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Publications

Series consists of various publications about Father Donovan, the Donovan Art Collection, and artists included in the collection. Publications include articles, reviews, exhibition catalogues, promotional materials, and full-length issues of magazines and newspapers. The series additionally includes two published catalogue books of the Donovan Art Collection, along with a DVD of the OMNI Television show about the collection.

Although the series contains mostly original copies of different publications, the series also demonstrates Father Donovan's personal practice of cutting, arranging, and gluing various article texts onto blank paper for safe-keeping.

Artist Reference Files

Series consists of collected texts pertaining to artists within the Donovan Art Collection. Texts include articles, CVs, interviews, and exhibition catalogues. Currently, the series only consists of artist Meryl McMaster's reference file.

Acquisitions and Tax Receipts

Series consists of various documents relating to purchased acquisitions for the Donovan Art Collection. Documents include invoices and receipts for artwork purchases, and costs pertaining to the artworks' appraisal, framing, transportation, and installation. Additionally, the series also contains several certificates of authenticity and tax receipts.

Correspondence

Series consists of various correspondences received by Father Donovan between 1990 and 2020, largely pertaining to the Donovan Art Collection. Correspondences include cards, printed emails, and notes sent from students, St. Michael's College faculty, collection visitors, artists, curators, and more. Some files include photographs and other printed material sent to Father Donovan as enclosures, as well as texts created by Father Donovan for different art events and lectures. In some instances, a copy of Father Donovan's typed response is also included in the file.

Blissymbolics - International

This series contains a variety of materials related to the international community of Blissymbolics. It includes material from BCIC affiliates and partners, research, teaching materials, and workshops on Blissymbolics, as well as Bliss user communication displays and textual creations. This series also contains children's books written in Blissymbols, some with translations in a variety of languages. The majority of this series consists of non-English material.

Publications - General

This series contains books, journals and other research in which Blissymbols are the topic of study. It includes materials that were not published directly by Blissymbolics Communication Institute - Canada, but they may have involvement by way of granting copyright for the use of Blissymbols.

Tools and User Guides

This series contains manuals and user guides for a variety of programs developed alongside BCIC for the use of Blissymbol users. The series also includes documentation related to physical technology and products (tools) developed by BCIC for users of Blissymbols.

Teaching Materials

This series contains materials used and made for those who are teaching or using Blissymbolics. It includes official teacher's guides published by Blissymbolics Communication Institute - Canada, activity kits made and used by BCIC, as well as copies of children's books in a variety of languages which use or have been translated into Blissymbolics for young children.

Charles K. Bliss

This series contains all materials related to Charles K. Bliss (excepting the official legal documents), the creator of Blissymbols. It includes correspondence between Bliss, OCCC staff, and Blissymbolics Communication International. It also contains copies of Bliss's publications, including Sementography, as well as an obituary.

Bliss, Charles K.

[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-?].

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Manuscripts and publications

This series documents Professor Lang’s writings, unpublished and published, over a forty-year period. He has written two books, Financing universities in Ontario (2000) and Mergers in higher education: lessons in theory and practice (2001), which was translated into Chinese and published in Shanghai in 2008. He has contributed chapters to eleven books, and had numerous papers published in refereed journals, along with review essays, other publications, papers, and reports. The research files (some contain original documents) for and a copy of his doctoral thesis, are also present in this series. The titles, where they exist, to these research files were those used by Professor Lang.

The listing of manuscripts and publications is not complete. For a complete listing of Professor Lang’s publications, see his curriculum vitae in B2011-0003/001(01). Some of his reports not present in this series can be found in other series.

Digital files from B2018-0001 include correspondence and drafts for his book Mergers in higher education: lessons in theory and practice (2001), as well as a report for the Atkinson Foundation, A Primer on Formula Funding: A Study of Student-focused Funding in Ontario (2003).

The files contain a combination of correspondence, drafts, background and research material and notes. The arrangement is chronological by date of document or date of publication.

Professional activities (other)

This series documents professional activities other than those described in the two previous series. Included is material on consulting and special projects, boards of governors of educational institutions that Professor Lang sat on, and his association with a number of other educational agencies and groups in Canada and elsewhere. Of the last, the most documentation is on the Ontario Council on University Affairs, the Premier’s Council for Economic Renewal, and the Sweden/Ontario Bilateral Exchange Seminar for Senior Academic Administrators (1982-1983). The arrangement in this section is by name of organization or event.

The files may contain any combination of correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, notes, and reports.

Files from B2018-0001 include further records documenting Lang’s active involvement with the Board of Trustees of the Toronto School of Theology (2008 - ; Chair, Institutional Evaluations Committee, 2014-2017) and the Board of Governors of Saint Augustine’s Seminary. His work as Chair of the Strategic Asset Study Committee (2011-2014) for the Archdiocese of Toronto is also documented.

Professional activities: Ontario. Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities

Professor Lang’s first major collaboration with the then Ministry of Colleges and Universities began in 1991 when he was a member of the Minister’s Task Force on University Accountability. Later he was involved in several joint projects with the Ministry and its successors [the Ministry of Education and Training (from 1995) and from 2000, the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities] and the Council of Ontario Universities; in particular, their Steering Committee on Ontario Graduate Survey (1997-), their Joint Steering Committee on OSAP (1998-2001), and their Key Performance Indicators project (2000-2005). In 2006 he became a member of the Ministry’s Joint Working Group on Student Access Guarantee. From 2008 to 2011 he was the Ministry’s Working Group and Steering Committee on Transfer. Not all of these activities are documented in this series.

In 2006-2007 the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities undertook two inter-related research projects “aimed generally at learning about the characteristics of ‘first-generation’ students.” The first, “College Choice”, focused on the factors that influenced students in seeking post-secondary education and their choices of institutions to attend. The second, dubbed Project STAR (Student Achievement and Retention), “sought to determine the factors that influence the academic performance and retention of students in the first year of university.” It was sponsored by the Canada Millenium Scholarship Foundation and Statistics
Canada.

Files in B2018-0001 document Professor Lang's role as Special Advisor to the Deputy Minister, in particular his involvement with the negotiations between the Government of Ontario and Ontario universities regarding the second Strategic Mandate Agreement (SMA2), and Ontario colleges regarding the Colleges Applied Research and Development Fund [CARDF].

Also included are files regarding the creation of a francophone university in Ontario; the Joint Working Group on Student Access Guarantee, regarding the modernization of the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP); and the Steering Committee on Transfer Credits.

Professional activities: Council of Ontario Universities

The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) was formed on December 3, 1962 as the “Committee of Presidents of Provincially Assisted Universities and Colleges of Ontario,” with its current name being adopted in 1971. The mandate of the COU is to “build awareness of the university sector’s contributions to the social, economic and cultural well-being of the province and the country, as well as the issues that impact the sector’s ability to maximize these contributions.” It works with Ontario’s publicly assisted universities and one associate member institution, the Royal Military College of Canada. This series documents the activities of a number of its committees and task forces, which are detailed below, approximately in order of activity.

Professor Lang was a member of the COU’s Committee on Enrolment Statistics and Projections from 1976 to 1990. In 1982-1983 he sat on its Special Committee on BILD Administrative Procedures and from 1987 to 1991 was a member of its Research Advisory Group. In 1991 he was invited to be part of a small task force to present proposals to the government for an income contingent repayment plan for Ontario students. Throughout much of the 1990s, he was involved with the COU’s Committee on University Accountability and the Performance Indicators for the Public Postsecondary System in Ontario project, better known as the Performance Indicators Project, the purpose of which was to assess the overall Ontario postsecondary sector.

He was also a member of four task forces: Audit Guidelines (1998-2000), Secondary School Issues (1998-2005), Student Financial Assistance (2006-), and Quality Assurance (2008-2010).
The Task Force on Secondary School Issues was established to assess the evaluation of students in the new secondary school program of studies and to make recommendations regarding the monitoring of grading practices and standards.

The COU’s Quality and Productivity Task Force work was to outline “all the quality and productivity initiatives” undertaken to “showcase results for the government’s increased investment in universities.” Its report, presented in March 2006, was followed by the COU Task Force on Quality Measurements, chaired by David Naylor of the University of Toronto. It was charged with addressing the “broad issues related to quality measurement, developing the long-term strategies for COU’s work with the government and the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO).” [1]

Files in B2018-0001 include correspondence with U of T and COU colleagues, as well as further records related to his role on the COU’s Committee on University Accountability. Also included are further records about the COU's Task Force on Quality Assurance (2008-2010), including its subsequent transition and implementation phase.

The files in this series contain correspondence, memoranda, notes, minutes of meetings, drafts of reports, and assorted background reports and other documentation.

NOTES

  1. Task Force on Quality Measurement terms of reference, March 2006, in B2011-0003/043(03).

OISE/UT

This series begins with files that Professor Lang’s broad activities within OISE/UT as recorded in his performance assessments, activity reports and course evaluations. There are followed by files on the Provost’s OISE Committee of the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, which include material on the first pass at the thorny issue of the possible integration of OISE into the University of Toronto. Most of the files relating to the Higher Education Group, with which Professor Lang was primarily associated at OISE, contain material spanning almost 20 years on examination questions.

The bulk of this series, however, relates to the merger of OISE with the U of T to create, in 1995, OISE/UT. Professor Lang’s personal work binders on the merger are present, as are legal and other documents on the merger, followed by implementation files, including those of the Academic Implementation Task Force and on the issues relating to OISE’s property. The series concludes with files on the OISE/UT Joint MPHEd program with the Faculty of Medicine (2003-2004).

Newsletters

Series consists of newsletters issued by the Faculty of Music regarding the activities and achievements of faculty, staff and students. The newsletter was titled:

  1. University of Toronto Faculty of Music Newsletter (nos. 1-13, November 1970 - Summer 1974)
  2. News from the Faculty of Music (Autumn 1974 - Fall/Winter 1987)
  3. Notes (Summer 1988 - Spring 1990)
  4. Noteworthy (1987-2007, 2021-2022)

Daily records

This series provides a detailed overview of David C. Onley's daily activities as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. Activities include events hosted by the Lieutenant Governor, events in which he appeared, community visits, special visits, royal visits, convocation and honorary degree ceremonies, and annual office holiday activities. The series includes daily calendars, detailed daily agendas, and electronic daily records. The daily calendars contain schedules showing dates and times of Onley's appointments and events he attended. Daily agendas include time schedules as well as detailed documentation of Onley's appearances related to duties as Lieutenant Governor. Types of files include 'event scenarios' (instructions and reference information for Onley and staff), event programs, correspondence, speaking notes, objects and mementoes from events (albums, badges, stickers), computer printed contact sheets, photographs and snapshots, and computer disks with photographs and occasionally video. The electronic daily records contain copies of the aforementioned material, including documentation of events in which Ruth Ann Onley appeared or spoke at, and may not be accessible at this time; please contact the Archivist. Series has been kept in original order with exception of oversize material.

Articles and clippings

Series contains articles, clippings, magazines, and interviews that feature or mention David C. Onley as Lieutenant Governor. Also includes “Articles of Interest” material collected for David C. Onley about current events and issues.

Series has been kept in its original order, arranged chronologically.

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).

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).

Dreadnaught Press

Series consists of chapbooks, books, bound volumes, broadsides, prospectuses, posters, cards, stationery, and ephemera, designed and produced by Dreadnaught Press. The series includes materials published for Dreadnaught Press and design and print work completed for various clients.

Dreadnaught Press

Someone.ca

Series consists of broadsides, posters, greeting cards, postcards, promotional material, and one chapbook designed by Deborah Barnett and produced at Someone.ca.

Research files

This series contains material relating to Prof. Olson’s research activities. It includes experiment notes and notes relating to various Olson publications and topics. Research notes have been arranged chronologically.

Addresses

This series contains files on addresses delivered by Professor Olson at various educational institutions (including the University of Toronto), to the public meetings and groups, and to professional groups. Included is covering correspondence, notes, drafts of addresses, programmes and associated conference material. The arrangement is chronological.

Manuscripts & publications

This series documents the writing activities of Professor Olson in terms of books authored, edited, and reviewed as well as the publication of papers in scholarly journals. Files contain correspondence, notes, and contracts as well as drafts of articles and chapters and unpublished manuscripts. The arrangement is chronological.

Manuscripts & publications

This series documents the writing activities of Professor York in terms of publication of papers in scholarly journals. Files contain correspondence, and notes, as well as drafts of articles and unpublished manuscripts. The arrangement is chronological.

Books

Titles include:

  • Country Fixins' Cookbook ([1980])
  • The Anne Murray Book ([1974])
  • The World Who's Who of Women, Volume One (1973)
  • Faces of Canada (1976)
  • The Best Cookin' In The Country: Favorite Recipes from Favorite Country Stars (1979)
  • Show-Business Is Two Words (1979)
  • Your Favorite Country Music Stars (1975)
  • Show Case: A Directory of Canadian Recording Artists (1980)
  • Anne Murray: The Story So Far (1981)
  • The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits: Country Music's Chart Topping Records, Artists, and Songwriters (1991)
  • Capitol Records Fiftieth Anniversary 1942 - 1992 (1992)
  • Thirty Years of Cancon: RPM 30th Anniversary Special Issue (1994)
  • Nova Scotia: Hello Canada (1995)
  • The Big Book of Country Music: A Biographical Encyclopedia (1995)
  • Canada Heirloom Series: Volume VI - Visionaries: Canadian Triumphs (1998)
  • Country Women in Music (1999)
  • Made In Canada: Photographs By Bryan Adams (1999)
  • Canada: English Edition (1999)
  • The Anne Murray Centre Scrapbook (2000)
  • Remembering Signalong Jubilee: The Story of the CBC Show that Launched East Coast Music (2004)

Photographic Prints

Series C: Photographic Prints contains all of photograph prints that were housed in paper folders and filing cabinets in the office of Ken Jones. The folders were arranged by subject. For the most part, folders are labelled by subject but the folders and some photographs were out of order when the records were transferred to UTSC Library. In some cases, folders contain photos that do not reflect the subject of the original folder label.

Show Tickets

Tickets for shows Murray headlined, and tickets for shows and ceremonies she was either featured in or attended.

Concert Announcements

Promotional brochures, postcards, concert program books, and other textual advertisement for shows which Murray headlined or wad featured.

Magazines

Various magazines where Anne Murray has been featured on the cover, or in an article.

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.

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.

Education

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

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