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Leo Panitch fonds
F0164 · Fonds · 1945-2013

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.

Panitch, Leo, 1945-2020
John Jose fonds
F0734 · Fonds · 1984-2006

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.

Patricia E. Perkins fonds
F0671 · Fonds · 1990-1991

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.

Perkins, Patricia Elaine, 1955-
Stock family fonds
F0792 · Fonds · 1855-1936

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.

F0786 · Collection · 1966-1987

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.

Carter, Rubin
F0754 · Fonds · 1942-2011

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.

Hadfield, Anthony
Travel ephemera
2021-009/001(04) · File · 1942-[196-]
Part of Anthony and Ruth Hadfield fonds

File consists of cruise menus, 1942; postcards from Eritrea, Durban, and Sudan, 1943, the crossing of SS "Atlantic" from Southampton to Quebec, 17 July 1954, Brighton Beach, Dover, and London, NASA's Langley Research Center, St. Louis, the Ozark Mountains, Kansas City, and Arizona (including the Grand Canyon); a brochure from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, 1967; and a brochure for Las Vegas.

Thomas Mossington fonds
F0775 · Fonds · 1795-1829

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.

Mossington, Thomas
F0589 · Fonds · 1916-1989

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.

Norman Levine fonds
F0345 · Fonds · 1940-2002

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:

Levine, Norman, 1923-2005
F0436 · Fonds · 1959, 1962-1969, predominant 1966-1968

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.

Hendy, Robert I.
F0740 · Fonds · [2008?]-[2016?]

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.

Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds
F0810 · Fonds · 1922-2001

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.

Moffatt, Fred
S01092 · Series · [193-?]-2001
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

Series consists of approximately 290 drawings created by Fred and Glenn Moffatt as ideas for small electrical appliances and furniture progressed from conceptual designs to the technical drawings required for manufacturing. Many of the drawings are original sketches made using pencil, but there are also many diazo print copies. Kettles feature prominently in the series, including sketches by Fred Moffatt showing a kettle with a built-in sole plate so that a person could iron while they make coffee, a model with a built-in asbestos mitt-handle, and another with a plexiglass shield (2024-006/009(23)). Other drawings deal with shell contours and details of handle assemblies and switch buttons. Many of the drawings pertain to Glenn Moffatt's design of 1.5 to 2-litre kettles in 1983-84 for Canadian General Electric Company Limited's plant in Barrie, Ontario, with later work done for Superior Electrics Limited. Other drawings show sketches of an electric frying pan, a vacuum cleaner, portable heaters, a lawn trimmer, a medication cup, electric heaters. The work of other designers is represented, including sketches of kettles by Harold Shifman, a storage wall unit by Muller+Stewart Limited, and technical drawings by Strix Limited, a company on the Isle of Mann.

Vacuum design
2024-006/010(20) · File · June-July 1980
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of design drawings by Fred Moffatt for the Turbo Head vacuum cleaner manufactured by Canadian General Electric Company Limited, accompanied by a letter from Murray Locke, Product Manager, Home Care Products and a photocopied typescript brochure showing three other models of CGE vacuum cleaners.

Medication cup
2024-006/010(09) · File · [196-?]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of sketches by Fred Moffatt for a device possibly intended to dispense medication. The design bears the logo for the Canadian General Electric Company Limited.

Kettles : design drawings
2024-006/009(17) · File · [19--]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of sketches by Fred Moffatt of several models of electric kettles, including one with a built-in sole plate that would allow a person to pour a cup of instant coffee and iron a shirt at the same time, another with a built-in asbestos mitt-handle, and another with a plexiglass shield with a steam-operated wiper.

Storage wall
2024-006/007(02) · · 1971-1977
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of technical drawings of a 500 Series storage wall with details of cupboard doors and filing drawers.

Space heaters
2024-006/007(01) · · Nov.-Dec. 1973
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of sketches showing five designs for space heaters, with four versions running from floor to ceiling.

Kettles
2024-006/005(09) · File · 1996-2000
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of 22 design drawings and 34 technical drawings for various models of electric kettles including the CGE Auto II Boil'n Simmer kettle, model KE880, as well as correspondence by Glenn Moffatt regarding assembly instructions for an attachment system for a new handle assembly and a method to retain the handle and spout. File also includes reference catalogues for kettles by various manufacturers, and sketches by Harold Shifman.

Kettles
2024-006/005(08) · File · 1986-1989
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a technical drawing for a revised appearance prototype of auto-off kettle switch button and escutcheon, 2 Feb. 1986, and a design drawing for a kettle, 3 Nov. 1989.

Distinctly Canadian
2024-006/010(43) · File · 10 Jan. 1994
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of an issue of "Maclean's," vol 107, no. 2 (10 Jan. 1994), with an article about Canadian design that includes a sidebar devoted to Fred and Glenn Moffatt.

2024-006/010(42) · File · 1982-1987
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a summary of the design services provided by Glenn Moffatt with illustrations of his work, accompanied by photographs of Black & Decker kettles and packaging designs, a portable heater, a vacuum cleaner, and slow cookers.