Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am-12:00am and 1:30pm-4:30PM (Public): Access to archive fonds is by appointment only from Wednesday to Friday.
Location: Pavillon Jean-Charles-Bonenfant, local 5489
2345, Allée des bibliothèques, Cité universitaire, Québec (QC), Canada, G1V 0A6.
Contact: (418) 656-2131 x405892, archives.histoires@sg.ulaval.ca (Consultation room); division.archives@sg.ulaval.ca (Administration).
Access: Open to the public. To access archive fonds, contact the consultation room to make an appointment.
Website: http://www.archives.ulaval.ca/
The archives at Laval University houses records of the university, local organizations, and private collections. To search the library’s holdings, researchers are redirected to a consolidated portal for archives in Québec. This library is particularly strong in records related to folklore, legends, and religious practices.
This library has a noteworthy folklore and ethnology collection, called the Archives de folklore et d’ethnologie de l’Université Laval (AFEUL), with over 1500 fonds. This collection includes folk culture like those in the Marie-Andrée Collection (1980-81) on games and in the Fêtes calendaires et cycliques (Holiday Calendars and Cycles) (1984). As part of the folklore archives, there are numerous records related to musical history as seen in the collections of Mme Siméon Paré (19-), Leona Laboissonnière (19-), the Séminaire de Québec (Québec Seminary) (19-), the 102 songs of Gratie Hâlée (19-), the 77 sound tracks in Le Tamanoir fonds, and the 492 tapes of the Collection Chanson et musique folkloriste 1 (1964-). There are other more general religious records, such as the ethnographic records on attitudes to Mary found in the Anne-Marie Poulin et Jean Simard fonds (1988) and death rituals found in the papers of Céline Lord (1963-1982).
The Fonds Alourdes Amédée et Marcel Julien (1988) offers a study of food history in Laval. Records related to farming can be found in the MacLean-Hunter collection (1917-1987).
This archive also offers virtual exhibitions about the university’s history including “L’Université Laval: Au fil du temps,” “L’Université Laval, alma mater de célébrités nationales,” “La langue française a l’Université,” et “Père Georges-Henri Lévesque.”