Contains activity bulletins from 1946-1949, athletic award night programs, minstrel show programs and articles pertaining to the minstrel shows, newspaper clippings pertaining to YM-YWHA athletics, articles about Jewish Canadian athletes, tickets to YMHA events and posters pertaining to these events (including Rita Karpinovitch in concert), and miscellaneous YMHA of Montreal leaflets.

• Includes photocopies of various theatre and minstrel show programs.The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American form of racist entertainment developed in the early 19th century. Each show consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music performances that depicted people specifically of African descent. The shows were performed by mostly white people in make-up or blackface for the purpose of playing the role of black people? and lampooning them. Read more at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_show

• ?Contrary to popular belief, blackface minstrelsy was a popular form of entertainment in Canada, much as it was in the United States.? Read more at McGill?s Arts Against PostRacialism site: https://www.mcgill.ca/aapr/blackface-canada