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Students at Acadia

File consists of a code sheet and a chart comprised of information about students who studied at Acadia University between 1921 and 1940.

Diana Pedersen : college, women and YMCA

File consists of a copy of a paper by Pedersen entitled "'The call to service': the YMCA and the Canadian college woman, 1886-1920", as well as correspondence, revision notes, and reader comments by Axelrod and John G. Reid. This paper was included in "Youth, university and Canadian society".

McGill-Queen's essays : contracts, correspondence

File pertains to the publication of Axelrod's book, "Youth, university and Canadian society: essays in the social history of higher education", co-edited with John G. Reid and published by McGill-Queen's University Press. Included are the signed contracts from the contributors to and editors of this book.

William Archibald : Halifax

Item is an audio recording of an interview conducted with William Archibald for Axelrod's book, "Making of a middle class: student life in English Canada during the thirties".

Jean Begg : Halifax

Item is an audio recording of an interview conducted with Jean Begg. for Axelrod's book, "Making of a middle class: student life in English Canada during the thirties".

Mark Frank : McGill-Dal.

Item is an audio recording of an interview conducted with Mark Frank for Axelrod's book, "Making of a middle class: student life in English Canada during the thirties".

Father Roger Guindon

Item is an audio recording of an interview conducted with Father Roger Guindon for Axelrod's book, "Making of a middle class: student life in English Canada during the thirties".

Carney Morris : UofT (St. Michael's)

Item is an audio recording of an interview conducted with Carney Morris for Axelrod's book, "Making of a middle class: student life in English Canada during the thirties".

Miscellaneous photographs

  • 2008-035/002(7)
  • File
  • Reproduced [198-?], originally created [192-?]-1976

    • Part of Paul Axelrod fonds

File consists of photographs of a variety of scenes and objects, including the Welland Canal, 1920s cars, a VIA Rail train, a sign pertaining to gas rationing in Vancouver, aerial views of urban and rural areas, and cars on the Queensway in Ottawa (1976).

Published articles

File consists of copies of Axelrod's published newspaper, magazine and journal articles.

Class of '73 : assessment of manuscript

File consists of correspondence and notes pertaining to feedback from the University of Toronto Press and its readers for the manuscript for "Opportunity and uncertainty".

Shapiro, Bernard : correspondence

File consists of Axelrod's correspondence exchanged with Bernard Shapiro and others pertaining to the anthology of colloquium essays in his honour, edited by Axelrod, entitled "Opportunity and uncertainty". Included are biographies of contributors to the book. Photographs in this file depict Axelrod, Hanna Gray, and Beatrice Kowaliczko at the colloquium honouring Bernard Shapiro on 20 November 2002.

Shapiro interviews

File consists of Axelrod's notes and draft interview questions pertaining to his interviews conducted with Bernard Shapiro on 2 July 2003 and 7 August 2003. Also included is a copy of Shapiro's CV and a newspaper clipping about Shapiro's appointment as Ethics Commissioner of Canada.

Conference : commentary : unpublished

Item is a commentary written by Axelrod regarding Canadian Historical Association papers written by Linda Ambrose ("Canadian youth in the 1940s: helping to shape the postwar society") and Nicole Neatby ("Student leaders at the University of Montreal, 1950-1958: behind the 'Carabin persons'").

Hildafest conference

File pertains to a conference pertaining to the work of Hilda Neatby, at which Axelrod presented a paper, sponsored by the University of Saskatchewan and held on 26-27 March 2004. Included is an agenda, a notice and correspondence.

Unpublished articles/commentaries

File consists of articles and commentaries primarily written for publication and submitted to the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star newspapers but not published. These articles pertain to topics including violence on television, university policy and politics, Canadian politics, and liberal arts post-secondary education.

Publication : review : Avrich

Item is a draft review written by Axelrod about Paul Avrich's "The modern school movement: anarchism and education in the United States".

Initiations : Western : 1987

File consists of a draft paper written by Axelrod for publication in the Globe and Mail newspaper, "Campus initiations - a long and brutal history", as well as a letter copied to him by the parents of a University of Western Ontario student and fraternity member who died during an initiation ritual.

"Against all odds?" : proofs

File consists of author proofs for this article, co-written by Axelrod, "Against all odds? The enduring value of liberal education in universities, professions, and the labour market", published in the Canadian Journal of Higher Education. Included in the file is an abstract for the article and correspondence pertaining to the re-publication of part of the article as a chapter in a McGill-Queen's University Press book, "Integrating school and workplace learning in Canada".

Publication : education and war : Stortz book

File consists of a draft article written by Axelrod and Charles Levi entitled "A comparative perspective on universities in Canada and Great Britain during the Two World Wars", to be published in "Cultures, communities, and conflict: histories of Canadian universities and war", edited by Paul Stortz and E.L. Panayotidis. Included is a draft table of contents, correspondence, reader notes and suggested revisions for the article.

J.B. Macdonald

Item is an audio recording of an interview with J.B. Macdonald, the executive secretary of the Council of Ontario Universities.

Academic files

Series consists of Axelrod's high school, undergraduate and graduate school essays, speeches, drafts of articles written for student newspapers and other materials that document his involvement with student organizations including the Council of the York Student Federation, the Ontario Federation of Students and the Ontario Union of Students, as well as his research interest in post-secondary education and the student union movement. These records include publications, papers, articles and news releases.

Graduate history (MA) : seminar paper

Item is a paper by Axelrod entitled "The urban response to industrialization", prepared for a Canadian history seminar at the University of Toronto in 1972-1973.

Graduate history (MA) : essay

Item is Axelrod's marked essay entitled "Environmentalism and continentalism: Canadian historical writing in the 1930s" for HIST 1149 at the University of Toronto.

Graduate history (PhD) : HIST 512

File consists of a course syllabus and Axelrod's notes for this course, HIST 512, "The historical study of social and family structure", which he audited at York University.

Canadian Union of Students : publications

File consists of papers published and distributed by the Canadian Union of Students. The authors of these papers include academics and students, and the subject matter pertains mainly to education, politics, equality rights, student government, labour unions, and economics.

Ontario Union of Students : papers and resolutions

File consists of resolutions for an OUS conference held at Glendon College, a paper by Ken Stone entitled "To the students of Castle Frank", a paper written by Wayne Hankey entitled "The representivity game", and an unattributed paper presented at an OUS conference in Guelph entitled "Academocracy".

Professorial files

Series consists of records documenting Axelrod's career as a university professor and administrator. Many records pertain in particular to his role as Dean of the Faculty of Education at York University between 2001 and 2008, as well as his work on committees (Ontario Association of Deans of Education, Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations). Included are correspondence, job applications, course outlines and student evaluations for courses taught by Axelrod, copies of research grant applications, past tenure files, photographs, reports, speeches, assessments, conference materials, newspaper and magazine articles.

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