Gabor Szilasi 1980 by Zoë Tousignant, the Museum’s Associate Curator of Photography.

12 McCord Stewart Museum 13 2019-2020 Annual Report Loans to other Borrowed objects museums As part of its operations, the Collections The McCord Stewart Museum made or renewed Centre d’histoire de Montréal, the Museum Management department borrowed or 32 loan agreements in 2019-2020, for a total of of the Sisters of Providence, the Montreal restored 475 objects in 2019-2020 for the 211 objects in circulation. Among the museums Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée de la following exhibitions: to benefit were the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the civilisation de Québec.

Exhibitions Objects

Wearing Our Identity – The First Peoples Collection 6 Object loaned to the Musée de la civilisation Object loaned to the Montreal Museum de Québec of Fine Arts Sding K’awXangs – Haida: Supernatural Stories 17

Notman: A Visionary Photographer 3

Hannah Claus - there’s a reason for our connection 5

Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience 124

Jean-Claude Poitras: Fashion and Inspiration 85

The Polaroid Project – At the Intersection of Art and Technology 22

Nights 11

It’s Your Move! Board Games: Larger Than Life 37

History and Memory 13

Terrestrial globe, Johann Reinhold, Germany, The Story Factory 2 1577-1580. 1987.15

Griffintown – Evolving Montréal 20

Chapleau, Profession: Cartoonist 26

Parachute (postponed until 2021) 104

Microscope belonging to Sir William Dawson, Dollond, London, about 1825. M19494.1-46

Kent Monkman, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, February 8 – May 5, 2019. This exhibition featured some 124 objects from 17 different lenders. The McCord Stewart Museum contributed three Iroquois cradleboards and five pieces of tableware from its collections.

14 McCord Stewart Museum 15 2019-2020 Annual Report The Archives and 4 Knowledge Documentation Centre

The Archives and Documentation Centre provides Presentations and Research access to all McCord Museum collections. The Shared Emotions project, carried out in Researchers from all fields have two ways 2018-2019 by the Textual Archives team, gave rise to access the McCord Museum’s collections: to two academic papers. Firstly, at the annual consult the online database or use the more conference of the Association des archivistes complete computerized catalogue available du Québec, held in Gatineau June 5-7, 2019, on-site at the Museum. Users of the Archives Curatorial Assistants Eugénie Marcil and Patricia and Documentation Centre also have access Prost presented “Indexer l’univers sensible. Le to a library of 9,000 reference works, specialized projet Sensibilités partagées du Musée McCord, periodicals and the 2,500 or so titles in its ou comment rendre compte des sentiments rare book collection. In addition, researchers qui se cachent dans les documents d’archives.” can consult more than 800 archival fonds and Then, Mathieu Lapointe, Curator, Textual Archives, collections comprising more than 310 linear gave a talk entitled “Identité, communauté et metres of textual documents and over 1.3 million diversité au Musée McCord : le projet Sensibilités photographic archives. partagées” at Identity, Community and Diversity: A Conference in Honour of Roberto Perin, held at The Centre is certified by the Bibliothèque et York University, September 27. Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) and as such receives an annual grant to support Cynthia Cooper, Head, Collections and Research, its efforts to develop archival collections and and Curator, Dress, Fashion and Textiles, make them more accessible to a wide public. delivered two papers: “Tartanizing Canada” at the Second Annual Colloquium of the Chair In the year 2019-2020, the Centre’s staff in Canadian-Scottish Studies, McGill University, welcomed 344 researchers on-site for some May 3, and “The Red River Coat” at Everyday 500 research visits and answered approximately Fashion: Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Clothes, 1,760 requests by telephone, email or mail. The University of Huddersfield and University of staff also led many guided tours of the Centre Leeds, UK, June 27-28, 2019. and made its resources available to numerous researchers from a wide variety of backgrounds, Anne MacKay, Head, Conservation, presented notably academia, the arts, the media, and “The Mysterious M1: Reflections on the Indigenous communities. Treatment of a Mi’kmaq Basket” at the 45th Annual Conference and Workshops of the Thanks to major digitization projects carried Canadian Association for Conservation, out in the last few years, it is much easier Dalhousie University, Halifax, June 1, 2019, to access our Archives collections remotely, followed by “Conservation and the Broken World” which increases the number of opportunities at the ICOM-CC Joint Interim Meeting, Paintings for online consultation. This year, an addi- and Theory, History, and Ethics of Conservation tional 116 historical documents totalling 1,026 Working Groups, NOVA University of Lisbon, images were digitized and made available on February 7, 2020. the Museum’s Website. Sonia Kata, Conservator, gave a paper entitled “And There Was Light: Restoring the Notman & Son Neon Sign” at the 47th annual meeting of the Sharing our expertise American Institute for Conservation, Uncasville, Connecticut, May 15, 2019.

The McCord Stewart Museum is always proud Caroline Bourgeois, Conservation Assistant, gave to share its knowledge and expertise with a two-day hands-on workshop on constructing experts, other organizations and the general buckram mannequins at Lessons Learned: Textile public. Staff from the Collections and Research Conservation – Then and Now, the 12th biennial and Conservation departments present scholarly North American Textile Conservation Conference, papers at conferences and symposia, publish Ottawa, September 23-24, 2019. articles and catalogue essays, collaborate with academic and other communities, and provide content to various media. Charles Edenshaw, Haida basket, 1921. Gift of the Art Association of Montreal, ACC1811 © McCord Stewart Museum 16 McCord Stewart Museum 17 2019-2020 Annual Report Publications In collaboration with McGill-Queen’s University Press, the McCord Museum published Gabor Szilasi: The Art World in Montreal, 1960-1980, a book edited by Zoë Tousignant, Associate Curator, Photography.

Two staff members published articles in the academic journal Magicol – A Journal of Magic History and Collectibles, No. 194, September 2019. Sonia Kata, Conservator, wrote “Disappearing Before Your Very Eyes: Microfade Testing the McCord’s Magic Posters,” pp. 27-36, while Christian Vachon, Curator, Documentary Art, contributed “Dating the Impossible,” pp. 9-26. (https://www.magicana.com/buy/publications/ magicol/magicol-no-194).

Jonathan Lainey, Curator, Indigenous Cultures, published an introduction entitled “Faire de la place” in EUX et NOUS - La place des Autochtones dans l’enseignement de l’histoire nationale du Québec, Volume 3, by Helga Elisabeth Bories-Sawala and Thibault Martin (†) (http://elib.suub.uni-bremen.de/ edocs/00106632-1.pdf).

Serving scholarly communities The members of the Museum team also share their expertise with their colleagues in the academic community. For example, Anne MacKay, Head, Conservation, is an associate editor of the Journal of the Canadian Association for Conservation, while Jonathan Lainey, Curator, Indigenous Cultures, is a member of the editorial board for the magazine Recherches amérindiennes au Québec.

In the past year, curatorial and conservation staff were also asked to chair conference sessions, sit on committees for professional associations and evaluate a doctoral thesis in museology and a master’s thesis in visual arts.

Serge Clément, Clark Street, view of downtown, 6 pm, 1995. Gift of Philippe Gervais, M2019.141.27 © McCord Stewart Museum 18 McCord Stewart Museum 19 2019-2020 Annual Report 5 Conservation Conservation The Conservation Department applies best Accordingly, these types of garments are now practices to all activities associated with kept in a refrigerated 12°C vault and provided preserving the Museum’s collections; this with interior supports to ensure they maintain includes monitoring the museum environment their shape and can be handled. Furthermore, a and ensuring high standards in exhibiting, separating layer of Teflon is added to all areas storing and transporting its objects. In addition, where the plastic overlaps and runs the risk conservators undertake treatments on all of sticking together permanently, notably under objects to be displayed or loaned and conduct the sleeves and collars. research both on the collections and on conservation issues. The Conservation Department lent its expertise to the planning and mounting of the Museum’s Over the last year, conservators brought to exhibitions throughout the year 2019-2020; it the fore their expertise in the preservation of also treated nearly 600 objects for the exhibitions modern plastics in developing innovative storage Celia Perrin Sidarous: The Archivist, Nights, solutions for some of the more unstable objects Jean-Claude Poitras: Fashion and Inspiration, in our collection. This exercise uncovered It’s Your Move! Board Games: Larger Than Life!, numerous examples of decaying vinyl and Chapleau, Profession: Cartoonist, Parachute, polyurethane clothing, notably raincoats and and the sixth edition of the permanent exhibition faux leather jackets and dresses from the Wearing Our Identity – The First Peoples Collection. late 20th century. These types of plastics are Finally, the Department continued to play an unstable and deteriorate rapidly in ordinary important role in maintaining high preservation environments: over time, plasticizers build up on standards for the acquisition and loan of the the surface of the object, staining it and making Museum’s artefacts. it sticky, and the plastic becomes deformed, showing cracks and various other types of damage. Although the Conservation team can treat these objects to improve their appearance, the degradation process continues if the items are not stored under optimal conditions.

Raincoat, about 1968. Cotton, polyvinyl chloride, Coat, 1972-1973. Wool, polyurethane, M976.36.7 metal, M2014.40.1 © McCord Stewart Museum © McCord Stewart Museum Bag, Hocąk, 1860-1890. Gift of John S. M. Hayes, ME970.85.2 © McCord Stewart Museum

20 McCord Stewart Museum 21 2019-2020 Annual Report Exhibitions at the 6 Exhibitions McCord Museum

A year focussed on Indigenous cultures case of finely decorated clothing, express the respect that hunters have for the animals Indigenous cultures took pride of place in the that enable their families to survive. A major Museum’s programming for the year 2019-2020. symbol of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit, In addition to the permanent exhibition Wearing clothing contributes to the development, Our Identity – The First Peoples Collection, preservation and communication of their social, the Museum presented three temporary cultural, political and spiritual identities. The exhibitions: Shame and Prejudice: A Story of inclusion of works by contemporary artists Resilience, by internationally renowned Cree selected by Indigenous artist and curator Nadia artist Kent Monkman, there’s a reason for our Myre enables First Peoples to demonstrate connection, by Hannah Claus, a multidisciplinary their desire to preserve and revive their ancestral visual artist of Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) and cultural values. English descent, and Sding K’awXangs – Haida: Supernatural Stories, featuring our exceptional collection of objects from Haida culture.

Wearing Our Identity – The First Peoples Collection Permanent Exhibition

Created in a close partnership with members of Indigenous communities, this exhibition invites visitors to reflect on clothing as a means of identity affirmation. For the First Nations, Métis and Inuit, dress does not serve solely utilitarian purposes; it also helps quickly differentiate between allies and enemies and keep the latter at bay, demonstrate the power of spiritual leaders like shamans and, in the

Moccasins, Vuntut Gwich’in, 2015. M2016.43.1.1.1-2 © McCord Stewart Museum Barbara Crane, Private Views, 1981. © Barbara Crane

22 McCord Stewart Museum 23 2019-2020 Annual Report Kent Monkman Hannah Claus Sding K’awXangs — Haida: Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience there’s a reason for our connection Supernatural Stories Exhibition produced and toured by the Art March 7 to August 11, 2019 April 25 to October 27, 2019 Museum at the University of Toronto in partnership with the Confederation Centre The works in this exhibition began with an Featuring more than 100 rare objects—most Art Gallery, Charlottetown idea that became something else as a result of them from the Museum’s rich Indigenous February 8 to May 5, 2019 of time spent opening the drawers of the Cultures collection—as well as works by McCord Museum’s archive to examine many contemporary artists, the exhibition immersed The exhibition Shame and Prejudice: A Story and varied hand-stitched, woven and worn visitors in the Haida culture of yesterday and of Resilience revisited Canadian history as objects, and deciphering handwritten his- today, as they discovered the priceless treasures seen through the eyes of Miss Chief Eagle tories: notes, letters and ledgers. The works and beauty of a culture that was almost Testickle, the flamboyant spiritual alter ego of were developed through thinking about the wiped out in the late 19th century. In addition Cree artist Kent Monkman. A witness to key connections between objects and their makers, to magnificent objects originally collected by moments in the history of First Peoples, Miss objects and their collectors, and how the adopted Montrealer George Mercer Dawson Chief reflected on the 150 years of Canada’s objects transition between the archive and before they were incorporated into the existence—a period marked by the adoption the living world. © McCord Stewart Museum McCord Museum’s collection, the exhibition of devastating genocidal policies—and honoured showcased works by contemporary Haida the resilience of Indigenous peoples. Hannah Claus is a multidisciplinary visual artists selected by guest curator Kwiaahwah artist of Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) and English Jones. Various aspects of Haida culture were In a display inspired by manuscripts from ancestry. She has worked and lived in Tiohtià:ke highlighted, including its artistic vocabulary, another age, visitors discovered Monkman’s (Montreal) since 2001. She uses installations the potlatch and spirituality, always in parallel paintings, sculptures and installations, and their to create sensory environments that speak of with supernatural stories that inhabit and challenge to the predominant interpretation of memory and transformation. animate the artefacts. Canadian history. Throughout the exhibition, the incisive, harrowing story told by Miss Chief The exhibition was presented as part of the Eagle Testickle was shared through her memoirs McCord Museum’s Artist-in-Residence program, in nine thematic chapters. At its core, Shame and which invites artists from Montreal and The Project Polaroid - At the Intersection Prejudice: A Story of Resilience was a celebration elsewhere to explore and interact with the of Art and Technology of Indigenous resilience. The exhibition used Museum’s collections, casting a critical and Exhibition organized by the Foundation for the humour and critical insight to create a troubling conceptual eye and relating them to their Exhibition of Photography, in collaboration with retrospective of what Monkman refers to as own artistic practices. Through the works they the MIT Museum and the WestLicht Museum for “the most devastating period for First Peoples.” create, artists in residence revisit the social Photography in Vienna and historical aspects of artefacts in the June 13 to September 15, 2019 Museum’s collections and address how they help construct our identity as Montrealers This large-scale international exhibition was and as a society. a unique opportunity to discover the extraor- dinary artistic and scientific creativity of Polaroid photography.

At the intersection of art and technology, the © McCord Stewart Museum exhibition was an extensive retrospective on the invention of the Polaroid, a photographic process that largely inspired the creative approaches of photographers and artists in Montreal and internationally. It presented original works by 100 or so of the most celebrated international artists of the 20th century, along with the cameras they used. The Polaroid, both an image and a wonderful tool, was invented by Edwin Land in 1947. Despite the company’s decline, it remains associated in the collective imagination with innovation, efficiency and leisure.

Kent Monkman, The Massacre of the Innocents, © McCord Stewart Museum © McCord Stewart Museum 2015. Acrylic on canvas, Collection of John Bilton.

24 McCord Stewart Museum 25 2019-2020 Annual Report Celia Perrin Sidarous: The Archivist Enchanted Worlds Exhibition presented as part of MOMENTA | November 9, 2019, to January 5, 2020 Biennale de l’image September 6, 2019, to January 12, 2020 Every holiday season since 1947, Montrealers have been entranced by the mechanical Focussing on the theme The Life of Things, displays in Ogilvy’s department store windows. MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image presented The The Bavarian scenes, custom made by German Archivist by Celia Perrin Sidarous in collaboration toy manufacturer Steiff, feature dozens of with the Museum. The two institutions have been handcrafted animals working and playing. working together since 2011. In 2018, Holt Renfrew donated both windows to The exhibition explored the phantasmagoric the McCord Museum and the Museum promised and historic charge of objects in creating to continue the tradition of displaying them to photographic arrangements. In The Archivist, © Elias Touil passers-by during the holiday season. For the Celia Perrin Sidarous, Blue assemblage (Sphinx), inkjet print on matte paper, 2019. artist Celia Perrin Sidarous, winner of the second year in a row, the Museum presented The © Celia Perrin Sidarous 2017 Prix Pierre-Ayot and longlisted for the Mill and the Forest in an outdoor showcase and 2019 Sobey Art Award, displayed items from The Enchanted Village inside the Museum. the McCord Museum’s collection next to photographs and objects that she made or acquired over the years. Two collections—one institutional and the other personal—entered into a dialogue in the gallery.

Jean-Claude Poitras: Fashion and Inspiration It’s Your Move! A joint production of the McCord Museum Board Games: Larger Than Life and the Musée de la civilisation December 8, 2019, to March 8, 2020 October 24, 2019, to August 2, 2020 To the delight of the thousands of visitors This collaboration between the Musée de la who walk through its doors with wonder each civilisation and the McCord Museum was an year, the McCord Museum presents an annual opportunity for both institutions to share toys exhibition, always with an engaging new knowledge and expertise. The exhibition was theme. These exhibitions showcase over 100 presented at the Musée de la civilisation objects, most of them from the Museum’s from June 20 to September 15, 2019, before extensive collection of toys that have marked moving to the McCord Museum. the childhoods of generations of Montrealers.

An invitation to explore the sources of © McCord Stewart Museum For its 10th edition, the exhibition focussed on inspiration and creative work of Montreal board games. Always an adventure, this year’s © McCord Stewart Museum designer Jean-Claude Poitras, the exhibition version invited visitors to fulfil a mission as looked at the man who left his mark on prêt-à- they explored different types of games— porter in Montreal and the rest of Canada games of chance along with strategy and over the course of a prolific career spanning challenge games—and discovered toys from four decades, from the 1970s to the 2000s. various eras. The objects displayed were drawn from the collections of both museums.

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26 McCord Stewart Museum 27 2019-2020 Annual Report Robert Walker Griffintown – Evolving Montréal Outdoor February 5, 2020, to February 14, 2021 Exhibition

As seen through the lens of Montreal photographer Robert Walker, known for his Montreal at Work colour street photographs, the exhibition 14th open-air exhibition on McGill College Avenue Griffintown reveals the radical changes that May 31 to October 14, 2019 have been wrought on this neighbourhood’s urban fabric. In vibrant pictures taken in 2018 Mounted on 13 structures lining McGill College and 2019, traces of past and present confront Avenue between De Maisonneuve Boulevard one another in a dynamic play of colour, line and President Kennedy Avenue, superb and pattern. The new face of Griffintown, large-format photographs gave Montrealers one of Montreal’s oldest and most mythical and visitors an opportunity to discover Robert Walker, Looking north from the Lachine Canal, 2019. M2020.58.X © Robert Walker neighbourhoods, emerges through an incon- multiple facets of the Museum’s collection gruous melding of its industrial, working-class of photographs during the summer months. roots and a new architectural landscape of Through the magic of photography, Montreal shimmering luxury and comfort. at Work invited passers-by to step into the workplaces of Montrealers from 1900 to the © Elias Touil With the exhibition Griffintown as seen by 1940s. In addition to bringing the workforce Robert Walker, the McCord Museum is launching of yesteryear to life, the photos recalled its new program of photographic commissions the old-fashioned charm of the architecture, entitled Evolving Montreal. To document furniture, tools and clothing of the time. Montreal’s ongoing urban transformation, in the next few years the Museum will be commissioning well-known local photographers to explore the changes occurring in a neighbourhood of their choice. Travelling Exhibitions

Student Posters from the Société des designers Notman: A Visionary Photographer The Notman exhibition received an Excellence graphiques du Québec Design Competition Presented at the Canadian Museum Award from the Société des musées du Québec, March 10 to July 12, 2020 of History in Gatineau, Quebec while its exhibition catalogue was given the Award November 23, 2018, to April 14, 2019 of Outstanding Achievement in Research, Cultural The 16 posters in the exhibition were selected Heritage, by the Canadian Museums Association. by the Société des designers graphiques du This major travelling exhibition offered a new Québec as the top submissions for the Marc perspective on the career of William Notman H. Choko Scholarships. Open to students (1826–1891), the first Canadian photographer to registered in a Quebec CEGEP or university gain international recognition. It demonstrated graphic design program, this competition aims how Notman owed his success and fame to the to develop their skills and interest in poster modernity of his approach to photography— design, while at the same time promoting a an approach founded on principles of community cause. The competition’s theme this communication and innovation. year was public transit and active mobility. © McCord Stewart Museum Organized thematically, the exhibition featured some 300 photographs and objects drawn primarily from the McCord Museum’s collection. Although the displays focussed on vintage prints, these were supplemented by multimedia installations and interactive devices that provided dynamic contextual information and helped clarify the 19th-century idea of modernity for a contemporary audience.

Wm. Notman & Son, A. H. Buxton (detail), 1887. II-82621.1 © McCord Stewart Museum

28 McCord Stewart Museum 29 2019-2020 Annual Report Illusions – The Art of Magic Presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Exhibitions at the February 22 to November 8, 2020 Stewart Museum Focussing on the Golden Age of Magic, the exhibition highlights the phantasmagorical Nights in theatrical sets by Pierre-Étienne Locas imagery used to advertise and promote September 26, 2019, to March 7, 2021 featuring a variety of remarkable artefacts magic shows. A selection of stunning posters, from the collections of the Stewart and most dating from the late 19th and early 20th Majestic, enchanting, seductive and disturbing McCord museums. centuries, help trace the social history of a by turns—or all at once—the night takes a phenomenon that remains very popular today. variety of forms. To shed some light on this fascinating subject, the Stewart Museum invites With this exhibition, the McCord Museum visitors to dive into four nocturnal worlds through showcases part of its extraordinary collection original stories from renowned Quebec authors. of magic-related posters and documents. Acquired in 2014 thanks to La Fondation With the help of a booklet and listening stations, Emmanuelle Gattuso, the Allan Slaight visitors explore the starry night with Eric Collection is the only one of its size in Canada: Dupont, face a fear of the dark in the night of it includes some 600 posters and over 1,000 imagination with Dominique Demers, stride documents and rare books. through the city night with Heather O’Neill and slip into the night of passion with Simon Boulerice. These stories are brought to life © McCord Stewart Museum

History and Memory History and Memory is a historical exhibition Permanent exhibition undergoing a major overhaul that features close to 500 objects, images, Charles Levy, Miss Marianna De Lahaye, about 1898. M2014.128.558 © McCord Stewart Museum documents and early maps. Our collective past Over the past year, the Museum has been is grounded in multiple histories, including the focussing its energies on overhauling its history of Indigenous Peoples, the history of permanent exhibition History and Memory. major discoveries, the history of France, the A two-year undertaking launched in 2019, history of the United Kingdom and the history this exhibition improvement project not only of the United States. These narratives have includes altering the layout and replacing many fuelled our imagination and become part of of the objects on display, it involves re-evaluating our memory, both shared and individual. the lighting and graphics to create an even more dynamic visitor experience.

Adolph Friedländer, Comedians de Mephisto Co., 1905. M2014.128.318 © McCord Stewart Museum © LyraPhoto

30 McCord Stewart Museum 31 2019-2020 Annual Report The Education, Community Engagement and the educational workshop Teach Me a Legend: Cultural Programs team has continued its Learn, Create and Share a Living Story with 7 Education, mission by fostering partnerships and working contemporary Innu storyteller and director on its programming with over 60 expert, Donavan Vollant and the organization Wapikoni cultural and community organizations. It raised Mobile. Offered as part of the Museum’s the profile of its mission and projects both educational programming to complement Community here and internationally by giving presentations tours of the permanent exhibition Wearing Our at various gatherings, notably the Séminaire Identity - The First Peoples Collection, this activity franco-québécois sur le rôle social et inclusif introduces students to the realities and issues Engagement and des musées, Communicating the Arts, and of First Nations while encouraging them to the annual conferences of the Société des reflect as a group on their values. By adopting musées québécois, New England Museum a co-creation approach in the design of this Cultural Programs Association and Société des professeurs workshop, the Museum continues to implement d’histoire. In addition, the Education, Community best practices consistent with the spirit of the Engagement and Cultural Programs team United Nations Declaration on the Rights of published an article by Charlène Bélanger, Laura Indigenous Peoples while avoiding the pitfalls Delfino and Mélanie Deveault entitled “Le Musée of cultural appropriation. The best practices McCord Stewart : un musée ouvert, citoyen et identified and developed while co-creating the participatif pour aborder les enjeux sociaux du Teach Me a Legend workshop, along with those XXIe siècle” in the May-June 2019 issue of the acquired through the Museum’s longstanding professional journal La Lettre de l’OCIM. collaborations with Indigenous communities, will be shared with Montreal’s arts community at a At the McCord Museum and the Stewart half-day discussion event. Museum, the Department welcomed over 52,000 visitors on-site and through its This year, the number of classes scheduled for outreach programs, including over 23,000 day- One Week at the McCord Museum, offered in care, preschool, elementary and high school collaboration with Une école montréalaise pour students, approximately 7,400 participants in tous, was increased to eight; however, four of cultural activities, and some 9,000 people in them had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 family activities for both museums. pandemic. For four days in a row at the Museum, participating students enjoyed multidisciplinary Each year, the Museum counts on the financial educational activities on themes associated support of generous donors to support its with First Peoples. The Museum also developed educational programs, including Canada Life three other special workshops with this partner: Financial, the Mirella and Lino Saputo Foun- It’s Your World and Adèle’s Room at the McCord dation, the Energy Valero Foundation, Ivanhoé Museum, and The Story Factory at the Stewart Cambridge, the Caisse de dépôt et placement Museum. Between the two sites, students from du Québec, and the Rossy Family Foundation. 33 preschool and elementary classes attended these activities.

Educational Inspired by tinkering, design thinking and fab programming labs, the Education, Community Engagement and Cultural Programs department created a participatory educational space at the Stewart The Museum offers elementary, high school, Museum that challenges users to employ both college and university students school programs history and creativity. In the case of students, designed to encourage them to become engaged The Story Factory helps develop their historical citizens. This year, it developed new activities, thinking, as prescribed by the Quebec created innovative new spaces like The Story Education Program. This initiative generated Factory and established new partnerships and new partnerships and associations, notably with associations with a view to updating its partic- the Commission scolaire de Montréal and the ipatory and community-oriented mission for its Association québécoise pour l’enseignement en various users. univers social, and was supported by the Quebec government program Promotion du français lors Recognized for its engagement with Indigenous d’activités culturelles. Having already welcomed communities, the Museum was asked by the 1,293 students and other visitors since it opened, Conseil des arts de Montréal to share its The Story Factory is a promising activity for the indigenization expertise with the Montreal arts Stewart Museum. community. To this end, the Museum developed

Guillaume Delisle, celestial globe, France, about 1708. 1997.24.2 © McCord Stewart Museum

32 McCord Stewart Museum 33 2019-2020 Annual Report Fashion at the Museum FIFA at the McCord Museum The Fashion at the Museum series shone a In January 2019, the International Festival spotlight on the work of local designers, of Films on Art began presenting monthly both established and up-and-coming, in screenings of documentary films about discussions moderated by Stéphane Le Duc, fashion, photography and Indigenous cultures. a teacher at the ESG-UQAM École supérieure Partnerships with Wapikoni Mobile and Black de mode and journalist at Dress to KILL History Month created two special evenings: magazine. One event featured an interview the first presented some short films from with renowned Montreal designer Jean-Claude Wapikoni Mobile, in the presence of one of the Poitras, while another was a panel discussion directors, while the second featured the film with three Quebec perfumers known for their Black Indians, followed by a panel discussion creativity and boldness. about ethnically mixed identities.

The Story Factory. © Elias Touil Welcome! Want to play? © Elias Touil

disadvantaged Montreal families, the Samedi Community engagement en famille program enabled the Museum to programming welcome some 827 parents and children for a visit and family activities over ten Saturdays.

As part of the exhibition The Polaroid Project - At the Intersection of Art and Technology, the Museum invited 11 Montreal community Cultural programming organizations to contribute to Montreal in Polaroid, a participatory, evolving installation. The McCord Museum presented an array Under the Conseil des Arts de Montréal’s of rich, varied programming over the past démART-Mtl program, multidisciplinary year. The Fashion at the Museum discussion artist Narcisse E. Esfahani gave over 20 © Elias Touil Black Indians, France, 2018. Jo Béranger, Edith series, City Talks with Heritage Montreal, the Patrouilleau and Hugues Poulain. workshops on Polaroid photography at these Belles Soirées lectures, screenings from the organizations and to children attending the International Festival of Films on Art, and McCord Museum’s annual day camp. Over activities directly related to exhibition themes City Talks Les Belles Soirées de l’Université de Montréal 300 participants contributed to the Montreal and special events enlivened the Museum and For an eighth consecutive year, this series Organized in collaboration with Université de in Polaroid installation, including the Centre nourished the spirit. Altogether, these activities continued with themes grounded in current Montréal, the Belles Soirées lecture series social d’aide aux immigrants, Gender Creative drew approximately 7,400 people from April events, notably the social acceptability of was back again this year. One activity was a Kids Canada, the Massimadi Foundation, the 2019 to March 2020. urban development projects and the issues presentation from the Conservation Department, Centre d’Apprentissage Parallèle, Auberge associated with protecting and appreciating headed by Anne MacKay, about the restoration Madeleine, the Centre d’éducation et d’action residential heritage. process involved in preparing to rotate the des femmes, SINGA Québec, Dans la rue, objects in the permanent exhibition Wearing the Downtown YMCA, the ELOGIA retirement Our Identity – The First Peoples Collection. complex of the Groupe Maurice, and Passages.

For the second year in a row, the Museum invited Montrealers to donate toys and memories for its Welcome! Want to play? initiative. Over 500 toys were collected for new immigrants, largely thanks to our partner Agropur, which promoted the campaign among its employees. The toys, along with an annual membership card for the Museum, were given to families at a special event for 125 parents and children presented in collaboration with the Centre social d’aide aux immigrants; others were distributed via Welcome Collective, an organization that helps © Heritage Montreal Puffin forehead mask, Haida, 1800-1850. newcomers and vulnerable refugee claimants. Collected by George Mercer Dawson, 1878. ME892.10 © McCord Stewart Museum Organized with Une école montréalaise pour tous to facilitate access to the Museum for

34 McCord Stewart Museum 35 2019-2020 Annual Report The McCord’s Inside Stories Nuit blanche 2020 – Montreal: It’s Our Move! Family activities games was launched as a pilot project: Phantoms The McCord’s Inside Stories, a series that In association with the exhibition It’s Your To mark the 10th anniversary of the McCord of the Island invites visitors ages 9 and up to highlights the Museum’s research efforts, dove Move! Board Games: Larger Than Life, the Museum’s annual toys exhibition, Édito jeunesse, uncover paranormal phenomena at the Museum into the ‘checkered’ past of the many Canadian McCord Museum became a playground for an imprint of Gallimard, published La chambre by solving puzzles using documents chronicling tartans designed in the mid-1960s, thanks to a this year’s edition of Nuit blanche, offering d’Adèle, a children’s book by author Marie the history of St. Helen’s Island, and the ghosts lecture by curator Cynthia Cooper, and explored 10 larger-than-life board game stations Barguirdjian and illustrator Mügluck. Inspired by who live there! the world of editorial cartoonist Aislin in a staffed by our partner Randolph. Some 1,200 the toys and games in the Museum’s collection, presentation from curator Christian Vachon, visitors came to play until the wee hours of Adèle’s adventures formed the basis of family With regard to summer activities, the McCord accompanied by the artist. the morning. workshops led by the cultural mediation team in Museum day camp welcomed 225 campers Montreal municipal libraries. to two thematic weeks entitled Fun with INuit blanche photography and From coast to coast to coast, The McCord Museum teamed up with INuit The McCord Stewart Museum also scheduled while the Stewart Museum hosted 3,298 children blanche, an initiative of the Inuit Studies several activities designed especially for families. from day camps, many of them as part of the Conference to promote Inuit artists in various Parents and Tots, monthly get-togethers for museum-aquatic complex package offered Montreal venues. On October 3, 2019, the Museum parents of children 18 months and younger, in partnership with Parc Jean-Drapeau. In opened the permanent exhibition Wearing Our enabled 357 young parents to share a special collaboration with the LGBT Family Coalition, Identity - The First Peoples Collection to visitors moment at the Museum with their little ones. the McCord Museum also participated in free of charge and screened three short films Families with slightly older children enjoyed the programming for the Montréal Pride Festival curated by Simeonie Kisa-Knickelbein, an materials developed for The Adventure at the by offering families an afternoon of fabulous emerging Inuk filmmaker. Museum, presented by Hydro-Québec, the toys storytelling with drag queens LaDrag On-Fly exhibition It’s Your Move! Board Games: Larger and Uma Gahd. The Urban Forest Than Life, the enchanting presentation of the For its ninth edition, the Urban Forest Ogilvy’s holiday windows and The Story Factory. offered Montrealers and tourists various © Elias Touil The family activities organized last year attracted activities related to the Museum’s Indige- a record number of visitors: special holiday and nous Cultures collection and programming, History of the Night – Research Group on the winter school break programming at the McCord which was a focus in 2019-2020. Thanks to a History of Sociabilities and Stewart museums attracted 36,500 and partnership with Musique nomade, Indigenous In conjunction with the exhibition Nights, the 6,436 visitors, respectively. Highlighting the history artists working in a variety of musical genres Stewart Museum partnered with the Research of the Stewart Museum’s exceptional location, performed in the space, while a collaboration Group on the History of Sociabilities to offer a collaborative new game inspired by escape with the Quartiers Danses Festival brought original programming on intriguing topics like dancer and choreographer Barbara Diabo to creatures of the night and sexual identities and perform her piece My Urban Nature. More than genders deemed non-standard or illicit, from 286,000 people in all visited the Urban Forest the 18th century to today. over the course of the summer. Nights Revealed Presented by La Presse, the Nights Revealed series at the Stewart Museum invited the public to learn about the creative process behind the Nights exhibition in a series of intimate meetings with the authors who wrote the stories for the exhibition.

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Storytelling with LaDrag On-Fly. © Elias Touil

36 McCord Stewart Museum 37 2019-2020 Annual Report 8 Marketing, Attendance Second highest attendance in over 10 years! nity organizations that support First Nations groups was very successful, enabling members Communication In 2019-2020, the two museums received of these groups to discover exhibitions such a combined total of 300,000 visitors to their as Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, galleries and over 1.2 million visitors to their Sding K’awXangs – Haida: Supernatural Stories, and Visitor off-site activities like the outdoor exhibition on there’s a reason for our connection and Wearing McGill College Avenue, the Urban Forest and Our Identity – The First Peoples Collection. travelling exhibitions. These stellar numbers Experience represent the second best year for attendance Groups and tourists in at least ten years, just behind the record The Museum’s ongoing efforts to attract more crowds drawn last year. This performance is all groups of visitors have borne fruit: group visits the stronger in light of the slowdown in operations increased dramatically at both museums, and temporary closure of the Stewart Museum growing 23% at the McCord Museum and 37% at in May and June for major work, which delayed the Stewart Museum, despite the unavoidable the launch of its flagship exhibition Nights until periods of closure. Both museums largely sur- September 2019. Moreover, it is interesting to passed their goals with regard to increasing the note that group visits in particular experienced number of visiting tourist groups. In addition, remarkable growth throughout the year and thanks to the close relationship developed with that the McCord Museum received a record Tourisme Montréal, our two museums hosted number of visitors during the holiday season a greater number of international media and and winter school break. familiarization tours attended by key actors in the local and international tourism industry. However, self-generated revenues declined 20%, primarily due to the impact of the work McCord After Hours at the Stewart Museum, but also because of Three editions of the popular After Hours at a drop in revenues per visitor. This dip can the McCord were organized for the activity’s be explained by the fact that the Museum is sixth year, attracting hundreds of young adults attracting younger individual visitors and a to the McCord Museum for themed evenings greater number of families, two visitor categories focussed on Montréal Fashion Tech, Montreal in that benefit from reduced admission fees. Polaroid and Montreal Slow Fashion. The growing popularity of access programs offering free admission to the Museum is also partially responsible for this decrease: Quebec Visitor experience residents enjoy free admission on the first Sunday of the month, Montreal libraries offer The visitor experience improvement committee, the “Borrow a Museum” service, and francization which includes representatives from every groups and those from disadvantaged schools department in the Museum, continued its enter for free as well. Finally, the COVID-19 work and launched several initiatives to better crisis led to some revenues being deferred until meet visitor expectations. For example, the next year. McCord Museum’s admission fees were revised, an animated video about Montreal featuring photos from the Notman collection Client development was projected in the Atrium, and food options at the McCord Museum were reviewed. Membership Program The number of Museum members continued The working group looking at how visitors to climb last year, increasing by 13%; more circulate in museums instigated improve- than one local visitor out of five is now a Museum ments in signage at the McCord Museum and member. Activities offered exclusively to recommended an in-depth study of the visitor Members are always popular, like special experience, which is now in the planning stages. tours in the company of artists or curators at Members’ Day and events associated with exhibition openings. The new Photo Walk program, launched last summer for Photo Expert Members, culminated in an exhibition of the work created during these outings. Finally, Patrice Massé, Model wearing Jean-Claude Poitras, 1999-2000. Gift of Jean-Claude Poitras, the special free memberships offered to commu- M2005.78.120 © McCord Stewart Museum 38 McCord Stewart Museum 39 2019-2020 Annual Report followers. The Stewart Museum completely Communications overhauled its Website, launching the new Promotion version in September 2019. Once again, the communications team produced Pascale Grignon, Director, Marketing, Montreal, in addition to presenting in November magnificent promotional campaigns for this Communications and Visitor Experience, gave at the annual New England Museum Association year’s exhibitions. These campaigns garnered a workshop in October at the international conference in Burlington, Vermont. several accolades, notably the Applied Arts Communicating the Arts conference in Award in the Announcements/Invitations/Cards/

Kits category for the invitation to the opening of A presentation of the Balenciaga exhibition.

Both museums’ digital communications efforts, aimed primarily at social media influencers, continued to produce results as their Websites receive over 2 million visits annually and their social media accounts have close to 122,000 After Hours at the McCord, Montreal © Elias Touil

board games: larger than life

inspired by original stories from HeatH er O’Neill, JEANCLAUDE SimON BOulerice, DOmiNique DemerS and Éric DupONt POITRAS Relive the magic of Ogilvy’s mechanical FASHION ANDChristmas window displays and take a toys exhibition part in a host of family activities. march 8 INSPIRATION Presented by In collaboration with EXHIBITION From November 16 to January 5 december 8 to OCT.  Holiday Programming: musee-mccord.qc.ca/holiday This exhibition is a co-production APRIL ,  by the McCord Museum and the Musée de la civilisation. Sponsorships and media partnerships © McCord Stewart Museum © McCord Stewart Museum © McCord Stewart Museum

McCord Museum and Stewart Museum La Presse (presenting sponsor), Polaroid Exhibition The Polaroid Project – At the Eyewear, Le Mount Stephen, Royal Photo, Intersection of Art and Technology La Presse, Le Devoir, Montreal Gazette, Vie des Annual media partners Marsan School of Professional Photography, Arts, La Vitrine culturelle, Publicité sauvage Polaroid Originals, Pride Montréal, Mural, Fugues McCord Museum Royal Photo, Marsan School of Professional Exhibition Celia Perrin Sidarous: The Archivist Hydro-Québec (presenting sponsor) The Adventure at the Museum Photography

Ivanhoé Cambridge (collaborating sponsor) MTL Urban Museum (app) Le Saint-Sulpice, La Grande Braderie de Exhibition Jean-Claude Poitras: Fashion Mode Québécoise, Dress to KILL magazine, and Inspiration Université du Québec à Montréal, Cégep After Hours at the McCord Fugues, Fashion & Design Festival/Festival Marie-Victorin, Marsan School of Professional Mode & Design Photography, Centre design et impression textile, Studio Argentique, Groupe Sensation iÖGO nanö (presenting sponsor), I Musici Exhibition Enchanted Worlds, Ogilvy window Mode, Montreal Digital Spring, Compagnie de Montréal, Destination Centre-Ville, displays and holiday programming Van Grimde Corps Secrets, Moov Activewear, XP_MTL, Gallimard Yoga Tribe, Art de vivre, Milieux Institute (Concordia University), RISE Kombucha, Télé-Québec (presenting sponsor), Exhibition It’s Your Move! Board Games: Studio Once Again, Boutique Station Service, Randolph (collaborating sponsor), Larger Than Life Eliza Faulkner, Upcycli, Shwap Club Gallimard, Destination Centre-Ville, Village perché, Bibliothèques de Montréal Destination Centre-Ville, Papillon Ribbon, The Urban Forest on Victoria Street XP_MTL Royal Photo, Marsan School of Professional Exhibition Griffintown – Evolving Montreal Photography Fugues Exhibition Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience by artist Kent Monkman Stewart Museum

BMO Financial Group (presenting sponsor), Annual Exhibition on McGill College La Presse (presenting sponsor), Renaud-Bray, Exhibition Nights Astral Media (collaborating sponsor) Montreal at Work Salon du livre de Montréal, Parc Jean-Drapeau

40 McCord Stewart Museum 41 2019-2020 Annual Report In the last quarter of the fiscal year, the In line with its goal to participate in the life Museum began the important process of of the community and give a voice to all of its 9 Sustainable rethinking and revising its sustainable devel- users, the Museum has begun an extensive opment policy, adopted in 2012, to ensure indigenization process, while developing that it addresses a wider variety of issues. programs aimed specifically at new immigrants The year 2019 was, in fact, a pivotal moment and families from disadvantaged areas. Development in a collective awakening that culminated in global demonstrations on climate change like the September 27 Montreal Climate March, which was attended by the Museum team. In addition, citizens and companies are demanding social responsibility, leading more and more organizations to question their investment and activity choices. Within this global context, the Museum will soon launch new projects to continue improving its environmental performance and meet the expectations of its community.

As readers of this document have noted, the Museum is maintaining its efforts to reduce the use of printed materials, notably by making its annual report available only in an online version. The sustainable development committee’s role will evolve as it helps identify needs and implement new management tools associated with the themes of equity and solidarity in the workplace.

The Climate March on September 27, 2020 © Stéphanie Poisson Mask, Haida, 1800-1850. ME892.10 © HannahMcCord Claus,Stewart Châle Museum de danse pour la Femme du Ciel, 2019. Tirage numérique sur film transparent, 42 McCord Stewart Museumfil, colle, miroir en Mylar 43 2019-2020 Annual Report Message from the 10 Foundation Foundation’s Chair of the Board and the Executive Director

This message would have been very different if it had been written a few months ago. In effect, the pandemic had a serious impact on the fourth quarter of our fiscal year ending March 31, 2020, significantly modifying this Claude Gendron Nathalie Lévesque year’s balance sheet, which had posted a Interim Chair of Executive Director strong performance in its first nine months. the Board

Until late December 2019, the support of all our donors enabled the Museum to pursue its effort will be made in the coming months to educational mission by implementing access make certain that the McCord Museum remains programs for our various clienteles. One such a key institution in Montreal’s cultural scene. initiative is the Francization Project, which With the financial support and solidarity of our offers visits and hands-on workshops free donors, partners, associates, volunteers and of charge to groups of new adult immigrants members of the Museum’s and Foundation’s to facilitate their acquisition of French and committees and boards, we are convinced that integration into Quebec society. The Museum we will be ready to hold a fitting celebration of was also able to develop rich, diverse the Museum’s 100th anniversary in 2021. One programming with innovative activities like A thing is certain: the entire Foundation team Night at the Museum, which gave child cancer will continue to focus its energy, creativity patients and their families a chance to spend a and determination on fostering the conditions night in the Museum. As for our volunteers, they needed for success. worked tirelessly on the committees for the Annual Ball, the Sugar Ball and the Wine & Food In closing, we would like to thank the late Althea event to ensure the success of these fundraising Cleveland Douglas for her generous bequest; initiatives so essential to our institution. we offer our sincere condolences to all the members of her family. Finally, a special word Then, in January, the spread of the coronavirus of thanks to our outgoing Foundation Chair, created financial insecurity, an economic Daniel Fournier, who worked with our institution downturn and stock market volatility, all for so many years as Chair of the Museum and, of which forced businesses and individuals most recently, as Chair of the McCord Museum to reduce their investments and spending, Foundation; in recognition of his remarkable including their philanthropic support. At the contributions, the Board is very pleased to Museum itself, the lockdown imposed in March award him the title of Honorary Chair. put an immediate end to many activities. The last quarter consequently proved very challenging for the Foundation, adversely affecting our financial results. By the close of this year of extremes, the Foundation saw its forecasted gains become a $3.2 million deficit due to the drop in market value (on paper) of our assets. It is important to note, however, that the management principles governing the Foundation enabled us to respect the funding agreement established with the Museum at the beginning of the year and contribute $2,185,920 to finance its operations.

Since the Foundation’s mission is to help ensure the long-term sustainability of the Museum, it goes without saying that every Robert Walker, Looking north from Ottawa and Ann streets, 2019. M2020.58.X © Robert Walker 44 McCord Stewart Museum 45 2019-2020 Annual Report The McCord Museum is a private, non-profit A Night at the museum whose continued operation and McCord Museum sustainability depends largely on the support Partnering with Leucan, the McCord Museum of private donors. had the great pleasure of hosting 12 families on December 7 and 14, 2019, for the very first Museum revenue sources: A Night at the the McCord Museum event, organized by the McCord Museum Foundation. From sunset to sunrise, the children and their Foundation, donations an investment income families took part in a variety of activities, in addition to spending the night in fairy-tale surroundings in front of the original Ogilvy Public funding 36.5% mechanical holiday window display.

Private funding The McCord Museum Foundation sincerely 44.3% thanks the Young McCord - Night at the Museum Committee, composed of Joelle Audet-Robitaille, Annick Bissainthe, Laurent Chamroeun, Martine 19.1% Couillard and Marina Pilarinos, as well as its donors for their generous support.

A Night at the McCord Museum © Elias Touil

Self-financing, admissions, boutique sales, room rentals and sponsorships

These revenues are vital to the funding of the McCord Museum’s current activities, such as:

36 110 2,216 school and cultural activities objects and historical community (panel discussions, documents digitized, programs workshops, generating more than concerts) 3,763 images

40 More than More than access programs 1,500,000 1,820 and workshops for objects, images people, including families and documents many experts, preserved in its vaults consulted the archives

14 593 254,433 exhibitions artefacts restored views of the presented in Museum’s online A Night at the McCord Museum © Thibault Carron 2019-2020 collections

46 McCord Stewart Museum 47 2019-2020 Annual Report This year, once again, a number of businesses, Major Donations private foundations and individuals donated to specific projects: Donateur Donateur Project Impact Donor Project Impact Donor

Access programs Conservation

Free entry for children 12,561 children ages 12 and J.A. DeSève Foundation Edward S. Curtis Restoration and treatment of Richard M. Hart under visited the Museum, Collection the collection of photogravures Derek and Jill Price free of charge. by photographer Edward S. Kate Reed Curtis. Zeller Family Foundation Free Wednesday Nights 8,665 people visited free BMO Bank of Montreal of charge. Indigenous Cultures Conservation and treatment of Jarislowsky Foundation Collection over 40 artefacts from the Indige- Derek and Jill Price Education, community engagement and cultural programs. nous Cultures collection for the Zeller Family Foundation 6th rotation of the permanent Subsidized School Visits 17,404 students of all ages Canada Life exhibition, Wearing Our Identity Program visited the Museum with their —The First Peoples Collection. class. First and Second World Description and online publi- Mark W. Gallop One Week at the McCord Two classes* of underprivi- CIBC Children’s Foundation War Collections cation of thematic collections Museum leged children had a chance to Energy Valero Foundation (C218 and C311) focussed on the First and follow their school curriculum Godin Family Foundation Second World Wars (1914-1918 while exploring the Museum’s Ivanhoé Cambridge and 1939-1945) and their im- collections. Rossy Family Foundation pacts on the lives of Montrealers. TFI International * The other classes had to be postponed, due to COVID-19. Léontine Poutré and Digitization of the last files in Mark W. Gallop Hercule Martin Fonds this treasure trove of love letters Visits for young people 201 young people enjoyed Mirella and Lino Saputo (P748) between a Montrealer and a living with disabilities Museum tours adapted to their Foundation Chambly resident in the 1920s. needs.

Sharing Our Memories, Our To date, 1,639 teens have Drummond Foundation Nona Molson Fonds (P723) Description and online Mark W. Gallop Stories visited 2,334 seniors to break publication of this fonds down the isolation separating focussing on the activities them and develop values like of John Molson’s great-grand- respect, co-operation and daughter, an auxiliary nurse openness. in Europe during the First World War. School visits for Jewish 1,347 elementary and high Azrieli Foundation schools school students visited the Women’s Art Society of Description and online Mark W. Gallop Museum. Montreal Fonds (P125) publication of this fonds chronicling the history of the Women’s Art Association of Canada and its Montreal A Night at the McCord 12 Leucan families enjoyed CGI branch, as well as the Museum touring the Museum by GDI Integrated Facility Services Association’s recent history. flashlight and sleeping in an Ivanhoé Cambridge exhibition gallery. Julien-Leblanc Traiteur Beaver Club Fonds (P305) Description and online Mark W. Gallop Young McCord - A Night at the publication of this fonds McCord Museum Committee chronicling the activities of a social club for influential Montreal fur traders in the early 19th century.

48 McCord Stewart Museum 49 2019-2020 Annual Report Volunteers formed three committees last Committees to year to support the Museum’s various fundraising activities.

2019-2020 Annual Ball Committee Young McCord – 2019-2020 Sugar Ball Committee 2019-2020 Wine and Food Committee Year after year, the Annual Ball Committee The McCord Museum Sugar Ball Committee is Once again, our Wine and Food event was a plays a key role in raising the funds needed to in charge of organizing one of the year’s most great success this year. The committee’s ef- help the Museum disseminate its collections popular events among young Montreal pro- forts helped raise the funds needed to support and design and mount its exhibitions. fessionals. All of the funds raised at this event exhibitions showcasing local talent. are used to finance reduced-rate tours for over 17,000 elementary and high school students.

From left to right: Charlotte Routhier (Officer, Events and Special Projects, McCord Front row, from left to right: Sandra Ferreira, Christina Sauro, Charlotte From left to right: Julie Mélissa Marin, Julie Laurence, Nolwenn Le Squer (Officer, Museum Foundation), Bente Christensen, Grace Di Meo, Nathalie Brunet, Anick Routhier (Officer, Events and Special Projects, McCord Museum Foundation), Fundraising Events, McCord Museum Foundation), Karl Théard, Catherine Dubé, Beaubien, Roseline Guevremont, Nathalie Lévesque (Executive Director, McCord Virginie Séguin-Dalpé, Taylor Phillips, Jacob Lithgow (co-chair), Émilie Croteau Marilyne Lévesque, Catherine Rioux, Frédéric Lévesque, Nathalie Lévesque Museum Foundation), Jean-Michel Lavoie, Bita Cattelan, Julie-Anne Coyle, Nathalie (co-chair), Stéphanie Croteau, Bianca Farinacci, Stefanie Kutteh, Pamela Poulakis, (Executive Director, McCord Museum Foundation), Pierre LaTraverse Deshaies, Sandrine Bohbot Camille Dionne, Zoé Faust-Trahan, Adamo Mariani, Alexandra Ross. © Thibault Carron © Karel Chladek Second row: Michelle Rossy, Michele Rabinovitch, Marc-André Charron, Eric Cordon, Rémi Marchand, Karl Théard, Stéphanie Pinsonnault. Missing from the photo: Florence Bienvenu, Jean-François Gervais (artistic director), Brahm Mauer, Costadina Mavros. © Élias Touil Foundation representatives Honorary Co-presidents Nolwenn Le Squer Grégoire Baillargeon Nathalie Lévesque Édith Cloutier Co-chairs Robert Coallier Émilie Croteau Members Jacob Lithgow Catherine Dubé Co-presidents Pierre LaTraverse Bita Cattelan Foundation representative Julie Laurence Nathalie Lévesque Charlotte Routhier Frédéric Lévesque (Foundation representative) Marilyne Lévesque Members Julie Mélissa Marin Members Florence Bienvenu Catherine Rioux Anick Beaubien Marc-André Charron Brahm Mauer Karl Théard Sandrine Bohbot Eric Cordon Costadina Mavros Nathalie Brunet Stéphanie Croteau Taylor Philipps Bente Christensen Camille Dionne Stéphanie Pinsonnault Julie-Anne Coyle Bianca Farinacci Pamela Poulakis Nathalie Deshaies Zoé Faust-Trahan Michele Rabinovitch Grace Di Meo Sandra Ferreira Alexandra Ross Roseline Guevremont Jean-François Gervais Michelle Rossy Jean-Michel Lavoie Stefanie Kutteh Christina Sauro Rémi Marchand Virginie Séguin-Dalpé Adamo Mariani Karl Théard

50 McCord Stewart Museum 51 2019-2020 Annual Report Foundation Board of Trustees

Chairs Derek A. Price Claude Gendron (interim since March 4, 2020) HONORARY CHAIR EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, LEGAL McCORD STEWART MUSEUM AFFAIRS AND GENERAL COUNSEL IVANHOÉ CAMBRIDGE Suzanne Sauvage PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Daniel Fournier (until January 31, 2020) McCORD STEWART MUSEUM CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Manon Vennat Treasurer MANON VENNAT & ASSOCIATES INC. Jean-Jacques Carrier CORPORATE DIRECTOR Audit Committee Chair Secretary Hélène Fortin Lorna J. Telfer CORPORATE DIRECTOR Members Armand Des Rosiers Members Philip Leduc (guest) Bita Cattelan Nathalie Lévesque VICE PRESIDENT OF PHILANTHROPY Lorna J. Telfer WCDP FOUNDATION Governance Committee Thomas R.M. Davis Chair CORPORATE DIRECTOR Jean-Michel Lavoie

Armand Des Rosiers Members MANAGING DIRECTOR Thomas Davis RBC CAPITAL MARKETS REAL Sandra Ferreira ESTATE GROUP Nathalie Lévesque Manon Vennat Sandra Ferreira DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS Investment Committee GROUPE FERREIRA Chair Jean-Jacques Carrier Hélène Fortin PARTNER Members LFB CPA, LLP Bita Cattelan Philip Leduc (guest) Monique Jérôme-Forget Nathalie Lévesque CHAIR OF THE BOARD, Erin O’Brien (guest) McCORD STEWART MUSEUM AND SPECIAL ADVISOR, OSLER, HOSKIN & HARCOURT LLP

Jean-Michel Lavoie REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, GROUP RETIREMENT SERVICES SUN LIFE

Nathalie Lévesque EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR McCORD MUSEUM FOUNDATION

Levi Stevens, Colonel William McKay, 1816. Gift of the Estate of Mrs. M. C. Jacques, M17684 © McCord Stewart Museum 52 McCord Stewart Museum 53 2019-2020 Annual Report Statement of operations and changes in fund balances The McCord Year ended March 31, 2020 11 Financial Stewart Museum

2020 ($) 2019 ($) Statements Revenue Government of Québec 4,164,438 4,117,367

Government of Canada 26,682 127,924

Other grants 69,635 49,096

Conseil des arts de Montréal 140,666 114,765

Ville de Montréal 44,250 57,524

Macdonald Stewart Foundation grants 1,300,000 1,300,000

The McCord Museum Foundation grants 2,365,413 2,455,843

Investment income 73,078 386,224

Visitor services 499,920 585,848

Admissions 783,867 1,071,251

Sponsorship 143,692 165,180

Rental income 270,581 253,203

Other 61,058 75,768

9,943,280 10,759,993

Expenses

Administration 1,676,054 1,682,912

Visitor services 727,739 762,269

Interest on long-term debt 50,572 48,412

Building and security 1,713,216 1,869,894

Collections 1,641,204 1,631,022

Education, Community Engagement and Cultural Programs 952,245 1,023,088

Exhibitions 1,641,008 1,965,364

Marketing and communications 1,425,162 1,515,686

Amortization of capital assets 220,052 222,369

10,047,252 10,721,016

(Deficiency) excess of revenue over expenses before the following (103,972) 38,977

Change in fair value of investments (140,187) 18,986

(Deficiency) excess of revenue over expenses (244,159) 57,963

Fund balances, beginning of year 4,922,371 5,364,408

Withdrawal — (500,000)

Fund balances, end of year 4,678,212 4,922,371

Marc Antigna, Madame Marc Antigna, née Renée-Joséphine Gauthier (1872-1905) (detail), about 1902. Gift in memory of Shirley L. Thomson (1910-2010), M2018.106.1 © McCord Stewart Museum 54 McCord Stewart Museum 55 2019-2020 Annual Report The McCord Statement of financial position. As at March 31, 2020 The McCord Statement of cash flows. Year ended March 31, 2020 Stewart Museum Stewart Museum

2020 ($) 2019 ($) 2020 ($) 2019 ($)

Assets Operating activities

Current assets (Deficiency) excess of revenue over expenses (244,159) 57,963

Cash 703,390 1,242,475 Adjustments for:

Accounts receivable 226,510 131,638 Addition to collections at nominal value (1) —

Grants receivable 828,192 163,899 Amortization of capital assets 220,052 222,369

Due from The McCord Museum Foundation 53,814 17,501 Amortization of deferred contributions (95,061) (90,513)

Due from The McCord Museum Foundation 2,200,000 2,200,000 Change in fair value of investments 140,187 (18,986)

Inventory 252,671 242,707 21,018 170,833

Prepaid expenses 133,042 93,369 Changes in non-cash operating working capital items (492,410) 507,927

4,397,619 4,091,589 (471,392) 678,760 Grants receivable 315,852 1,100,243

Investments 1,711,495 1,874,176 Investing activities Due from The McCord Museum Foundation 4,400,000 6,600,000 Purchase of capital assets (69,231) (308,499) Capital assets 3,588,880 3,739,701 Purchase of investments (99,043) (11,313,479) Collections 1 — Disposal of investments 121,537 12,026,428 14,413,847 17,405,709 (46,737) 404,450

Liabilities

Current liabilities Financing activities

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 972,186 1,277,785 Proceeds from grants receivable 120,098 182,935

Government remittances 23,547 24,007 Decrease in deferred contributions — (200,001)

Deferred revenue 2,747,322 2,752,851 Repayment of long-term debt (141,054) (173,184)

Current portion of long-term debt 784,392 141,055 Withdrawal — (500,000)

4,527,447 4,195,698 (20,956) (690,250)

Deferred revenue 4,400,000 6,600,000 Net increase (decrease) in cash (539,085) 392,960

Long-term debt 315,852 1,100,243 Cash, beginning of year 1,242,475 849,515

Deferred contributions 492,336 587,397 Cash, end of year 703,390 1,242,475

9,735,635 12,483,338

Fund balances

Invested in capital assets 3,187,263 3,243,021

Externally restricted 440,031 440,031

Internally restricted 850,611 1,019,550

Unrestricted 200,307 219,769

4,678,212 4,922,371

14,413,847 17,405,709

56 McCord Stewart Museum 57 2019-2020 Annual Report The McCord Statement of operations. Year ended March 31, 2020 The McCord Statement of financial position. Year ended March 31, 2020 Museum Foundation Museum Foundation

2020 ($) 2019 ($) 2020 ($) 2019 ($)

Revenue Assets

Fundraising Current assets

Annual campaign 214,575 288,643 Cash 261,590 351,762

Major gifts 377,560 746,779 Accounts receivable 19,187 16,476

Fundraising events 1,053,630 1,116,955 Sales taxes receivable 25,858 65,720

Investment (loss) income (1,676,681) 2,238,032 Prepaid expenses 46,296 219,173

(30,916) 4,390,409 Current portion of investments 2,200,000 2,200,000

Expenses 2,552,931 2,853,131

Investment management fees 125,852 123,383 Investments 29,181,192 34,549,113

Administration 356,129 378,849 31,734,123 37,402,244

Fundraising Liabilities Annual campaign 26,682 33,830 Current liabilities Fundraising events 422,466 382,565 Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 12,436 39,976 Donor recognition 13,178 24,004 Due to The McCord Stewart Museum – Operations 53,814 17,501 Capital campaign 4,837 4,837 Deferred revenue 186,000 366,000 Contributions to The McCord Stewart Museum 2,316,834 2,446,674 Current portion of the due to The McCord 3,265,978 3,394,142 Stewart Museum – Annuity 2,200,000 2,200,000

(Deficiency) excess of revenue over expenses (3 296 894) 996,267 2,452,250 2,623,477

Due to The McCord Stewart Museum – Annuity 4,400,000 6,600,000

6,852,250 9,223,477 Statement of changes in net assets. Year ended The McCord March 31, 2020

Museum Foundation Net assets

Internally restricted 409,295 317,485 Internally Unrestricted Endowment ($) 2020 ($) 2019 ($) restricted ($) Total Total Unrestricted 12,920,510 16,309,214 ($) Endowments 11,552,068 11,552,068 Balance, beginning of year 317,485 16,309,214 11,552,068 28,178,767 26 682 500 24,881,873 28,178,767 Excess (Deficiency) excess of 37,734,123 37,402,244 revenue over expenses — (3,296,894) — (3,296,894) 996,267

Endowment contribution — — — — 500,000

Transfers 91,810 (91,810) — — —

Balance, end of year 409,295 12,920,510 11,552,068 24,881,873 28,178,767

58 McCord Stewart Museum 59 2019-2020 Annual Report The McCord Statement of cash flows. Year ended March 31, 2020 Museum Foundation

2020 ($) 2019 ($)

Operating activities

(Deficiency) excess of revenue over expenses (3,296,894) 996,267

Adjustment for:

Change in fair value of investments 2,912,925 (1,235,152)

(383,969) (238,885)

Changes in non-cash operating working capital items

Accounts receivable (2,711) 120,613

Sales taxes receivable 39,862 (38,955)

Prepaid expenses 172,877 (127,258)

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities (27,540) 18,556

Due to The McCord Stewart Museum – Operations 36,313 (8,078)

Deferred revenue (180,000) (301,434)

(345,168) (575,441)

Investing activities

Purchase of investments (2,086,311) (11,458,101)

Disposal of investments 4,541,307 2,308,039

2,454,996 (9,150,062)

Financing activities

Direct increase in net assets — 500,000

Transfer from The McCord Stewart Museum — 10,450,000

Due to The McCord Stewart Museum – Annuity (2,200,000) (1,650,000)

(2,200,000) 9,300,000

Net decrease in cash (90,172) (425,503)

Cash, beginning of year 351,762 777,265

Cash, end of year 261,590 351,762

60 McCord Stewart Museum 61 2019-2020 Annual Report Robert Guilbault Thank you to Charles C. Gurd 12 Donors and our donors Kenneth Hague Frances and Shimshon Hamerman Vivian Harder and Carina Marinelli 2019-2020 DONORS TO THE COLLECTION Anne-Marie B. Hart Partners Sheila Hennessy-Brandl Barbara Joan Aylett David Hlynsky Guy Badeaux (Bado) Anita C. Hochstein Philippe Baylaucq Gerry Humnicky Gérard Beaudoin Suzanne Huppée Jean-Frédéric Bérard Dr. Peter Kaellgren Diane Patricia Bolduc Dr. Diane Kelsall Suzanne Bourgeois for Jacqueline Galipeau Denyse Labelle-Cenerelli Bourse de Montréal Justine Lacoste Louise Buddle and Lorraine Sutherland Gaétan Lafrance Claudine Bujold Johanne Lalonde Joan and Ken Burrows Dr. Dany Lamothe Karina Cahill R.D. Larche Family Kay Camphuis Nicole Larivée Michèle Caron Roger Laurier [1913-1998] Alexander and Elaine Cawadias Monique Leblond John (Giovanni) Cenerelli Lemay-Lustig Family Serge Chapleau Paul-André Letendre Robert Choronzey Joan Lindsay David Hamlin Clendenning Graziella Malagoni Clinton County Historical Association Robert C. Martel Audrey Cobrin Michelle McGahey Yolande Cohen Christopher McLeod Alvin Comiter Diana McNeill (née Boulton) Philippe Cournoyer Helen Meredith for the Estate of C.J.G. Gerald M. Crotty [Bloomfield, Connecticut] (Jack) Molson Christian Daigle (Fleg) Isabelle Milette Family of Gus Dalianis Charlotte Bishop Millen Carmelle Daoust Pamela Miller Louise Décarie Karen Molson Michelle Phaneuf Delage Terry Mosher (Aislin) Marie-Andrée Delisle Bernard Mulaire Eric W.E. Denman William Fraser Nickle Monique Rousseau Deschênes Susan Nish Dodds Family Julian Armstrong O’Brien Marie-Andrée Dorais Marcel Paquette Barbara Dressler Nicole Paradis Althea McQueen Drummond Daniel Payette Roxanne Ducharme Joan Perry Robert Duchesnay and Solange Bourassa André Pharand François-Xavier Dutoy Denise Philippon Margaret Little Everson Roland Pierre Geneviève Faribault Denis Plain The Drummond Foundation along with Wendy, André Poulin Bruce, Alexander and Huntly McNiven Normand Rajotte Claude Forget Estate of Chantal Raymond Sylvie Fortin Kate Reed Marie-Hélène Garant Mrs. John A. Rolland Denise Garneau Tania Rolland Michel Garneau (Garnotte) The Royal Commonwealth Society, Montreal Jacques Gener Branch Archives Philippe Gervais Royal Montreal Curling Club Guy Glorieux Judith Amyot Russaouën Richard Arless Associates, Tanning break for Richard Arless photographic studio staff (detail),1949. Gift of Elizabeth Gordon Jean Saint-Cyr Jean-Luc Allard and Lucie Surprenant,M2017.46.2.207 Colin Gravenor Mary Sargent © McCord Stewart Museum

62 McCord Stewart Museum 63 2019-2020 Annual Report John Schweitzer Jean-Jacques Carrier Richard and Sylvia Cruess René Malo and Marie Gagnon Malo Tania Shamy Céline and Jacques Lamarre Foundation Elizabeth Danowski James and Barbara Marcolin Elisabeth Silvester Marc Choko Louis Dzialowski Charles and Anne Matheson W. James Smeaton CIBC Children’s Foundation Susan Fitzpatrick Sally McDougall St. Catharines Museum Thomas Davis and Marie-Josée Meekers Forster, McGuire Anson McKim Micheline St-Arnaud Douglas and Diane Deruchie Thomas and Caroline Gillespie Patricia Michel Jeff Steele Catherine Desbarats Marie-Lucie Grégoire Céline Pepin Georgine Strathy DJS Holdings Michael Harrison Jean-Pierre Provencher and Suzanne Gagnon Kenneth H. Sullivan DMA architectes Mel and Ann Hodes Anne Raby Anne Sutherland Doggone Foundation Fund of the Foundation Peter and Gail Johnson François Senécal-Tremblay Claire Tardif of Greater Montréal Helen Kahn Irwin Tauben Liliane Théberge-Bouliane Fondation Pierre Desmarais Belvédère Eric Klinkhoff Leigh Taylor Paulette Tourangeau David Gawley and Linda Leith Elisa Labelle-Trudeau Scott Taylor Zoë Tousignant Marie Giguère David Laidley and Ellen Wallace Miriam Tees Michel Élie Tremblay Robert Graham and Sharon Sparling Louise Langelier Biron John Thompson Johanne Pilon Vallée Hay Foundation Paul-André Linteau Valerie Pasztor Foundation Carole Vallières Joan Ivory François Longpré Philip and Judith Webster Marie-Andrée Vandal Guthrie Stewart and Sarah Ivory Alicia Maniloff Mary Wells Alma J. Vose J.W. McConnell Family Foundation Nicholas Maris Christopher Wiegand Alexis Walker Monique Jérôme-Forget Katharine Mills Nancy Wright Kendall Wallis Michal Kuzmicki François Morin and Véronique Garneau Francine Wallot Lallemand Newton Foundation And thank you to the 318 donors who donated Felice Weiner Barry Lorenzetti Robert and Monique Parizeau less than $250. Anne D. Williams Michael and Kelly Meighen Jean-Denis Proulx Barbara Winn Michael Novak Fund of the Foundation of Recochem PLANNED GIVING Greater Montréal Line Rivard 2019-2020 GIVING CAMPAIGN Anne-Marie and Mitch Garber Family Foundation James and Katherine Robb Bequest Stephen and Nancy Molson Shawn Rosengarten Estate of Althea Cleveland Douglas Major Donations François Ouimet Geraldine Routh Anne-Marie and Mitch Garber Family Foundation William Tresham and Madeleine Panaccio Alain Simard In memoriam BMO Bank of Montreal Mariella Pandolfi Adam and Catherine Turner The late Frank J. Mrazik Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec Rosalind Pepall Tyringham Investments Canada Life Richard Pound and Julie Keith Mark Armstrong Drummond Foundation R. Howard Webster Foundation $250 – $499 Energy Valero Foundation of Canada Paul Raymond Anonymous (9) A NIGHT AT THE McCORD MUSEUM Mark Gallop Richard and Carolyn Renaud 3115364 Canada Hylcan Foundation Joseph Ribkoff and Natalie Michaud Bird Protection Quebec Generous donations Ivanhoé Cambridge Miriam Roland Margot Adair CGI J.A. DeSève Foundation Suzanne Sauvage Suzanne Bisaillon Laurent Chamroeun Jarislowsky Foundation François Schubert Trevor and Barbara Bishop GDI Integrated Facility Services Mirella and Lino Saputo Foundation Lorna Telfer and Peter O’Brien John Blachford Ivanhoé Cambridge Derek and Jill Price Travelway Group International Caroline Bourgeois Julien Leblanc Traiteur Kate Reed Jean and Lorraine Turmel Wayne Campbell Jean-Michel Lavoie Rossy Family Foundation Manon Vennat Canadian Club of Montreal François Leclair Zeller Family Foundation Ann Vroom and David Lank James Cherry Eric Molson Walker Glass Company Robert Larkin and Elizabeth Ann Dadson Trustee’s Circle Diane Wilhelmy Aileen Desbarats Marilyn Aitken $5,000 and + Elizabeth Downing Claude Audet-Robitaille Birks Family Foundation Louise Drouin Joelle Audet-Robitaille Gestion J.I.C.A. Patron’s Circle Véronique-Isabelle Forest Lucie Beaupré Godin Family Foundation $500 – $999 Genfoot Christine Bérubé Roger Laporte and Monique Choquette-Laporte Anonymous (6) John Gomery and Pierrette Rayle Annick Bissainthe Peacock Family Foundation Derek Anderson and Josie Hails Highwater Foundation Philippe-Olivier Boulay Scott Sarlilyn Investments Bax Investments Christl Jemelka Louise Bourbonnais TFI International James et Michèle Beckerleg Jan Krijff Julien Breault BFIN Carole Labelle-Molson Raphael Briere Benefactor’s Circle Rose Bidler Louise Lamarre Proulx Alain Caouette $1,000 – $4,999 Barbara Brodeur Gilbert and Tina Lee Jean-Jacques Carrier Anonymous (1) Marcel Caya and Thérèse Bussières Leonard and Alice Cohen Family Foundation Kévin-Viséth Chamroeun Grégoire Baillargeon Barry Cole and Sylvie Plouffe Nathalie Lévesque Maryse Chapdelaine William Baker and Mary Sutherland John Collyer Eric Maldoff Jonathan Choulakian

64 McCord Stewart Museum 65 2019-2020 Annual Report Benoit Clennett-Sirois EDWARD CURTIS CONSERVATION PROJECT San Benedetto Macdonald Stewart Foundation Martine Couillard SAQ Mackenzie Investments Anne-Marie Demers Generous donations Sofina Luc Mantha Ginette Ducharme Richard Hart Marcelle and Jean Coutu Foundation Julie Falardeau Derek and Jill Price Guests and Donors McCarthy Tétrault Anthony Gagnon Kate Reed 1832 Asset Management Metro Linda Geczo Zeller Family Foundation 6358098 Canada Anne-Marie and Mitch Garber Family Foundation Claude Gendron ACMÉ Décors Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Philippe Girard Michel Bédard Aéroports de Montréal Véronique Morin Lorraine Gosselin Diane and Claudio Bussandri Sharon Azrieli Mr. W Montréal John Gouws Robert Colby Anick Beaubien Margaret Murzynska Dominique Granger Krayna Golfman Bernard Bélanger Sébastien Nadeau Pascale Grignon Raymond L’Italien BLTA National Bank Investments Mohamed Hafidh Hamida Anne Macauley BMO Global Asset Management NCK Stéphane Hébert Jane Pomeroy Anne Boyer Norton Rose Fulbright Sandra Heintz Jane Bourke and Kin Tooke Broccolini Pimco Paolo Iannetta Patterson Webster Celebrations Group François Plamondon Jessika Jakubowicz Charitable Gift Funds Foundation Provencher Roy + Associés Architectes Sebina Jankovic 2019 ANNUAL BALL CIBC Private Wealth Management Anick Redburn Sonia Kata Claude Cormier & Associés Richter Catherine Laflamme Philanthropic Partners Clinique Médicale Olan Carmen Robinson Geneviève Lafrance Agropur Cominar Marc Rochefort Annie Laliberté Arsenal Contemporary Art Kateri Da Silva François Roy Suzanne Laplante BMO Capital Markets Deloitte Louise Roy Mathieu Lapointe Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec Michael Delouya Société en commandite Bassins C2 Josée Laurion Charron Family Desjardins Capital Stikeman Elliott Nolwenn Le Squer Dollarama Desjardins Group Marc Thibodeau Andrée Lecoq Fidelity Investments Canada Devencore Tourisme Montréal Philip Leduc LaSalle College Dorel Travelway Group International Siloe Leduc National Bank of Canada Marie-Claude Dumas Valet Québec Nathalie Lévesque RBC Royal Bank Dupras Ledoux Walsh Lab Design Paul Lewis Rogers Communications Dynamic Funds Chivivann Lim Sun Life EdgePoint Wealth 2019 SUGAR BALL Gabriel Lorrain Via Rail Canada Énergir Hélène Lussier WCPD Foundation Environnement Électronique Philanthropic Partners Johanne Malo EY Agropur Loretta Mazzocchi Prestige Tables Fasken Martineau Arsenal Contemporary Art Judith Mendelsohn Borden Ladner Gervais Fey Imports BMO Capital Markets Caroline Musy Cascades Fidelity Investments Canada Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec Huy-Co Nguyen CGI Group Fido Charron Family Yan Chuan Pan CN Fiera Capital Corporation Dollarama Denis Plourde Cogeco Communications Fonds Pierre-Mantha Fidelity Investments Canada Pierre Poirier Dentons GDI Integrated Facility Services LaSalle College Stéphanie Poisson Equinoxe LifeCare Gloria Bass Design National Bank of Canada Vasilios Pylarinos Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso Groupe Deschênes RBC Royal Bank Lara Reichman Ivanhoé Cambridge Roseline Guevremont Rogers Communications Luc Robitaille Manulife Financial Marina Gusti Sun Life Maria-Luisa Romano Quebecor Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) VIA Rail Canada Charlotte Routhier iA Financial Group WCPD Foundation Emily Royer Sponsors Innergex Hélène Samson Agropur Invesco Benefactors Suzanne Sauvage Arsenal Contemporary Art La Presse $5,000 and + Sara Serban Au Pain Doré François Lambert Alan and Roula Rossy Family Foundation Marilyn Stewart Chubb Lancôme Canada BMO Wealth Management Annie Taillefer Elle - Chef and culinary designer Charles Lapointe Capital Traiteur Montréal Karim Talaat Forand Évènements Lavery, de Billy Fiera Capital Corporation Christian Vachon Golf Exécutif Montréal Raymonde Lavoie Grisspasta Charles Veilleux Kaméléon François Leclair Mercedes Benz Laval Jean-Sébastien Verret La Presse Logistec Power Corporation of Canada Karine Vinette Le Richmond Lac Long Ly Richter Rogers Lysander Funds

66 McCord Stewart Museum 67 2019-2020 Annual Report Torys PATRONS William Frenn $2,500 - $4,999 Averna Technologies Wine and Beer Sponsors Bruce Kent Group Arterra Canada DM Management Brasserie Dunham Dynamic Funds Domaine Bresee Edelman Domaine du Ridge Franklin Templeton Exultet Estates Kenny Moyse Jacques Nolin Restaurant Sponsors Au Pain Doré Contributors Café Vasco Da Gama $1,000 - $2,499 Ferreira Colas Canada Franca Mazza Lallemand Fromagerie du Presbytère Le Richmond Partners Mélisse Canderel Satay Brothers Charton Hobbs Davies Sponsors Peroni Forand Évènements RBC Royal Bank Groupe ABP Happening Sponsors Jessica Harnois Agence Fox Le Germain Hotel Montreal Barroco Tanium Bevo Vins au Féminin Bord’elle Brera Catering Company And thank you to the 230 guests and donors Campo who contributed to the success of this evening. Cloakroom Bar Ferreira 2019 DONORS’ COCKTAIL Fiorellino Flyjin Partners Le Richmond Fleuriste Marie Vermette Leche Dessert Forand Évènements Leméac Le Richmond Monsieur Restaurant Mosaiq Vins et spiritueux Moog Audio Mr. Puffs The McCord Museum Foundation has made every Regal effort to ensure the accuracy of the information Sousbois on this list. For any mistakes, please accept our apologies and send your corrections to And thank you to the 748 guests and donors [email protected] who contributed to the success of this evening.

2019-2020 WINE AND FOOD GRANTING ORGANIZATIONS Arrondissement Ville-Marie, Ville de Montréal Co-presenters Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec EY Canadian Heritage National Bank of Canada Canadian Museums Association Conseil des arts de Montréal Generous donations Employment and Social Development Canada Desjardins Group Fédération des milieux documentaires Ministère de la Culture et des Communications Davies du Québec Desdowd Secrétariat à la politique linguistique Langlois Lawyers Tourisme Montréal Norton Rose Fulbright Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, Tabula Rogers Communications Selenographica in qua Lunarium Macularum, 1742. 1979.258 © McCord Stewart Museum 68 McCord Stewart Museum 69 2019-2020 Annual Report Me Christian Leblanc 2019-2020 McCord PARTNER 13 Board of Stewart Museum Board FASKEN MARTINEAU DUMOULIN LLP of Trustees Olivier Legault ARCHITECT AND SENIOR PARTNER Trustees and BÉÏQUE, LEGAULT, THUOT ARCHITECTES Honorary chair Derek A. Price CORPORATE DIRECTOR Jacob Lithgow Museum Team ANALYST, INVESTMENTS, EXTERNAL PORTFOLIO Chair MANAGEMENT Monique Jérôme-Forget CAISSE DE DÉPÔT ET PLACEMENT DU QUÉBEC SPECIAL ADVISOR OSLER, HOSKIN & HARCOURT LLP Alan MacIntosh GENERAL PARTNER Vice-chair REAL VENTURES François H. Ouimet PARTNER Melissa Mollen Dupuis STIKEMAN ELLIOT LLP INNU ACTIVIST | CHAIR OF THE BOARD AND PAR- TICIPANT IN WAPIKONI AND CO-FOUNDER Treasurer OF IDLE NO MORE QUEBEC Daniel Baer e PARTNER M Véronique Morin ERNST & YOUNG LLP ASSOCIATE AND CERTIFIED MEDIATOR LAVERY DE BILLY LLP Secretary Me Paul Raymond Jean-Claude Poitras SENIOR PARTNER FASHION DESIGNER AND INTERDISCIPLINARY NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT CANADA LLP DESIGNER

Members Marie Senécal-Tremblay Michèle Audette CITIZENSHIP JUDGE, CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP SPEAKER AND CONSULTANT COMMISSION COMMISSIONER, NATIONAL INQUIRY INTO MIS- IMMIGRATION, REFUGEES AND CITIZENSHIP SING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN CANADA AND GIRLS (MMIWG) Pierre Trahan Sharon Azrieli CO-FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OPERA SINGER ARSENAL ARTS AND EVENT CENTRE

Grégoire Baillargeon Ann Vroom CO-HEAD MEMBER BMO CAPITAL MARKETS MCGILL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Bruce D. Bolton Diane Wilhelmy EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CORPORATE DIRECTOR MACDONALD STEWART FOUNDATION Ex officio members Me Anne-Marie Boucher Prof. Suzanne Fortier LAWYER PRINCIPAL & VICE-CHANCELLOR BCF BUSINESS LAW LLP McGILL UNIVERSITY

Prof. Catherine Desbarats Suzanne Sauvage ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF HISTORY, MCGILL UNIVERSITY McCORD STEWART MUSEUM

Cynthia Gordon Claude Gendron CORPORATE DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, LEGAL AFFAIRS AND GENERAL COUNSEL Gabor Szilasi, Mariette Lévesque and Jacques de IVANHOÉ CAMBRIDGE Montjoye at the opening of the pharmacy-boutique Michal Kuzmicki Le Drug, Montreal (detail), May 1965. Gift of Gabor Szilasi, M2018.39.9 © Gabor Szilasii CORPORATE DIRECTOR

70 McCord Stewart Museum 71 2019-2020 Annual Report The McCord Museum would also like to thank Governance Committee CURATOR AND HEAD, STEWART MUSEUM Cecil Rabinovitch and Daniel Fournier for their Chair 2019-2020 McCord COLLECTIONS involvement on the Board. Monique Jérôme-Forget Stewart Museum Sylvie Dauphin Executive Committee Members Team HEAD, CONSERVATION Chair Véronique Morin Anne MacKay Monique Jérôme-Forget Paul Raymond Suzanne Sauvage Executive management CONSERVATORS Members Ann Vroom Sara Serban Daniel Baer Diane Wilhelmy PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Sonia Kata Bruce D. Bolton Suzanne Sauvage Maryse Bonaldo Suzanne Fortier Collections Management Committee François H. Ouimet Chair ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF CONSERVATION ASSISTANT, 2D OBJECTS Paul Raymond Cynthia Gordon EXECUTIVE OFFICER Denis Plourde Suzanne Sauvage Johanne Malo Members CONSERVATION ASSISTANT, 3D OBJECTS Finance and Administration Committee Sharon Azrieli SENIOR OFFICER, GOVERNMENT AND Caroline Bourgeois Chair Cynthia Cooper INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS Daniel Baer Monique Jérôme-Forget Martine Couillard TECHNICIAN, CONSERVATION Laurier Lacroix (guest) Lyne Desaulniers Members Yvon Lemay (guest) Collections and research Monique Jérôme-Forget Karine Rousseau HEAD, COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT Michal Kuzmicki Suzanne Sauvage HEAD, COLLECTIONS AND RESEARCH AND Christian Vachon Philip Leduc Marie Senécal-Tremblay CURATOR, DRESS, FASHION AND TEXTILES Jacob Lithgow Christian Vachon Cynthia Cooper ASSISTANT HEAD, COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT François H. Ouimet Karine Rousseau Robert Raven (guest) The Collections Management Committee CURATOR, INDIGENOUS CULTURES Suzanne Sauvage would also like to thank Rosalind Pepall and Jonathan Lainey CATALOGUER Ann Vroom for their contributions to the Geneviève Deziel Audit Sub-Committee committee’s work. CURATOR, ARCHIVES Chair Mathieu Lapointe, Ph.D. ASSISTANT, COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT Daniel Baer Camille Deshaies-Forget CURATOR, MATERIAL CULTURE Members Guislaine Lemay PHOTOGRAPHERS Claude David (invité) Marilyn Aitken Philip Leduc CURATOR, PHOTOGRAPHY Laura Dumitriu Hélène Samson, Ph.D. Building Sub-Committee REFERENCE ARCHIVIST, ARCHIVES AND Chair CURATOR, DOCUMENTARY ART DOCUMENTATION CENTRE Michal Kuzmicki Christian Vachon Heather McNabb, Ph.D.

Members ASSOCIATE CURATOR, PHOTOGRAPHY DOCUMENTALIST Charles Flicker (guest) Zoë Tousignant, Ph.D. Camille Crevier-Lalonde Jean-Eudes Guy (guest) Philip Leduc CURATORIAL ASSISTANTS, ARCHIVES AND TECHNICIANS, COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT Olivier Legault DOCUMENTARY ART Jean-Christophe Chenette Eugénie Marcil Ariane Gervais-Côté Strategic Committee Patricia Prost Josianne Venne Chair Paul Raymond CURATORIAL ASSISTANT, DRESS, FASHION AND MANAGER, DIGITAL OUTREACH, COLLECTIONS TEXTILES Stéphanie Poisson Members Alexis Walker Bruce D. Bolton COORDINATOR, DIGITAL INFORMATION Anne-Marie Boucher CURATORIAL ASSISTANT, PHOTOGRAPHY MANAGEMENT Monique Jérôme-Forget Nathalie Houle Anne-Frédérique Beaulieu-Plamondon Michal Kuzmicki Olivier Legault JUNIOR ARCHIVIST François H. Ouimet Philippe-Olivier Boulay-Scott Suzanne Sauvage Pierre Trahan

72 McCord Stewart Museum 73 2019-2020 Annual Report Programs Fany Mc Crae HEAD, CLIENT DEVELOPMENT AND COMPTROLLERS Monica Meza Giron PARTNERSHIPS Muriel Ingrassia, CPA, CMA HEAD, EXHIBITIONS Boris Minatchev Jessica Marie Alain Yao Geneviève Lafrance Flavie Vaudry-Levasseur OFFICER, CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTING ANALYST PROJECT MANAGERS, EXHIBITIONS DAY CAMP COORDINATOR AND MARKETING Yan Chuan Pan Catherine K. Laflamme Francis Beaulieu Nadraath Radji Geneviève Larouche TECHNICIAN, ACCOUNTING AND PAYROLL Caroline Truchon, Ph.D. DAY CAMP COUNSELLORS AGENTS, ROOM RENTAL AND MEMBERSHIP Pascaline Ouedraogo François Vallée Marilou Arsenault Chloé Guillaume (on leave) Simone Sauvage De Champlain Tanya Dionne Thisdale TECHNICIAN, ACCOUNTING AND CHIEF TECHNICIAN, EXHIBITIONS William Daigle Babin ADMINISTRATION John Gouws TECHNICAL COORDINATOR, EVENTS Linda Geczo Marketing, communications and Philippe Leclerc-Lachapelle TECHNICIANS, EXHIBITIONS visitor experience ASSISTANTS, ACCOUNTING Eve Champagne Thériault COORDINATOR, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS Mathilde Dubé-Sénécal Alexandre Côté DIRECTOR, MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS AND RESERVATIONS Raïssa Komassi Mélissa Jacques AND VISITOR EXPERIENCE Sophie de Viennot Julie Laframboise Pascale Grignon HEAD, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Olivier LeBlanc-Roy AGENT, GROUP RESERVATIONS Hugues Boily Siloë Leduc HEADS, COMMUNICATIONS Carole Cid Patrick Migneault Christine Bérubé HEAD, OPERATIONS Paul Smith Sandra Heintz MANAGERS, ADMISSIONS AND BOUTIQUE Daniel Dupéré Michelle Vachon HEADS, EDUCATION, COMMUNITY SENIOR OFFICER, COMMUNICATIONS AND Silvia Sorbelli TEAM LEADER, TECHNICAL SERVICES ENGAGEMENT AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS VISITOR EXPERIENCE David Dupéré Maria-Luisa Romano (interim) Anne-Marie Beaudet SUPERVISORS, ADMISSIONS Mélanie Deveault Lisa Gratton (on leave) TECHNICIANS, MAINTENANCE AND OFFICERS, PUBLIC RELATIONS Mélissa Bouchard TECHNICAL SERVICES PROJECT MANAGERS Ludovic Iop Éric Brouillard Lelia Afriat Nadia Martineau (on leave) CLERKS, VISITOR SERVICES Denis Leduc Ashley Courtland Marilou Arsenault Laura Delfino OFFICER, PROMOTION AND ADVERTISING Anaëlle Jean-Charles TECHNICIANS, SECURITY AND MAINTENANCE Catherine Patenaude Amélie Brissette Abdelhak Beche COORDINATORS Emma Davidson Marcel Bernard Clara Chouinard OFFICER, PUBLIC RELATIONS AND PROMOTION Tanya Dionne Thisdale Kareem Bois Élysa Lachapelle Fanny Laurin Roxane Drouin Ryan Chan Charles-Antoine Goulet Thomas Dufour ASSISTANT COORDINATOR COORDINATOR, PUBLIC RELATIONS AND Nicole Kelly Martin Gagné Anne-Sophie Blouin PROMOTION Nadjah Meriem Oumid Simon Lacas Andréanne Gagnon Dominique Poitras Simon Lajoie CULTURAL MEDIATION TEAM Dragoslava Pujic Martin Ouellette Joanna Abrahamowicz OFFICER, DIGITAL CONTENT AND SOCIAL Tania Marques Hicham Raoufi Lisa-Maude Bérubé MEDIA Laurence Paré-Plante Ariane Bousquet Sabrina Lorier COORDINATOR, SECURITY AND FACILITIES Léonie Beaulieu ADMISSIONS ASSISTANT (SUMMER) Mario Lafond David Brassard COORDINATOR, COMMUNICATIONS Madeleine Rouleau-Dumas Melissa Bureau-Capuano Philippe Bergeron MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN Elisabeth Chiasson Operations Claudio Pacheco Marianne Connel COORDINATOR, DIGITAL CONTENT AND Maude Darsigny Trépanier EVENTS DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS MECHANICAL TECHNICIAN Marie-Anne Durocher Shannon Delarosbil Philip Leduc Dominique Granger Caroline Gamiette Jean-Philippe Giroux GRAPHIC DESIGNER HEAD, HUMAN RESOURCES Nicolas Handfield-Raymond Anne-Marie Demers Lucie Beaupré Louis Lalancette Félix Larose-Chevalier OFFICER, HUMAN RESOURCES Sébastien Lefebvre Simone Komassi Marc-André Lévesque Audrey-Pier L’Italien Alexandra Madoyan Trautmann

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, McCORD Ophélie Barte McCord Museum MUSEUM FOUNDATION Auréanne Bergere Nathalie Lévesque Maëva Bezirard McCORD MUSEUM VOLUNTEER Annie Bilodeau GUIDE ASSOCIATION OFFICER, PLANNED GIVING AND MAJOR GIFTS Philippe-Olivier Boulay Scott Arduina Alonzo Catherine Julien Sophie Cardinal Huguette Audy Katherine Carsley Lacroix Vesna Dell’Olio OFFICER, ANNUAL CAMPAIGN AND Camille Chambon Ginette Dumouchel DONOR RELATIONS Théo Courty Susan Garin Pierre Poirier Thomas Durand Jill Guedon Geneviève Duval Elizabeth Jennaway-Eaman OFFICER, FUNDRAISING EVENTS Johanna Gaude Andrée Jolin Nolwenn Le Squer Sandrine Héroux Marie Jutras Emma Jacquet Carole Lafleur OFFICER, EVENTS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS Marianne Lebel Monique Lecavalier Charlotte Routhier Angèle Macoine Harvy Levinson Nadine Mansouri Francine Tétrault ASSISTANT, McCORD MUSEUM FOUNDATION Shoya Nishi Kathleen Verdon Karine Vinette Emma Palladino Astrid Roussel ADMISSION CLERKS AND ON VICTORIA STREET Julie Swartenbroeckx Ada Catalano Alitheia Soulie Céline Meilleur Mathieu Tesson Catherine Patrick-Boon François Vallée Suzanne Raymond Stephanie Weber Esperanza Tacchi

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