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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 records pertaining to M.G. Vassanji’s literary career, including: full and partial draft manuscripts of novels, short stories and speeches; personal correspondence; royalty statements, professional correspondence pertaining to literary festivals, prizes, conferences, permission to use work in other publications, and invitations to events and speaking requests; media packets, clippings and reviews regarding Vassanji’s books and Giller prizes; and records pertaining to his education, subsequent honorary degrees, and his investiture into the Order of Canada. 

Accession consists of material related to the administration of Winters College Fellows' Council.

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.

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.

Accession consists of records created by Paul James Dwyer during his work with Dance Oremus Danse, including programmes from performances of dance, theatre, and classical music, notes and reference material on fundraising in the arts sector, and operating files for his dance company.

The accession consists of transcripts of interviews, court transcripts, government reports and other government documents, clippings, correspondence, drafts of manuscripts, orders in council, notes and other research material relating to Cameron's work as an investigative journalist including drafts of her books ‘On the Take’, ‘Blue Trust’, and ‘Ottawa Inside and Out’.

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.

Consists of records pertaining to Seth Feldman's documentary "Hunting for Robin Hood", part of the CBC's Ideas programme, including research material, drafts, and scripts.

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.

The accession consists of committee minutes, committee searches, subject files, and materials related to Victorian Studies and the Centre for Research of Latin America and Caribbean

Accession consists of records pertaining to Barrett’s book, “Disease and Geography: the History of an Idea”. Records include correspondence, book proposals and prospectus, drafts, and reviewers’ comments.

Accession consists of Barrett’s lecture notes, correspondence and supporting materials for his York University course Geography 346, Medical Geography, as well as course notes, syllabi, exam questions and student grades for other courses taught by Barrett at York University. Accession also includes undergraduate papers written by Barrett, hand-drawn maps for his BA thesis, and Atkinson College Geography Department newsletters.

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 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.

Accessions consists of material donated by Inez Elliston in 2015 It includes research material, newsletters,

Accession consists of records created by Uppal in connection with her work as a graduate student, poet, and editor, including drafts of her doctoral dissertation, correspondence with other authors, edited contributions to a book of essays on the works of Barry Callaghan, drafts for her books of poetry, and manuscripts by other authors.

Accession consists of correspondence, speeches, and notes and generally pertains to Amnesty International, the Law Society, the Advocates Society, the Law Reform Commission, the police, and race relations.

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

Accession consists of two photograph albums. The first album contains 53 silver gelatin prints taken between 1903 and 1909 containing views of London, Ontario (including the McPherson Fruit Company) and other communities in southern Ontario, with one interior view of a house in Winnipeg. The second album contains 55 silver gelatin prints created between 1906 and 1907 showing construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway's extension in Saskatchewan and views along the St. Lawrence River near Quebec City.

Accession consists of the daily reports of the Secretary Treasurer of the Provincial Building and Construction Trades Council of Ontario, dated between March 31, 1969 and January 2, 1979.

Accession consists of publicity files which include biographical material, clippings and other promotional material related to John Kastner and his productions; administrative and production files including transcripts and scripts for the television programs Just Kidding and Street Comedy and audio and film reels related to Street Comedy.

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 records created by Professor Harry Arthurs during his work as Commissioner appointed by the Government of Canada to lead a review of federal labour standards in Part III of the Canada Labour Code. Documents include correspondence, annotated published and typescript reference material, briefs and notes from the hearings, research projects on labour standards, and drafts of the final report and recommendations.

Accession consists of the records of Professor Emeritus Harry W. Arthurs in connection with his work as Commissioner of the Government of Ontario's Expert Commission on Pensions.

Accession consists of the records of the Confederation of Resident and Ratepayer Association (Toronto), which J.L. Granatstein was involved with.

Accession consists of the records of the Core Area Task Force (Toronto).

Accession consists of taped interviews with members of the Liberal Party of Canada or about the Liberal Party; particularly regarding World War II politics.

Accession consists of Publication files concerning Broken Promises, American Dollars-Canadian Prosperity; and correspondence re: a biography of George Drew, and the Toronto Newspaper Guild and the Printing Specialties Union.

Accession consists of publication files relating to Twentieth Century Canada and A Reader's Guide to Canadian History 2: Confederation to the Present; correspondence and papers.

Accession consists of general correspondence, biographical files, research notes and transcripts of interviews for publications.

Accession includes personal and business correspondence, clippings, cards, conference papers ; minutes, budgets, annual reports, agendas and other material related to his work at the Canadian War Museum and notes and drafts of several of his books.

Accession consists of records documenting J. L. Granatstein's activities as an author, teacher, editor, defence critic, expert witness, journalist, and member of the Royal Society of Canada, Royal Military College Board of Governors, Historica Council, Canadian War Museum Advisory Council, Council for Canadian Security in the 21st Century, Dominion Institute Advisory Council, Normandy Foundation Board of Directors, Vimy Ridge Memorial project, and the Valiant 16 project. Includes correspondence, drafts and clippings of Granatstein's scholarly and jounalism articles, drafts for Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace (2002), Who Killed Canadian History (1998), and Canada and the Two World Wars (2003). Also includes correspondence, drafts, manuscripts and other materials related to Granatstein's role as editor of Irwin Publishing's New Canadian Readings series and the CIIA Contemporary Affairs series.

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 professional correspondence, film scripts, production files, business records, drafts of articles and other writing by Pittman, publicity files, photographs, copies of un-produced scripts, sound records, audio-visual records and other material that document Pittman's varied career in the film industry.

Accession consists of bundles of source material (primarily photocopies of secondary sources and printed articles from various websites) and the annotated typescript manuscript for Professor Michael Kater's book, "After the Nazis : The Story of Culture in Western Germany" (New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2023). The manuscript was written with the working title of "Under the Shadow of Nazism : Culture in West Germany." The accession also includes: an annotated typescript manuscript for Kater's book, "Culture in Nazi Germany" (New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2019; correspondence with friends and colleagues; files relating to his research and York University; reference material relating to music in Nazi Germany, and brief works written by Kater; a computer reel used on York University's IBM mainframe computer in the early 1980s when Kater was conducting research for his book, "The Nazi Party : a Social Profile of Members and Leaders, 1919-1945" (Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1983); and Kater's curriculum vitae, 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 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 photographs of public art and monuments in Toronto taken by John Warkentin using 35 mm colour transparencies while conducting research for his book, “Creating memory: a guide to outdoor public sculpture in Toronto” (2010), as well as clippings from newspapers and magazines and government documents compiled by Professor Warkentin between 1984 and 2010 to provide contextual information for the book.

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

Accession consist sof the records of P.J. Dwyer and Dance Oremus Danse, including correspondence, notes, and other documents relating to Dwyer's trip to Japan in November 2010 to give a performance and master class on Isadora Duncan for the Tokyo Dance Association of Advanced Professional Training Colleges, and programmes, newsletters, brochures, and other ephemera for cultural events held in Ontario.

Accession consists of scripts, production materials, photographs, posters, correspondence, and moving image recordings pertaining to Freeman’s work as writer and producer of film and televsion, in particular his roles at the CBC as an executive in charge of creative production and creative head of special projects, drama.

The accession consists of records pertaining to the Avenue-Bay-Cottingham Ratepayers’ Association battle with the CPR and Marathon Realty.

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.”

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.

The accession consists of drafts for, and correspondence related to, Baldwin’s work-in-progress “Gateway of the World,” and the stage play “We Are So Different Now,” as well as promotional brochures for “Draupadi, We Are So Different Now.”

The accession consists primarily of Cameron's research files pertaining to her monographs ‘The Blue Trust’, ‘On the Take', and ‘The Last Amigo’; related files from her literary agent Linda McKnight; records pertaining to the Oliphant Commission investigating the Karlheinz Schreiber/Brian Mulroney affair; files of her early writings and a small number of miscellaneous research material for earlier investigative journalism stories.

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.

Accession consists of correspondence, reports, photographs, notebooks, and other documents created or received by Mary Young Leckie pertaining to her children's education and financial affairs, real estate, her mother's memorial in 2003, her comments on scripts for "Everest" by Keith Ross Leckie, and images of various film productions.

Accession consists of textual material and audiovisual material related to the production work of Mary Young Leckie of Screendoor Productions, including production materials, rushes, promotional material, scripts and correspondence regarding television and film projects such as "By Jeeves", "Prom Queen", "Spirit Bear", "Sanctuary", "Shattered City", "Burn: The Robert Wraight Story" and "Everest".