The collection consists of photocopied correspondence, papers, agendas, minutes of the Organizing Committee of York University, and of the Provisional and regular Board of Governors of the same institution, 1958-1961.
Kidd, J.R. (James Robbins), 1915-1982The fonds consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, published material, reports, research files, and typescripts of J. Bascom St. John and documents his career as a civil servant and journalist.
St. John, J. Bascom (Joseph Bascom), 1906-1983The collection consists of programmes, correspondence, articles and press clippings relating to the life and career of Isadora Duncan. Also included are research notes and interview transcripts used by Lillian Loewenthal in support of her book, The Search for Isadora Duncan (1993).
Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927The fonds documents Irving Allan Paisley's political activities in North York, Ontario, and Metropolitan Toronto for the period 1951-1984. Included are correspondence, reports, briefs, newspaper clippings, financial statements and background material relating to municipal politics, including the North York Council and Board of Control (elections, Environmental Control Committee, Parks and Recreation, Works) and city departments (Board of Education, Department of Health, Planning Department, Works Department) (1962-1972), the York-Finch General Hospital, and several North York Ratepayers' Associations (Windfield Area, Hillcrest Village, Greenwin Gardens, Crestview) (1962-1972). Also included is material from the Metropolitan Toronto Planning Board and material related to the official plans of both Metro and North York (1970-1972), the Toronto Transit Commission and plans to build the Spadina Subway route (1962-1972), and several government consultants reports on development issues in the North York area (1970-1972), records relating to the Ontario Department of Municipal Affairs Committee on Golf Course Assessment and Taxation (1970-1972), and a proposed development and recreational facility at Downsview (Ont.) airbase (1955-1968). The fonds also includes general subject files largely related to the political life of North York and Metropolitan Toronto and includes correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings and background material relating to the Canadian National Exhibition Board of Directors (1979-1980), a proposal to build a domed stadium on the site of the Downsview (Ont.) Air Force Base (1962-1984), Indo-Chinese refugees (1979-1980), the North Pickering Development Corporation, including meetings of the Board of Directors and several committees (1976-1979), the North York Planning Department and Public Works Department (1979-1980), the proposed Spadina Expressway, and the Toronto Transit Commission. Maps of zoning areas in North York, land use, parks and recreation areas, roads, and maps related to Downsview Airforce Base are also part of the fonds.
Paisley, Irving AllanFonds consists of records pertaining to Herman Voaden's family life, education, teaching, play writing, directing and cultural lobbying activities. Also included are the private records of his wife, Violet Kilpatrick Voaden. Types of records include: correspondence, personal diaries, teaching notes, production notes, playbills, and photographs. Some material has been sorted and arranged according to subject by Anton Wagner, theatre historian and executor of Herman Voaden's literary estate.
The fonds is arranged in the following series:
Voaden, Herman Arthur, 1903-1991Fonds consists of Helen Lucas' correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, The Diary Series (1971-1978), and Relationship Drawings (1978-1981) (both of which include 246 charcoal drawings, 40 sketches, 34 drawings, 5 etchings, 47 lithographs, 3 framed serigraphs, 1 sketchbook, and 1 pastel on paper); preliminary drawings for Angelica (Toronto: Kakabeka Publishing Co.,1973) and Genesis; twelve original collage drawings for the book co-authored by Helen Lucas and Margaret Laurence entitled The Christmas Birthday Story (1981) complemented with letters from Laurence while they were collaborating on the book; original prints (1970s); a sketchbook (1971); and Drawing Dedicated to my Daughter. Lucas provides an accompanying narrative to many of the drawings, giving a context for the works and an account of their evolution between 1971 and 1979. The initial sketchbook pages are also included, portraying intimate personal images which she likens to 'finding the achievement of my own voice'.
Lucas, HelenThe fonds consists of correspondence, typescripts, reports, publications, research materials, legal documents, course materials, student essays, and administrative material relating Harry S. Crowe activities at York University and Atkinson College, at the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers, with the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism and related subjects.
Crowe, Harry Sherman, 1922-1981The fonds consists of records pertaining to the activities of the Harbinger Community Services and includes minutes of the York Student Clinic, correspondence, counselling records, financial papers, and statistics.
York Student ClinicFonds consists of Hugh Ian Macdonald's Ontario government economist files, his speeches, correspondence, day books, York University Presidential files, Community service files, Ontario Advisory Committee on Confederation files, York International files, and his IDEA Corporation files.
Macdonald, Hugh Ian,1929-The fonds consists of records pertaining to the activities of the Green Bush Inn and includes minutes of the Board of Directors and annual meetings, financial statements, correspondence and memoranda of agreement with colleges and pubs, legal documents (including charter, Liquor License Act of Ontario regulations and related material), personnel files and architectural plans relating to the historic Green Bush Inn.
Green Bush Inn Incorporated (Toronto, Ont.)Series consists of photographs of Margaret Laurence, family snapshots and other various subjects, artwork consisting of illustrations for children's books, drawings sent to Laurence, postcards of artists' works, and posters. The photographs represent the majority of the photographs found among the Laurence papers; however, some photographs do appear in other series of the fonds.
Series consists of original art work by Joyce Wieland including sketches, three-dimensional pieces, drafts of visual ideas, notebooks, and prints of finished pieces. There are photocopies of sketches found in other series included here, as well as some photographs used by Wieland for her artwork.
Series consists of grant program guides, applications, supporting documentation, and correspondence relating to grants received by Wieland from the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture.
The fonds consists of records pertaining to the activities of Goldfarb Consultants and include research reports, printouts, questionnaires and administrative files. They can be used in conjunction with each other: the responses in the questionnaires are analysed in the research reports; the printouts are the raw data results of the questionnaires; and the administrative files provide additional documentation related to a particular research topic. With a few exceptions the projects included in the fonds were undertaken for federal or provincial political parties or governments.
The fonds is organized into the following series:
Goldfarb ConsultantsThe fonds consists of the Records of the Principal, 1964-1972; the Records of the Senior Administrator, 1966-1974; the Records of the Dean of Students, 1960-1965; the Records relating to the Faculty Council, 1967-1989; the Records relating to the Glendon College Student Union, 1971-1982; and Photographs, 1950.
Glendon CollegeThe fonds consists of programmes, choreographic and production notes, clippings, photographs, newsletters, awards and certificates, financial documents and notebooks which document the career of Gladys Forrester in Canadian theatre and dance.
Forrester, GladysThe fonds consists of a typescript of an autobiography by Frank Morriss composed in 1971. In addition, there are notes for an article on the "Winnipeg Free Press", newspaper clippings of articles by Morriss in the "Free Press", and copies of magazines with articles by Morriss.
Morriss, Frank, 1906-The fonds consists of the records of the Office of the Master, 1963-1975 and the Founders College Student Council, 1965-1987.
Founders CollegeSeries consists of financial statements, correspondence with banks and insurance companies, royalty statements and other income statements, household budgets including mortgage statements and insurance payments, and extensive income tax information for each year including anything deemed by Margaret Laurence to be of relevance for tax purposes.
Series consists of accounting records, financial values for Michael Snow's drawings, and financial records for A Far Shore.
Fonds consists of sound recordings, photographs and other materials primarily related to Kallen's research in the town of Igloolik in the Northwest Territory (now Nunavut) in the 1970s and her interviews and recordings of issues related to gay rights during the same period.
Kallen, EvelynFonds consists of material that documents his career as a writer and broadcaster and, as such, includes correspondence with publishers, fan mail, research material, newspaper clippings, reviews of his work, notes, drafts and galleys related to his novels and works of non-fiction. The writing files include photocopies of his own letters written to his mother when he was an internee in England and manuscript and photocopies of letters written to Koch from Daria Hambourg and used as research material for his novel, "The Brothers Hambourg". Fonds also includes transcripts of interviews as well as written reminiscences in the form of letters from many former German internees; these letters were subsequently used as resource material for his book "Deemed Suspect: A Wartime Blunder". Fonds includes a complete set of published copies of his books. The broadcasting files contain correspondence, memos, notes and drafts of scripts, scrapbooks and other material that documents his long career with the CBC.
Koch, Eric, 1919-2018Fonds consists of Ellen Baar's course readings, research materials, drafts of published works, committee minutes and supporting documents, notes, and correspondence relating to her work on government regulation, compliance and environmental issues.
Baar, EllenThe fonds documents Edgar Tilden Albert's activities as a member of the Organizing Committee of York University and his travel to the Soviet Union for the period 1955-1971.
Albert, Edgar TildenThe fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, reports and related material of Donald Solitar for committees of the York University Senate, the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and the Faculty of Arts.
Solitar, DonaldThe fonds documents Dance Umbrella of Ontario’s operational and administrative activities. Records consist of financial records; grant applications and contracts; publications; correspondence and reports; and program files. Also included are special project records pertaining to events such as Arts Vote ‘94, Dance 2020, Artsweek, and Forward Motion.
Dance Umbrella of OntarioThe fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, notebooks, galleys, and typescripts of Dame Edith Sitwell.
Sitwell, Edith, DameThe fonds documents D. McCormack Smyth's career as an administrator both in private corporation and in academic institutions as well as his teaching activities in administration for the period 1947-1986.
Smyth, D. McCormack (Delmar McCormack)The fonds consists of the following series: Constitution and by-laws, 1967-1988; Minutes, 1968-1986; Correspondence and papers, 1964-1986; Financial records, 1969-1986; Reports, 1969-1986; Newspaper clippings, 1968-1979; and Printed material, 1973-1979. The correspondence files are arranged alphabetically by name or subject.
Council of the York Student FederationSeries consists of general, personal, and business correspondence documenting Wieland's work with the art community, social issues, and the honours she received for her work in art and film.
Series consists of correspondence to and from Margaret Laurence and is arranged in nine subseries:
S00006.01: Correspondence with friends and family
S00006.02: Business correspondence
S00006.03: Correspondence with other writers
S00006.04: Correspondence with artists
S00006.05: General correspondence
S00006.06: Subject files
S00006.07: Correspondence outward
S00006.08: Correspondence relating to the censorship controversy.
S00006.09: Correspondence regarding the death of Margaret Laurence
The fonds consists of newspaper clippings of Charles Bothwell Pyper's articles in the Telegram together with telegraphic messages that served as 'hard copy' for his articles from foreign posts; correspondence, and notes; and newspaper clippings from several other newspapers. It includes a typescript of 'Chamberlain and his critics,' as well as earlier drafts, typescripts, some with corrections, of a book on Winston Churchill, and drafts of unpublished dramatic productions by Pyper. The vast majority of the fonds consists of newspaper clippings, notes and related material concerning Pyper's journalism, arranged alphabetically by subject. Some of the subjects included in the fonds are: Clement Attlee, Lord Beaverbrook, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Winston Churchill, Joseph E. Davies, Anthony Eden, the League of Nations, Palestine in the post-war years, the Spanish Civil War, the Suez Crisis, the United Nations, and World War II.
Pyper, Charles BothwellThe fonds consists of printed material, correspondence, photographs, slides, and related material of the Centre for Experimental Art and Design. The correspondence includes: correspondence with artists, galleries and other arts groups in Canada and overseas, dealing with CEAC exhibitions, CEAC-sponsored travelling shows, and communications concerning gallery events. There is also material dealing with granting agencies, including the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council. Also included is correspondence relating to the OCA and CC decisions to suspend funding to CEAC, letters of reaction from CEAC members and supporters. The fonds also has grant proposals and covering documentation, and other material. The fonds also contains various documents written by members of the collective defining the 'new ideology' which would usurp the cultural and political elites, define a post-modern aesthetic. There is also material on related artistic and intellectual ideas. There are newspaper clippings of CEAC events and exhibitions both from Canadian and foreign newspapers, invitations to events, flyers and other announcements of forthcoming events, and clippings about other performance and avant-garde arts in other cities and countries. The photographs and slides concern performances at CEAC, including material related to 'Crash and burn'.
Centre for Experimental Art and Communication (Toronto, Ont.)The fonds consists of typescripts of articles, galleys, art-work, editorials and related material from the production of the Review. There is also a great deal of correspondence with Canadian theatre companies and theatres, concerning productions, which includes playbills, programs, press releases and related material. There are also financial documents, including invoices for products published by CTR Publications, as well as some budget material.
Canadian Theatre ReviewFonds consists of an accumulation of files kept by several different members of the Canadian Association of Professional Dance Organizations which have been maintained in the manner in which they were received. They contain correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, items used for publicity, resource material and other material.
Canadian Association of Professional Dance OrganizationsFonds consists of the records pertaining to the activities of the Canadian Association for Women in Science (CAWIS) and includes CAWIS administration records, 1981-1992; CAFWEST records, 1983-1989; Task Force on the Status of Women Graduate Students records, 1985-1991; Women's Studies Working Group records, 1985-1989; York Women's Centre records, 1975-1991.
Canadian Association for Women in ScienceThe fonds documents the Canada Dance Festival's operational and administrative activities. Records consist of financial records and contracts; grant applications, sponsorship and fund raising files; correspondence and other administrative records including reports; and publicity, special event and marketing records. Also included are posters used in the advertising and marketing of the festival.
Canada Dance FestivalThe fonds documents Bernard Ostry's education and personal life as well as his activities as public servant and author for the period 1940-1990.
Ostry, Bernard, 1927-The fonds consists of material that documents Godard's professorial career and includes thesis advisory files, general correspondence, letters of recommendation, lecture notes, conference material, minutes and reports related to various departments and committees that she was involved with and additional material related to her work with the Canadian Federation of Humanities and to her work as editor of the "Bibliography of feminist criticism," "Gynocritics" among other publications. It also includes notes and drafts of her own writing including her undergraduate and graduate research, articles, book reviews, conference papers, drafts of her translations and a collection of chap books and broadsheets accumulated over the course of her career.
Godard, BarbaraThe fonds consists of the records of the Atkinson College Council, 1961-1991; the Assistant Dean, 1966-1972; the Associate Dean, 1968-1969; the Counseling Centre, 1967-1973; the Director, Division of Humanities, 1969-1972; and the Atkinson College Students' Association, 1963-1983.
Atkinson CollegeThe fonds mainly documents Arthur C. Johnson's professional activities as a university administrator. Records consist of press releases, speeches, correspondence, and reports relating to the planning and development of York University's Keele and Glendon campuses.
Johnson, Arthur C., 1923-Fonds consists of professorial records and includes his research files and personal files.
Richmond, AnthonyThe fonds consists of correspondence and papers, reports, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, photographs, tapes and films, related to Allan Grossman's political career, community work, and family life.
Grossman, Allan, 1910-1991Fonds consists of research notes and historical documents related to the creation of an official history of the John Labatt Brewing Company of Canada.
Tucker, AlbertItem consists of detailed notes about the contents of the John Watt Lennox memorial scrapbook, provided by the donor, John W. Lennox (his nephew). A PDF of this item is attached to this description.
Item consists of one page of contextual notes about the items in this accession, provided by the donor. A PDF of this item is attached to this description.
Accession consists of Briskin's teaching and personal files including Sheridan College files; Opportunity for Advancement (OFA) Board of Directors, Social Action Committee files; OFA "The Poverty Game" for Ontario politicians files; York University teaching and administrative files; TA handbooks and Skill and Assignment Kits for "Women and Society" course.
Accession consists of production binders pertaining to five productions, including "ruined", "Yellow Man", "Intimate Apparel, who knew grannie: a dub aria", and "Late". Also includes news clippings, promotional material, posters, and programs for said productions.
Accession consists of administrative records related to the operation of the Obsidian Theatre Company, and includes promotional and production material for plays mounted by the theatre and its associates such as "the Polished Hoe", "Late | Black Medea", "Joyous Celebration", "the Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God", "the Piano Lesson", "Two Can Play", "the Monument", and "Consecrated Ground."
Consists of videotapes about political advocacy, audio recordings for radio spots on wage controls, videos of association meetings (president's messages, conferences, annual meetings), microform of 'old' collective bargaining files, memos to WTA presidents and to FWTAO directors, minutes of the 1998 annual meeting, financial records documenting office expenses, release time records, records authorizing the transfer of WTA assets, collective bargaining records for various counties, director's motions file cards, CAP conference meeting notes and correspondence, OHRC membership complaint records, SCO membership issue records, merit pay subject files, statistics files, association files for Renfrew and Wentworth, collective bargaining briefs, policy and procedures files, overseas scholarships program files, files documenting OTF response to FWTAO motions, directors' workshop files, speeches, employment equity pamphlets, anti-racist education publications, copies of the constitution and by-laws of the WTA, legal assistance for teachers notes, theses, awards, correspondence with provincial government files, eulogies and tribute files, files documenting the creation of the ETFO, photos and memorabilia, original FWTAO Charter, financial assistance files, winding up FWTAO files, Directors' meetings files, annual meetings files, audited financial statements for final years of FWTAO, transition to ETFO files, Ontario Principals' Council claim against FWTAO records, service list.
Accession consists of research notes, interviews, and draft and final scripts for "Inventing dinosaurs," a two-part episode of the CBC Radio program "Ideas" that was broadcast on January 17 and 18, 2006.
Accession consists of transcripts, scripts, research files, press releases and publicity material pertaining to Kastner's documentaries Rage Against the Darkness, Biography of a Germ, Hunting Boby Oatway, House of Secrets, and Romance with a Rapist.
Accession consists of records of the Office of the Dean and Office of the Associate Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts.
The accession consists of photographs, ephemera, and a vaudeville script entitled "Inbad the Sailor" performed by Arthur Huston.
Accession 1999-031 consists of master negatives of the finished works of all its film productions to date (1999), together with textual records relevant to the film production process. In addition to the master elements, selected production elements from “Yo-Yo Ma, Inspired by Bach: Suites #1, 3, 5,”, “Hong Kong Symphony: Heaven Earth, Mankind” (1997), “A Tale of Tanglewood: Peter Grimes Reborn” (1997), “The War Symphonies: Shastokovich Against Stalin” (1996-1997) have been retained for their additional archival and research value.
Accession consists of posters accumulated by Issacs. A significant portion of the accession, over 200 posters, pertains to local interest including the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and local and international shows by artists such as Heather Cooper and Michael Snow. Toronto posters also announce events such as the 10th anniversary of the art collective, General Idea, at the CN Tower; an album-release party of the band, Parachute Club; and a call to arms on behalf of the fight against the Spadina Expressway. Many posters also promote local theatre productions including Keanu Reeves' performance in Brad Fraser's 'Wolfboy' in 1984 at the Theatre Passe Muraile and a series of Toronto Workshop posters by Theo Dimson. Other posters are a cross-section of Canada from the Montreal Olympics series, 'Artists-Athletes', and the 1973 Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibition, the Structure of Comic Books, featuring MArvel Comics characters as Nick Nury and Thor. There are 74 international posters, the largest groups are those from Paris in the 1950s and 1960s including a poster featuring George Bracqu's 'Theogonie.' There are also several gallery posters from Amsterdam, New York, Chicago and Minneapolis representing artists such as Jim Dine, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenberg and Christo.
Accession consists of records from the Dean's Office.
Accession consists of records from the Visual Arts Department.
Accession consists of the Dean's office files dealing with Fine Arts faculty's student programmes, departments, facilities, and committees.
Accession 1995-034 consists of film elements and related textual and graphic records pertaining to Rhombus Media productions about music, dance and theatre.
Accession consists of Bruce Allen Powe's diaries, personal correspondence and correspondence, writings, and other files relating to provincial Liberal politics (1960-1965), journals, his M.A. thesis and research files. There are manuscript drafts for his works "The Ice Eaters," "Expresso 67," "The Mounties Always Gets His," "Killing Ground," "The Last Days of the American Empire", "The Aberhart Summer", and other writings along with related correspondence. Also included are manuscripts for reviews, essays, articles, and press clippings of reviews on his published works. In addition, there is some personal correspondence and World War II papers and military service memorabilia.
Accession consists of administrative files and includes council secretary files (1967-1991), Associate Dean files (1979-1990), Executive officer files (1985-1990), Departmental files (1969-1992), Awards committees (1982-1989)
Accession consists of course evaluations arranged by instructors names, then by course number/name.
Accession consists of records from the Dean's Office and faculty council minutes, binders, student awards, and grants.
Accession consists of records from the Office of the Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts.
Accession consists of records from the Chairman's Office of the Theatre Department. Records predominately pertains to shows but also include student affairs, publications, press releases, news clippings, admissions and advising, curriculum, internal administration, graduate programs, and applications and resumes.
Accession consists of records from the Chairman's Office of the Dance Department. It includes minutes (1981-1985), correspondence and papers (1972-1984), personnel files for faculty and staff (restricted), convocation programmes, financial records, reports, and printed material.
Accession consists of minutes, correspondence, reports, charts, memoranda, calendars, timetables, posters, exhibition catalogues, news clippings, slides, and tape recordings.