F0367 Onion fonds York University Archives & Special Collections (CTASC)
305 Scott Library, 4700 Keele Street, York University Toronto Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 Telephone: 416-736-5442 Fax: 416-650-8039 Email: archives@yorku.ca http://www.library.yorku.ca/web/archives/
2018-12-10 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.10.1 2026-04-16 14:10 UTC English Onion fonds F0367 [ca. 1973]-1984 0.10 m of textual records York University Archives & Special Collections (CTASC)
305 Scott Library, 4700 Keele Street, York University Toronto Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 Telephone: 416-736-5442 Fax: 416-650-8039 Email: archives@yorku.ca http://www.library.yorku.ca/web/archives/
Onion.

The "Onion", the Toronto paper on the arts, was a twice-monthly tabloid newsprint publication. It published fiction, reviews, essays, and artwork. The paper was edited by Stephen Mezei, an author, scriptwriter and instructor in the arts at several institutions, including York University (1974-1975). The Onion's editorial board included Pauline Carey, John Hebert, and other Canadian and foreign writers.

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The fonds consists of typescript, corrected drafts of articles, subscriber correspondence, and correspondence with the Ontario Arts Council and the Ontario Ombudsman's Office concerning a dispute that the editor of Onion, Stephen Mezei, had with the Arts Council (1977-1979).

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The fonds comprises the following accession: 1984-012. Further accruals may be expected.

2002/04/05 Jizi Chen:. Word Perfect (Creation)2002/04/05 Awaiting review by the Data Collection Archivist 2003/05/01 Shannon MacDonald. Added URL for online finding aid. Updated wording in accruals, access restrictions, extent, finding aid. 2003/12/02 Ken Hernden. Updated dates of creation, immediate source of acquisition and finding aid note.2014/07/22 Migrated to AtoM.2018/12/10 KCP, N. Roz. Post-migration metadata clean-up. Addition of GMD and accession numbers. Published description and generated finding aid.

See Louis Applebaum fonds (F0254) for material related to the Ontario Arts Council.

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O. Blakeston 1984-012/001(03) 1 folder of textual records

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Onion Writers 1984-012/001(04) 1976-1978 1 folder of textual records

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Before Onion 1984-012/001(05) [ca. 1973] 1 folder of textual records

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Third Anniversary Issue 1984-012/001(06) Sept. 1978 1 folder of textual records

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Letters from Readers 1984-012/001(07) 1975-1984 1 folder of textual records

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Vol. I, No. 1, Onion Manuscripts 1984-012/001(08) 1976 1 folder of textual records

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Correspondence with Ontario Arts Council, Ombudsman Ontario and others 1984-012/001(09) 1976-1980 1 folder of textual records

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Business Cards 1984-012/001(10) 24 Aug. 1984 1 folder of textual records

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