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Collection · 1930-2025; 1940-2012 predominant

Collection consists of examples of Canadian commercial and industrial design, previously part of the permanent collection of the Design Exchange, a cultural design centre based in downtown Toronto. These objects form the core of "The xDX Project: Documenting, Linking, and Interpreting Canada's Design Heritage" a research project that was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in 2023 to reconstitute the Design Exchange's design museum through a digital repository and linked open data.

2025-026/001(06) · File · 2021-2025
Part of J.L. Granatstein fonds

File predominantly contains email correspondence pertaining to article suggestions, edits to drafts, and review requests, and copies of draft and published articles.

2025-026/002(01) · File · 2021-2025
Part of J.L. Granatstein fonds

File predominantly contains email correspondence pertaining to article suggestions, edits to drafts, and review requests, and copies of draft and published articles.

Gen corresp
2025-026/003(02) · File · 2021-2025
Part of J.L. Granatstein fonds

File includes correspondence predominantly pertaining to professional matters.

Gen corresp
2025-026/003(01) · File · 2021-2025
Part of J.L. Granatstein fonds

File includes correspondence predominantly pertaining to professional matters.

J.L. Granatstein fonds
F0316 · Fonds · 1914-2025

Fonds consists of research files, committee files (including minutes, memoranda, etc.), correspondence, professorial files (including notes, lectures, departmental business), financial records, publication files, printed materials, and other materials. Includes records related to the following publications: "The Politics of Survival: The Conservative Party of Canada" (1967), "Canada's War: The Politics of the MacKenzie King Government, 1939-1945" (1975, 1990), "A Reader's Guide to Canadian History 2: Confederation to the Present" (1982), "Bloody Victory: Canadians and the D-Day Campaign, 1944" (1984, 1994), "The Great Brain Robbery: Canada's Universities on the Road to Ruin" (1984), "Sacred Trust: Brian Mulroney and the Conservative Party in Power" (1985), "The Collins Dictionary of Canadian History" (1986), "How Britain's Weakness Forced Canada into the Arms of the United States" (1989), "A Nation Forged in Fire: Canadians and the Second World War" (1989), "Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy" (1990), "Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese in World War II" (1990), "Spy Wars: Canada and Espionage form Gouzenko to Glasnost" (1990), "For Better or For Worse: Canada and the United States to the 1990s" (1991), "Dictionary of Canadian Military History" (1992), "The Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War" (1993, 1995), "Empire to Umpire: Canadian Foreign Policy to the 1990s" (1994), "Victory 1945: Canadians from War to Peace" (1995), "The Good Fight: Canadians and World War II" (1995), "Yankee Go Home? Canadians and Anti-Americanism" (1996, 1997), "Petrified Campus: Canada's Universities in Crisis" (1997), "The Canadian 100: the Hundred Most Influential Canadians of the Twentieth Century" (1997, 1998), "Trudeau's Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Pierre Trudeau" (1998, 1999), "Who Killed Canadian History?" (1998, 1999), "Prime Ministers: Rating the Prime Ministers" (1999, 2000), "Our Century" (2000), "Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace" (2002), Hell's Corner: An Illustrated History of Canada's Great War (2004), The Last Good War: An Illustrated History of Canada in the Second World War, 1939-1945 (2005), Lessons Learned? What Canada Should Learn from Afghanistan (2011), The Best Little Army in the World: The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-45 (2015, 2016), The Weight of Command: Views of Canada's Second World War Generals and Those Who Knew Them (2016), Trudeau's World: The Insiders on Foreign Policy, Trade, and Defence, 1968-84 (2017), the New Canadian Readings series, the CIIA Contemporary Affairs series, as well as numerous scholarly papers, newspaper articles, and editorials. Fonds also includes a collection of reproductions of photographs from other Canadian archival institutions, documenting Canada's role in the World Wars and other significant events in Canadian history.

Also includes records connected to Granatstein's activities with the Marlborough Avenue (Toronto) Ratepayers Association, the Social Science Federation of Canada, the Canadian Historical Association, the Senate Sub-committee on Veteran's Affairs (regarding the CBC's "The Valour and the Horror"), the Historica Foundation, the Dominion Institute, the Vimy Ridge Memorial Foundation, the Never Forgotten National Memorial Foundation, the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, the Council for Canadian Security in the 21st Century, the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, the Canadian War Museum, the Royal Society of Canada, the Order of Canada, the Special Committee on the Restructuring of the Reserves, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's mini-series, Canada: A People's History; and oral history projects exploring the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party.

Granatstein, J. L.
2025-028/003(05) · File · 1972-2025
Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of personal and professional correspondence. It includes a draft poem to Susan’s lover Christopher Dingle, interviews from journalists, annotated draft manuscript pages from "Big Girls Don’t Cry", doctoral supervisory work, and a letter from lawyer about 1989 the obscenity charge in "Last of the Golden Girls."

Susan Swan fonds
F0113 · Fonds · 1945-2025

Fonds consists of records documenting Susan Swan's personal life and professional activities as a writer, university professor, journalist and advocate for the arts, including correspondence, notebooks, day planners, research materials, photographs, lecture notes, sound recordings, promotional materials and manuscript drafts pertaining to Swan's novels and other writing projects.

Swan, Susan
2025-026/001(07) · File · 2021-2025
Part of J.L. Granatstein fonds

File predominantly contains email correspondence pertaining to article suggestions, edits to drafts, and review requests, and copies of draft and published articles.

Who killed Cdn history
2025-026/001(04) · File · 2021-2025
Part of J.L. Granatstein fonds

File pertains to the book “Who Killed Canadian History” (1991) and predominantly contains correspondence and publications regarding reviews, references, and responses to the book two decades later.

Tulchinsky MSS
2025-026/001(01) · File · 2017-2025
Part of J.L. Granatstein fonds

File predominantly contains email correspondence regarding publications and lectures pertaining to historian Gerald Tulchinsky.

Personal files
S00161 · Series · 1945-2025
Part of Susan Swan fonds

Series consists of correspondence, clippings, journals, notebooks, photographs, publications, ephemera, day planners, address books and other material documenting Swan's personal life and interests, in particular her early years as a student at Havergal College, as well as files pertaining to Swan's family. Some notebooks contain notes on Swan’s writing projects as well as personal diary entries.

Gen corresp
2025-026/003(03) · File · 2021-2025
Part of J.L. Granatstein fonds

File includes correspondence predominantly pertaining to professional matters.

Accession 2025-026
2025-026 · Accession · 2011-2025
Part of J.L. Granatstein fonds

Accession consists of manuscript drafts, clippings, and other professional correspondence created and generated by Jack Granatstein.

Legion Magazine
2025-026/001(03) · File · 2021-2025
Part of J.L. Granatstein fonds

File pertains to publications for the magazine and predominantly contains correspondence regarding article suggestions and revisions.

JM Bliss
2025-026/001(02) · File · 2021-2025
Part of J.L. Granatstein fonds

File contains remarks for the Michael Bliss memorial and correspondence regarding his literary estate.

Academic and teaching files
S00163 · Series · 1964-2025
Part of Susan Swan fonds

Series pertains to Swan's work as an instructor at York University and her tenure process, her position as the Millennial Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies for 1999-2000, her work for the Writers' Union of Canada, and her public lectures. Records in this series include course materials, teaching proposals, official York University publications, and lecture notes.

Correspondence files
S00162 · Series · 1954-2025
Part of Susan Swan fonds

Series consists of personal and professional correspondence and e-mail, sent and received by Swan.

Old draft of short
2025-028/002(01) · Item · Jan. 2024
Part of Susan Swan fonds

Item is an annotated draft manuscript of a story that appeared in the Secret Six anthology.

Poetry and short stories
2019-003/210(02) · File · 2013-2024
Part of Basil and Dora Avramis fonds

File consists of poetry and short stories written by Basil Avramis. File also includes newspaper clippings of opinion pieces and articles written for Greek language newspapers by Basil Avramis.

Dennis Lee letter + other
2025-028/003(03) · File · 1965-2024, predominant 1963-1967
Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of personal and professional correspondence including of letters from Dennis Lee, Swan’s college boyfriend, and an early draft of Maragret Atwood’s foreword for Swan’s memoir "Big Girls Don’t Cry".

S00164 · Series · 1956-2024
Part of Susan Swan fonds

Series consists of drafts and proofs of articles, poems, plays, short stories, essays and novels written by Swan, including "Unfit for Paradise", "The Biggest Modern Woman of the World", "The Last of the Golden Girls", "The Wives of Bath", "Stupid Boys Are Good to Relax With", "What Casanova Told Me", "The Western Light" (previously titled "Black Ships" and "The Hockey Killer"), "The Dead Celebrities Club", and "Big Girls Don't Cry: A Memoir About Taking Up Space". Series also includes research material and notes pertaining to Swan's writing projects, correspondence with publishers and collaborators, lecture notes pertaining to Swan's book tours, promotional material for several of her books, as well as screenplays for the proposed and/or produced films of "The Biggest Modern Woman of the World" and "The Wives of Bath".

Basil and Dora Avramis fonds
F0735 · Fonds · 1970-2024

Fonds consists of episodes of the Avramis Greek Show, which aired on Rogers Television from 1970-2012 and Global TV from 1975-1985. Fonds also consists of raw footage and audio captured for use in the Avramis Greek Show. Fonds also includes poetry and prose written by Basil Avramis, as well as correspondence and other ephemera such as certificates and newspaper clippings.

Avramis, Basil
Textual records
S01132 · Series · 1980-2024
Part of Basil and Dora Avramis fonds

Series consists of poetry and prose written by Basil Avramis, as well as correspondence and other ephemera such as certificates and newspaper clippings.

Michael H. Kater fonds
F0456 · Fonds · [ca. 1961]-2023

The fonds mainly consists of research files, photocopies and microfilm reels of archival documents from American and European archives, manuscripts, and correspondence related to Michael Hans Kater's work on Nazi Germany including publications such as his dissertation SS-Ahnenerbe, and books "Doctors Under Hitler," "Different Drummers : Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany," "Weimar : From Enlightenment to the Present", "Culture in Nazi Germany," and "After the Nazis : The Story of Culture in West Germany"; professorial files (including lecture notes and course evaluations); and correspondence with friends, colleagues, and other scholars.

Kater, Michael H.
Accession 2023-026
2023-026 · Accession · [198-]-2023
Part of Michael H. Kater fonds

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.

Toyomasa Fusé fonds
F0776 · Fonds · 1930-2023

Fonds consists of manuscripts, personal and professional files, objects, sound recordings and interviews pertaining to Fusé’s expertise in the field of suicidology, autobiographical accounts of his personal life, cultural differences that he observed between North American and Japanese society, and biographical accounts of the Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose. The fonds has been arranged into three series: Personal files, Professional files, and Manuscripts.

Fusé, Toyomasa
2023-013/004(25) · File · 1948-2023
Part of Toyomasa Fusé fonds

File includes correspondence with Shosuke Nawa, an employee of the Hokkaido Shimbun, regarding a double suicide and assistance with research on the Showa Era (1926-1989) and Subhas Chandra Bose. Two Hokkaido Shimbun news articles are attached to Nawa’s letter. Lois Fusé’s annotations on the original envelope provide some context for the articles enclosed.

Email 2023 II
2024-012/002(02) · File · 25 Jun.-31 Dec. 2023
Part of Judith Cowan fonds

File consists of printed messages and images sent from and to Judith Cowan.

Professional files
S01082 · Series · 1948-2023
Part of Toyomasa Fusé fonds

Series consists of Toyomasa Fusé’s professional files and media appearances related to his study and publication of research on sociological issues in the 1960s and 1970s and his contributions to the study of suicide and methods for suicide prevention. Series also includes two framed awards relating to his achievements in the field of suicidology.

Accession 2024-012
2024-012 · Accession · 1978-2023
Part of Judith Cowan fonds

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.

Judith Cowan fonds
F0249 · Fonds · 1960-2023

Fonds consists of: personal and professional correspondence, including letters and email exchanged with family and individuals involved in Canada's literary community such as Steven Heighton and David Helwig; essays written while Cowan was a student; correspondence, notes and drafts of her work as a translator; research notes and drafts of her short stories and novels; professorial records including tenure and promotion files, course evaluations, and other material that documents her career as a professor at l'Université de Québec at Trois-Rivières; correspondence and manuscripts relating to her involvement with the literary community in Québec; and examples of Cowan's work with digital photography. Accession 2007-052 includes photographs of Judith Cowan receiving the Governor General's Literary Award in 2004.

Cowan, Judith Elaine
Canada Post
2024-012/001(05) · File · 2023
Part of Judith Cowan fonds

File consists of letters written to and from Judith Cowan.

Canada Post
2024-012/001(05) · File · 2023
Part of Judith Cowan fonds

File consists of letters written to and from Judith Cowan.

Email 2023 I
2024-012/002(01) · File · 2 Jan.-21 Jun. 2023
Part of Judith Cowan fonds

File consists of printed messages and images sent from and to Judith Cowan.

2022-002/044 · File · 2015-2023
Part of Celia Haig-Brown fonds

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Simon Einish talking in English. Topics discussed include: his growing up and the importance of spending time on the Land; the importance of sweats and his art; passing on Naskapi history and culture to the next generation.

transcription-simon 2023
2022-002/044(01) · Item · 2023-05-02
Part of Celia Haig-Brown fonds

Item consists of a 2023 transcription of an interview with Simon Einish talking in English in May 9, 2015. Topics discussed include: his growing up and the importance of spending time on the Land; the importance of sweats and his art; passing on Naskapi history and culture to the next generation.

John Warkentin fonds
F0184 · Fonds · [194-?], 1951-2023

Fonds consists of research notes, lectures notes, teaching material and an extensive collection of photographic slides used for research and teaching created or accumulated by John Warkentin.

Warkentin, John, 1928-
Accession 2023-007
2023-007 · Accession · [198-]-1992, 2023
Part of John Warkentin fonds

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 2022-011
2022-011 · Accession · 1997-2022
Part of Carol Malyon fonds

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.

F0733 · Collection · 1964-2022

Collection consists of records accumulated by the Egypt Migrations project pertaining to the history and activities of Coptic immigrants in Canada and the Egyptian diaspora. It also consists of records documenting the administration, activities, and interests of the project.

Egypt Migrations: a Public Humanities Project
Email 2022 III
2024-012/001(04) · File · 1 Oct.-31 Dec. 2022
Part of Judith Cowan fonds

File consists of printed messages and images sent to or from Judith Cowan.

Email 2022 III
2024-012/001(04) · File · 1 Oct.-31 Dec. 2022
Part of Judith Cowan fonds

File consists of printed messages and images sent to or from Judith Cowan.

Juan Pascual-Leone fonds
F0770 · Fonds · 1961-2022

Fonds consists of the personal, professional, and academic files of Professor Emeritus, Dr. Juan Pascual-Leone. It includes both unpublished and published papers and manuscripts, and paper presentations of his academic work; personal and professional correspondence; and class proceedings of tape recordings and paper transcripts of psychology courses taught by Pascual-Leone on the York University campus.

Pascual-Leone, Juan
Accession 2025-029
2025-029 · Accession · 1960-2022
Part of Harry W. Arthurs fonds

Accession predominantly includes copies of publications such as journal articles, book chapters, and reports, and presentation material from conferences, lectures, and speeches.

S01042 · Series · 1967-2003, 2022
Part of George Papadatos fonds

Series primarily consists of George Papadatos’ professional records pertaining to his various activities as an engaged member of the Toronto Greek-Canadian cultural and political community, including materials relating to his involvement with organizations such as the Greek-Canadian Cultural Association, the Greek-Canadian Cultural Workshop of Toronto, the Greek Community of Metropolitan Toronto, the Greek-Canadian Democratic Organization and the Hellenic Canadian Organization, amongst others. Series also includes records relating to Papadatos teaching career at Scarborough College (University of Toronto), employment assisting new Greek immigrants at Eastminster Community Services and activities performed as a music promoter and as owner of the Trojan Horse café. Series includes correspondence, legal and business documents, reports, meeting minutes and agenda, news clippings, scrapbooks, writing and research materials such as journal articles, papers, newsletters, proposals, government and education-related documents, pamphlets and brochures. While consisting predominantly of collected ephemera, file 2014-044/001(04) also contains a number of professional records relating to political organizing.  Very few personal records are included, however the series does contain some records relating to Papadatos’ immigrant status and employment. Other items relating to personal events such as invitations to his birthday party and to a farewell event prior to his return to Greece in 1984 can be found in 2014-044/001(02) and 2014-044/001(06).