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Trinidad Carnival 1969
2020-002/032(03) · Item · March 10 or 11, 1969
Part of Kenneth Shah fonds

Consists of silent footage of carnival in Trinidad in 1969. Includes several mas troupes performing on a raised stage, close ups of effigies carried by participants, close ups of several costumes, and ending with a sunset and cityscape in the background.

Caribana recording
2020-002/031(03) · Item · 1979-1980
Part of Kenneth Shah fonds

Consists of silent footage of the 1979, 1980 Caribana carnival parades along Queen's Park. Includes footage of beauty queens in cars, close-ups of individual performers, large-scale costumes, mas troupes and participants. Some footage of mas band banners reading "Children of the Galaxy", "Ken Shah and Monty Thomas Cult of the Leopards" "Noel Audain Associates Presents This is Carnival" and "Caribana Carnival BWFA Belasco Davis Tristar Caribbean."

Caribana recording
2020-002/031(02) · Item · 1977-1978
Part of Kenneth Shah fonds

Consists of silent footage of the 1977 and 1978 Caribana carnivals, including footage of a large scale costume design, members of the Shah mas troupe building and designing costumes in outdoor tents. Followed by footage of the parade, including close-ups of individual performers, large scale costumes. Some mas band banners read "Uzbek Dancers Russian Fantasy", "Pyro Romania" "By De Lima Jewelers Tropical Fantasy in Jewelers" and "Saturday Nite."

Caribana recording
2020-002/031(01) · Item · 1967-1972
Part of Kenneth Shah fonds

Consists of silent footage of Caribana carnival mas troupes from 1967, 1969, 1970, and 1972. Includes some close ups of individual performers, large scale costumes, processioners waving Centennial 1967 flags, festival participants gathering in a park and dancing and singing along with a live band on a raised stage. Some footage of mas band banners read "Splendors of the Zodiac", "Bell [Canada?]", "Pageantry of the Cards" "Noel Audain" and "BWIA Sun Jet to the Caribbean". Also includes brief footage of a military band and mounted police.

Carifest Montreal recording
2020-002/032(02) · Item · 1977
Part of Kenneth Shah fonds

Consists of silent footage of the Carifest carnival parade in Montreal in 1977, including street scenes of mas troupes processing, crowds dancing, and live bands performing. Includes some close ups of individual performers, large scale costumes, and some banners which read "Harold Sally Saldenah presents Shangri-La". Includes shots of festival-goers dispersing after a rain shower, couples making out in parks, and young people drinking beer and smoking.

Trinidad Carnival 1986
2020-002/032(04) · Item · 1986
Part of Kenneth Shah fonds

Consists of silent footage of the Trinidad Carnival in 1986 including street scenes of mas troupes processing. Includes close-ups of some banners which read: "STAG Old Fashioned Sailors [Presents?] Safari '85", close ups of large scale costumes.

Caribana recording
2020-002/031(04) · Item · 1981-1982
Part of Kenneth Shah fonds

Consists of silent footage of the 1981 Caribana parade walking south from Queen's Park. Includes several mas troupes performing, some with banners, including Shah's group "Reflections on Paradise" and another troupe with a banner reading "Zapata Mexico". Includes close-ups of several costumes, a steelpan orchestra on a flatbed truck, crowd shots and large scale floats.

Carifest Montreal recording
2020-002/032(01) · Item · 1976-1977
Part of Kenneth Shah fonds

Consists of silent footage of participants in a parade and carnival held in Montreal in 1976-1977.
Featuring several mas troupes performing, street views, shots of the crowd and live band performing music on a raised stage.

Steve Paikin fonds
F0479 · Fonds · 1972-2005

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.

Paikin, Steve, 1960-
S00772 · Series · 1985-1990
Part of Rhombus Media fonds

Series consists of production files and film elements of the 1991 documentary directed by Larry Weinstein and produced by Rhombus Media about the life and music of Spanish composer Manuel de Falla (1876-1946). Includes performances by Teresa Berganza, Justino Diaz, the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, and Charles Dutoit. Filmed in Spain and Argentina.

F0168 · Collection · [ca. 1960-2015]

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.

York University Archives and Special Collections
Irving Allan Paisley fonds
F0373 · Fonds · 1951-1984, predominant 1962-1971

The fonds documents Irving Allan Paisley's political activities in North York, Ontario, and Metropolitan Toronto for the period 1951-1984. Included are correspondence, reports, briefs, newspaper clippings, financial statements and background material relating to municipal politics, including the North York Council and Board of Control (elections, Environmental Control Committee, Parks and Recreation, Works) and city departments (Board of Education, Department of Health, Planning Department, Works Department) (1962-1972), the York-Finch General Hospital, and several North York Ratepayers' Associations (Windfield Area, Hillcrest Village, Greenwin Gardens, Crestview) (1962-1972). Also included is material from the Metropolitan Toronto Planning Board and material related to the official plans of both Metro and North York (1970-1972), the Toronto Transit Commission and plans to build the Spadina Subway route (1962-1972), and several government consultants reports on development issues in the North York area (1970-1972), records relating to the Ontario Department of Municipal Affairs Committee on Golf Course Assessment and Taxation (1970-1972), and a proposed development and recreational facility at Downsview (Ont.) airbase (1955-1968). The fonds also includes general subject files largely related to the political life of North York and Metropolitan Toronto and includes correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings and background material relating to the Canadian National Exhibition Board of Directors (1979-1980), a proposal to build a domed stadium on the site of the Downsview (Ont.) Air Force Base (1962-1984), Indo-Chinese refugees (1979-1980), the North Pickering Development Corporation, including meetings of the Board of Directors and several committees (1976-1979), the North York Planning Department and Public Works Department (1979-1980), the proposed Spadina Expressway, and the Toronto Transit Commission. Maps of zoning areas in North York, land use, parks and recreation areas, roads, and maps related to Downsview Airforce Base are also part of the fonds.

Paisley, Irving Allan
F0159 · Collection · 1962-1999

The collection documents one method used by the university to assess and evaluate what is learned by its students, and what is expected by its faculty. Because the results of these examinations are entered into the student transcript, this collection also serves to document one standard by which the academic performance of students is measured. The collection consists of hard copies of some examinations that have been given at York. The collection is extensive though incomplete. This collection does not include Glendon College or Law Library examinations.

York University Archives and Special Collections
Robert Presthus fonds
F0383 · Fonds · 1968-1970

The fonds consists of research materials of Robert Presthus, including completed questionnaires, research notes, index cards with names and addresses of interviewees, computer print-out sheets and related material for the study that resulted in his publication, 'Elites in the policy process,' (1974). Interviews were conducted with politicians, civil servants and members of interest groups in Canadian provincial legislatures, American state legislatures and Congress, public servants in Ottawa and Canadian provinces, Washington and American states, and with interest groups in both countries.

Presthus, Robert Vance, 1917-
Letters and reports
S00150 · Series · 1942-1975
Part of Ernesto Vinci fonds

The series consists of reports and correspondence with the Banff School, music festivals, the Royal Conservatory, and related bodies.

Letters, informal
1981-004/003(20) · File · 1942-1947
Part of Ernesto Vinci fonds

File includes letters sent to Vinci from Portia White and letters written by Vinci and his professional associates pertaining to details of White's career and health.

University photographs
S00997 · Series · 1969-1982
Part of York University Computing and Network Services fonds

Series consists of photographic prints and negatives of the campus, campus events including convocations, graduation photos, faculty and staff taken over the years by the photography staff of the Department of Instructional Aid Resources (DIAR), which during the 1990s became part of the Instructional Technology Centre (ITC). The photography service was discontinued in 2003.

F0477 · Fonds · 1969-1982, 1993-2007

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.

Correspondence
2023-044/001(01) · File · 1995-1996
Part of Carol Malyon fonds

File 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.

Accession 2023-030
2023-030 · Accession · 1969-2021
Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

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. 

Mark W.P. Cann fonds
F0787 · Fonds · 1959-1999

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.

Cann, Mark W.P.
F0796 · Fonds · 2002-2018

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.

York Geography Alumni Association
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.

Avrom Isaacs fonds
F0134 · Fonds · 1936-2007

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.'

Isaacs, Avrom, 1926-2016
Photography
S01093 · Series · 1978-1991
Part of George Thaniel fonds

Series consists of photographic slides taken by Thaniel depicting various events and documenting his travels.

George Thaniel fonds
F0778 · Fonds · [between 1964 and 1991]

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.

Thaniel, George
N. KAROUZOS
2024-035/011(06) · File · 1966-1973
Part of George Thaniel fonds

File contains copies of correspondence from poet Nikos Karouzos (Νίκος Καρούζος).

2024-035/011(09) · File · [ca. 1970-1991]
Part of George Thaniel fonds

File contains copies of published essays by George Thaniel, as well as speeches. File also contains a translation of an article published in the I Kathimerini newspaper on George Thaniel’s work following his sudden death.

KATCHTITSIS
2024-035/011(05) · File · 1965-1970
Part of George Thaniel fonds

File contains copies of correspondence with writer Nikos Kachtitsis (Νίκος Καχτίτσης).

KATCHTITSIS
2024-035/011(04) · File · 1968-1969
Part of George Thaniel fonds

File contains copies of correspondence with writer Nikos Kachtitsis (Νίκος Καχτίτσης).