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England '1990 : garden party

Item consists of a Jamaican-Guyanese family’s home movie featuring two women and a girl dancing; panning shots of the garden, street, and views of the city; and the family chatting around a table in the backyard with music playing in the background.

Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "'The year is 1990, and the Burke Family is on vacation in Bristol, England. This is filmed where Leah's father, Sam grew up. All of Leah's aunts and uncles had houses in the same neighbourhood, and this is a family reunion of sorts. Here, Leah, age eight or nine, dances to ska and lovers rock with her mother, Rita and Great Aunt Sweeney, while her dad is seen off in the background, and her older brother, Jason, films.

Her dad has roots in Jamaica and her mother has roots in Guyana. At different points in their lives both immigrated to England, and later met each other there. Her parents then set off to Canada during the Pierre Trudeau years in 1972 to raise a family. The Burkes now call many places home.'"

Horseback riding

Item consists of a home movie following a girl riding a horse on a trail.

Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "Cindy’s dad is filming her at the age of 8 horseback riding at Algonquin Park during her family’s first visit. Since then, her family has developed a love of camping, and now camps in Ontario’s provincial parks a few times a year."

Family reunion 70

Item consists of a Hong Kong-Chinese family’s home movie.

Project and donor contributed description follows: "A clip documenting the Red Packet (hóngbāo) ceremony taking place at Mr. Wong’s 70th birthday celebration in 2002.

During this ceremony family members were called up in a particular order to accept a red envelope of money from Mr. Wong.

Deanna Wong, Mr. Wong’s daughter who found and digitized this video, recalls that family members were called up according to age and lineage.

For example, Mr. Wong’s siblings would be called first, followed by their children and grandchildren. In this video Mr Wong's eldest son, Terry was called first, and then, since their middle son Ted was not present, Deanna, the youngest of the three, came next. Following her came Terry's kids from eldest to youngest. And since Deanna nor Ted had children at the time, the eldest cousin and his wife, and their kids etc followed.

As the eldest of 13 siblings, Mr. Wong would have had many envelopes to hand out!

Originally from Hong Kong, Mr. Wong came to Canada to study engineering at McGill University in the mid-1950s, where he met Deanna's mother.

Mrs. Wong's father, Deanna maternal grandfather, immigrated to Canada in 1921 and paid the $500 head tax in order to enter the country. Mr Wong's father, Deanna’s paternal grandfather, was a doctor specializing in acupuncture, which was illegal in Canada at the time, so he settled in California. Now his family lives around the world, including the United States, Singapore, Japan, and in various places in Canada. This milestone birthday presented a great opportunity for a family reunion. And to accommodate everyone, this celebration took place in the home of Deanna’s eldest brother and Mr. Wong’s eldest son, Terry.

Now a longtime resident of Toronto, Deanna calls Winnipeg home where she and her two brothers grew up. Although they were one of the few families of colour around, she remembers her neighbourhood and her experiences fondly. Her parents, particularly her mother, worked hard to build a Chinese community where the children could have Chinese friends and be exposed to their culture. They started a Mandarin school, even though Cantonese was their mother tongue, and began a summer camp.

Family and community come together again at this celebration, one of many for the Wong family."

My life

Discs in this file pertain to a lecture given by Jean Randolph, with a performance by Jacob Wren and Adam Kinner, titled "Stage Set Stage: on identity and institutionalism", at the SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art on 15 January 2014. Randolph's talk is entitled "The poetics and politics of dissociation".

PEN Canada fundraising gala

File consists of correspondence, handwritten notes, three drafts, and the final text for a presentation entitled, "Words and music : an evening with Rohinton Mistry," held at Harbourfront on 18 October 2012. The file also includes audio recordings of Mistry's interview with Eleanor Wachtel as part of CBC Radio's Writers & Co.

Neustadt Prize : keynote speech

File consists of a copy of the speech, a video recording of Rohinton Mistry's remarks at the banquet, correspondence, and the contract for publication of the speech in World Literature Today.

Laptop

Contents of the hard drive include articles, manuscripts and other assorted writing by Dunlop, administrative files, grant application materials, tenure and promotion documents, CVs and bios, teaching-related files, e-mail, and photographs. File formats include doc, docx, pdf, jpg, xml, rtf, psd, txt, html, mp4, bmp, mht, and png.

Extra documents

Contents of the disc include an essay written by Swan about her novel The Wives of Bath, a memorandum from York University regarding a reduction in Swan's teaching load for 2003-2004, and a table of corrections pertaining to one of Swan's pieces of writing. Not all files on this disc are retrievable. Paper copies of accessible documents are also in the file.

Old Cas drafts

Contents of the disc are drafts of Swan's novel What Casanova Told Me as well as a summary of the novel and a letter from her editor detailing suggested changes to the text.

CBC Radio, The Arts Today

File consists of a recording of the episode broadcast on 14 October 2002, hosted by Eleanor Wachtel in discussion with Connie Rooke and Philip Coulter regarding the writing of Rohinton Mistry, and sent to Mistry by Wachtel on 28 October 2002.

BBC Radio 4, Blyton in Bombay

File consists of a recording of a radio documentary that examines the impact of the work of children's writer Enid Blyton on the residents of Bombay.

Jeanne

Compact disc in this file contains copies of Jeanne Randolph's e-mail correspondence.

Regent Park : Faculty of Education

File consists of correspondence and notes pertaining to York University's Faculty of Education teacher education site in Regent Park in Toronto and the effect of community redevelopment projects on York's program in 2008. Included is a video recording of Axelrod speaking at the 2002 opening of the Faculty's teacher education site in Regent Park.

My life

Included in the file is a postcard date-stamped on 23 August 1937.

My life

File includes a 1987 postcard sent by Greg Curnoe to Randolph. The compact disc in this file contains images from a 2005 presentation given by Randolph at OPTICA 2005, "Elegy for an educated bum".

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