Conrad Graham was Curator at the McCord Museum of Canadian History for 39 years. During that time he managed the Decorative Arts Collection as well as the Paintings, Prints and Drawings Collection. The McCord has one of the largest holdings of early Canadian Art. He is a distinguished Montreal historian and an expert in objects of Canadiana. He is the only Canadian to have mounted an exhibition at the Courtauld Institute Galleries in London, with the exhibition "Mont Royal Ville Marie, Early Plans and Views of Montreal."