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Accession consists of ephemera, correspondence and publications accumulated or created by David Coombs during his time as a student and resident don at McLaughlin College in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Accession consists of Faculty of Environmental Studies MES plans of study from 1972 to 2013.

Accession pertains to the Environmental Studies Students’ Association (ESSA) and includes conference material, administrative records, files pertaining to its newsletter, Screw, and financial records.

Accession consists of records pertaining to Ray Ellenwood's work as a York University professor and his research, writing and translation work relating to Surrealism and the Automatist movement in Quebec. Records include e-mail and other correspondence, course materials, research files, subject files, publications, conference papers, draft manuscripts, page proofs, newsletters, agendas, event notices, photographs, posters, and audiovisual materials including DVDs and videocassettes (Hi8 and VHS). These materials document, in general, his scholarly output and communications from 1973 to 2019, including his teaching at York University and six-month teaching contract in Nanjing, China, in 1993; his organization of and participation in a Nov. 1998 York University-hosted conference, exhibition and performance entitled "Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism: 1948 and Onwards"; his work with the Literary Translators' Association of Canada; his involvement with a 2009-2010 travelling exhibition entitled "The Automatist Revolution" and the resulting book, "The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal, 1941–1960", co-written with Roald Nasgaard; his translation of Guillaume Charette's "L'espace de Louis Goulet" and related research; and the publication and translation and publication of Ellenwood's "Egregore: A History of the Montreal Automatist Movement" (2014). Also included in this accession is correspondence pertaining to Ellenwood's research for his PhD thesis, "André Breton and Freud" (1972).

Accession consists of teaching files for Ellenwood’s undergraduate and graduate level courses, files pertaining to the research and writing of his PhD thesis on André Breton and Sigmund Freud, academic files consisting of drafts of papers and talks delivered by Ellenwood at various conferences, translation files consisting of drafts of his translation work and publishing files that document his own writing efforts including correspondence, research material and drafts of "Egregore: The Montréal Automatist Movement".

Accession consists of records pertaining to Ellenwood’s PhD thesis and research on Andre Breton and Surrealism. Records include a copy of the thesis, correspondence, notes and articles, and subject files.

Accession consists of correspondence, draft manuscripts, research notes, page proofs, itineraries, newspaper and magazine articles, promotional material, photographs, and financial documents relating to Rohinton Mistry’s work as an author, 1987-2012, including acceptance of literary awards and fellowships, media interviews, his relationship with his literary agent and publishers, requests for promotional text for works by other authors, participation in literary festivals and conferences, his service on PEN Canada’s Board of Directors, conferral of honorary degrees, requests for speaking engagements and to contribute essays to various publications, burning of copies of Such a Long Journey by the Shiv Sena party, responses to readers’ mail, adaptation of Mistry’s novels for theatre and radio, visits to India, study of his novels by university students, reviews of his novels by international literary critics, and the film shoot of Such a Long Journey in India. The accession also includes: audio and video recordings of media interviews; Mistry’s readings of his work; his convocation address at the University of Toronto, 1999; audiobooks of Mistry’s novels on tape cassettes and compact discs; and printed first editions of translations of novels, book club editions, and anthologies that contain an essay or excerpt from a literary work by Mistry.

The accession consists of literary papers including personal and professional correspondence, short stories, travel essays and manuscripts, photographs from filming the movie adaptation of “Such a Long Journey,” and photographs from award ceremonies and convocations for several honorary doctorate degrees. Included are records pertaining to Mistry’s investiture in the Order of Canada, research material, financial records, and contributions to journals and literary periodicals plus short stories, essays, excerpts published in various anthologies, and bound galley proofs written by other authors requesting testimonials.

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 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 Linda Briskin's files as the first coordinator of the York University Faculty Association (YUFA)'s Standing Committee on Equity. The files include correspondence, reports, articles by Professor Briskin, and various publications dealing with the struggle of women faculty to win equity with their male colleagues, particularly in terms of salary, as well as sexual and co-worker harassment, the Coalition of Union Women at York, the YUFA strike of 1997 and the strike by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Unit 3 in 2000, the Ontario Council of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), and her work with unions at the universities of Windsor, Waterloo, and Queen's.

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 class composite photographs of Faculty of Education graduates between 2001 and 2015. Each composite photograph represents graduates from different York University Faculty of Education sites or programs, including Parkdale; T.L. Kennedy; Barrie; Regent Park; Catholic Education Centre; urban diversity program; Durham/Whitby; Keele; Richmond Hill; fine arts; math, science and technology; Glendon; early childhood education; Toronto Catholic District School Board; Yvonne Campus; Durham/Ajax; Seneca; Georgian; Bainbridge Campus; Peel; York Region.

Accession consists of records of the Associate Dean, Academic Programs pertaining to: Senate minutes addressing Faculty of Education programs; Anti-Discrimination Advisory Group committee minutes and reports for the Access Initiative program and other faculty degree programs; agendas, minutes, and emails regarding the Committee on Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning (CCTL); proposals, plans, reports and approvals related to establishing the Faculty of Education and its programs; proposals, plans, and committee minutes related to academic courses and program development; accreditation reports and review of graduate program; site visit reports; research space planning papers; correspondence, agreements, and reports related to the York Seneca Institute for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education and the York Seneca Institute for Science and Technology Education; correspondence, memoranda of understanding, agreements, protocols, and reports regarding partnership with Westview Collegiate; deaf education and its transfer to Liberal Arts & Professional Studies; Indigenous Teacher Education Program proposal; concurrent BEd proposals; annual faculty curricular overview reports; and agendas and minutes for the Curriculum Committee.

Accession consists of Faculty of Education Council meeting agendas, appendices, minutes and relevant follow-ups and information for seven academic years.

Accession consists of Faculty of Education Council Minutes (usually with appendices), 1991 Task Force of Governance documentation, and policy documents indexing the actions and decisions of the various faculty committees.

Accession consists of minutes of the Pro Tem Faculty Council (October-November 1972) and the Faculty Council (December 1972- 1975) in the Faculty of Education.

Accession consists of a variety of records including correspondence, documentation about various programs and related committees, publications, reports, and records pertaining to the Lakeshore Teachers’ College.

Accession consists of a variety of records pertaining to the Lakeshore Teachers’ College (LTC), its council, committees and programs of study, and LTC personnel.

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 records from the Office of the Dean.

Accession consists of and pertains to subject files (1968-1980), space allocation, curriculum, graduate programs in the faculty (1969-1982), printed material (1968-1979), and photographs.

Accession consists of records from the Dean's Office and includes minutes (1969-1979), subject files (1968-1979), printed material, press clippings, reference files, scripts, and photographs of exhibits.

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 lecture notes and course syllabi for courses taught by Panitch throughout his career, research files (particularly pertaining to the monograph “The Making of Global Capitalism”, co-authored with Sam Gindin), articles and papers authored by Panitch, drafts, significant graduate student papers submitted to Panitch, and letters of reference he wrote on their behalf.

Accession consists of eighteen letters (seventeen holograph and one typewritten) and one transcription of a literary work of Jonathan Swift.

Accession consists of bundles of source material (primarily photocopies of secondary sources and printed articles from various websites) and the annotated typescript manuscript for Professor Michael Kater's book, "After the Nazis : The Story of Culture in Western Germany" (New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2023). The manuscript was written with the working title of "Under the Shadow of Nazism : Culture in West Germany." The accession also includes: an annotated typescript manuscript for Kater's book, "Culture in Nazi Germany" (New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2019; correspondence with friends and colleagues; files relating to his research and York University; reference material relating to music in Nazi Germany, and brief works written by Kater; a computer reel used on York University's IBM mainframe computer in the early 1980s when Kater was conducting research for his book, "The Nazi Party : a Social Profile of Members and Leaders, 1919-1945" (Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1983); and Kater's curriculum vitae, 2023.

Accession consists of two photograph albums. The first album contains 53 silver gelatin prints taken between 1903 and 1909 containing views of London, Ontario (including the McPherson Fruit Company) and other communities in southern Ontario, with one interior view of a house in Winnipeg. The second album contains 55 silver gelatin prints created between 1906 and 1907 showing construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway's extension in Saskatchewan and views along the St. Lawrence River near Quebec City.

Accession consists of correspondence by Carol Malyon to David Peacock and Elke Inkster of Porcupine's Quill regarding her proposal for the book, Mixed-up Grandmas, Malyon's manuscript for the text, a mock-up of the book and preliminary sketches by Peacock, and illustrations in ink and acrylic paint on board with tissue overlay that were created by Peacock for use in producing the book.

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 original illustrations created by Ben Wicks for the series of children’s books, Katie and Orbie Save the Planet, as well as illustrations for other books and projects, the manuscript for Ben Wicks’ Canada, and publications written or illustrated by Ben Wicks.

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 the records of Carol Malyon’s activities as an author, including: public readings of her work; her involvement with literary festivals and workshops; correspondence regarding her book, Lovers & Other Strangers (1996); early and final drafts of the short stories published by Inanna Publications & Education Inc. as Under the Water with Fish (2020), accompanied by correspondence; book catalogues; writers' directories; and magazine submissions.

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 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 drafts of unpublished poems, correspondence, drafts of poems written for Uppal’s published collections “We are What We Mourn,” “Winter Sport,” “Summer Sport,” “Cover Before Striking,” her novel “Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother, and her theatrical plays “6 Essential Questions” and “What Linda Said.”

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.

Accessions consists of material donated by Inez Elliston in 2015 It includes research material, newsletters,

Accession consists of drafts of articles, chapters, and other writing by Elliston including the Women as Volunteers project; material from the Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA) and the JCA Women’s Committee, as well as VHS tapes of community conferences and anti-racist training and education.

Accession includes material related to Elliston's involvement in local, municipal, provincial, national and international organizations and committees involved in social issues related to women's rights, (particularly immigrant women, ethnic and cultural minorities, women of colour and Indigenous women, issues of gender in urban communities, domestic violence, safety and accessibility), immigrant school children (particularly in the area of assessment, anti-racist, cultural interrelation, vocational training, and children's rights), adult learners (particularly in the areas of vocational training, anti-racist programming and policies for adult immigrant learners) and citizenship (in particular areas of multiculturalism, inter-cultural dialogue, tolerance, anti-hate group community efforts, political organization and celebration of diversity).

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 handwritten and typescript novel drafts, proof pages, source notes, character and scene sketches, and research material accumulated and created by Alissa York as part of her writing process for the novel “Far cry” published in 2023.

Accession consists of drafts, manuscripts, notes, research material, edits, and character sketches created by Alissa York as part of her process creating her short story collection, Any Given Power (1999), and her novels: Mercy (2003), Effigy (2007), Fauna (2010), and The Naturalist (2016).

Accession consists of textual and audiovisual records pertaining to the development, production and promotion of documentary films by John Kastner: Out of Mind, Out of Sight (2014), NCR: Not Criminally Responsible (2013), Life with Murder (2009), Sinner in Paradise (2007), Monster in the Family, parts 1 (2006) and 2 (2007), Rage Against the Darkness (2004), Romance with a Rapist (1999), Ask a Silly Question (1998), Hunting Bobby Oatway (1997), and House of Secrets (1997). These records include research files, memorabilia, correspondence, court transcripts, interview transcripts, scripts, posters, photographs, audio and video cassettes, compact and optical discs.

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".

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 primarily of Vera's professional records, including finished copies, typescripts and drafts of published and unpublished works; copies of articles written by and about Vera; professional correspondence; royalty statements; and a scrapbook of clippings and literary ephemera related to early publications. Accession includes a selection of books both by and belonging to Vera and also includes a copy of the Vera biography, “Petal Thoughts” by Ericah Gwetai.

Accession consists of an issue of The Globe (Toronto), 1 July 1867; annotated manuscript of an unfinished science fiction story, “Non-lieu,” written in the 1990s; a copy of Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage annotated with Judith Cowan’s teaching notes for Québécois students; and correspondence sent by email and surface mail, 2021.

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

Accession consists of research files, clippings, correspondence, and audio tapes of interviews with First Nations Elders collected and prepared by Michael Posluns. Accession also includes copies of Askwesasne Notes, 1969-1977. Some materials relate to international Indigenious rights and to American Native movement activities.

Accession consists of subject and general correspondence files dealing with Clayton Ruby's work on issues such as advocacy, the death penalty, politics, book reviews, letters to the editor in the Globe & Mail and Toronto Star, policing, Amnesty International, the Writers' Union, the Stephen Leacock home in Orillia, the Meech Lake Accord, free speech, and a reunion of York University graduates.