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The fonds documents the activities of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America and some of its locals for the period, 1941-1978.

Fonds consists of records documenting Lynn Crosbie’s work as a writer, journalist and teacher, including manuscripts, draft articles and poems, published copies of her articles and poems, correspondence, videocassettes, audio cassettes, photographs, notebooks, day planners, lecture notes, research materials, course materials and student assignments. Also included in the fonds are personal photographs, correspondence, ephemera, memorabilia, notebooks and sketchbooks.

The fonds consists of Gabriel Kolko's research files, publication files and correspondence, and personal files. The research and publication files contain notes, drafts and research material related to the writing of "The limits of power, 1945-1954," co-authored with Joyce Kolko, "Anatomy of war : Vietnam, the United States, and the modern historical experience". It contains personal and professional correspondence including letters received from and, in many cases, copies of letters sent to Barrington Moore Jr., Renato Constantino, Paul Mattick, Peggy Duff, Maria Jolas, Stanford Ovshinsky, Saburo Kugai, Norman Thomas, Noam Chomsky, Herbert Marcuse and Ercich Jacoby, among others. It includes correspondence with publishers, drafts of essays and/or articles written by Kolko, reviews of his work and personal correspondence exchanged between Kolko and his wife, Joyce.

The fonds includes extensive correspondence dealing with Callaghan's personal and family relationships, as well as his active involvement with an international community of poets, writers, and artists. Teaching files include course outlines, essay topics, reading lists and bibliographies on North American and Russian literature, examination questions, and notes regarding his teaching methods at York University from 1970 to 2003. Journalism files include research materials and interview transcripts and deal with his travels with Pierre Elliott Trudeau in 1968, the crisis involving the Front de liberation du Quebec and implementation of the War Measures Act in 1970, culture, politics and economics in Quebec, and Callaghan's works of political and social commentary for CTV and CBC. The records of Exile Editions make up a significant portion of the fonds, and include manuscripts for books, page proofs, and correspondence. These files show the creative process in considerable detail, and in particular Callaghan's work as an editor and translator. Administrative records for the publisher consist of catalogues, promotional material, writers' guidelines, grant applications, financial documents, and reviews of publications. Callaghan's endeavours as a travel journalist are documented through research notes, manuscripts for articles, correspondence, and promotional literature from various attractions at the locations he visited, including museums, theatres, and tracks for horse racing, 1978 to 1995. Manuscripts and annotated page proofs for Callaghan's Hogg poems, short stories, novels, memoir, and non-fiction trace the development of these works, and in particular his skill and attention to detail as a wordsmith. Callaghan's involvement with radio and television is represented by a variety of sound and moving image recordings, including audiotapes of his interviews with Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, videotapes of his television shows for CTV's "W5" and CBC's "Weekend," and original film pertaining to the war in Palestine in 1970, his interview with Angela Davis in 1972, youth culture in California in 1974, John Updike, and "The blues." The fonds also includes considerable material created by or involving Morley Callaghan, including literary agreements, royalty statements, stories by and about Morley Callaghan, manuscripts for several books published by Exile Editions ("Joy in heaven," "The lost and found stories," "The man with the coat," and "A passion in Rome") that provide an understanding of the close working relationship between Morley and Barry Callaghan, letters of sympathy and funeral notices following Morley's death in 1990, and scripts for the CBC movie, "Hemingway vs. Callaghan," 2002-2003. Also included are subject files including literary memorabilia and honorary degrees received.

Fonds consists of event programs from Greek Orthodox Clergy-Laity and Philoptochos assemblies, as well as records documenting the activities of the Greek Ladies’ Philanthropic Association (“philoptochos”) of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Cathedral, such as financial statements, newspaper clippings, meeting agendas, and correspondence. Fonds also includes 2 ledger books documenting the revenue and expenses as well as the cash disbursement of the Ladies’ Philanthropic Association of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Cathedral. Fonds further includes a scrapbook documenting her activities with the the Ladies Philanthropic Association (“Philoptohos”) of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Cathedral.

Fonds consists of records related to the development and activities of the Cephalonia-Ithaca Association of Toronto including correspondence, event planning documents, membership lists, invoices, business records, meeting minutes, newsletters, advertisements and related ephemera.

Fonds consists of drawings, photographs, posters, and textual documents created by or for Fred and Glenn Moffatt in the course of their careers as industrial designers. The holdings include: Fred Moffatt’s artwork created for his courses at Central Technical School and the Ontario College of Art in Toronto between 1926 and 1933; graphic material and textual records used in the development of product literature, packaging, and advertising material for print media and point-of-purchase displays for various clients but especially for household electrical appliances manufactured by the Canadian General Electric Company Limited and Black & Decker Canada Incorporated, 1933 to 1998; and drawings that track the development of appliances, in particular electric kettles, from conceptual designs to the technical drawings required for manufacturing from the late 1930s to 2001. The fonds also includes award certificates, a small amount of correspondence regarding design projects, and information about F.E. Moffatt Limited.

Fonds pertains to the faculty-based Organized Research Unit (ORU) dedicated to enhancing the capacity of the Faculty of Education to engage in research and scholarly activities that investigate, support and encourage educational and school success. YCEC was intended to enhance research; strengthen community groups, the non-profit sector, educational institutions and government to engage, support, and encourage scholarship; and facilitate public engagement through knowledge mobilization.

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases, published material, reports, and speeches. The minutes cover the period 1966-1967. The correspondence includes personal correspondence of Robert Hendy, arranged chronologically (1965-1969), as well as correspondence of Tri-Service Identities Organization (TRIO), including correspondence with branches, the Department of National Defence, committees of the House of Commons, correspondence with military organizations (Imperial Officers Association, Navy League) and others arranged alphabetically by name or subject. There are press releases from TRIO (1966-1967), speeches of TRIO members and supporters, briefs and reports from committees, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and books dealing with unification and related defence issues.

The fonds consists of material that documents Levine's career as a writer and includes literary manuscripts, promotional material, personal and professional correspondence, diaries, calendars, and notebooks, financial and legal records, photographs and collected memorabilia. The fonds is arranged in the following series:

Fonds consists of correspondence, photographs, news clippings, and broadcast scripts pertaining to the lives of Irene T. Barclay, her brother Kingsley Martin, her husband John B. Barclay, and their sons Anthony and Michael Barclay. It includes John Barclay’s letters home from France during World War I, and documents regarding: Irene Barclay’s work as a surveyor in Great Britain and as an advocate of housing reform; pacifism and nuclear disarmament; the education and activities of Anthony Barclay after emigrating to Canada; and the career of Kingsley Martin, including his death in 1969.

Fonds consists of nine holograph notebooks created by Thomas Mossington (also spelled Mossenton) regarding the commission, construction, repair, provisioning, and staffing of Royal Navy and English merchant ships, including instructions, dimensions, and calculations for various parts of the vessels and pay records for shipyard work performed by Mossington and others. The notebooks also contain personal information, medical recipes, addresses, and a receipt from the Bank of Upper Canada.

Fonds consists of a journal kept by Anthony Hadfield, secretary of the Ontario Motor League, and his wife Ruth during a cross-country trip by car from July to Sep. 1962 to mark the opening of the Trans-Canada Highway. The journal records the distances travelled each day, the amount of gasoline used, and a commentary on road conditions, scenery, and sites visited along the way. The fonds also includes photographs taken during the trip as well as during visits to the Middle East in 1943 and to England in the 1960s or 1970s, ephemera from the Hadfields' travels, and newspaper clippings regarding the life of Ruth Hadfield.

Collection consists of legal documents pertaining to the wrongful conviction of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter for murder and his subsequent release, including: transcripts from the first trial, 1967; proceedings from the New Jersey State Court appeal hearing, 1976-1979; transcripts from the Alfred Bello polygraph remand hearing, 1981-1982, including notes written by Rubin Carter during the hearing; memoranda, notes, briefs, and rulings from the remand hearing, 1981-1982; files containing notes by the investigation undertaken by the Canadians (Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton, among others) who moved to New Jersey to work on Carter’s case, 1983-1985; research, evidence, and court rulings during appeals, 1985-1987; and petitions, briefs, judicial opinions and other documents related to the rulings by state and federal courts and by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Fonds consists of newspaper clippings, periodicals and travel documents and ephemera related to Perkins' travel, research and study of political, agricultural and environmental issues in Mozambique.

Fonds 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.

Fonds consists of records documenting Panitch's long-standing interest in British and Canadian labour history including notes, correspondence, draft manuscripts, research files and other material related to his PhD thesis "UK Labour and Incomes Policy" and to his books "The Assault on Trade Union Freedoms: From Consent to Coercion", "The End of Parliamentary Socialism" and “The Making of Global Capitalism”. It also includes research files related to the British Labour Party, new labour left, the Canadian State, political economy and political power, labour in Canada and corporatism, as well as notes and essays from his undergraduate and graduate education, files pertaining to his editorial work for the Socialist Register, and photographs of Panitch. Also included in the fonds are records documenting Panitch's work as York University professor, including course files, lecture notes, and letters of recommendation.

The fonds documents Andrew Tomcik's career as a professor, graphics designer and consultant. It includes correspondence, writings, design examples, design work and posters created by Tomcik for corporate clients and York University, such as silkscreen and lithographic pieces. Also included are prints, notes, clippings, conference material, student projects, slides, teaching files for his history of design course, design books and magazines.

The fonds consists of material related to John Smith's personal life and to his professional career as a writer, producer and director. It includes screenplays, draft notes for works in progress, shot lists, story boards, call lists and shooting schedules, casting and contact lists, correspondence, research files, press clippings, financial records, and selected printing elements for 16mm and 35mm productions, rough assemblies, rushes and outs on VHS and Beta videocassettes and DVDs.

The fonds is organized into the following series:

The fonds consists of research notes and typescripts for Tyrwhitt's books "The mill," "Bartlett's Canada," "How the Depression hit the West," "The exodus of the Japanese," and "The sinking of the I'm alone"; typescripts, research and correspondence regarding for articles published in Maclean's, Reader's digest, Saturday night, The Star weekly, Canadian living, the Old farmer's almanac, and other magazines; typescripts, research, and correspondence for chapters published in "Alberta in the 20th century"; editorial appraisals for Pierre Berton's manuscripts; notes made as a researcher for "The Pierre Berton show"; reports on manuscripts for Macmillan's, McClelland and Stewart, Longman's, Oberon Press, and other Canadian book publishers; notes as an editor for the Royal Commission on the Status of Women; correspondence with writers (including Pierre Berton, Ernest Buckler, Mark Gayn, Robert Kroetsch, Yves Theriault, Adele Wiseman, Sean O'Faolain, George Ronald, and others), editors, and others.

Fonds consists of the records of the Director's Office (1959-1967), including correspondence, development planning materials, plans, and reports concerning the early planning and development of the university.

Fonds consists of correspondence, brochures, clippings from newspapers and magazines, curriculum vitae, reports, original artwork, photographs (black and white prints and colour transparencies), financial records, speeches, exhibit catalogues, typographical research files, audio recordings, appointment diaries, awards, and design objects created or accumulated by Allan Fleming during his career as a graphic designer, teacher, and administrator. Topics of these records include: previous generations of his family in Scotland; his secondary school education; his years in England working with English typographers; his marriage to Nancy Chisholm; their relationship with Richard Outram and Barbara Howard; work at Cooper & Beatty Ltd., MacLaren Advertising, University of Toronto Press and other firms; the work of typographers such as Eric Gill and Carl Dair; Fleming's work for a wide variety of corporate clients (including Ontario Hydro, Trent University, the Hudson's Bay Company, Gray Coach, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian National Railway, Massey College, and the City of Toronto); television scripts; book and stamp design; his involvement in design juries; exhibitions of his work; book collecting; his declining health after a heart attack in 1971; and his death in 1978.

Consists of research and reference material in the form of subject files, reports, briefs, clippings, drafts, notes and correspondence relating to the activities of the Childbirth by Choice Trust including letters from supporters and adversaries, legal documentation pertaining to cases about abortion law, publications by government offices, support groups, etc.

Collection consists of newspapers, artifacts, ephemera, photographs, postcards, flyers and brochures, stamps, correspondence, posters, business records, and commercial and residential property promotional materials, collected and maintained by Sheldon Esbin between the 1980s and 2000s. These items predominantly pertain to pre- and post-amalgamation Toronto and the history of its neighbourhoods, architecture, religious and educational institutions, organizations, publications, cultural and arts-related events, tourism, real estate and building developments, commercial trade, and special events. Also included in this collection are pieces of original correspondence and legal documents dating from 1842 to 1874, written by or pertaining to the activities of prominent Toronto citizens including Adam Wilson, Christopher Widmer, John Davis, Frederic Cumberland, Allan Maclean Howard, Hugh Richardson, James Scott Howard, and John Hillyard Cameron.

Collection consists of two bound volumes prepared by the Office of the Chief of Protocol, Department of External Affairs documenting the program for the 1983 state visit of former Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and Mrs. Papandreou to Canada.

Fonds consists of 16mm film reels filmed by Calverley documenting daily life in Egypt and Greece from roughly 1929-1952, including scenes from the Greek Civil War.

Fonds consists of correspondence and subject files, ministerial files relating to Thomas A. Hockin’s activities as the Minister of State (Finance), constituency files, press releases, press clippings, research files, correspondence related to Cape Breton Development Corporation (DEVCO), memoranda to the Minister for International Trade, and chronological and subject correspondence relating to international trade. Accruals to this fonds consist of Hockin’s files from his work as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Investment Funds Institute of Canada, which discuss issues such as sales practices for mutual funds, industry standards and self-regulation, educational initiatives within the industry, and the impact of international events upon the market value of securities. Accession 2015-036 consists of files created by Hockin as Chair of the Expert Panel on Securities Regulation between 2007 and 2009, which include correspondence, research reports, documents on principles, regulatory models, and consultation with stakeholders, working notes, newspaper articles, and draft and final text of the panel’s report. This accession also includes notebooks kept by Hockin while serving on the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund from 2009 to 2013, containing his notes and personal reflections on global financial stability, income models, quota negotiations, risk management, global liquidity, and other areas of financial policy, as well as the IMF's relationship with countries such as Greece, Germany, and Portugal.

The fonds consists of records relating to the primary functions of the Faculty of Fine Arts which are teaching, research and service to the community. It includes records of the Dean, 1968-1987; the Visual Arts Dept., 1968-1987; the Dance Dept., 1969-1985; and the Theatre Dept., 1969-1990.

Fonds consists of personal publications written by George Thaniel, including his curriculum vitae and the complete collection of The Amaranth journals. Fonds also consists of audio cassettes recordings used by Thaniel in the course of his work as professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Toronto.

Fonds further consists of photographic slides taken by Thaniel depicting various events and documenting his travels, as well as copies of correspondence sent to Thaniel by various Greek literary figures, professors in Modern Greek studies, and artists.

Fonds consists of the business records of The Isaacs Gallery (TIG), the Inuit Gallery and the Isaacs/Inuit Gallery which include personal and professional correspondence, exhibition catalogues, mailings, financial records, and artist files consisting of correspondence, biographical sketches, press clippings, and other material relating to artists represented by Isaacs such as Dennis Burton, Graham Coughtry, William Kurelek, Michael Snow and Joyce Wieland, Robert Markle, Greg Curnoe, Gordon Rayner and John Ivor Smith, among others. It also includes artist portfolio files consisting of press clippings and catalogues of their works, a comprehensive slide collection documenting an overview of his gallery exhibits, and promotional files relating to his galleries. The fonds includes Isaacs' poster collection as well as notes written by Isaacs, collected correspondence and reminiscences, drafts, mock-ups and other material related to the writing and creation of the artist's scrapbook 'Isaacs seen.'

Fonds consists of: a ticket to the gallery of the United Kingdom's House of Commons issued by John Bright, 15 Feb. 1855; a cyanotype print of an unidentified mine in England; 48 letters written to publisher Elliot Stock by various correspondents including Sabine Baring-Gould, Walter Besant, Ford Madox Brown, William Francis Cowper-Temple, Austin Dobson, James Anthony Froude, William Ewart Gladstone, Edmund Gosse, Andrew Lang, John Morley, William Morris, John Henry Newman, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, and Theodore Watts-Dunton; and a letter from journalist Henry W. Nevinson to Ronwen Stock, 26 Aug. 1936, regarding his book, Running Accompaniment: Autobiographic Reminiscences (1936) and her appointment in Toronto.

Fonds consists of records for CHEA/ACHÉ conferences held between 2012 and 2022. The files include the call for papers, conference program, agenda for the biennial annual meeting, general meeting minutes, the President's report, the budget, and a list of award winners.

Fonds consists of correspondence, administrative files, and newsletters for the association created to maintain contacts between graduates of York University's Department of Geography and current students and faculty.

Fonds consists of documents created or received by Mark W.P. Cann during his career as a physicist with the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute in Chicago and with York University’s Centre for Research in Experimental Space Science, including research notes, proposals for projects, reports, spectrum graphs, wave line profiles, computer program printouts, tables and graphs, transparencies for presentations, and three infrared transmission studies on 35 mm film.

Fonds consists of digitized photographic prints and negatives, as well as audiovisual recordings, film and video taken by members of York University's Computing and Network Services, as part of their responsibilities as the university's official photographers and videographers in the 1960s through the early 2000s.

The collection includes ephemera such as announcements of conferences, seminars, and exhibits; newsletters from various university offices and colleges; public reports; guides and handbooks; press releases; bulletins; posters; etc. The collection is arranged alphabetically by the name of the office which created the ephemera.

Fond consists of material that documents Paikin's personal and professional life with an emphasis on his work as a journalist, documentary filmmaker and author. It has been arranged into six series.