Fonds consists of the governance, administrative, and personnel records for the community of the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society.

This includes: reports, financial records, meeting minutes, policies and handbooks, General Chapter records, Society Constitutions, correspondence, publications by and about the Society, photographs, audiovisual materials, and personal records of Society members.

In addition to general administrative records of the Society's domestic and international operations, the fonds also contains reference materials and publications from other Catholic missionary societies, collected materials on the Our Lady of Fatima Pilgrimmage tour led by SFM priests, Msgr. William C. McGrath and Rev. Patrick Moore, sub-collections on SFM founder Msgr. John Mary Fraser, and member, Bishop Kenneth Turner, and a collection of ephemera gathered by SFM members over the years documenting their Society.

The Fonds is divided into the following series:

1. General Chapters
2. General Council
3. Governance & Administration
4. Civil Corporation
5. Society Departments
6. Seminary and Novitiate
7. Missions
8. Personnel
9. Society Institutes
10. Property and Houses
11. Graphic Collection
12. Audiovisual Collection
13. Our Lady of Fatima Collection
14. SFM History Collection
15. Msgr. John Mary Fraser Collection
16. Bishop Kenneth Turner Collection

This series consists of records created by or pertaining to the governance and administration of the Society which fall outside the responsibilities of the General Council (Series 2) and individual departments of the Society (Series 5).

The series is divided into the following subseries:

1. Constitutions
2. Office of the Secretary
3. Office of the Treasurer General
4. Cabinet
5. Committees and Commissions
6. Society Meetings
7. Anniversary Celebrations
8. Auxiliary Organizations

Fonds consists of records documenting the business activities of CAnet and GTAnet, and their role in bringing internet connection to institutions across Canada and within the Greater Toronto Area, respectively. As network companies that primarily focused on educational and research-related networking, the records reflect the institutional partnerships and memberships of these networks, and the development of the infrastructure to support connectivity with such partners. The activities of CAnet and GTAnet board members are the source for most records.

Records consist of CAnet and GTAnet reports and summaries, board meeting minutes, requests for proposal and requests for quote documents, network statistics and development documents, research into comparable networking projects, foundational network partnerships, draft legal documents and agreements, member institution and group files, and board member correspondence.

Accession consists of records collected and created by Growth Facilities including select building, facilities, and equipment management files; records of programs including the Department of Botany International Seed Exchange; departmental histories, publications and subject reference materials; associated academic course content and research files; photographs, and early blueprints for the Greenhouse [196-] and extension [1979].

This series consists of records documenting the work of the General Council of the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society. It is divided into the following subseries:

1. Minutes
2. Reports and Briefs
3. Circular Letters
4. Newsletters
5. Intra-Council Correspondence
6. Correspondence with Society Departments
7. Correspondence with Missions and Society Houses
8. Correspondence with Holy See
9. Correspondence with Mission Ordinaries
10. Correspondence with Ordinaries
11. Correspondence: Subject
12. Correspondence: General
13. New Mission Searches
14. Diaries
15. Surverys
16. Financial Grants

Series consists of CA*net and GTAnet requests for proposals and supporting documents used by board members when formulating the requests, along with digital and paper-based vendor responses. Also includes vendor responses to a request for quote put forth by GTAnet. There are select records regarding GTAnet’s evaluation of the responses to its RFPs and RFQ.

Series consists of correspondence, minutes, agendas, invitations, attendance lists, and notes related to meetings organized by the Society, primarily the annual meetings of members living in Canada and the annual retreats of Society members.

Fonds consists of one accession of records that were created and collected by Prof. Neil Nevitte throughout his academic and professional careers. The records primarily document his teaching, publishing, and research activities since the 1980s, but also include some correspondence as well as records related to his administrative activities at the University of Toronto. The fonds is organized into 6 series.

Series 1 and 5 highlight Professor Nevitte’s education and his administrative and professional activities. Series include materials such as CVs, samples of his work as a doctoral student, an employment offer and annual activity reports from U of T, as well as records documenting his participation in various conferences and committees.

Series 2 consists of correspondence and over 22000 emails with colleagues from the University of Calgary, the University of Toronto, and various other institutions; co-investigators; co-authors; publishers; friends; and family.

Series 3 includes extensive sets of syllabi and teaching materials for courses Professor Nevitte taught at Harvard University, the University of Calgary, and the University of Toronto.

Series 4 and 6 document the planning, administration, analysis, findings, and publication of several of Professor Nevitte’s research and consultation projects. The materials provide significant coverage of projects such as the Canadian Election Study, the World Values Survey, the Political Ethics Survey, the North American Academic Survey Study, and his work with the NDI.

Series primarily consists of professional correspondence between Professor Nevitte and colleagues, students, and publishers. Includes correspondence relating to Professor Nevitte’s research, manuscript reviews and submissions, and participation in professional associations and conferences.

The emails in this series span from 2009 to 2021 and were captured from Professor Nevitte’s UToronto email account using the software ePADD. The emails consist of 20245 outgoing and 1928 incoming messages with 1749 correspondents and approximately 5019 attachments (2484 images, 21985 documents, and 550 other file types). The emails include personal correspondence with family and friends as well as professional correspondence with U of T colleagues and admin, co-authors, co-investigators and colleagues from his various research projects, research assistants, and students he has taught or supervised.

This series consists of sound recordings and moving images related to Scarboro Missions, its work, and its members. Includes promotional videos, oral history interviews, and archival footage of the Society's members in Canada and abroad.

Subseries consists of records documenting Nevitte’s work as a researcher or consultant on several smaller or short-term projects including: the Environics Research Group’s Scenarios for the Future Project; a contract with the Policy Research Secretariat; the 2014 Toronto Election Study; a challenge to the Canadian Fair Elections Act by the Council of Canadians and the Canadian Federation of Students; and some environmental surveys. Additionally, this subseries contains records related to the North American Academic Study (NAAS) or the Cross-National University Study, a major research endeavor which Nevitte undertook with colleagues Seymour Martin Lipset and Stanley Rothman to how compare community members from universities in Canada and the United States viewed issues with policies and practices in higher education institutions. Materials include correspondence, project proposals, contracts, questionnaires, data sets, figures and tables, invoices, and reports. Also included are large format data printouts related to a study on reform and Nevitte’s “Gifts and Gains” chapter in A Question of Ethics.

Digital files consist of a report for the Access to Information Review Task Force entitled Citizens’ Values, Information and Democratic Life (2001) and a draft of the NAAS manuscript.

Subseries consists of records relating to Nevitte’s role as the Principal Investigator for the Canadian segment of the World Values Survey (WVS) from 1991 – 2006. The WVS is a collaborative longitudinal social research project that involves over 100+ countries and has typically been conducted every 5-10 years since the first wave in 1981. The project explores the political and social values of individuals; how they change over time; and their implications. The data provide insight into people’s beliefs and attitudes towards topics such as democracy, protests and political behaviour, the economy, globalization, institutions, work, immigrants, ethnic minorities, gender and sexual equality, family structures, national identity, and the environment.

The records primarily reflect the development, administration, and findings of the second to fifth waves (1990 – 1994; 1995 – 1997; 1999 – 2004; 2005 – 2009) of WVS as well as several related sub-projects which sought to analyze subsets of the WVS data. Some of the records also relate to the first (1981 – 1984) and sixth (2010 – 2014) waves of WVS. Materials include research proposals, contracts with the Government of Canada, correspondence, draft questionnaires, codebooks, technical documentation, ethics review applications, financial records, datasets, tables and figures, and reports. Additionally, there are some files consisting of speakers’ notes and agendas from conferences, including the Expert Meeting of the International IDEA, United Nations Development Programme, and the World Values Survey Association in April 2015.

Subseries also consists of project proposals, background materials, figures and tables, outlines, and draft chapters for two unpublished books about the findings of the WVS as it related to Canada. The first aimed to analyze and provide an overview of the Canadian WVS data from the first four waves (1981 – 2000). The second book, Political Generations: 25 Years of Value Change, aimed to analyze and provide an overview of the Canadian WVS data from Waves 1 to 5 (1981 – 2006).

Digital files include additional draft chapters and proposals related to the unpublished WVS books and background materials. Also included are photographs from the Expert Meeting of the International IDEA, United Nations Development Programme, and the World Values Survey Association.

Subseries consists of records documenting Nevitte’s activities as a co-investigator for the Political Ethics Survey project. The project, which began in the mid-1990s, sought to explore the Canadian public’s ethical standards and expectations of their elected representatives. The records reflect several iterations of the project beginning in 1996 and later throughout the 2010s. Included are project outlines, literature reviews, codebooks, questionnaires, datasets, figures and tables, notes, and summaries.

Digital files in this series consist of drafts of consent forms, questionnaires, interview scripts, and the ethics board application from 2017 to 2018.

Subseries consists of records documenting Nevitte’s activities as a technical advisor to the NDI, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), and several of their local partners. Much of Nevitte’s consulting work relates to election monitoring, the detection and prevention of election fraud, and the conditions for free and fair elections. The records reflect several projects spanning from 1995 to 2020 in countries including Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burma, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Jamaica, Maldives, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela. Several of the projects involved the collection of politically sensitive information. Consequently, the polling firm that conducted the Hong Kong Surveys was raided by the authorities. Materials include contracts, invoices, correspondence, survey questionnaires, datasets, findings, figures, tables, and reports.

Subseries also includes The Quick Count and Election Observation: An NDI Handbook for Civic Organizations and Political Parties, a printed monograph co-authored by Neil Nevitte, Melissa Estok, and Glenn Cowan, and related chapter drafts and outlines. This handbook explains Nevitte’s Quick Count methodology (also known as Parallel Vote Tabulation), which applies statistical theory estimate and compare the final election results using the vote counts of a few randomly selected polling stations to quickly and reliably detect election fraud. The Quick Count methodology is now an international standard and has been applied to several NDI projects around the globe including an observation of the highly controversial Peruvian general election in 2000.

Digital files consist of records relating to the Quick Count methodology as well as projects in Bangladesh, Burma, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Maldives, Morocco, Nicaragua, and Hong Kong.

Subseries consists of records relating to Nevitte’s activities as a co- investigator for the Canadian Election Study (CES) from 1992 – 2011. The CES is a large-scale, nation-wide survey conducted every federal election year. The data provide insight into Canadian’s political behaviour and attitudes towards the government, political parties and party leaders, economic conditions, NAFTA, social programs, immigration, family structures, LGBTQ+ rights, and women’s rights. The records include technical documentation; codebooks; questionnaires; datasets, including large format data printouts; financial reports; and a report on Canadian citizenship prepared for Canada Heritage.

Subseries also includes technical documentation, codebooks, and data sets from the from the 1965, 1968, 1974, and 1988 Canadian Election Studies, prior to when Nevitte was a Principal Investigator.

Digital file consists of a draft letter in response to a report related to the SSHRCC Midterm Site Visit for the 2004 CES.

Series consist of records documenting Nevitte’s various professional activities outside his role as a professor at the University of Toronto. The records include presentation notes and other materials from participation in conferences and workshops; correspondence and notes on refereed articles; correspondence, notes and draft reports related to an external review of the Institute of Social Research at York University’s 2014 – 2019 ORSU re-charter application; a contract with CBC.

Digital files consist of records relating to Nevitte’s work on two Canadian court cases in 2013 and 2020. He provided expert testimony on the use of statistical theory to detect elections fraud during the high-profile McEwing v. Can. (A.G.), 2013 case which addressed robocall-related voter suppression during the 2011 Canadian federal election. He also provided expert commentary on the methods used to survey potential jurors for the R v. Wright, 2020 murder case.

Series consist of records reflecting Nevitte’s activities as a researcher and consultant. It primarily covers 4 major research projects that explore the political, economic, social, and cultural values and attitudes of the Canadian public across time: the Policy Research Secretariat-SSHRC Project on Trends (1998 – 1999), the World Values Survey (since 1981), the Political Ethics Survey (since 1993), and the Canadian Election Study (since 1965). The series also covers projects that Nevitte worked on in collaboration with international and domestic NGOs as well as a few miscellaneous projects. The records relate to both the administration of these projects and their findings. Included are materials such as contracts, grant applications, technical documentation, questionnaires, data printouts and analyses, draft and final reports, invoices and financial reports, background materials, and related correspondence.

Series is subdivided thematically into 6 subseries: Canadian Election Study, International Election and Democracy Projects, Political Ethics in Canada, Trends Project, World Values Survey, and Miscellaneous Projects.

Subseries consists of drafts, publishing agreements, and correspondence related to chapters by Nevitte for publication in edited books. Records span from the 1990s to the late 2010s and discuss a various political topics including Canadian elections, political culture, and values; party systems; and international trade.

Digital files consist of several chapter drafts co-authored by Nevitte including "'New' Cleavages, Value Diversity and Democratic Governance”; “Is Party Identification Meaningful? Resilience under Duress”; “Leader Effects and Leader Characteristics, Two Decades and Nine Countries”; and “Economic Integration and North American Political Cultures”.

Subseries consists of manuscripts and drafts of Nevitte’s conference papers and articles submitted for publication in academic journals and magazines. Some files include related correspondence with co-authors, editors, and publishers as well as reviewer feedback. Records span Nevitte’s early career to around 2018.

Digital files consist of drafts of several papers authored and co-authored by Nevitte including: “Affective Dissonance, Leader Evaluations, and Voter Turnout”; “Funding Shortfalls and Corporate Donations: Constituency Reactions from American and Canadian Universities”; “Decline of Deference Revisited: Evidence after 25 Years”; Cleavages, Value Gaps, and Regime Support: Evidence from Canada and 26 Other Societies”; “Support for Euthanasia: Twenty Years of Canadian Public”; “Diversity in Post-Secondary Education: Views of Students, Faculty and Administrators in the United States and Canada”; “Trade Welfare States and Confidence in Domestic Political Institutions”; “Individual and Contextual Factors and Non-Voting: A Comparative Analysis of Evidence from 23 Countries”; and a paper on the 2014 Toronto Municipal Election.

Series consists of records relating to Nevitte’s research and publishing activities across his career. He written extensively on topics such as democracy, voting behaviour, values and value change in North America, and Canadian election results, often drawing from the data collected through his research projects including the Canadian Election Study, Political Ethics in Canada Study, World Values Survey, and the Cross-National Universities Study. The records primarily include drafts and manuscripts of academic journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, and several books. Some related materials such as correspondence with co-authors, editors, and publishers; publishing agreements; reviews; and notes are included and arranged with the corresponding works.

Series is subdivided by types of work into the following subseries: Periodicals and Conference Papers, Chapters in Edited Books, and Books.

Subseries consists of syllabi, reading lists, lecture and reading notes, assignments, and final examinations from several courses on comparative politics taught by Nevitte. These include three courses he taught at the University of Calgary (1980s – 1995): Political Science 463: Comparative Democratic Systems; Political Science 670: Comparative Government and Politics; and Political Science 673: Advanced Comparative Government and Politics. The materials also document three courses he taught at the University of Toronto (1995 – 2018) including one undergraduate course titled POL 492: Theories of Comparative Politics and two graduate courses titled POL 2300: Comparative Politics (Industrial Societies) and POL 2700: Comparative Politics. Course topics include methodologies, political development, systems theory, political culture, group behaviour, social structures, and state-society relations.

This subseries also includes Comparative Politics and Industrial Comparative Politics field examinations from 2001 to 2013. These field exams were administered to doctoral candidates in the U of T Department of Political Science’s doctoral program after their first and second years as a requirement to continue in the program.

Digital files consist of a proposed course syllabus, a 2011 Comparative Politics Field Exam, and sample student exam submission.

Series consists of records documenting Nevitte’s teaching activities at universities throughout his career. Records primarily include syllabi, reading lists, notes, assignments, exams, and student work from various undergraduate and graduate political science courses Nevitte has taught at the University of Calgary and the University of Toronto. Courses cover a range of topics including comparative politics, public opinion and voting, and research methods and design. The records also document Nevitte’s teaching activities during his time at Harvard where he gave lectures on Canadian politics.

This series is subdivided into 5 subseries roughly based on course subject: Comparative Politics, Public Opinion, Canadian Politics, Research Methods and Design, and Miscellaneous. Due to the nature of the records, there may be some overlap between subseries.

Series consists of textual records documenting Nevitte’s education and career. The series begins with early papers early papers from Nevitte’s time as a doctoral student at Duke University, curricula vitae, and a biography for Nevitte’s website. This is followed by records documenting his professional and academic activities with the University of Toronto’s Department of Political Science from 1995 to 2018. Included are memorandums, teaching schedules, notes related to course planning for the Methods Area group, correspondence with colleagues and admin, annual activity reports, Ph.D. exam committee documents, and reference letters Nevitte provided the Ph.D. students he supervised. Additionally, there is a file with correspondence, course schedules, an offer of employment, and pension plan related to Nevitte’s start at the University of Toronto.

Digital files include two photographs of Nevitte, results from a departmental office survey, PhD student evaluations, and tenure recommendations from his work on the Department of Political Science’s Promotions and Tenure Committee.

Ceta Ramkhalawansingh is the former Equal Opportunity Director at the old City of Toronto, later becoming the Corporate Manager, Diversity Management and Community Engagement in the new City of Toronto after amalgamation in 1998. She is a prominent community activist and was a founding member of the student-initiated teaching collective at UofT in one of Canada’s first women’s studies course. Her family moved to Canada in 1967 from Trinidad and Tobago. Ceta reflects on her time as an undergraduate student from 1968, recounting her political involvement through the Student Administrative Council (SAC), and her work in establishing, participating in, and advocating for the inclusion of women’s studies and feminist methodologies in curriculum at the University. She discusses some of her positions at the City of Toronto and the Toronto school board, particularly around diversity and equity work, and her continuing connection with UofT through the Women and Gender Studies Institute, New College and Innis College. Ramkhalawansingh, as a dedicated community and housing advocate, also describes the negotiation and resistance to key developments in the neighborhoods surrounding UofT, particularly in the downtown Toronto Grange neighborhood, as well as the University’s position and response. She recalls a number of different groups and initiatives that she has been involved with, including on issues of heritage preservation and range of human rights issues.

Organizations

• Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto (WGSI)
• Student Administrative Council (SAC)
• Labour History Collective and The Women’s Press
• New College, University of Toronto
• Innis College, University of Toronto
• City of Toronto
• Grange Community Association
• University of Toronto Community Liaison Committee
• Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO
• MATCH International Women’s Fund
• Ontario Advisory Council of Women’s Issues

Subject Topics

• Student governance
• Women and gender studies programmes
• Social responsibility
• Reproductive rights
• Toronto city planning
• Toronto development
• Neighborhood advocacy
• Heritage conservation
• Social housing
• Financial access to education
• Institutional response
• Equity, diversity, and human rights

Series consists of research material and correspondence with colleagues and scholars collected by Hacking in the course of his academic activity. Records included are predominantly reprints, though also include press clippings, emails, written correspondence, transparencies, and notebooks. Material is grouped by subject as well as author.

Subject matter encompasses a broad range of topics including the history of mathematics, physics (in particular, Bose-Einstein condensates), genetics, classification and taxonomies, porphyrian trees, medieval illustration, autism, body augmentation, suicide terrorism, and psychoanalysis. Authors represented include Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hilary Putnam, Saul Kripke, Willard Van Orman Quine, Michel Foucault, Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison, Bruno Latour, and Noam Chomsky. Correspondence included within the research files is noted in the file title within square brackets. Additional content such as partial manuscripts and correspondence can be found on the verso of records as Hacking frequently reused paper.

Fonds consists of the records of the Board of Regents and its committees

File contains an interview with Gustav Ciamaga, recorded by Ned Bouhalassa in the Spring of 1993.

File includes a recording of this lecture, given at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto.

File consists of an excerpt from a longer video interview recorded in 2008 by Eric Chasalow for the Brandeis University "Video Archive of Electroacoustic Music." Gustav Ciamaga discusses Vladimir Ussachevsky, the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio, Hugh Le Caine, Myron Schaeffer, and others. This interview took place the day after his lecture at the Brandeis Electroacoustic Music Studio (see OTUFM 06-C-6).