This series includes records that document Dr. Shah’s career and professional activities as a physician, researcher, professor, and advocate for social change. Includes files related to his research and writings; professional correspondence; files related to his advocacy work regarding the Canadian citizenship examination, diversity at the University of Toronto, and the Canadian Blood Services; and files related to his work with Anishnawbe Health Toronto and the development of the Aboriginal Cultural Safety Initiative, an initiative to improve the curriculum with regards to Indigenous health content in Ontario’s college and university health science programs.

Digital files include drafts of the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth editions of his book Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Canada and further files relating his teachings, research and writings, presentations and talks, the Visiting Lectureship on Native Health, Anishnawbe Health Toronto and the Aboriginal Cultural Safety Initiative, and his advocacy work surrounding diversity at U of T and the Canadian Blood Services. An additional book draft, "Reflections of a Senior: Insights on Reconciliation, Well-Being, and Purpose" was emailed to UTARMS by Dr. Shah in September 2025 and added to folder B2024-0005_df021.

Also includes 815 emails from 2009-2023 from Dr Shah’s UToronto email account. The emails include correspondence with friends and colleagues on topics including the writing of his memoirs, his receipt of an honorary degree, the writing of the sixth edition of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Canada, his work with Anishnawbe Health Toronto, his advocacy work regarding the Canadian Blood Services.

1610 emails, circa 2009-2017, from his j.beattie@sympatico.ca email address, which he shared with his wife Susan. Includes correspondence with his family, friends, and colleagues including Allyson May, Jim Phillips, Martin Friedland, Randall McGowen, Simon Devereau, and Joanna Innes.

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.

Email correspondence documenting FitzGerald's role as Director of the Sexual Diversity Studies Programme and her co-curation of the exhibit Queer CanLit at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in 2008.

Includes 179 emails (26 sent by FitzGerald).

Fonds consists of correspondence, subject files, course material, research records, and conference and publication files documenting the life and career of Prof. Roxana Ng, professor at OISE and community activist. Fonds also includes administrative material from OISE, in particular from AECP (Adult Education and Counselling Psychology) Department, the AECD (Adult Education and Community Development Program), CIARS (Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies), and the CWSE (Centre for Women’s Studies in Education).

Fonds also includes records relating to Prof. Ng’s involvement in various community groups, NGOs and grassroots organizations, including the Apparel Textile Action Committee (ATAC), CERIS (The Ontario Metropolis Centre), the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW), The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), INTERCEDE (International center to End Domestic Exploitation), Inter Pares, The Jade Garden Adjustment Committee, the National Organization of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women of Canada (NOICMWC), UNITE (the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees), Women Working with Immigrant Women (WWIW), and the Homeworkers Association (HWA)

Commemorative event at the University of Toronto to mark the passing of Edward Said, organized by the Middle East History and Theory Workshop. Speakers: Mohamad Tavakoli, James Reilly, Linda Hutcheon, Jens Hanssen, Natalie Zemon-Davis, Amir Hassanpour, Ritu Birla, James Graff, Melanie Newton, Uzoma Esonwanne, Abdel Razzaq al-Takriti, Hassem Jamjoum, Yousef Said, and Michael Marmura.

Presentations by Dr. Saeed Rahnama and Dr. Amir Hassanpour, moderated by Shekoufeh Sakhi. The event took place at the William Doo Auditorium, New College, Nov. 28, 2009.

Sound recording of Dr. Hassanpour speaking about Kurdish question, referendum, federalism, capitalism, and communism.

SHA-related audio recordings, possibly of meetings.

This series documents various professional activities and research including participation in conferences, film festivals and screenings, and particularly Prof. Armatage’s work within the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program. The series includes her correspondence with a small number of notable women filmmakers, including Dorothy Arzner and Tracey Moffatt, as well as posters, programs, and pamphlets on women and cinema collected over the course of her professional career. There is also one file relating to her time teaching in Japan in 2002.

This series documents a small selection of academic papers and talks published or given by Prof. Armatage throughout her career. Files can contain edited typescripts, correspondence, e-mail and readers’ reports. There are two files of her published reviews and a file with copies of some of her magazine contributions. Additionally, there are records relating to her book The Girl From God’s Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 2003). These include research notes, correspondence and a copy of the manuscript.

Notebooks contain mainly analysis of films reviewed by Prof. Armatage in her capacity as a programmer and curator of the Toronto International Film Festival. There are also some notes relating to meetings and appointments. The notebook in B2012-0002 is largely related to her administrative activities at Innis College between 2010 and 2011.

These files contain comments by Prof. Armatage on students’ essays and assignments. These are fairly extensive and document her approach to teaching her subject matter. Files are arranged by course number. Also included are three files of letters of recommendation for students and colleagues filed chronologically.

This series consists of course files that can contain lectures, course outlines, assignments, and reading lists. It documents Prof. Armatage’s approach to the teaching of both Women’s Studies and Cinema Studies in the early years as they were emerging into disciplines of study and research.

Files in B2005-0012 focus on teaching in the 1970s. For these early courses, except for INI 112Y Introduction to Cinema Studies and NEW 260Y Introduction to Women’s Studies, all courses were developed and taught solely by Prof. Armatage.

Files in B2009-0020 relate exclusively to courses she taught in Cinema Studies from 1990-2007. This accession also contains subject files used for course lectures, covering various topics in film studies. These files contain lecture notes and outlines to lectures and are arranged alphabetically by topic.

Files in B2012-0002 focus on two courses she taught in Cinema Studies from 2006-2010, INI 323 Feminist Approaches to Cinema and INI 484 International Film Festivals. This accession also contains several subject files used for course lectures, covering various topics in film studies. These files contain lecture notes as well as teaching resources published by the British Film Institute, and are arranged alphabetically by topic.

This fonds documents various facets of Prof. Armatage’s career as a filmmaker, senior programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival, and a professor of Cinema Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Toronto. The academic activity files in Series 1 give an overview of the breadth of her interests, achievements and promotions. Lecture notes and other course materials in Series 2, along with comments on student works found in Series 3, document her teaching role. These will be especially useful to researchers interested in understanding the early beginnings of both women studies and cinema studies and how these developing academic disciplines were being taught to students. Prof. Armatage’s role as a programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival is documented in her extensive notes found in notebooks where she recorded critiques of films she was screening. These are found in Series 4. The extent of her filmmaking is documented in Series 7 and contains preserved original film elements to several of Prof. Armatage’s films, along with a limited amount of related documentation on the making of these films. Unfortunately, this fonds does not contain release prints for these titles.

This fonds has only a small amount of records relating to her published academic works as well as files relating to conferences she organized and associations in which she was active. These can be found in Series 5 and Series 6.

Fonds consists of textual, photographic, and electronic records created by Joseph Boyle over the course of his academic career as a student, professor, principal, and philosopher. Records include published works, school files, reviews and annotations of peer’s work, research/reference notes on articles and works of interest, unpublished drafts, personal materials, conference records, and administrative files from his time as Principal of St. Michael’s College.

Digital files from the website https://fierce-waste-3ea.notion.site/Archiving-UC-and-Back-Campus-Black-Walnut-Trees-13c2f815687080869bbce70e33357307 - Counter-Archiving UC and Back Campus' Black Walnut Trees. The project sought to document the stories of the black walnut trees south of Back Campus and north of University College. It includes sound recordings, photographs, videos, interviews, essays, and research notes.

The project was for the course ENG482H1: Advanced Studies Seminar – Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities and was a winner of the U of T Libraries Patricia and Peter Shannon Wilson Undergraduate Research Prize in 2025.

B2008-0023 consists almost entirely of electronic documents arranged by course number. Most folders contain, course syllabus giving outlines, bibliography, tests, assignments. There is also related correspondence and memos. Only Course Pol 103 contains original lectures. It also contains one box of textual records relating to Pol 315 which does contain original lecture notes as well as documents relating to the course’s development. Also included is one file of notes for a course Rayside took in 1977 with C.B. MacPherson - Pol. 200. Taking such a course as a new professor was preparatory to his teaching role.

B2013-0015 contains almost exclusively original lecture notes, with some syllabi and handouts, for the courses listed below.

B2017-0024 contains lecture notes as well as course outlines and syllabus for Pol 315 Sexual Diversity Politics (2010-2011) and lectures for Pol 364 Religion and Politics (2008-2012).

B2023-0032 contains two VHS tapes of anti-gay propaganda used by Rayside in teaching his course(s) on sexual diversity: The Gay Agenda (1992), Ballot Measure 9 (1995).

Courses documented include:
-Pol 100 [can’t find title]
-Pol 103 - Canada in Comparative Context
-Pol 222 - Elites & Political Leadership
-Pol 302 - Western European Politics
-Pol 311 - Canadian Political Parties
-Pol 315 - Sexual Diversity Politics
-Pol 344 - Social Movements in Europe and North America
-Pol 364 - Religion and Politics
-Pol 435 - [can’t find title]
-Pol 2100 - Canadian Politics
-Pol 2300 - Comparative Politics
-Pol 2810 - The Politics of Diversity: A Research Seminar

The records in this series from B2008-0023 document many articles and papers published by Rayside from 1977 to 2002. The topics range from his early interest and research on federalism and small towns to his extensive research on gay rights and gender equality for which he is now so well known. Arranged chronologically, most files contain correspondence and draft typescripts and some also contain research notes and reader’s comments. There are also some interview transcripts and notes for Prof. Rayside’s article “Gay Rights and Family Values: The Passage of Bill 7 in Ontario” (1987) as well as for a series of articles written in the early 1990s on AIDS in Canada with Evert Lindquist. Most published reviews written by Rayside from 1979 to 1994 are amassed in one folder. Note that many records in this series are electronic. Also included are cassette recordings of some of his talks and public appearances.

Records from B2013-0015 document Rayside’s published peer-reviewed articles, chapters in books, encyclopedia entries, magazine and newspaper articles and reviews. Topics for these records focus mainly on gay rights and gender equity. Sub-topics include marriage, parenting and workplace safety.

Records from B2017-0024 includes assessments done by Rayside for refereed papers 2013-2017. There are also drafts for papers Employment Equity written with Gerry Hunt and The Inadequate Recognition of Sexual Diversity published in in the Journal of Canadian Studies. Records also document his contributions to two books Queering Ontario (UBC Press, 2012 ?)and After Marriage Equality: the Future of LGBT Rights (NYU Press 2015) Finally there are two files relating to his contribution to Who’s Who in Gay and Lesbian History (Sidney’s Biographies), 1999-2006.

This series extensively documents the publishing of books researched, written and/or edited by Prof. Rayside. For each of his published monographs, there exist manuscripts of the book at various stages of writing as well as manuscripts of related talks or papers. His ongoing relationship with publishers and grant providers is documented in correspondence, progress reports and grant applications. There is also extensive research documentation in the form of notes, transcripts of interviews and original recordings of interviewees.

The records in this series from B2008-0023 document Prof. Rayside’s roles as both a mentor to students and colleagues, as well as his role as a peer reviewer. This series consists of letters of recommendation written for students applying to scholarships, graduate schools, and employment. The correspondence covers the period from 1974 to 1995 and is grouped alphabetically. A second set of files including electronic files contain mainly reviews and evaluations. They include: letters of support for grant applications, awards, tenure and promotion; reader’s reports for peer review journals such as the Canadian Journal of Political Science as well as reviews of monographs and articles for various publishers; evaluations for both teaching assistants and Ph.D. students; and comments and evaluation for proposed research projects by peers.

The records in this series from B2013-0015 contain material documenting his academic staffing and promotions recommendations, his grant reviews, letters of recommendation he has written for students, research assessments, and research reviews as well as person or publication-specific files.

B2023-0032 includes one file of letters of reference, 2 files of assessments and reference and recommendations for specific colleagues including Juan Marsiaj, Paul Thomas, Jerald Sabin and Rob Vipond.

Records in this series mainly document Prof. Rayside’s activities in the American Political Science Association (1989-2006) including its council, the Gay and Lesbian caucus, and to the greatest extent his activities on the committee on the Status of Lesbians and Gays in the Profession. Includes questionnaires for surveys, results, reports, and correspondence.

Records in B2008-0023 span 1982-2006 and also include one file each on the Canadian Political Science Association (1982-83) and the Canadian Association of University Teachers (1993).

The records in B2013-0015 document only his involvement in the American Political Science Association and the Canadian Political Science Association between 1999 and 2012.

One file on the CPSA Diversity Task Force (2104) was acquired in accession B2017-0024.

Throughout his teaching career at the University of Toronto, Prof. Rayside has been an advocate on gay, lesbian and feminist issues. His university advocacy activities are numerous. Between 1985 and 1987, he served on the Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women, University of Toronto. Prof. Rayside was also a Member of the Sexual Harassment Hearing Panel, University of Toronto, 1988-1992. In this capacity, he heard the first case under the new Sexual Harassment Policy, Torfason vs. Hummel. He was a founding member and coordinator of the Committee on Homophobia from 1989-1991 and remained a member until 1994. In addition, between 1989 and 1994, Prof. Rayside was a member of the Men’s Forum. He also served on the Teach-In Committee and was responsible for organising a university-wide teach-in on sexism and violence against women in 1990. Prof. Rayside also participated on the Ad hoc crisis team to handle the case of a U. of T. residence student with AIDS, 1991-1992, and helped prepare a discussion of report on university AIDS policy. He also assisted in the organisation of the “Queer Sites: Studies in Lesbian and Gay Culture” Conference in 1993.

Records in this series document Prof. Rayside’s advocacy activities and leadership on equity issues relating to gender and sexual orientation. Types of records include: correspondence, reports, briefs, notes, meeting minutes, programmes, and conference posters.

Committees documented in B1998-0029 are: Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women; Ad hoc crisis team to handle the case of a U. of T. residence student with AIDS; Men’s Forum, Queer Sites Conference Organising Committee; Sexual Harassment Hearing Panel; and Teach-In Committee.

Groups or committees documented in B2008-0023 include: Committee on Homophobia, Men’s Forum, Positive Space Campaign, Lesbian and Gay Academic Society, Toronto Centre for Gay and Lesbian Studies, Working Group on Policy Issues (response to homelessness) and the Equity Committee for the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences. Other files generally document Rayside’s involvement on issues of pay equity, diversity, human rights as well a gay and lesbian rights. There are two files that document the Bent on Change conferences in 2000 and 2002 of which Rayside was a key organizer. Finally, filed separately because of restrictions are two files documenting Rayside’s legal challenges against councillor Betty Disero over election funding.

Groups or committees documented in B2013-0015 include the Bill 7 Coalition, The Body Politic, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Community Research Initiative of Toronto, Free the Press Foundation, Committee on Homophobia, Positive Space Campaign, Right to Privacy Committee, and the Toronto Gay Community Council. There are also select files related to court cases and affidavits Prof. Rayside was involved in, or wrote, and files related to activism carried out within the University of Toronto, as well as his work related to gender issues, including the Hummel case. Files are arranged alphabetically by name of the group, organization, or person they pertain to, and in rare cases, the name of the issue they concern, if no group, organization, or person name is available. This series also contains one file of photographs and one file of artifacts.

B2023-0032 includes files on political loans, Rayside’s involvement in the apology for the 1981 bath raids in Toronto and other political activity around LGBT rights. Some of the files include the Body Politic, Jordon Pederson, Community One Foundation, Egale, Gay North Bay and the LGBT caucus of the Association of Political Science of Canada, and Sexual Studies Association.

This series contain correspondence (printed e-mail) and digital correspondence documenting most aspects of Rayside’s career as a political scientist and activist in the LGBT community. Much of the correspondence in this fonds relates specifically to documentation in other series.

B2008-0023 contains three textual files and born-digital files of general professional correspondence covering a period from 1991-2002. It documents various academic and political issues in which Prof. Rayside was involved.

B2023-0032 contains seven boxes of textual correspondence including correspondence relating to the administrative issues of the University of Toronto, Department of Political Science and the Sexual Diversity Studies. There is also correspondence relating to lesbian and gay issues as well as professional and personal LGBT related files. Finally, there are files for specific individuals, filed alphabetically and correspondence with students.

B2008-0023 consists of resumes, short biographical notes and activity reports documenting Prof. Rayside.

B2013-0015 consists of records from Prof. Rayside’s time as a university student, with most material documenting his undergraduate degree at Carleton University. This series contains correspondence, notes, drafts, submitted essays, press clippings, photographs and application forms documenting both his academic work and his extra-curricular activities including student council, the Political Science Student Union, the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Teaching and Learning and his work on the student residence constitution. Files are arranged chronologically by degree, and by activity within each degree, with academic coursework at the front and extra-curricular activities at the back. There is one file at the beginning of the series containing souvenirs unrelated to his early education.

B2017-0024 includes two short biographies on David Rayside, one of which was a contribution to MyOntario in 2017.

B2023-0032 contains CVs, Activity reports, files on appointments, retirement, honours as well as some files relating to his Ph.D. work at the University of Michigan and an early appointment at Harvard in 1980. Box 003 contains clippings about Rayside, often citing his research and advocacy work as well as his letters to the editor and articles he wrote for the press.

Series consists of 42 loose floppy disks and six hard cases. Contents are dissertations and files submitted to Professor Boyle, personal computer file backups, and at least 30 empty disks.

Series primarily documents Baines’ writing and publication of her nonfiction book Under Sydenham Skies: A Celebration of Country Life (2001). Records consist of a scrapbook encompassing textual and photographic materials covering aspects of the book’s research, publication, and reception. Also included is a file partially related to one of her published articles on mammography. Digital files consist of proofs for her book When I'm Not Here To Tell You, circa 2015-2016.

Sous-fonds consists of Dr. Cornelia Baines’ professional work and writing. Records primarily include textual and photographic records documenting Baines’ involvement in the Canadian National Breast Screening Study (CNBSS or NBSS) and the writing of her book Under Sydenham Skies: A Celebration of Country Life (2001). Please see series descriptions for additional details.