- 1979-002
- Accession
- 1940-1980
Part of Louis Applebaum fonds
Part of Louis Applebaum fonds
Part of Louis Applebaum fonds
Consists of records documenting Applebaum's work as a composer, and with numerous organizations including the Canada Council, SOCAN, the Ontairo Arts Council and CAPAC. Records include correspondence, musical scores, sound recording, audio-visual records, printed material, financial records, collected reports and other material. These records document the theatrical music composition process, as well as the roles of arts administration and advocacy, and together with the balance of the Applebaum fonds, support teaching and research in various aspects of film, theatre, and music studies.
Letter from Rev. John Stuart to James Stuart
Part of Clara Thomas Archives collection
Item is a handwritten letter from the Rev. John Stuart in Kingston, Upper Canada to his son James Stuart, personal secretary to Sir Robert Milnes, Lieutenant Govern of Lower Canada, regarding John's daughter Mary, who travelled to Montreal until James could deliver her to Elizabeth Mountain, the wife of Bishop Jacob Mountain in Quebec City. John Stuart discusses the affairs of his other children and his daughter-in-law, Mary Brooks, who was the daughter of the future governor of Massachusetts. The letter offers comments on family relationships and the status of women in the early nineteenth century.
Letter to William Martin, 11 November 1838 : transcript
Part of Clara Thomas Archives collection
Item is a typewritten transcript of the letter from a brother and sister to their father in Kent, England. See 2015-033/001(1) for the original letter.
Part of Clara Thomas Archives collection
File consists of a handwritten letter written from a brother and sister to their father in Kent, England, describing their decision to leave Hamilton, Upper Canada, due to unrest in the colony and to escape British tyranny, and to move to Rochester in the state of New York.
Fonds consists of records of the Mountain Fund pertaining to its activities, helping Vietnamese refugees in coming to Hamilton, Ontario. The fonds includes minutes of the Board of Directors, correspondence, financial records, publications and photographic materials.
Mountain Fund (Hamilton, Ont.)
The fonds consists of business and political correspondence, records relating to Robert Henry Winter's membership on the York University Board of Governors, and scrapbooks detailing his business and political careers.
Winters, Robert Henry
Part of John Tupper Saywell fonds
Part of John Tupper Saywell fonds
Part of John Tupper Saywell fonds
Part of John Tupper Saywell fonds
Part of John Tupper Saywell fonds
Part of John Tupper Saywell fonds
Part of John Tupper Saywell fonds
Part of John Tupper Saywell fonds
Part of John Tupper Saywell fonds
Part of John Tupper Saywell fonds
Part of John Tupper Saywell fonds
Part of Joyce Wieland fonds
Series consists of video tape productions of 'Women of Distinction' and 'Mary McEwan' and film reels of 'A and B in Ontario'.
Part of Joyce Wieland fonds
Series consists of interviews, speeches, discussions, and other personal interest recordings.
Part of Joyce Wieland fonds
Series consists of newspaper clippings, exhibition catalogues, invitations, articles, journals, and books collected by Joyce Wieland. Includes material created or authored by Wieland or related to Michael Snow (her former husband), research materials and items collected for personal interest.
Part of Joyce Wieland fonds
Series consists of accounting records, financial values for Michael Snow's drawings, and financial records for A Far Shore.
Part of Joyce Wieland fonds
Series consists of legal agreements and disputes, travel documents, and divorce papers.
Part of Joyce Wieland fonds
Series consists of date books, diaries, report cards, personal memorabilia, biographical and genealogical material and notebooks.
Part of Joyce Wieland fonds
Series consists of scripts by Joyce Wieland and others, Wieland's writings in notebooks, and lecture notes on painting.
Part of Joyce Wieland fonds
Series consists of general, personal, and business correspondence documenting Wieland's work with the art community, social issues, and the honours she received for her work in art and film.
Part of Joyce Wieland fonds
Series consists of portraits and snapshots of Joyce Wieland, personal photographs of family and friends (i.e. Wendy Michener), photos used in the creation of her art pieces, photos of her finished artwork, and stills from film shots (The Far Shore). Some sketches may be found with the photos.
Part of Joyce Wieland fonds
Series consists of original art work by Joyce Wieland including sketches, three-dimensional pieces, drafts of visual ideas, notebooks, and prints of finished pieces. There are photocopies of sketches found in other series included here, as well as some photographs used by Wieland for her artwork.
Part of Joyce Wieland fonds
Series consists of grant program guides, applications, supporting documentation, and correspondence relating to grants received by Wieland from the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture.
Part of Mavor Moore fonds
Accession 1984-024 (director's office files)
Accession primarily consists of the director's office files including administrative records, committee meeting minutes, subject files on campus buildings, and campus planning reference books.
Fonds consists of textual files including questionnaires, data summary sheets, and transcripts of interviews from the Class of '73 Project, as well as annotated papers, correspondence, and programs from conferences attended by Professor Anisef from 1981 to 2004. These records pertain to topics such as the relationship between post-secondary studies and success in the labour market, access to higher learning in Canada and Australia, the experiences of adult and part-time students in universities, the outcomes of schooling in Ontario's multicultural society, and the transition from post-secondary education to employment; applications for non-leave research grants, a sabbatical in 1996, and to various federal ministries for funding to study educational outcomes of migrant and non-migrant children, approaches to educational planning, meeting the needs of newcomer youth, improving access to health care for marginalized groups, and immigrant settlement and access to services in York Region; and teaching files, 1987-1998, that include course syllabi, notes from course readings, lectures, and some papers by students. Also included in the fonds are recordings of interviews dealing with immigrant experiences arranged by focus group and country, 2000-2001, and electronic files created by Professor Anisef between 1989 and 1997 that include teaching material, curriculum vitae, project notes, and applications for funding.
Anisef, Paul, 1942-
Dini Petty Show episode recordings
Part of Dini Petty fonds
File consists of recordings (preservation copies and broadcast copies) of "The Dini Petty Show" episodes.
York University photograph collection
The University photographic collection consists of photographs of individuals, university officials, faculty, students, sports teams, personalities, and campus buildings, including Glendon Hall.
York University Archives and Special Collections
Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds
The fonds consists of Lady Welby's correspondence, research and reference notes, publications, poetry, newspaper clippings, and printed material. It also includes of galley proofs of Francis Galton's papers on eugenics.
Welby, Victoria, Lady, 1837-1912
The fonds mainly consists of records pertaining to Roy Israel Wolfe's research activities and publications. Accession 2021-004 pertains to a 1972 meeting of the IGU Transportation section held at York University.
Wolfe, Roy Israel, 1917-
Joint Centre on Modern East Asia fonds
The fonds consists of records pertaining to the activities of the Joint Centre on Modern East Asia and includes general files, director’s files, minutes of the ROC Co-Coordinator’s meetings, narrative reports of the OROC, briefing binders, files on OJEE Ontario pariticipants, publications and working papers, video cassettes, films and audio cassettes. It also includes files relating to programs such as the Canadian-ASEAN Program, the Canada Pacific Program, and the OROC Training Programs.
Joint Centre on Modern East Asia
Part of Robert Witmer collection
Collection 15 : Leive, Cynthia - Mu50. Interview Transcripts
Part of Robert Witmer collection
Fonds 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.
Briskin, Linda
Audio reel recordings of live performances
Part of Mariposa Folk Foundation fonds
York University Office of the Advisor to the University on the Status of Women fonds
The fonds consists of Operational files for the office of the advisor; correspondence, reports, minutes and other files related to the Presidential Committee to Review the Salaries of Full-Time Faculty Women (1975-1976), the Task Force on the Status of Women at York (1975, 1984), the Women's Studies program, the Employment Equity Committee, the Affirmative Action Committee, and Taking the Initiative Conferences; reports and research on women's issues such as maternity leave, daycare, sexual harrassment, violence against women, pay equity, and women's education; and published material dealing with the status of women at the University.
York University (Toronto, Ont.). Office of the Advisor to the University on the Status of Women
York University Convocation Office fonds
The fonds consists of records of the York University Convocation Office and includes correspondence with faculties and colleges regarding graduates, ceremonies, delinquent students, convocation programmes, some financial material, invitations and honorary degrees and citations. It also includes of scripts for the convocation ceremonies, citations, and installations of new Chancellors. In addition there are convocation addresses for the period 1961-1986 and there are also copies of diplomas from the several faculties. The fonds is organized in three series: Correspondence and papers relating to Convocation, 1979-1982; Order of Convocation (scripts), 1961-1996; and Programmes, 1961-1996.
Convocation office files are arranged by year of convocation and then alphabetically within each year. Scripts and programmes are arranged by date of convocation.
York University (Toronto, Ont.). Convocation Office
York University Department of Instructional Aid Resources fonds
Fonds contains video recordings of York University convocations (1972-1975), faculty and department seminars and lectures, and conferences.
York University (Toronto, Ont.). Dept. of Instructional Aid Resources
The fonds consists of the records of the Osgoode Hall Law School pertaining to its Dean's Office, 1957-1980; Faculty Council, 1974-1982; Alumni Association, 1891-1982; and Legal and Literary Society, 1965-1977. It also includes photographs of graduation ceremonies, 1970-1977 and class lists, 1899-1978.
Osgoode Hall Law School
York University Art Gallery fonds
The fonds consists of correspondence and financial records of the York University Art Gallery. The first series consists of correspondence with artists concerning shows, with other galleries in Canada and the United States, with publications, art schools, artists' organizations, and with other university departments, organized alphabetically or chronologically. The second series consists of financial records, (including budgets, invoices, records of purchases); guest books and attendance records and surveys; exhibition flyers, catalogues and schedules; minutes of the University Arts Committee (1973-1979) and the Art Advisory Committee (1968-1972) and documentation concerning exhibitions, including 'Re: Union: selected York MFA alumni, 1976-1985'.
York University (Toronto, Ont.). Art Gallery
York University Faculty of Administrative Studies fonds
The fonds consists of the records York University Faculty of Administrative Studies, specifically records of the Office of the Dean, 1965-1981; the Faculty Council, 1965-1992; and the Undergraduate Business Council, 1970-1972. Also includes Research Programme Working Papers authored by Schulich School of Business Professors.
York University (Toronto, Ont.). Faculty of Administrative Studies
The fonds consists of Graduation photographs, 1971-1986; the records of the Canada in the Forties symposium, 1979; and the records of the College Council, 1969-1980.
Winters College
The fonds consists of the records of McLaughlin College, more specifically of the Tatham Hall Council, College Council, College Student Council. The fonds includes minutes of meetings, financial records, correspondence and papers, and general and subject files. It also includes photographs, audio cassettes and magnetic tapes documenting the history of the College and it’s 25th anniversary celebrations.
McLaughlin College
The fonds consists of the records of the Office of the Master, 1969-1987; the General Meeting, 1967-1980; the Samuel J. Zacks Art Gallery, 1980-1982; and Graduation photographs, 1971-1986.
Stong College (Toronto, Ont.)
The fonds consists of the records of the Norman Bethune College Council, 1972-1983 and Graduation Photographs, 1977.
Norman Bethune College
York University Centre for the Support of Teaching fonds
The fonds consists of the York University Centre for the Support of Teaching records of the Educational Development Office. Development of Teaching Skills Programme, 1975-1983.
York University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for the Support of Teaching
York University Centre for Continuing Education fonds
The fonds consists of the records of the Office of the Director of the York Centre for Continuing Education, 1965-1972.
York University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Continuing Education
The fonds consists of graduation photographs, 1970-1976; the records of the Vanier College Council, 1966-1979; and the minutes of the Vanier College Residence Council, 1974-1983.
Vanier College (Toronto, Ont.)
Harbinger Community Services fonds
The fonds consists of records pertaining to the activities of the Harbinger Community Services and includes minutes of the York Student Clinic, correspondence, counselling records, financial papers, and statistics.
York Student Clinic
Green Bush Inn Incorporated fonds
The fonds consists of records pertaining to the activities of the Green Bush Inn and includes minutes of the Board of Directors and annual meetings, financial statements, correspondence and memoranda of agreement with colleges and pubs, legal documents (including charter, Liquor License Act of Ontario regulations and related material), personnel files and architectural plans relating to the historic Green Bush Inn.
Green Bush Inn Incorporated (Toronto, Ont.)
The fonds consists of the records of the Office of the Master, 1963-1975 and the Founders College Student Council, 1965-1987.
Founders College
The fonds consists of the Records of the Principal, 1964-1972; the Records of the Senior Administrator, 1966-1974; the Records of the Dean of Students, 1960-1965; the Records relating to the Faculty Council, 1967-1989; the Records relating to the Glendon College Student Union, 1971-1982; and Photographs, 1950.
Glendon College
Dance Umbrella of Ontario fonds
The fonds documents Dance Umbrella of Ontario’s operational and administrative activities. Records consist of financial records; grant applications and contracts; publications; correspondence and reports; and program files. Also included are special project records pertaining to events such as Arts Vote ‘94, Dance 2020, Artsweek, and Forward Motion.
Dance Umbrella of Ontario
Council of the York Student Federation fonds
The fonds consists of the following series: Constitution and by-laws, 1967-1988; Minutes, 1968-1986; Correspondence and papers, 1964-1986; Financial records, 1969-1986; Reports, 1969-1986; Newspaper clippings, 1968-1979; and Printed material, 1973-1979. The correspondence files are arranged alphabetically by name or subject.
Council of the York Student Federation
Parkdale Community Legal Services fonds
The fonds documents the functioning and activities of Parkdale Community Legal Services for the period 1971-1981. It includes minutes of meetings, internal and external correspondence, financial records, annual reports, published material and other material.
Parkdale Community Legal Services
Part of David Coombs fonds
The accession consists of photographs, ephemera, and a vaudeville script entitled "Inbad the Sailor" performed by Arthur Huston.
Fonds consists of the professorial records of Bakan's professorial work and academic research, including drafts of manuscripts, completed writings, correspondence, notes lecture, notes and other teaching files. Records also relate to her and her husband's involvement with inner-city Black youth and their draft dodging in the 1960s.
Bakan, Mildred
Fonds consists of selected administrative and operational records of the Toronto Dance Theatre.
The fonds is arranged in the following series:
Toronto Dance Theatre
York University Archives calendar collection
This collection describes courses and stipulates requirements for attaining academic qualifications. The calendar collection documents admission requirements, academic expectations, and standards for the completion of degree requirements. The collection consists of course calendars, mini-calendars and handbooks issued by faculties and departments. The collection is extensive though incomplete.
York University Archives and Special Collections
Part of Robert Lewis fonds
The fonds documents Morris Katz activities related to environmental issues as a consultant for various organizations, as a researcher, author and editor. It also documents his teaching activities.
Katz, Morris
Part of York University Computing and Network Services fonds
The fonds consists of production scripts, including revisions, for three one-hour episodes of "I Married the Klondike", by Peter Wildeblood, a CBC Television drama based on the book by Laura Beatrice Berton.
Wildeblood, Peter
Part of Seth Feldman fonds
Accession consists of research notes, interviews, and draft and final scripts for "Inventing dinosaurs," a two-part episode of the CBC Radio program "Ideas" that was broadcast on January 17 and 18, 2006.
The fonds mainly consists of William Greer plans, memos, correspondence and architectural drawings about York University.
Greer, William
The fonds consists of Robert Freeman's records pertaining to his involvement in student affairs at York University.
Freeman, Robert, 1933-
The fonds mainly documents Norman Penner's research activities on the history of the Canadian Left.
Penner, Norman
Major Addison Alexander Mackenzie fonds
The fonds consists of Major Addison Alexander Mackenzie's records pertaining to his social and political activities.
The fonds is arranged in the following series:
Correspondence
Subject files
Lists of voters
Printed material
Photographs
Mackenzie, Addison Alexander, 1885-1970.
Fonds consists of Hugh Ian Macdonald's Ontario government economist files, his speeches, correspondence, day books, York University Presidential files, Community service files, Ontario Advisory Committee on Confederation files, York International files, and his IDEA Corporation files.
Macdonald, Hugh Ian,1929-
The fonds consists of correspondence, typescripts, reports, publications, research materials, legal documents, course materials, student essays, and administrative material relating Harry S. Crowe activities at York University and Atkinson College, at the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers, with the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism and related subjects.
Crowe, Harry Sherman, 1922-1981
The fonds documents D. McCormack Smyth's career as an administrator both in private corporation and in academic institutions as well as his teaching activities in administration for the period 1947-1986.
Smyth, D. McCormack (Delmar McCormack)
Fonds consists of research notes and historical documents related to the creation of an official history of the John Labatt Brewing Company of Canada.
Tucker, Albert
Fonds consists of personal and business correspondence, reviews, notes, drafts and manuscripts of poems and musical compositions which document the career of Robert Casto.
Casto, Robert Clayton
The fonds consists of a collection of student essays on the question: 'Why did you come to university?', which was submitted to Professor Roger Kuin's second year class in English literature in 1972.
Kuin, Roger
Fonds consists of professorial records and includes his research files and personal files.
Richmond, Anthony
The fonds consists of correspondence, notes and notebooks, index cards as well as a large volume of photocopied articles used by Otto Friedman in his teaching, research and writing activity. These include notes taken during his own education in England. In addition, there are typed lecture notes for courses he taught at York, as well as typescripts of articles and lectures by Friedman, and a typescript draft of his 'Masaryk's social philosophy and critique of Marxism,'. There are also course reading lists, some student materials (class lists, including some with student grades, student essays, and correspondence) and some correspondence and printed materials relating to York University, including calendars and handbooks. There is some material dating from Friedman's time as a management consultant in London, England, including studies of management styles in British firms. The posters are reproductions of paintings by masters (Picasso, Utrillo, etc.), that appear to have hung in his office.
Friedman, Otto
The fonds documents O.R. Lundell's activities as a professor and university administrator. Records consist of correspondence, course notes, evaluations and advising material. Also included are reports, minutes and background material relating to the design requirements of the Chemistry department within the new Chemistry and Computer Science Building, the Canadian Institute for Research in Atmospheric Chemistry and the Science Olympics.
Lundell, O.R.
Fonds consists of Ellen Baar's course readings, research materials, drafts of published works, committee minutes and supporting documents, notes, and correspondence relating to her work on government regulation, compliance and environmental issues.
Baar, Ellen
Fonds consists of the records relating to the Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston (Arbour Commission)(1996), including background papers, research papers, testimony, and the final printed report that studied the operations and management of the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario, and the incidents that occurred there starting 22 April 1994.
Beare, Margaret E.
Fonds consists of materials relating to Morris' personal and professional life as a social activist, advocate for prison abolition, writer and lecturer including pamphlets, notes, drafts of articles and books written by her, monographs, published and unpublished articles, photos, clippings, personal and professional correspondence as well as volumes of Morris' detailed diaries.
Morris, Ruth, 1933-2001
Portuguese Canadian Democratic Association fonds
Fonds consists of ledgers, organizational records, communiques, photographs and event-planning records for activities and events carried out by members of the PCDA. Includes correspondence of the different executives, including exchanges with high-profile figures in Canadian and Portuguese history (e.g. Humberto Delgado, Henrique Galvão, Fernando Piteira Santos) and other political and exile organizations around the world (e.g. FPLN). Also includes a complete run of the organization's bulletin "A Verdade/The Truth" as well as newspapers from the Portuguese diaspora.
Portuguese Canadian Democratic Association (PCDA)
The fonds documents the establishment of Operation Lifeline - Campaign to Save the Boat People and its activities for the period of 1978-1985.
Operation Lifeline
The fonds consists of newspaper clippings of Charles Bothwell Pyper's articles in the Telegram together with telegraphic messages that served as 'hard copy' for his articles from foreign posts; correspondence, and notes; and newspaper clippings from several other newspapers. It includes a typescript of 'Chamberlain and his critics,' as well as earlier drafts, typescripts, some with corrections, of a book on Winston Churchill, and drafts of unpublished dramatic productions by Pyper. The vast majority of the fonds consists of newspaper clippings, notes and related material concerning Pyper's journalism, arranged alphabetically by subject. Some of the subjects included in the fonds are: Clement Attlee, Lord Beaverbrook, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Winston Churchill, Joseph E. Davies, Anthony Eden, the League of Nations, Palestine in the post-war years, the Spanish Civil War, the Suez Crisis, the United Nations, and World War II.
Pyper, Charles Bothwell
Part of Mariposa Folk Foundation fonds
Part of Mariposa Folk Foundation fonds
The collection consists of photocopied correspondence, papers, agendas, minutes of the Organizing Committee of York University, and of the Provisional and regular Board of Governors of the same institution, 1958-1961.
Kidd, J.R. (James Robbins), 1915-1982
Part of Harry Pollock fonds
The series of correspondence and clippings relate to Pollock's many interests, particularly in Temple Sinai, the James Joyce Society, and travel. The manuscripts are of plays that he wrote and directed, including multiple copies annotated for different purposes. Published material consists of 9 volumes of Thom's Directory (1852-1950) and one volume of The Dublin Almanac and General Register of Ireland (1847). The 15 watercolour paintings are by Jane Golden.
Part of Harry Pollock fonds
Part of Harry Pollock fonds
Pollock's interests including, James Joyce and Temple Sinai. Most of the file titles in this series were simply transferred from there original folders. The rest of the material in this series came from one file which had no detectable order. This file was sorted by subject, the subject headings were used as file titles.
Two photographs included in this accession make up series 2. One of the photographs was removed from its frame, it is included with its frame backing.
Part of Harry Pollock fonds
The accession consists of 19 boxes of records. 8 series were established: Subject Files: Correspondence & Clippings, Manuscripts, Audio Tapes, Slides, Videos, Photographs and Framed Material, Posters-Paintings-Scrapbooks, Cartographic Materials.
The first two series, Subject Files and Manuscripts were arranged in file folders entitled by Prof. Pollock. The original order was kept and the documents were put into acid neutral file folders and titles were transcribed verbatim. Manuscripts include Pollock's novel Gabriel, plays, poems and the unpublished After the funferal and Soviet journal.
Audio tapes of interviews conducted by Prof. Pollock were not in any particular order. An effort was made to put the related ones together and the titles assigned by Harry J. Pollock were maintained. There are also audio tapes of music for his plays
Slides consist of those that Prof. Pollock used in the plays Night Boat from Dublin and Giacomo de Trieste, these were removed from the boxes and slide carousels and placed in archival slide sheaths. They are listed by play tittle in the original sequence in which they were shown. Duplicate and additional slides are listed according to subject. Titles given by Harry J. Pollock were kept.
The three videocassettes include one entitled Portrait of the artist-is there one who understands me? and two of Japan.
The fonds documents Bernard Ostry's education and personal life as well as his activities as public servant and author for the period 1940-1990.
Ostry, Bernard, 1927-
Fonds consists of manuscript and typescript drafts and notes for many of Richard Courtney's works, personal and business correspondence with friends, colleagues, publishers and other individuals and organizations, background and resource material for Courtney's writing and teaching, lecture notes, copies of journals and other publications in which Courtney's work either appeared or which he used as resource material, scrapbooks documenting Courtney's role as an actor and director in a number of productions including those undertaken as a student at Leeds as well as a number of audio-visual samples of his work.
Courtney, Richard, 1927-1997