M.L. (Mary Louise) Knight (née Kilgour) was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1924 to the Rev. Hugh Bryans Kilgour and Mae Louise Kilgour (née Cory). In 1945, she attended Victoria College, where she met her future husband David James Knight (future Professor of English at Victoria) and studied with Northrop Frye. She graduated from Vic in the class of 1949 and worked as an artist, author, poet and publisher. Her works include The Lace Volcano and Overlooking the Red Jail.
After raising four sons, M.L. Knight began working on collages and exhibited her work at more than a dozen shows. Her largest work, the "Vic Collage", is in the main hall of Old Victoria College in Toronto.
M.L. Knight died in 2013 in Toronto.
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Title based on the contents of the fonds.
Fonds consists of the following material from M.L. Knight: script of speech (with a brief biography) about the design and composition of the Victoria College Collage, 1996; 21 slides of the Collage (17 to accompany the script); labelled and mounted research/background material for the Collage, 1991-1992.
Gift
1997.052V/TR
Revised by MB: January 24 2017
Revised by ECN: April 25 2017
Updated by JT: Nov 12 2025
Updated by JT: June 1 2026
Discovered missing in 2025: Labelled and mounted research/background material for the Collage, 1991-1992.
PDF of speech, Seersucker Stones: The Making of the Vic Collage, is available on our Digital Collections website: http://digitalcollections.vicu.utoronto.ca/RS/?r=21350
Digital versions of the slides described in the Photograph Database are also available. Please contact the Archivist for access.
Copyright restrictions apply.
Slides are described in the Photograph Database. Search for accession number 1997.052: http://archival-photos.vicu.utoronto.ca/
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