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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.

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 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 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

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

Accession consists of audio cassettes containing interviews with First Nations Elders and others pertaining to Poslun’s research.

Accession contains records pertaining to Yvonne Vera’s personal life, created and/or accumulated by John Jose, including medical and legal information. It contains personal correspondence, legal correspondence, medical records and notes, and some newspaper clippings regarding Vera’s writing career.

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 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 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 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: booklets containing student projects edited by Judith Rudakoff, “Questionable Activities: Canadian Theatre Artists Interviewed by Canadian Theatre Students,” 3 vols., 1997-1998, and “Telling Tales out of School,” a series of one-person performances created by students of Judith Rudakoff’s Playwriting and New Play Dramaturge classes, 2006-2009; articles about Judith Rudakoff, 1990-2001; correspondence regarding the University of Cape Town, 2016; syllabus for a dramaturgy course, 1988; conference papers, 2006-2011; conference booklets and related documents; correspondence regarding acceptance of Judith Rudakoff’s PhD dissertation by the University of Toronto, 1983; teaching award nominations; playwriting files; issues of Toronto Free Press, 1984-1989; award notices and nominations, 1984-2015; scripts for “Not Having,” “The Straw Hat – The Musical,” “The River,” and “Home is not a place” (the last two plays written with Judith Skelton and Joseph Tisga); and files supporting Judith Rudakoff’s academic promotion, 2003.

Accession consists of a photograph of author Norman Levine taken in Hampstead, London, United Kingdom by Nicholas Elder.

Accession consists of records documenting Leo Panitch's scholarly work and academic career. These records include research materials, notes, correspondence, speaking notes, draft articles, essays and other manuscripts, and conference materials pertaining to Panitch's work from the 1970s to the early 2000s, including preliminary writing and research for The Making of Global Capitalism. Also included are correspondence, manuscripts and other material pertaining to his tenure as editor of the Socialist Register, as well as notes and papers written during his undergraduate degree at the University of Manitoba, notes and examinations from his graduate coursework at the London School of Economics (LSE), and research materials and correspondence relating to his PhD dissertation, also at the LSE. Accession also includes a series of headshot photographs of Panitch.

Accession consists of: printed correspondence sent Canada Post and email, including many colour digital images taken by Judith Cowan and others, 2022-2023; Cowan's unfinished novel, "A Better Class of Illusion," with handwritten annotation, 25 October 2019; a brochure for the 39e Festival International de la Poesie; and letters to Cowan by her friend Dr. Hector L. van Vierssen Trip, accompanied by his essays on Alpertus on church and state, Germanic linguistic studies, Latin in biology, his trip to the Netherlands in 1988, and a history of the Trip family, 1978-1990.

Accession consists of materials donated by Inez Elliston in 2014. It includes research materials, education and teachers modules, publications and other documentation relating to Elliston’s work with the Scarborough Board of Education, and the Delta Kappa Gamma Society project, Woman as Volunteers.

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).

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 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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 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.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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 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 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.

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".