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Fonds consists of manuscript scores written by Keith Bissell, including early unpublished works and music published by the Waterloo Music Company. Fonds also includes Bissell's correspondence with the Waterloo Music Company regarding the publication and engraving of his music. Manuscript scores sent to the Waterloo Music Company include editorial markings from Keith Bissell and Frank Daley.

Records documenting the life and career of Mel Watkins, Professor Emeritus of the Departments of Economics and Political Science at the University of Toronto. Though not a comprehensive account of his life and career, the records nevertheless document Watkins’ active involvement across many groups and organizations, in particular the federal government’s Task Force on the Structure of Canadian Industry and The Waffle and the New Democratic Party. Also includes numerous writings and talks about Canada’s economic history, Harold Innis, and the anti-nuclear movement.

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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.

Records in the fonds were created and collected by members of the Asianadian Resource Workshop in their founding and production of a quarterly magazine titled The Asianadian: An Asian Canadian Magazine.

The fonds consists of two series: Textual records; and Magazine.

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)

This fonds contains 12 accession of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

Fonds consists of the records of the Registrar and Associate Registrar, primarily relating to Victoria College students and student records as well as awards, prizes and scholarships, convocations, registration procedures, baccalaureate services, receptions, counselling, etc. Fonds also consists of material related to the Registrar's work with the Senate. Records include correspondence, annual reports, as well as ephemera and photographs.

Fonds consists of three series: Correspondence/subject files, 1893-2013; Student records, 1837-2008; Photographs.

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.

Collection consists of printed materials including chapbooks, books, bound volumes, broadsides, posters, greeting cards, stationery, advertising materials, and other ephemera. The collection spans Deborah Barnett’s career as a designer, printer, and publisher at Dreadnaught Press, Dreadnaught Design, Someone.ca, and Someone Editions.

Chapbooks and production materials Barnett designed and produced as the College Printer at Kelly Library Print Studio are held in a separate collection, which is currently being processed.

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.

Fonds consists of the following series: Papers relating to Victoria University/University of Toronto, 1959–1998; General correspondence, 1951–1996; Papers relating to education and early employment, 1933–1984; Papers relating to literary activities, 1948–1992; and Personal papers/memorabilia, 1933–1997.

This fonds contains photographs taken by Terry Gadsden at the Toronto Pop concert in 1969, as well as some press clippings and promotional materials.
The fonds includes the following 5 series:
Series 01: Photographic Prints – This series contains prints, predominantly taken at the Toronto Pop concert, 1969.
Series 02: Press Clippings – This series contains a press clipping from After Four.
Series 03: Promotional Materials – Newsprint full page ad and a hit parade list.
Series 04: Notes – Terry Gadsden’s notes on the Toronto Pop photos.
Series 05: Digital files – This series contains digital scans of the Toronto Pop photos.

This fonds documents the career of Bruce Kidd as an academic, educator, athlete, and activist. In most aspects of his career, his research, writing, and advocacy work were intertwined. This, in turn, was reflected in his role as an educator and University administrator. Areas of expertise reflected in this fonds include: Canadian sport history, the history of physical education and fitness, Canadian and international sport policy including sport for development and peace, athletes’ rights, and issues around gender and sport. Extensive records also give evidence to his leadership in the anti-apartheid movement in Canada and internationally as it related to sports. Kidd’s active work and research on the Olympics and the Olympic movement are also well documented including his involvement in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and both the 1996 and 2008 Olympic bids for Toronto. His role as a university administrator is documented in related university records of the Faculty of Physical Education and Health, Hart House and Scarborough College which are not found in this fonds. However, there is some documentation of university committees and activities in which he was involved as a faculty member.

This fonds also documents his early rise to stardom as a mid-distance runner in the 1960s, as well as his early activities as a young man post the 1964 Tokyo Olympics including his stint as a journalist and continued contribution of mass media, his time as teacher in India and his political activities in the NDP and Waffle movement. Personal correspondence and some family records document his relationship with his family especially in this early period of his life.

Records in the fonds were created and collected by members of the Jai family in their personal and family lives which developed around their deep practice and love for Cantonese opera and traditional Chinese music. Records reflect their use and command of the art forms to build early Chinese identity, family, community and culture in Canada, with a focus on Toronto and Vancouver.

The fonds consists of four series arranged by record type: Photographs; Textual records; Recordings; and Artifacts.

Many records are thematically interrelated across the four series and between files.

This archives contains the life's works of Chan Kiu photojournalism careers in the late 1950s to 1980s. His records captured key moments in Hong Kong's history and his personal interest in sports news. Other than silver gelatin and chromogenic print, there are extensive amount of original negatives in the archives. His archives also include speeches, display photos, and documents of the many exhibitions he had held. There are also his personal documents that tell about the progression of personal life, honours received, and late retirement in Vancouver.

This archive consists of documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, publications, reference materials, audio-visual materials, and digital files created and collected by the donor. The records document the functions and impacts of the HKFCW on promoting women rights, and supporting education and socio-economical needs of women in Hong Kong from 1980s to 2020s. They also offer valuable insights into the changing perspectives about sex, family, and equality in a city sitauted in the frontier between the East and the West. This accession also includes records of the HKCW, the parent organization of HKFCW; and records of Hong Kong Homemaker Alliance, a subsidiary of HKFWC.

This archives comprises paintings and photographs that are artistic representation of social current of Hong Kong in 2014. It illustrated the look of the city and the mentality of its people at the time, through the artistic lens of Tammy as an expat in Hong Kong.

This archives document three important aspect of Stanley Kwan's life. It includes materials from his banking career in Hang Seng Bank, introducing to the development of Hang Seng Index and Hang Seng Consumer Price Index. As he retired, he dedicated himself into writing history. His two books 七十年來家國: 一個老香港的回憶 and The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong Memoirs both had a launch at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library. With this association, his archives also include the full publication records, including drafts, research materials, manuscripts, correspondence with publisher, and book launch documents. Also included are his personal records and papers written that tell about his perspectives in life and connecting with the rest of the Hong Kong and Chinese Canadian community.

This archives contain the records of Sir Kan in his capacity of Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils, Trade Development Council, and chairman of Bank of East Asia. There are original documents created for the business of his office, and correspondence with dignitaries in light of social policies, Hong Kong's prospect in light of the 1997 handover, and trading situations. In particular there are handwritten letters from governor Murray MacLehose and David Trench. The archives also includes large amount of photographs taken during trade missions led by Sir Kan around the world. Sir Kan has a habit of collecting newspapers about his works, which makes up most of the textual records in this archives as well.

This archives contains the textual and photographic memories of the institutional history of the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library. Records available now are those related to the Canada-Hong Kong Resource Centre. In four series, the the records document the administration, operation, collection developmentl, and location move of The centre.

Includes research materials, newspaper clippings, and documents that are about Bernard Luk career and reserach interest. There are also extensive materials created during the Canada-Hong Kong Project.

This collection comprises the documents and publication that discussed the futurity of Hong Kong and its political constitutions. Society members were concerned about the Basic Law, representation, and the wellbeing of the society in light of 1997 handover. There are also records documenting Society members' participation in local elections.

This archives includes the cocrespondence between David Hui and his acquitance in the literary circle, manuscripts, personal artistic collections, and some of his caligraphies and paintings.

This fonds contains 4 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

The fonds covers aspects of Prof. James Estes’ professional and academic career. Material includes the unpublished text of The Next Twenty Years, a supplement to Prof. Estes’ published book, The First Forty Years: A Brief History of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 1964-2004. His teaching career is represented by the lecture notes for three courses: Early Modern Europe to 1648; the German Reformation; and the Thirty Years War. Three files focus Estes’ service on UTFA Council in 2000-2002, covering controversies over the disposition of surplus funds in the University Pension Plan, revisions to the UTFA constitution and the status of retirees in the Association, the defence of medical researcher Nancy Olivieri, and the contested presidential election between Rhonda Love and George Luste. Estes’ scholarly career is represented by a copy of his curriculum vitae, which includes a complete list of his major publications. Finally, PDFs of several letters to the editor capture Prof. Estes’ commentary on issues including the relationship between research and teaching, academic tenure, and gendered language.

Accession B1974-0052: Records of Walter John McGill McInnes: admission to lectures cards for courses at the Toronto School of Medicine and University College, 1861-1862; petition to the University of Toronto Senate re the candidacy for matriculation and letter of permission granting same, 1862; British citizenship and residency of the Province of Canada certificate, 1864; notebook, principally on medical remedies (earliest recorded date is 1871, latest is 1910); obituary, 1919.

Accession B2019-0043: Norman Walter McInnes' admission to lectures cards and receipts for courses in medicine at University of Toronto in medicine, 1893-1897.

This fonds contains 6 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

Consists of academic, professional and personal correspondence; course and seminar content; unpublished papers; poetry; and daily journals with annotated clippings from contemporary newspapers and magazines. Also includes one photo of a gravestone marked Sloane, a bible, and a metal cross.

Records consist of 4 bankers boxes and 1 small Hollinger box of textual administrative records of The UofT Faculty of Arts and Science Department of Classics operations dating from 1968-2016. Records types include a Department Constitutions (1975 and 1997), Curriculum Committee, Modern Greek Program, and General Departmental meeting minutes, syllabi and marking schemes, exams forms (1977-2008), program planning including Study Elsewhere, Ontario Secondary Schools, Double cohort, UofT Day, Advanced Placement, and Research Opportunity programs. Also includes ROSI new student information system orientation materials, plans for the Department of Classics relocation to 97 St. George Street, and handwritten minute books ca. 1978-1986.

This fonds contains 3 accessions. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

This fonds contains writing and photographs by Lenny Stoute. Stoute wrote about music, travel, and nightlife for countless newspapers and magazines as well as fiction which he self-published.
The fonds includes the following 7 series:
Series 01: Press Clippings – This series contains clippings of articles by Lenny Stoute from a variety of newspapers and magazines where Stoute’s work was published.
Series 02: Promotional Materials – This series contains some press releases for performers and branded folders for press kits. Stoute stored his articles in these.
Series 03: Writing Drafts – This series contains rough drafts of Stoute’s articles and fiction writing. Many of the drafts have hand-written revisions on them.
Series 04: Photographs – This series contains photos of musicians and of travel locations.
Series 05: Art – This series contains art postcards and that Stoute collected as well as some of his doodles.
Series 06: Published material – This series contains a commercial cd in which Stoute wrote some of the lyics and Stoute’s self-published books.
Series 7: Miscellaneous – This series contains notes, resumes and other papers.

Records in the fonds were created and collected by David Lai in his teaching and research capacity based in Victoria, British Columbia. Records relate to his 35-year tenure at the University of Victoria which spanned research and teaching on the geography of China, Hong Kong, and other Pacific Rim countries.

Records relate to Lai’s research and heritage conservation efforts that spanned North American Chinatowns as overseas Chinese communities. Records reflect a focus on Victoria’s Chinatown and other Chinese Canadian communities as products of emigration and immigration.

A series relates to Lai's award recognitions and publishing (i.e. his CV).

A series relates to Lai's research on Asian-themed malls and their development in the Greater Vancouver (Richmond) and Greater Toronto areas in the late-1990s.

The fonds consists of records associated with Claire Pratt’s career as writer and artist, in addition to family records. Fonds is arranged into four series:

Series 1: Personal Materials
Series 2: Writings, Research, and Editorial Files
Series 3: Pratt Family Records
Series 4: Art and Poetry

This fonds contains 10 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

Fonds consists of the following series: Correspondence, 1886-2013; Subject/correspondence files of the Librarian, 1877-2008; Acquisition records, 1877-2007; Records concerning building Birge Carnegie Library, 1907-1911; Records of Victoria University bodies, 1896-2005; Exhibitions records, 1938-2012; Annual reports and other records, 1878-2008; Records relating to the CRRS; Records of Friends of the Library, 1983-2011; Library Personnel Files, 1945-2004; Photographs, ca. 1909-2013.

This fonds contains 1 accession of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

Fonds consists primarily of manuscript scores and parts for music written, arranged, and orchestrated by Phil Nimmons. Materials also include annotated scripts, manuscript scores, and parts for incidental music that Nimmons wrote for various Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio and television productions; manuscript scores and parts for ensembles that Nimmons led, including Nimmons 'N' Nine, its expanded version Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six, jazz orchestras at the University of Toronto, and the Nimmons Jazz Quartet; and manuscript scores and parts for various other ensembles.

Fonds consists of records documenting the professional and personal life of Prof. Hassanpour, Kurdish-Iranian Marxist scholar and Professor at UofT’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. Material reflects key areas of Prof. Hassanpour’s research, most significantly Kurdish history and culture; the history of political movements, grassroots organization, and class struggle in Iran, Iraq and Turkey; and communication theory and sociolinguistics. Material includes correspondence with colleagues and scholars internationally, documentation of research with particular focus on Prof. Hassanpour’s dissertation and his Peasant Movement Project, records relating to conference presentations, interviews, and teaching, as well as his publishing activity.

Prof. Hassanpour was deeply invested in the preservation of Kurdish oral, visual, and textual documentary heritage as a response to the historical state suppression of cultural-political struggle of Kurdish people. Reflected in records throughout the fonds is Prof. Hassanpour’s work in pursuing the establishment of Kurdish Studies as a discipline, his work editing journals related to Kurdistan, and his effort in exposing and circulating books on Kurdish Studies to libraries and research institutions internationally. Prof. Hassanpour also actively collected and preserved Kurdish texts, dailies, and visual materials. This material is included in Series 9 (Reference material) and through bibliographic and audio material held in other repositories at the University of Toronto Libraries (please see the related material note below).

This fonds contains photographic work that was published in various periodicals. It predominately contains photos from NOW Magazine but also contains photos published in Quill & Quire as well as Laurence’s promotional materials.
The fonds includes the following 6 series:
Series 01: Contact Sheets and Negatives – Each folder documents a photo assignment for NOW Magazine. Most have contact sheets and negatives. Some of the folders also contain prints, colour transparencies, and textual materials like notes.
Series 02: NOW Tear Sheets – This series contains the finished article which Laurence’s photos appeared in.
Series 03: Photo Seconds – This series contains prints of Laurence’s NOW photos.
Series 04: 35mm Colour Transparencies – This series is comprised of 35mm transparencies for Laurence’s colour photographs in NOW Magazine.
Series 05: Promotional Materials – This series contains promotional items like postcards that Laurence created to promote his photography.
Series 06: Full Magazines – This series is made up of full magazines issues. Laurence shot the cover images in all of these.
Series 07: B&W transparencies - This series is made up of b&w transparencies from an exhibit at the Jane Corkin Gallery.

Fonds consists of the governance, administrative, and personnel records for the community of the Sisters of Service. This includes reports, financial records, meeting minutes, policies, General Chapter records, operational correspondence, publications by and about the SOS, photographic materials, audiovisual materials, personal records of Sisters, and a collection of artifacts and memorabilia related to the SOS.

In addition to records of the SOS members and co-foundress, Sister Catherine Donnelly, the fond also contains records of its priestly co-founders, Archbishop Neil McNeil, Rev. Arthur Coughlan, CSsR, and Rev. George Daly, CSsR.

The Fonds is divided into the following series:

1. Founding
2. Governance and Administration
3. General Chapters
4. Motherhouse
5. Novitiate, Formation, Vocations
6. Missions
7. Personnel
8. Writings
9. Catechetics and Religious Education
10. Photograph and Slide Collection
11. Audio Visual Collection
12. Artifacts and Memorabilia

Photocopies of Houselander's work and correspondence, research on Houselander, audio interviews with her associates, drawings, photographs, pamphlets, and books.

This fonds contains records in the form of published articles, lecture notes and memorabilia documenting Les Green’s career as a computer programmer. There is also correspondence, typescript, poems and notes documenting his friendship and collaboration with poet Raymond Souster. It also contains a detailed account and slides of a four-month expedition on Salmon Glacier led by Tuzo Wilson in 1956.

This fonds contains 56 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

Fonds consists of the following series: Records relating to teaching, 1987-2003; Records relating to writing, 1989-2001; and Records relating to professional activities, 1983-2003.

This accession includes professional files related to Glynis E.C. Barnes’s bookselling business, including material related to books sold, books purchased, index cards, and catalogues.

Fonds consists of material produced by the Marketing and Communications department at the University of Toronto Scarborough. The fonds consists of publications used to promote UTSC and its programs or services, anniversary planning files, memorabilia, building opening materials, news clippings, and other files.