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University of Toronto

This series contains items ranging from University College class reunions to the University of Toronto Overseas Training Company’s “Record of Service” book that Malcolm Wallace compiled while second-in-command of the Company during World War I. There are also files on retirements (William John Alexander), College fees and scholarships, articles about Toronto and U of T history, and Wallace’s copies of publications about King’s College, the University of Toronto Act, the Victoria Club’s curling manual.

Correspondence

The correspondents in this series number just under four hundred individuals, of whom sixty-two read and commented on the entire manuscript (these names are listed on page 723 of the 2002 hardcover edition). The correspondents include Professor Friedland’s research assistants, archivists in the University of Toronto Archives, officials and editors at the University of Toronto Press, other editors, writers and independent researchers with an interest in the University’s history, and members of the public that Professor Friedland met in the course of his research and his giving of talks about the history of the University. The majority of the correspondents are academics and administrative personnel at the University of Toronto and elsewhere who were asked for information or offered their expertise. Some of the correspondence is post-publication reaction to the book.

The research assistants (in addition to those listed in Series I), are Sara Burke, David Bronskill, Colin Grey, Graham Rawlinson and Katrina Wyman. Of the staff in the University of Toronto Archives, Harold Averill was seconded part-time to the project to direct the researchers to the appropriate sources in the University Archives, to offer his knowledge of the history of the University and to read the manuscript. Other correspondents from the Archives are Garron Wells (University Archivist), Marnee Gamble (special media archivist) and Loryl MacDonald (administrative records archivist). The University of Toronto Press, the publisher of the book, is represented by Val Cooke, Ani Deyirmenjian, Malgosia Halliop, Bill Harnum, Anne Laughlin,
Melissa Pitts, and Ron Schoeffel. Presidents (past and current) of the University represented are: Robert Birgeneau, Claude Bissell, George Connell, Robert Prichard, and David Strangway. Some of the academics and university administrators forwarded drafts of articles or excerpts from books they were writing, while others commented on the manuscript or portions thereof. Papers or lengthy memoranda and reports are present on a cross-section of activities, disciplines themes and individuals relating to the University including (with the names of the correspondents in brackets). They include the admission of women (Sara Burke), botanical gardens (John Court), chemistry (Susanne McClelland), Connaught Laboratories (George Connell), engineering (Richard White), fees policy (David Stager), gays and lesbians (David Rayside), Jacob Hirschfelder (Sheldon J. Godfrey), Margaret Eaton School (John Byl), history of medicine (Jacalyn Duffin), medicine (David Bronskill), No. 4 General Hospital at Salonika, Greece during World War I (Mary Louise Gaby), philosophy (John Slater), the proposed Wolfe’s University (D. V. Anderson), women (Katrina Wyman), and women in graduate studies (Natalie Zemon Davis).

In addition to letters, the files may contain articles, notes, memoranda, background documents and publications, and the occasional press clipping A few of the files contain historical items, dating back to 1887, that had belonged early graduates and were forwarded by their descendants, Professor Friedland’s correspondents. The detailed comments on the drafts of the book by the correspondents in this series may, for the most part, be found in Series 4.

Personal and Family

This series documents some of Professor Friedland’s personal and family activities, some partially covered in accession B2002-0023 and some not. Some of the material (birth certificate, old wills and passports, entries for Who’s Who and like publications) provide an overview of Professor Friedland’s activities at various times in his life. The files on his Toronto residences and his cottage (originally owned by W.P.M. Kennedy) document one aspect of the upward mobility of a prominent academic and writer. There is memorabilia in the form of selected greeting cards and files on trips taken over fifty years provide some insights on cultural and intellectual influences. Material on Arts and Law reunions and anniversaries at the University of Toronto, Cambridge University, and elsewhere provide additional comparisons of “then” and “now”.

The correspondence with members of Professor Friedland’s extended family focus on family affairs generally and on personal lives, including professional achievements and social activities, births, weddings and deaths. The most substantial files related to his children, Tom, Jennifer and Nancy, and his mother, Mina, who died in 2000. The large number of photographs provides visual documentation of the family spanning a century.

The files contain correspondence, appointment books, addresses, certificates and programmes, greeting cards and other memorabilia, legal documents, a memoir, notes, flyers, passports.. The records are grouped by activity and arranged, in the case of most of the correspondence, by the name of the family member to which it refers.

Sheet music collection

Series consists of annotated sheet music and manuscript copies of sheet music in Harry Culley's hand, which were predominantly used for performances by the Black and White Spotters (Harry and Ida Culley's two-piano, four-hands duo). Many pieces include precise timings, as the Culley's frequently performed on radio shows on CKCL, CFRB, and CBC from the 1930s to 1950s. Series also includes some dance band music used by Harry Culley in his positions as conductor of the Royal York Orchestra (1929-1930) and Music Director at the Royal Alexandra Theatre (1948-1955).

[Piano pedagogy volumes]

Series consists of two volumes (listed below) used by Edith McConica when she was learning, and later teaching, piano. Both volumes are annotated by Edith and her children.

  1. Czerny, Carl. Praktische Fingerübingen für Piano Solo, op. 802, Heft I. Offenbach am Main: Johann André, [1850].
  2. Bilbro, Mathilde. First melody lessons for piano. London, Oakville: The Frederick Harris Co., [193-?].

Education

Omond Solandt attended Mulvey School in Winnipeg from 1915 to November 1920, when his family moved to Toronto. He then attended Rosedale Junior Public School, transferring to Central Technical School in 1922. For his last year of high school he attended Jarvis Collegiate.

He enrolled at the University of Toronto in 1927, as an undergraduate at Victoria College. He graduated with a BA in 1931 with first class honours in biological and medical sciences. Omond

Canadian publications

Series contains the following volumes, listed in alphabetical order by box and author:

Box 1:

  • Ahrens, Cora / Ear training
  • Ahrens, Cora / Rudiments of music
  • Ahrens, Cora / Daily sight playing exercises for piano
  • Baird, Robert / Piano plus!
  • Berlin, Boris; Dubois, Pierre Max / Seven piano pieces: with preparatory exercises /
  • Berlin, Boris; Melecci, Adelmo; / Technical requirements for piano with exercises in ear training and sight reading
  • Berlin, Boris; Mould, Warren / Basics of ear training
  • Butler, Margaret / Children's book for the piano
  • Hutt, Doreen / Piano class teachers manual
  • Hutt, Doreen / Piano class method
  • Kammerer, Hope / The first period at the piano
  • Kennedy, Margery; Kennedy, Peter / Dominion piano book
  • Kennedy, Margery; Kennedy, Peter / Little music maker: the children's own piano book
  • Kirby, Kelly / The Kelly Kirby kindergarten piano method
  • Kirby, Kelly; Kirby, John / Theory and workbook
  • Melecci, Adelmo / Beginners method for the piano: preparatory work leading to grade 1
  • Paul, John B.; Werder, Richard H. / Instruction book / Piano course
  • Saint-Jean, Rene / L'ABC du piano method facile
  • Schaum, John / Piano course
  • Sclater, Molly; Ringhoffer, Joe / Keys to music rudiments: Answers and approaches
  • Vandendool, Grace / Keyboard theory
  • Williams, Edith / Playtime piano method
  • Williams, Edith / Playtime

Box 2:

  • Bentley, Olive / Olive Bentley's piano course
  • Berlin, Boris / Lessons in music writing: graded theory papers for piano students
  • Berlin, Boris / Hanon: revised edition
  • Berlin, Boris / ABC of piano playing: an easy method for beginners
  • Berlin, Boris / Daily exercises for piano students / Four star sight reading and ear tests
  • Berlin, Boris / Four Star sight reading for piano students: daily exercises based on the requirements
  • Berlin, Boris / Daily exercises / Four star sight reading
  • Berlin, Boris / Pianos on parade
  • Berlin, Boris / Practical hanon and scmitt: 40 exercises from hanon, 40 exercises from schmitt
  • Berlin, Boris / Complete scale and chord book
  • Berlin, Boris / Essential daily exercises for piano
  • Berlin, Boris / Musical kindergarten piano method
  • Berlin, Boris / O Canada! And God save the Queen
  • Berlin, Boris; Champagne, Claude / Practical sight reading exercises for piano students
  • Berlin, Boris; Magee, Edward / Four star sight reading
  • Berlin, Boris; Markow, Andrew; Smith ,Scott McBride / Daily exercises for piano students ; Four star sight reading and ear tests
  • Berlin, Boris; Melecci, Adelmo / A piano textbook for adults
  • Berlin, Boris; Mould, Warren / Rhythmic tests for sightreading
  • Berlin, Boris; Sclater, Molly; Sinclair, Kathryn / Keys to music rudiments
  • Blake, Jessie; Capp, Hilda / Making music: a piano book for beginners
  • Blake, Jessie; Capp, Hilda / First grade piano pieces
  • Blake, Jessie; Capp, Hilda / Writing music
  • Blake, Jessie; Capp, Hilda / Christmas Carols
  • Brelin, Boris; Macmillan, Ernest / The new modern piano student
  • Brown, Margaret Miller; Shore, Mary Mackinnon / Piano hand book
  • Eckstein, Maxwell / Let us have music for piano
  • Graham, J. Lascelles / Music made easy
  • Harris, C.L.M / Scales, chords and arpeggios
  • Humber, Lorraine Muter / My merry music book
  • Kennedy, Peter / Hand-building technic and studies
  • Loth, John Ferris / 20 lessons on counting time / Loth theory series
  • Loth, John Ferris / Piano play for every day
  • Lovett, Chris / Recreational keyboard course for piano and organ
  • Moy, Edgar / 60 writing lessons in musical theory
  • Picha, Helen / Piano: for advanced beginners individual and class instruction
  • Picha, Helen / Theory workbook for beginners: individual and class instruction
  • Picha, Zdenka / Method for all beginners
  • Wanless, Debra / Performance fun
  • Warner, Jean / Brief technique ; Warner piano series ; A series of graded piano solos ; Festival Harris series ; New piano series ; Local examination in music: Primary pianoforte examination, technical work

Biographical and personal files

This series is divided into two sections. The first contains biographical sketches and curriculum vitae, press clippings and articles about Dr. Solandt, along with photocopies of his birth certificate and copies of his will and that of his first wife, Elizabeth. There is correspondence with Elizabeth regarding their marriage, with relatives and friends, and relating to appointments. Also present is a cash book detailing personal expenses between 1923 and 1946, a diary of Dr. Solandt’s first trip to Europe in 1929.

The first portion of this series concludes with the programme for the Solandt Symposium on Organizing and Managing the Practical Application of Science to Problems in Peace and War (Queen’s University at Kingston, 1994), programs for dinners of the Royal Canadian Engineers 3rd Field Engineer Regiment and the Royal Canadian Signals 11th Signal Regiment, a presentation copy of Donald Y. Solandt’s Highways to Health, and a resolution by Donald M. Solandt (Omond and Donald’s father) to the Presbyterian Synod of Manitoba in 1915.

The second section of this series consists of diaries and daybooks (largely the latter), beginning with an account of Dr. Solandt’s trip to Europe in the summer of 1929 while he was an undergraduate at the University of Toronto. Dr. Solandt kept only the occasional diary, of which three are represented in this series. The first is for May, 1945 as the war ended in Europe. The last two both cover his trip to Japan in October-December, 1945 to study the effects of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These diaries are followed by "CDRB's U.K. Visit" (undated); an account book of Solandt's visit to the United Kingdom in November, 1966, and his American address book.

The remainder of the volumes in this series are daybooks and “pocket diaries”, of which Dr. Solandt created a large number. In the former, usually with the manufacturer’s label of as “diary” or “date book”, he recorded his appointments and, occasionally, his expenses and other related notations. These date from 1941, when he first went to Lulworth, to 1988. The volumes for 1945, 1947,1948, 1957, 1958, 1979, and 1986 are absent, either because they were never kept or, perhaps, were not written up in the same manner. For 1945, for instance, there are entries for January, June, and July in two different volumes, but none for the whole year. For two years (1956; 1971, where the second volume has "Mayo Muir" below Dr. Solandt's name and the entries are not in his hand) there are two volumes.

The "pocket diaries" complement the appointment books. The earliest year represented is 1945, the latest, 1988. There are no volumes for 1948-1951, 1953, 1957, and 1959-1965. For 1958, there are also two volumes containing notes on Dr. Solandt's European trip in March and appointments for another in July, and "at a glance" volumes both for 1958 and 1959.

For accounts of travel experiences, either for pleasure or work, see Series 11: Canoe trips and Series 13: Travel.

International publications

Series contains the following volumes, listed alphabetically by box and author:

Box 3:

  • Brady, Helen / A first book for rhythm band
  • Brimhall, John / Piano power: the beginners handbook
  • Brimhall, John / The primer to the piano method: Introduction to John Brimall
  • Brimhall, John / The John Brimhall piano method
  • Richter, Ada / Piano course
  • Richter, Ada / Stick-a-note book
  • Richter, Ada / Nutcracker suite: a story with music for piano
  • Richter, Ada / My first notebook: first lessons in theory with musigraph
  • Richter, Ada / Teaching hints: a piano teacher's guide
  • Richter, Ada / Theory Work Sheets
  • Schaum, John / Theory lessons
  • Schaum, John / Harmony lessons
  • Schaum, John / Pedal studies
  • Schaum, John / Octave studies
  • Schaum, John / Pop piano course
  • Schaum, John / Adult piano course
  • Thompson, John / The introduction to piano
  • Thompson, John / Twenty little tunes in etude form for first year piano students
  • Thompson, John / Chord Speller
  • Thompson, John / Note Speller
  • Thompson, John / Scale Speller
  • Thompson, John / Second piano accompaniments
  • Thompson, John / Octave book
  • Thompson, John / Teaching little fingers to play ensemble
  • Thompson, John / Modern course for the piano
  • Thompson, John / Supplementary piano course with melody all the way
  • Thompson, John / Adult preparatory piano book
  • Thompson, John / Theory drill games
  • Thompson, John / Twenty five tuneful etudes in the second grade for the pianoforte
  • Thompson, John Jr. / A tuneful duet album for the first year
  • Thompson, John Jr. / Fifty second grade studies
  • Tompson, John / For left hand alone
  • Williams, John / Graded sight-reading book
  • Williams, John / Piano Book
  • Williams, John / Child's first music book
  • Williams, John / Tunes for tiny tots
  • Williams, John; Turner, Shaylor / Piano book
  • Williams, John; Turners, Shaylor / Sight-reading
  • Williams, John; Turners, Shaylor / Very first piano book
  • Schaum, John / Piano course
  • Thompson, John / Easiest piano course

Box 4:

  • Agay, Dennis / The teaching treasury ; The young pianist's library
  • Auberg, Alfred / Piano course: a complete course of instruction for piano
  • Auberg, Alfred / Note speller
  • Auberg, Alfred / Recital book
  • Bastien, Jane Smisor / Music notebook
  • Bastien, Jane Smisor / Solos for the young pianist
  • Bastien, Jane Smisor / Pop, rock 'n blues ; Music through piano
  • Bittner, Francis / The creatures speak: early keyboard explorations
  • Bradley, Dorothy / First classics: graded piano pieces from the masters
  • Brimhall, John / First popular piano pieces
  • Brugmann, Aline / Fundamentals through music ; Piano music reader
  • Burnham, Edna-Mae / A dozen a day
  • Burnham, Edna-Mae / Theory papers
  • Diller, Angela / Lines and spaces: a music writing book
  • Emerson, De Witt / The masters and their melodies
  • Felton, William / Grown-up beginner's book
  • Glober, David Carr / Playing the piano
  • Glover, David Carr / Piano repertoire ; David Carr Glover piano library
  • Glover, David Carr / Piano student ; David Carr Glover piano library
  • Glover, David Carr / Piano technic ; David Carr Glover piano library
  • Glover, David Carr / Piano theory / David Carr Glover piano library
  • Glover, David Carr / Teacher's guide for David Carr Glover piano library
  • Glover, David Carr / Me and my teacher
  • Glover, David Carr; Garrow, Louise / Piano student
  • Harewood, Marion; Waterman, Fanny / Second year lessons
  • Harewood, Marion; Waterman, Fanny / Second year repetoire
  • Kasschau, Howard / Piano course
  • Levy, Sandra; Siegel, Barbara / Electronic keyboard for kids
  • Marlais, Helen; Althouse, Sue / Suceeding with the masters & festival collection: teachers handbook
  • Milligan, Ralph / A method in popular piano playing
  • Mugellini, Bruno / 23 Easy pieces for piano solo / Kalmus Piano Series
  • Noona, Walter; Noona, Carol / A musical toy box
  • Robyn, Louise / For the piano / The music education series
  • Robyn, Louise / Technic tales
  • Robyn, Louise / Robyn rote-cards
  • Robyn, Louise / Teaching musical notation with picture symbols
  • Roeder, Carl / Liberation and deliberation in piano technique
  • Rovenger, Leopold / Side by side at the piano
  • Shefte, Art / Rapid course in popular music and syncopation for piano
  • Simonds, Jean / Musical theory writing book
  • Small, Allan / Teacher's Choice for the young pianist
  • Sutor, Adele / Sutor's note spelling book
  • Waterman, Fanny; Harewood, Marion / Piano lessons
  • Waxman, Donald / Pageants for piano
  • Weybright, June / Course for pianists
  • Wright, Milo / Five minutes a day

Box 5:

  • Aaron, Michael / Adult piano course
  • Aaron, Michael / Piano primer
  • Bastien, James / Bastien favorites
  • Bastien, James / Piano solos ; Bastien piano library
  • Bastien, James / Piano lessons ; Bastien piano library
  • Bastien, James / Theory lessons ; Bastien piano library
  • Bastien, James / First hanon studies ; Bastien piano library
  • Bastien, James / Note speller ; Bastien piano library
  • Bastien, James / Technic lessons ; Bastien piano library
  • Bastien, James / Major scales and pieces ; Bastien piano library
  • Bastien, James / The older beginner piano course / Bastien older beginner piano library
  • Bastien, James / Piano; Performance / Bastien piano basics
  • Bastien, James; Bastien, Jane Smisor / Piano: 2nd time around
  • Bastien, James; Bastien, Jane Smisor / Piano lessons / Traditional primer
  • Bastien, Jane Smisor / The very young pianist listens and creates
  • Bastien, Jane Smisor / Folk tunes for fun
  • Bastien, Jane Smisor / First pops for piano
  • Bauer, Harold; Diller, Angela; Quaile, Elizabeth / A piano method for class and individual instruction
  • Diller, Angela; Quaile, Elizabeth / Duet book / Solo and duet books for the piano
  • Diller, Angela; Quaile, Elizabeth / Off we go! A book of poetry-pieces for piano
  • Diller, Angela; Quaile, Elizabeth / Solo book / Solo and duet books for the piano
  • Last, Joan / Gymnastics
  • Last, Joan / On the move
  • Last, Joan / Black and white
  • Lovejoy, Add / Chord tricks for pop tunes
  • Marlais, Helen / Write, play, and hear your theory every day
  • Marlais, Helen / Succeeding at the piano
  • Noona, Walter; Noona, Carol / Mainstreams in music
  • Noona, Walter; Noona, Carol / Theory pages / The young pianist's Series
  • Noona, Walter; Noona, Carol / Solo book / The young pianist's Series
  • Noona, Walter; Noona, Carol / Piano book / The young Pianist's Series
  • Noona, Walter; Noona, Carol / Projects / Mainstreams in music: The foundation
  • Noona, Walter; Noona, Carol / Duet performer / Mainstreams in ensemble: The foundation
  • Noona, Walter; Noona, Carol / Pencil and paper / Mainstreams in music: The foundation
  • Noona, Walter; Noona, Carol / The pianist / Mainstreams in music: The foundation
  • Noona, Walter; Noona, Carol / The performer / Mainstreams in music: The foundation
  • Olson, Lynn Freeman; Bianchi, Louise; Blickenstaff, Marvin / Introducing . . . a guide for teachers ; Music pathways
  • Olson, Lynn Freeman; Bianchi, Louise; Blickenstaff, Marvin / Piano lessons that last ; Music pathways
  • Olson, Lynn Freeman; Bianchi, Louise; Blickenstaff, Marvin / Technique ; Music pathways
  • Olson, Lynn Freeman; Bianchi, Louise; Blickenstaff, Marvin / Musicianship ; Music pathways
  • Olson, Lynn Freeman; Bianchi, Louise; Blickenstaff, Marvin / Performance ; Music pathways
  • Pace, Robert / Duets for piano
  • Pace, Robert / Skills and drills ; Music pathways
  • Pace, Robert / Music for piano ; Music pathways

Box 6:

  • Aaron, Michael / The modern approach to piano study ; Piano course
  • Alexander, Dennis / Duet book ; Chord approach for the later beginner
  • Clark, Frances / Piano technic ; Frances Clark library for piano students
  • Clark, Frances / Piano literature ; Frances Clark library for piano students
  • Clark, Frances / Music workbook ; Frances Clark library for piano students
  • Clark, Frances / Contemporary piano literature ; Frances Clark library for piano students
  • Clark, Frances / Look and listen ; Frances Clark library for piano students
  • Fletcher, Leila / Music lessons have begun
  • Fletcher, Leila / The Fletcher theory papers
  • Fletcher, Leila / Piano course
  • Fletcher, Leila / Adult piano course
  • Kowalchyk, Gayle, Lancaster, E.L. / Activity and ear training ; Prep course
  • Olson, Lynn Freeman / Pop! Goes the piano
  • Palmer, Willard; Lethco, Amanda / At the piano ; Creating music
  • Palmer, Willard; Lethco, Amanda / Source book ; Creating music
  • Palmer, Willard; Lethco, Amanda / Teacher's manual ; Creating music
  • Palmer, Willard; Lethco, Amanda / Adult piano course ; Creating music
  • Palmer, Willard; Lethco, Amanda / Theory papers ; Creating music
  • Palmer, Willard; Manus, Morton; Lethco, Amanda Vick / Teacher's guide / Piano
  • Palmer, Willard; Manus, Morton; Lethco, Amanda Vick ; Technic book ; Piano
  • Palmer, Willard; Manus, Morton; Lethco, Amanda Vick ; Lesson book ; Piano
  • Palmer, Willard; Manus, Morton; Lethco, Amanda Vick ; Theory book ; Piano
  • Palmer, Willard; Manus, Morton; Lethco, Amanda Vick ; Solo book ; Prep course
  • Palmer, Willard; Manus, Morton; Lethco, Amanda Vick ; Teacher's guide ; Prep course
  • Palmer, Willard; Manus, Morton; Lethco, Amanda Vick / Basic adult piano course
  • Rodgers, Irene / A second piano book for little Jacks and Jills
  • Shannon, Sue / Performing ; Music starts early
  • Sims, Lee / Modern piano method
  • Spivak, Samuel / 58 tuneful technical studies
  • Swinstead, Felix / Approach to music
  • Wagness, Bernard / Piano course

Box 7:

  • Agay, Dennis / Learning to play piano
  • Anson, George / Pedal patterns
  • Anson, George / Pedal pushers
  • Avsharian, Evelyn / Fun with Basics
  • Avsharian, Evelyn / Fun with rhythm
  • Bastien, Jane Smisor / Walt Disney favorites
  • Binkley, Florence Fender / My music writing book
  • Blake, Dorothy / For beginners / When notes go skipping
  • Bradley, Dorothy / Sight reading made easy
  • Bredt, Alice Verne / The musical pathway
  • Burnam, Edna Mae / Piano course
  • Clark, Mary Elizabeth / Reading and repetoire ; Piano tomorrow
  • Cobb, Hazel / Getting acquainted with the keyboard
  • Cobb, Hazel / Rhythm with rhyme and reason
  • Couperin, Cecile / First lessons for students of the pianoforte
  • Couperin, Cecile / Sight reading and first lessons for the piano student
  • Croft, Dorothy / Violin theory
  • Curwen, J. Spencer / Pianoforte method
  • Diller, Angela / A baker's dozen: thirteen pieces to read at sight with suggestions as to how you do it
  • Eckstein, Maxwell / Junior let us have music for piano
  • Eckstein, Maxwell / Piano course
  • Faber, Nancy; Faber, Randall / Pretime piano classics
  • Fletcher, Leila / Play away piano suites
  • Frost, Berenice / At the piano
  • Frost, Berenice / Beginning at the piano
  • Frost, Berenice / The adult at the piano
  • Frost, Berenice / Companion series for the piano
  • Frost, Berenice / Two players at the piano: a preparatory duet book for beginners
  • Gaynor, Jessie / A method for the piano for little children
  • Hamlin, Alice; Guessford, Margaret / Singing games for children
  • Hirschberg, David / Technic is fun
  • Hirschberg, David / Technic for adults
  • Hofstad, Mildred / The little pianist
  • Johnson, Thomas / Beginners tunes ; Read and play
  • Kennedy, Margery; Kennedy, Peter / Kennedy's first grade piano book
  • Kirby-Mason, Barbara / Tunes for beginners ; Growing up series
  • Lee, Markham / Alice in wonderland: twelve easy duest for pianoforte
  • Levine, Henry / Know your scales
  • N/A / Ten popular marches for the piano
  • Nevin, Mark / Piano sdtudy through melody and musicianship ; Piano course
  • Pace, Robert / Piano series
  • Reever, Grace; Kurtz, Marion / Music fun
  • Treharne, Bryceson / Bach for early grades
  • Ward, Lela Hoover / Sugar and spice rhythms and tunes for beginners
  • Wildman, Charles / Swedish rhapsody

Music used in days of silent film, at Luseland

Series consists of 6 volumes of sheet music used by Edith McConica for silent films in Luseland, Saskatchewan (1920-1928). Includes the following volumes, some of which include McConica's annotations:

  1. Ketèlby, Albert W., A.W. Owen., W. Aletter, F.J. Liftl. New moving picture music. London: Bosworth & Co., Ltd., 1916
  2. Ansell, John. The "Hawkes Photo-Play" Series : Piano Albums, no. 7. London, Paris, Toronto: Hawkes & Son, 1925.
    • no. 37, A street in Algiers
    • no. 38, In Pekin
    • no. 39, Arab dance
    • no. 40, In a Japanese garden
    • no. 41, The Indian juggler
    • no. 42, Egyptian dance
  3. Norton, Harry. [Collection of topical pieces]. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1928.
    • no. 1, Hurry : for general use
    • no. 2, Agitato : for sudden danger, tumult, struggle, etc.
    • no. 4, Mysterioso : for stealthy action, burglary, etc.
    • no. 6, Agitato : for general use
    • no. 8, Hurry : for general use
    • no. 9, Pathétique
    • no. 10, Combat
    • no. 13, Hurry : for general use
    • no. 15, Appassionato : for emotional love scenes
    • no. 17, Dramatic tension
    • no. 19, Doloroso
    • no. 20, Hurry
    • no. 21, Dramatic mysterioso
    • no. 23, Hurry
  4. Kempinski, Leo. A. Incidental symphonies : storm hurry. New York City: Photo Play Music Co., 1922.
  5. [Collection of short pieces, mostly mounted on cardboard].
    • The brownie's frolic, op. 29, no. 2 / F. Flaxington Harker. Theo. Presser Co., 1923
    • A gloomy tale : in characteristic style, op. 85, no. 4 / R. Krentzlin. Theo. Presser Co., 1923
    • Pygmies' midnight frolic / M.L. Preston. Theo. Presser Co., 1924
    • Dance of the goblins / Bert R. Anthony. Theo. Presser Co., 1919
    • The giant and the elf / Aileen Wier [Dortch]. Theo. Presser Co., 1925
    • The dancing bear [Indian theme] / Montague Ewing. [Theo. Presser Co., n.d.]
    • In a haunted cave / Wallace A. Johnson. Theo. Presser Co., 1925
    • Ghosts and goblins / Wallace A. Johnson. Theo. Presser Co., 1925
    • Menuetto in B minor, from op. 78 / F. Schubert. The Etude, November 1926
    • At the movies : the villain / Frank H. Grey. The Etude, February 1927
    • Theme : death and the maiden, quartet in D minor / Franz Schubert. n.p., n.d.
  6. PianOrgan film books of incidental music : extracted from the world famous "Berg" and "Cinema" incidental series. New York: Belwin Inc., 1925.
    • Book of misteriosos
    • Book of furiosos and battle music

Correspondence and biographical

Consists of correspondence with colleagues, publishers, and his wife. Also includes a framed letter from Duncan Campbell Scott, 2 annotated books, educational diplomas and certificates, memoirs, scrapbooks, graduation robes, and various medals.

Education

Series documents McKay’s time as a university student. The physics and chemistry workbook
belongs to his undergraduate years as do the correspondence and clippings regarding his scholarships. Max Planck’s Treatise on Thermodynamics was gifted to McKay when the British Association for the Advancement of Science awarded him a bronze medal. Although the academic hood does not have a date, McKay most likely received it upon earning his Doctorate in 1934.

Personal and biographical

This series contains material relating to Professor Spencer’s birth, childhood and later birthdays; childhood stories, plays, and poems; reunions and other post-graduate activities at McGill University and the University of Oxford; honours received; and files relating to the residences that he had owned. Also present are copies of his curriculum vitae, security documents regarding the Department of External Affairs, and material reflecting his long association with the Canadian military in the form of Remembrance Day ceremonies and VE-Day and other celebrations related to World War II.

Manuscripts and publications

Series contains manuscripts and publications that McKay either wrote or kept in his files. Although the majority of pieces address scientific matters, the series also includes a Junior Prize Essay (“Fathers Versus Sons”) that McKay wrote while still in high school. A number of pieces, including the aforementioned “Fathers Versus Sons,” are to be found in journals or magazines, which have been included in the fonds both so as to preserve context and because many of them are no longer in print. It is worth noting that four of the articles in the series were coauthored, rather than sole-authored, by McKay. These are: “The Decay of Nitrogen Afterglow,”
“”The Decay of the Populations of Metastable Atoms and Ions from the Same D-C. Discharge in Neon,” “Effect of Previous History on Switching Rate in Ferrites,” and “The Hall Effect and Resistivity in Tellurium.” The series also includes McKay’s PhD dissertation, The Measurement of the Dialectric Constant of Electrolytes, and the high school physics textbook he co-authored with D.G. Ivey and which his sister, Marjorie, illustrated.

Publications and addresses

This series documents only one of Davidson Black’s publications, but more of his addresses, in particular some he delivered in 1925 before his discovery of Peking Man, and the Croonian Lecture in December 1932 that cemented the acceptance of his research.

Doctoral research and thesis

This series documents Coxeter’s earliest writings and research while a student at Cambridge. It consists of research notes, a draft paper on Schlafli functions and the manuscript to his “old” thesis entitled Petri Polygons: a New Approach to the Study of Regular Polytopes and Skew Polyhedra. There also is a 1930 offprint from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London and a manuscript of Part II of his post-doctoral thesis. Finally, although it predates his attendance at Cambridge in 1926, a 1924 mathematical notebook has been included in this series.

Publications

This series includes copies of “The Iron Ring”, a private publication for the Camp Wardens, printed as a kind of historical primer and general information circular. There is also a clipping file of publicity concerning the Ritual, correspondence regarding the various publications, and a printed musical score for a composition by Alice Roger Collins, to the text of the poem “The Sons of Martha” by Rudyard Kipling, dedicated to the “engineering profession”.
Accession B1995-0040 includes additional publicity clippings, more recent editions of “The Iron Ring”, a Manual of Camp Procedures and mark ups for a collection of Kipling poems. Accession B2009-0029 includes a copy of the reprinted Twenty Poems by Rudyard Kipling, issue no.8 of “The Iron Ring”, The Manual of Camp Procedure (1988), various articles and publicity concerning the Canadian postage stamp honouring the 75th anniversary of the creation of the Ritual, issued in April 2000.

Manuscripts and publications

The manuscripts and publications in this series form a small representation of Principal Wallace’s literary output, but they do provide a sense of the breadth of his interests and the activities to which he devoted himself after his retirement in 1944.

Frank Buck

The series contains material related to Frank Buck the animal hunter, movie actor, producer, director and author. Material consists of ads, movie stills, books (primarily in comic book style), and trading cards.

Print material

Consists of off-prints and clippings from various journals of book reviews and critical articles by E.K. Brown.

Education

This series contains Professor Peers’ yearbooks, diplomas, dissertations for his MA and PhD as well as other records relating to his education.

Operational research

Dr. Solandt was one of the pioneers in operational research, a new sphere of scientific activity which arose from the particular wartime requirements for solutions to complex questions, some highly technical, and most involving the interaction between men and machines. By 1944 Solandt had become head of the British Army

Education

This series covers Ruth Church’s education at Mount Royal High School; McGill University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Library Science the same day as her future husband, Robert Spencer, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts; her subsequent graduate training in librarianship at the University of London in 1945-1946, and her stint as a special student at the University of Toronto from 1984 to 1986.

Included are certificates, programmes, correspondence, and course papers. Ms. Church’s letters home while a graduate student are replete with accounts of her life in immediate post-war London. At the University of Toronto she was a ‘senior citizen student’, part-time, registered at Woodworth College and taking English 262S (‘Detective fiction’) and English 260 (‘Varieties of Biography‘). Her course papers have been kept.

Addresses

Dr. Solandt delivered many speeches and formal addresses during his career. This series contains notes for and drafts of them and, occasionally, photographs. Some of his addresses were published, especially those delivered at conferences or as memorial lectures; if so, they may appear in the series

University of Cambridge and World War II

Following graduation in medicine from the University of Toronto, Dr. Solandt decided to embark on a career of clinical research in cardiology, using the Ellen Mickle Scholarship. He spent three academic terms in 1936-1937 at the University of Cambridge under the tutilege of Dr. Alan N. Drury, a distinguished researcher in the field of experimental pathology and one of Britain

Correspondence

Except for one file of correspondence from 1989, covering correspondents filed by surname, I through P and filed in accession B1993-0041, all the correspondence in this series is from accession B1994-0020.

This series has large gaps, particularly for the fifteen years following the Second World War and the 1970s. It begins with Dr. Solandt's wartime letters to his family during the Second World War, where letters from March 1943 to October 1944 are absent, followed by a few letters from 1947, 1954, and 1956. The remainder of the correspondence was arranged by Dr. Solandt in several systems. The first covers the years 1963-1986, the arrangement being alphabetical. A few of the files deal with particular organizations: the Commission on Canadian Studies (1974-1976), the National Radiological Protection Board in the United Kingdom (1976-1981), the Vanier Medal Selection Committee (1975) and York University (1976).

The second system, described as "miscellaneous" correspondence, is filed chronologically between 1955 and 1965. The file for 1955-1962 contains relatively few letters and the file for 1965 is his "personal" correspondence file while employed at Hawkker-Siddeley. These are followed by five files for 1970 (arranged alphabetically, A-S), and one for each year from 1980 to 1992 inclusive. There is a 1989 file on unidentified flying objects (UFOs), about which there are in earlier files some letters from the same correspondents.

Biographical and personal records

The series consists of biographical and personal records of Professor Bay. The material reflects his personal life, and includes press clippings, articles, and a thesis about him; personal documents such as educational records; documents of identification; personal papers related to life events (baptism, marriage, home ownership, inheritance, death certificates); calendars and a condolence scrapbook.

The arrangement of the material begins with biographical information (press clippings, biographies, curriculum vitae, referees, work about Bay), then personal papers, followed by what he termed “his personal collection”, consisting of items primarily in Norwegian relating to his family and Norway generally. The most intriguing portion of this “collection” is the folders of “illegal papers” [/002(28) – (30)] that Professor Bay buried when he hurriedly left Norway early in World War II and which he dug up sometime after he returned. There are also books about Norwegian resistance, and two books by his uncle.

Wartime service, World War II

During World War II, Ruth Church served as Base Librarian with the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (Wrens) from September 1943 to October 1945. She was stationed at HMCS Shelburne (September 1943 – July 1944), HMCS Stadacona in Londonderry, Northern Ireland (July 1944 – May 1945), and at HMCS Niobe at Greenock, Scotland (July – October 1945).

The files include her official record of service, correspondence, base librarian reports, newsletters, memorabilia, copies of period newspapers that she annotated, and post-war correspondence, newsletters, and news items relating to the Wren Association of Toronto. The arrangement is largely chronological.

Atomic bomb

In September, 1945 the British Chiefs of Staff were invited by their American counterparts to send a mission to Japan to study the effects of the atomic bomb. Omond Solandt was loaned to the Scientific Advisor to the Army Council in the War Office to go as his representative. He went as a specialist in damage to military installations but, there being none of significance in Hiroshima or Nagasaki, spent most of his time studying the casualties from a medical perspective.

This series includes Dr. Solandt

Defence Research Board

In 1946 Dr. Solandt was called back to Ottawa where he was appointed as Director-General of Defence Research. The following year he was invited to become the founding chair of the Defence Research Board of Canada which was responsible for co-ordinating and directing defence science and research and development for the three armed services.

While most of the records generated by the Defence Research Board are in Ottawa, the correspondence, addresses, press clippings, articles, pamphlets, reports and photoprints (see Series 44) in this series provide a succinct overview of Solandt

Canada House

Ruth Church was employed as the head librarian at Canada House in London from September 1945 to March 1950. She was the first permanent librarian hired by the Canadian High Commission and was tasked with building up the library almost from scratch, while serving the demands of the Canadian diplomatic corps and facilitating the use of the library by Canadians based in or travelling through London and interested members of the public.

She nearly lost her job when she married in 1948, as the Civil Service Commission’s policy was that once married, she would be supported by her husband and therefore would be replaced by an unmarried librarian as soon as possible. She appealed on the basis that she would be supporting her husband while he was a student at Oxford and was allowed to remain on with her full salary and allowances. In April 1949, her contract was renewed for six-months and, on request, for a further six months until 28 February 1950, which was extended to 31 March until her replacement arrived from Canada. During this period she fought back against the Department of External Affairs’ decision to reduce her allowance and the Receiver General’s clawback of portions of her salary. Forty-five years later she publicly objected to the closure of the Library and of Canada House and lived to attend its reopening in 1998.

The files in this series contain correspondence, salary stubs, poetry, reports, a manuscript, and articles.

Press Articles, Clippings

Series includes obituaries, reviews of books by and about Innis, and records relating to his legacy, including special events including symposia, Innis College and Innis centenary events (1994).

Travel

This series documents Professor Spencer’s travels, both for pleasure and for academic and other professional purposes. The first of his trips documented here is to New York City in 1946; the last is to Europe in 2011.

The files contain an assortment of flight information, correspondence, itineraries, invitations, notes, postcards, diaries and reports (indicated below where they exist), programmes for a wide variety of events, menus, tickets, passenger lists, booklets, maps, photographs, press clippings, and other memorabilia. The arrangement is chronological by trip. Beginning in April, 1977 and continuing while he was director until his retirement in 1986, a lot of Professor Spencer’s travel was done as an extension of the work of the Centre for International Studies. For the first of these trips, he wrote a detailed report of his activities. The often extensive correspondence in these files ranges from that with Canadian government, consular, and military officials to military officials at NATO and elsewhere in Europe and England, to academic and government personnel in Western Europe. Included are files on Professor Spencer’s involvement with the Atlantic Council of Canada, the Committee on Atlantic Studies, and the Canadian Studies Association.

Some of the folders in this series contain correspondence, postcards, reports, and other items that are well outside the dates of the activities being described.

The photoprints, postcards, and artifacts (pin buttons) have been retained in the relevant files. Files containing receipts only (such as transportation, car rentals, luggage, and accommodation) were not kept and the retention of such material in other files is selective. Fax paper, where present, has been photocopied and the original faxes, most of which had deteriorated badly, have been destroyed.

Additional information about some of these trips can be found in Series 7: Correspondence.

Wilderness Research Foundation

During the late 1980s the future of the Quetico-Superior Wilderness Research Center at Mukluk Bay, Minnesota was very much in question. The Wilderness Research Foundation, which sponsored it, was assessing its future at a time when its founder was withdrawing from active participation prior to his death in December, 1988. Dr. Solandt was initially a member of the Advisory Committee to the Board of the Foundation and later a member of the Board. He pressed for the continuation of wilderness research at Mukluk Bay and left the Board in 1991 only when he felt that this would be achieved.

The correspondence, minutes, memoranda and reports written by Dr. Solandt and others, along with articles and institutional reports, clearly document the relationship between the Foundation and the Center, the work done by the latter, the problems it faced, and the policies that were developed in an attempt to save it.

United College, Winnipeg

Prof. McNaught was appointed Assistant Professor of history in 1947 at United College (now University of Winnipeg). a college funded by the United Church of Canada. The majority of files in this series document his role in the“Harry Crowe Case” of 1958. Prof. Harry Crowe was a member of the History Department at United College and shared Prof. McNaught’s social democratic views. In April, 1958 the principal of United College, Rev. Wilfrid C. Lockhart, was anonymously sent a letter written by Prof. Crowe to Professor W.A. Packer critical of the College’s administration and the role of the ministers in public administration. Between April and September of that year, the matter escalated culminating in the firing of Prof. Crowe by the Board of Regents in July, 1958. In the fall, three members of the faculty, including Prof. McNaught, threatened to resign over the firing of Prof. Crowe. As a result, the Board accepted their letters of protest as letters of resignation. This resignation from United College led to his eventual appointment at the University of Toronto. Included are correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, and copies of public statements and one file relating to his research on J. S. Woodsworth for his doctoral dissertation.

Activities files

These "activity files" (so named by Dr. Solandt) range from the clubs to which he belonged, to professional associations, and to organizations that had scientific and/or social implications in which he was particularly interested, such as the Canadian Nuclear Association. Their scope moves from local to international and several levels in between.

The files contain a corresponding variety of material, ranging from correspondence, manu-scripts, and notes, to memoranda, programs, pamphlets, reports. Their arrangement is alphabetical by name of event, individual or organization. Included are files on the Conference of Experts to Study the Methods of Detecting Violations of a Possible Agreement on the Suspension of Nuclear Weapons Tests (1958), for which Dr. Solandt was a member of the Western delegation.

Publications and manuscripts

This series reflects Professor Bay’s research interests that were published in academic journals, as well as sources for public consumption such as magazines and newsletters. The material in this series includes tributes, letters to the editor, commentaries, and publications (books, book chapters, and articles). Related material is arranged with the corresponding manuscript which may include documents such as correspondence, drafts, publication releases, and royalty statements. Additional correspondence related to publications and manuscripts may be located in the correspondence series.

Associations and committees

An active joiner and participant, Dr. Solandt belonged to many associations and sat on many committees. Those documented here are those he was most interested in and his involvement often lasted many years. The title for this series is Dr. Solandt

Research

This series comprises the voluminous notes and files assembled by Professor Munro over the course of about fifty years of doing research, initially for his graduate work and then for his books, articles and addresses that appeared in print or online, and the relatively few manuscripts that remained unpublished. This material was also used in the preparation of his lectures to his students, portions of which are occasionally present.

This series is arranged into two sections, “research notes” and “research files”. The first section begins with bibliographic material in the form of card indices of books and articles consulted, along with bibliographic notes. These are followed by research notes taken from the archival and printed sources Professor Munro consulted. The notes include a vast amount and range of information, some of it specific data and some analytical, that he assembled during general research and on his many research trips.

The “research notes” were used for many purposes, including compiling the “research files”. These contain hundreds of tables, charts, maps, and overheads, along with notes, some correspondence and copies of archival material, elements of printed sources, and drafts of manuscripts. Duplicates, where identified, have been removed and destroyed. Some of the files contain photocopies of original material, which have been retained where the originals could not be located.

History of nursing and nursing education materials

The manuscripts and publications in this series consist of addresses, manuscripts, reports and theses that were associated with the University of Toronto's nursing program, programs at other institutions, and the broader subject of nursing education generally. Professor Allemang was not the author of any of these documents but was asked to comment on some of them. The arrangement is by author and, where no author exists, by title.

The series begins with an address by Mr. Allway on nursing education at the University of Toronto (1980). It is followed by the first Elsie Stephenson Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Helen Carpenter at the University of Edinburgh (1973); a draft of a paper by Barbara Craig on the development and managing of nursing archives (1993), other reports on nursing issues by Professors John Crispo of the School of Business (1963), Rosella Cunningham (1972) and Margaret Hume (1978), and Judy Young (1991?). There is also a draft of Dorothy Hill's doctoral thesis from the University of Waterloo (1966), a typescript, 'Report of a study of the psychiatric affiliation' (195-), that Professor Allemang considered significant, and a mimeograph of a health survey report by Marguerite Williams of the City of Toronto (1974). There is also a copy of Celebrate the centenary, 1898-1998, issued by the Toronto Western Hospital Nurses Alumnae Association.

There are two files from individuals seeking Professor Allemang's expertise, with her comments. In 1991 Dorothy Stinson of the University of Alberta sought her input into an introductory bibliography of a course at the University of Alberta, 'Nursing 684: History and politics of nursing'. In 1993 Barbara Sibbald asked her for advice on an article on the current threat to self regulation that she was penning for CAN Today.

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