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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that documents Connelly's personal and professional life and includes notes and drafts related to published and unpublished poems and short stories as well as complete drafts of her poetry collections 'Grace and poison,' 'This brighter prison,' 'The disorder of love,' and 'The small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 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 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.

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 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.

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

The accession consists of records pertaining to the Avenue-Bay-Cottingham Ratepayers’ Association and their fight against proposed development by CPR and Marathon Realty.

The accession consists of records pertaining to the Avenue-Bay-Cottingham Ratepayers’ Association and their fight against proposed development by 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 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 of working drafts of Baldwin’s novel “The Selector of Souls” as well as drafts under various titles, including “Gateway of the World” and “The Unnamed”.

The accession consists of manuscripts and drafts of Baldwin’s monographs “English Lessons and Other Stories,” and “We Are Not in Pakiston,” as well as some editing correspondence for the latter.

Accession consists of photographs, books, correspondence and notes created and compiled by dance, choreographer, Paul James Dwyer.

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

Accession consists of material related to Isadora Duncan and to Dance Oremus Danse as well as professional correspondence, press kits, photographs, artist's portfolios and other material.

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 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 programmes for events held by cultural organizations, including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, dance and theatre companies, and photography exhibitions sent to or collected by Paul James Dwyer in connection with his work as founder of Dance Oremus Danse.

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.

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

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 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’.

The accession consists of research files and/or manuscript material relating to Rosie Perez, Simon Israel, Fletcher Challenge, the Westray Mine disaster, the Devine/Saskatchewan scandal, the Saturday Night/Firestone trial, Donald Ripley, and Alan Eagleson as well as Cameron's book ‘Ottawa Inside Out’.

The accession consists of additional material in the Stevie Cameron fonds including clippings, interview transcripts, correspondence, and research material related to her book ‘On the Take', as well as drafts of her book ‘The Last Amigo’.

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 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 created by Seth Feldman in the course of his activities as a professor of film studies, including research files, course files, copies of graduate theses and dissertations with which he was involved, correspondence with colleagues, notebooks, and material regarding his involvement with productions of TV Ontario and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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.

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.

Consists of records of writer and Dean of Fine Arts at York University, Seth Feldman. Includes research materials and drafts for book on Soviet filmmaker Vertov and research materials, audio cassettes, and draft scripts for two 'Ideas' programs on CBC Radio: Dogs and We, The Animals.

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.

Accession consists of textual and audiovisual material related to Seth Feldman's an academic and professor of film studies, university administrator, film critic, and writer and presenter of radio documentaries, including syllabi, assignments, research files, publications, drafts, and taped interviews; and research materials relating to Feldman's work on Dziga Vertov.

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 additional material in the Mary Young Leckie fonds including correspondence, memos, scripts and production files for various films, video cassettes, photographs, compact discs and other audio cassettes that document Leckie's work with Tapestry Pictures Inc.

Accession consists of additional material in the Mary Young Leckie fonds including scripts, drafts, notes, research material, clippings, reviews, promotional material, contracts and production files related to her work on productions such as The Arrow, Blue Castle, Children of My Heart, Way of a Boy and Tagged. It also includes the creative and corporate development files of Leckie's company Tapestry Pictures.

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 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".

Accession consists of archival material from Screendoor Productions, including production files and film elements.

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 a typescript copy of “And they took themselves wives: the emergence of patriarchy in western civilization,” (1979). It has been copy-edited, showing/the editorial work of more than one hand, as well as handwritten additions to the text.

Accession consists of a manuscript of Bakan’s book, “Freud and the tradition of Jewish mysticism,” (1957), which includes handwritten changes to the typescript in pencil and ink.

Accession consists of the records of York University psychology professor David Bakan. Records include drafts of manuscripts, completed writings, correspondence, sound recordings, notes, lecture notes, and other teaching files, all related to Bakan's professorial work and academic research.

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.

The accession consists of correspondence, notes and speeches, publications and ephemera relating to the founding of York University, particularly relating to McLaughlin College. Also consists of 5 audio cassette tapes of interviews with the founding members of McLaughlin College.

The accession consists of a letter to John Warkentin, school song lyrics, and correspondence between David Coombs and George Tatham.

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

Accession consists of Barrett’s published papers, drafts, presentations, grant and research files, teaching files, course notes and correspondence pertaining to his work as a York University professor and researcher. Also included are raw data and questionnaires from his studies on housing.

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 research files pertaining to Barrett's book "Disease and Geography: The history of an idea".

Accession consists of Barrett's records pertaining to his work as a medical geographer and includes correspondence, research files, papers delivered at conferences and colloquiums, articles written for journals, and photocopies and photographic (prints, negatives, slides) reproductions of rare, and early medical cartography from maps and atlases in England, France and Germany, created or published between 1739-1921.

Accession consists of Barrett's records pertaining to his monograph, "Ernest Ibbetson - military artist and adventure story illustrator". Records include drafts, illustrations and correspondence with prospective publishers.

Accession consists of research files pertaining to Barrett's book about Ernest Ibbetson, including audio recordings of interviews with Ibbetson family members, colour slides of Ibbetson's postcards, photographs and negatives, and memorabilia

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 day books (1970-1988); chronological day files (1973-1977); speeches (1968-1973) delivered while working for the CBC and the CRTC; personal administrative files and correspondence while chairman of the CRTC and during his tenure at the Banff School of Fine Arts.

Accession consists of records pertaining to Keith Ross Leckie’s work as a writer and/or director for television dramas and documentaries. These records document the various stages of development for projects including “Searching for Romero” (unfinished), “Edenshaw”/”Haida” (not produced), “The Force” (not produced), and “An Officer and a Murderer” (produced for Lifetime and HBO Canada in 2012). Textual records in this accession are proposals, treatments, interview selects, assembly notes, budgets, funding applications, draft scripts, outlines, notes, correspondence, research materials, contracts and court transcripts. Also included are video recordings (VHS, DVCPRO, MiniDV and DVD) pertaining to these projects.

Accession consists of Broadfoot's personal and professional correspondence; character monologues and scripts (including for Big Bobby Clobber; David J. Broadfoot, the MP for Kicking Horse Pass; and Sergeant Renfrew); scripts for roasts, tributes and special events; touring information; publicity photographs; clippings; mementos and certificates; records pertaining to his autobiography "Old enough to say what I want" (2002); and videos documenting his career as one of Canada's longest serving comedians.

Accession consists of drafts of unpublished poems and stories, many of which were written for creative writing courses taken at York, drafts of poems written for Uppal’s published collections “Confessions of a Fertility Expert” and “Pretending to Die”, correspondence and drafts of her novel “The Divine Economy of Salvation” and correspondence and edited drafts of submissions for “Uncommon Ground: A Celebration of Matt Cohen”.

Accession consists of agendas, e-mail correspondence and drafts of “Live Coverage”.

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.