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Accession consists of records documenting Powe's writing career in the 1990s and 2000s, particularly the writing, editing, publication and promotion of his novel "Aldershot 1945" and the reprint and stage productions of "The Aberhart Summer", as well as records pertaining to his freelance work for Powe Communications and his personal life and family. Records in this accession include manuscripts and other draft writing, photographs of Powe and his family, research files, notebooks and day planners, memorabilia (including newspaper and magazine clippings), printed e-mail and correspondence, posters, drawings, scrapbooks and videocassettes.

Accession consists of records mainly pertaining to Joyce Wieland's personal life and family. Records include photographs of Wieland, Michael Snow, Phyllis Lambert, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, friends and family; photographs of scenery and landscapes; correspondence; personal ephemera including identity cards and birth certificates; Wieland's astrological chart; a photo album created by Phyllis Lambert for Wieland's 60th birthday in 1990; a wall hanging entitled "Ode to Joyce" featuring circular embroidered pieces with symbols and expressions relevant to Wieland's life; newspaper clippings of articles by Wendy Michener; and a catalog for "In search of the far shore: the films of Joyce Wieland" (Canada House, Jan.-Feb. 1988).

Records in this accession mainly pertain to Robert Drummond’s administrative and academic work as a professor of Political Science and Dean of York University’s Faculty of Arts. Also included are files documenting his early academic work in high school and university. Records include essays and articles, correspondence, photographs, memoranda, reports, course materials and lecture notes.

Accession consists of colour slides showing rural and urban conditions across Canada and particularly in Ontario that were photography by John Warkentin for use in his lectures and publications.

Accession consists of research and teaching material created by John Warkentin, including: field notes, interview notes, and population maps for the Prairies, and Manitoba in particular, 1962-1965; correspondence regarding research and promotion of colleagues in historical geography, 1991-2000; the final report for the Historical Atlas of Canada Project, 1995; correspondence regarding Warkentin's appointment as Honorary President of the Champlain Society, 2000; material on George Tatham, including Warkentin's notes from Tatham's lectures on human geograph, 1951-1952; and 35 mm colour slides taken by Warkentin between 1956-1999 of Greenland, Goose Bay and other parts of Newfoundland and Labrador, the earliest depictions of landscapes in each of Canada's major regions, and especialy of Manitoba, including various aspects of rural and urban geography as well as Mennonite settlement patterns n southern Manitoba.

Accession consists of correspondence with several individuals involved in the international dance community on topics that include research on teh career of Isadora Duncan, the purchase of Lillian Loewenthal's collection by York University Libraries, the Howard Holtzman collection, and the memorial performance for Hortense Kooluris in October 2007. Accession also includes performance programmes and other promotional literature from a wide range of organizations involved with dance, baroque music, and opera.

Accession consists of financial records from Dance Oremus Danse including donation receipt books, dance programmes, as well as related ephemera, including a mounted poster.

Accession consists of material that documents Connelly's personal and professional life and includes notes and drafts related to published and unpublished poems and short stories as well as complete drafts of her poetry collections 'Grace and poison,' 'This brighter prison,' 'The disorder of love,' and 'The small words in my body,' her travel memoirs 'One room in a castle' and 'Touch the dragon' and her novel 'The lizard cage.' It also includes personal correspondence consisting of letters received by Connelly as well as copies of letters sent by her to friends and family, which were subsequently used in the writing of her works of travel literature. The fonds includes copies of letters of received from Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Dale Zieroth, Don Coles, Michael Redhill, Nino Ricci, Nancy Holmes, Libby Oughton, Silver Donald Cameron, Susan Swan and Steven Heighton, among others. It also includes Connelly's personal journals for the years 1984 to 2003 in which she documents events in her day to day life, her thoughts on literature and art, ideas and sketches for stories and poems and in which she recorded her observations based on her extensive travels through Thailand, Burma, Spain, France, Greece and Canada.

Accession consists of 27 publications, photographs, correspondence and notes created and/or compiled by dancer, choreographer Paul James Dwyer.

Accession consists of dance programs, personal and professional correspondence, subject files related to Dance Oremus Danse's tour of Japan and to various dancers and/or dance companies as well as other material related to Dwyer's career, choreographer and writer.

Consists of additional material in the Seth Feldman fonds including notes, research material and drafts of the Ideas program, "The Case of the Harvard Mouse" co-written by Feldman.

Accession consists of research notes, news articles, drafts of scripts for radio shows and screenplays, and correspondence regarding Professor Feldman's involvement with CBC Radio's Ideas and other creative works, as well as training material for Pro Tools software and documents regarding conference participation.

Accession consists of records of television program 'Gzowski in Conversation' co-produced by Tapestry Pictures and CBC. Includes VHS screening copies, 'Gzowski in Compilation' CD material, production files and story and research files.

Accessions consists of additional material in the Mary Young Leckie fonds including scripts, production files and audio visual material related to her feature films as well as material that documents her personal life such as financial records, photos of her cottage, correspondence and material that documents her involvement with Mountview Alternative School.

Accession consists of research notes, correspondence, media coverage, and production files for the films by John Kastner, "Monster in the family" and "Sinner in paradise".

Accession consists of textual and audiovisual records pertaining to the development, production and promotion of documentary films by John Kastner: Out of Mind, Out of Sight (2014), NCR: Not Criminally Responsible (2013), Life with Murder (2009), Sinner in Paradise (2007), Monster in the Family, parts 1 (2006) and 2 (2007), Rage Against the Darkness (2004), Romance with a Rapist (1999), Ask a Silly Question (1998), Hunting Bobby Oatway (1997), and House of Secrets (1997). These records include research files, memorabilia, correspondence, court transcripts, interview transcripts, scripts, posters, photographs, audio and video cassettes, compact and optical discs.

Series includes personal and professional correspondence, drafts of articles and radio plays and draft and manuscripts of plays and novels written by Boyle, photographs, sound and audio visual recordings.

Accession consists of low-level oblique aerial photographs of conservation areas in southern Ontario, and the Oak Ridges Moraine.

Accession consists of oblique aerial photographs of Southern Ontario watersheds taken by Lou Wise using 35mm colour transparencies while flying his own plane.

Accession consists of personal and professional correspondence; notes, drafts and research material for articles and publications including "Cold War Canada" and "End of Privacy"; copies of RCMP Bulletins; subject files that reflect his varied interests and involvement with different organizations or activities and other material that documents his career as an academic, author and political commentator.

Accession consists of records documenting Reg Whitaker's work as an academic and writer. These records include professional correspondence, lecture/speaking notes, article drafts and proofs, reviews, published copies of articles, clippings and research materials, and publishing agreements and contracts pertaining to his articles and books.

Accession consists of drafts of articles, chapters, and other writing by Elliston including the Women as Volunteers project; material from the Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA) and the JCA Women’s Committee, as well as VHS tapes of community conferences and anti-racist training and education.

Accession consists of eighteen letters (seventeen holograph and one typewritten) and one transcription of a literary work of Jonathan Swift.

Accession consists of lecture notes and course syllabi for courses taught by Panitch throughout his career, research files (particularly pertaining to the monograph “The Making of Global Capitalism”, co-authored with Sam Gindin), articles and papers authored by Panitch, drafts, significant graduate student papers submitted to Panitch, and letters of reference he wrote on their behalf.

Accession consists of records pertaining to the operations of the Obsidian Theatre Company and its productions between 2011 and 2014. Records include production agreements, forms and invoices; correspondence; a 2012 strategic plan; grant applications; programs, flyers and posters; Board of Directors agendas, minutes and reports; costume drawings; photographs and video recordings of performances.

Accession consists of correspondence, audio tape interviews and biographical information on William Kurelek and other artists; Isaacs Gallery Artist files (7 reels 35 mm microfilm).

Accession consists of correspondence and artists' files from the Isaacs/Inuit Art Gallery and the Isaacs Gallery, brochures form the Inuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, newspaper clippings documenting Isaac's career as an art dealer, floor plans for the Isaacs Gallery at 832 Yonge Street and drafts of 'Isaacs seen: 50 years on the art front, a gallery scrapbook' (2005).

Accession consists of business records of The Isaacs Gallery (TIG) (1942-1991), consisting of correspondence, exhibition, catalogues, mailings, financial records (1984-1986); artist files (1961-1988), consisting of correspondence, biographical sketches, press clippings, and other material relating to artists represented by Isaacs (e.g., Dennis Burton, Graham Coughtry, William Kurelek, Michael Snow, and Joyce Wieland) and some who were not represented by him; artist portfolio files (1955-1988), consisting of press clippings and catalogues of their works; and promotional files (ca. 1960-1989) relating to the Isaacs Gallery.

Accession consists primarily of Vera's professional records, including finished copies, typescripts and drafts of published and unpublished works; copies of articles written by and about Vera; professional correspondence; royalty statements; and a scrapbook of clippings and literary ephemera related to early publications. Accession includes a selection of books both by and belonging to Vera and also includes a copy of the Vera biography, “Petal Thoughts” by Ericah Gwetai.

Consists of material that documents the work of Cavalluzzo Hayes Shilton McIntyre & Cornish on behalf of the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario and includes court transcripts, material gathered from weekly court applications, respondents' records from the divisional court of appeal and appellant's records among other material.

Accession consists of draft scripts, notes, outlines, correspondence and subject files created and accumulated by Brian Freeman in his capacity as a freelance writer of plays, reviews, television and movie scripts. Also included in the fonds are script reports prepared for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Universal Canada and the Ontario Film Development Corporation (OFDC), as well as files and scripts pertaining to Freeman's work as a development officer for the OFDC in the 1980s and 1990s.

Accession consists of correspondence, draft manuscripts, research notes, page proofs, itineraries, newspaper and magazine articles, promotional material, photographs, and financial documents relating to Rohinton Mistry’s work as an author, 1987-2012, including acceptance of literary awards and fellowships, media interviews, his relationship with his literary agent and publishers, requests for promotional text for works by other authors, participation in literary festivals and conferences, his service on PEN Canada’s Board of Directors, conferral of honorary degrees, requests for speaking engagements and to contribute essays to various publications, burning of copies of Such a Long Journey by the Shiv Sena party, responses to readers’ mail, adaptation of Mistry’s novels for theatre and radio, visits to India, study of his novels by university students, reviews of his novels by international literary critics, and the film shoot of Such a Long Journey in India. The accession also includes: audio and video recordings of media interviews; Mistry’s readings of his work; his convocation address at the University of Toronto, 1999; audiobooks of Mistry’s novels on tape cassettes and compact discs; and printed first editions of translations of novels, book club editions, and anthologies that contain an essay or excerpt from a literary work by Mistry.

Accession consists of handwritten and typescript novel drafts, proof pages, source notes, character and scene sketches, and research material accumulated and created by Alissa York as part of her writing process for the novel “Far cry” published in 2023.

Accession consists of records pertaining to Ray Ellenwood's work as a York University professor and his research, writing and translation work relating to Surrealism and the Automatist movement in Quebec. Records include e-mail and other correspondence, course materials, research files, subject files, publications, conference papers, draft manuscripts, page proofs, newsletters, agendas, event notices, photographs, posters, and audiovisual materials including DVDs and videocassettes (Hi8 and VHS). These materials document, in general, his scholarly output and communications from 1973 to 2019, including his teaching at York University and six-month teaching contract in Nanjing, China, in 1993; his organization of and participation in a Nov. 1998 York University-hosted conference, exhibition and performance entitled "Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism: 1948 and Onwards"; his work with the Literary Translators' Association of Canada; his involvement with a 2009-2010 travelling exhibition entitled "The Automatist Revolution" and the resulting book, "The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal, 1941–1960", co-written with Roald Nasgaard; his translation of Guillaume Charette's "L'espace de Louis Goulet" and related research; and the publication and translation and publication of Ellenwood's "Egregore: A History of the Montreal Automatist Movement" (2014). Also included in this accession is correspondence pertaining to Ellenwood's research for his PhD thesis, "André Breton and Freud" (1972).

Accession 2001-036 consists of correspondence, financial documents and research files for several Rhombus productions including those concerning Weill, Falla, Shostakovich, Ravel and Schoenberg.

Accession consists of printed copies of the business email correspondence of M.G. Vassanji. Some correspondence pertains to literary submissions and other administrative matters concerning the operations of TSAR Publications (including correspondence sent and received by Nurjehan Aziz), while the majority of correspondence pertains to Vassanji’s own literary career. Also included in this accession is assorted memorabilia about Vassanji’s career as a writer and awards received, including the Order of Canada and the Giller Prize. These records include newspaper and magazine articles about Vassanji; articles written by Vassanji and published in journals, magazines and newspapers; event programs, notices, flyers and menus; award certificates; and posters.

The accession consists of correspondence with editors and publishers, annotated drafts and edited galleys related to Baldwin’s novels “What the Body Remembers” and “The Tiger Claw” and to the book “A Foreign Visitor’s Guide to Survival in North America,” co-authored with Marilyn M. Levine. It also includes an audio cassette recording of Baldwin’s reading of “The Japji Sahib of Guru Nanak.”

Accession consists of drafts of unpublished poems, correspondence, drafts of poems written for Uppal’s published collections “We are What We Mourn,” “Winter Sport,” “Summer Sport,” “Cover Before Striking,” her novel “Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother, and her theatrical plays “6 Essential Questions” and “What Linda Said.”

Accession consists of a variety of records pertaining to the Lakeshore Teachers’ College (LTC), its council, committees and programs of study, and LTC personnel.

Accession consists of photographs of public monuments in cities in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Egypt, as well as aerial and landscape views of many of these cities.

Accession consists of a typescript manuscript, "Geographical Guide to Ontario," written by John Warkentin from the late 1980s to 1991, preceded by a summary of the project prepared by Professor Warkentin in March 2023. The manuscript is an impressionistic description of the province based on his field observations, emphasizing physical, urban, and rural landscapes of Ontario, its economic infrastructure, and interrelationships. The manuscript consists of 1,100 pages with 278 maps and 41 tables.

Accession consists of dance programs, personal and professional correspondence, subject files related to Dance Oremus Danse, and to various dancers and/or dance companies as well as other material related to Dwyer's career as a dancer, choreographer and writer.

The accession consists of research files, taped interviews and successive drafts of scripts and transcripts prepared for 15 programmes in the CBC radio series, Ideas. There is also his dramatization of Herman Maximov's 'The Ultimate Threshold' prepared for CBC's Vanishing Point.

Accession includes meeting notebooks (1993-1998) and production materials for "Perfect Machines: The Loom", "It ain't Kansas: The myth of New York City" and cassette tapes for other CBC Ideas series programmes.

The accession consists of lecture notes, graduate files, student files, academic and professional correspondence, research notes, course outlines, subject files, and materials related to the Frederic Harrison Collection.