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Series contains three-dimensional memorabilia objects, including three glass plate negatives from Kathleen Parlow's time in Petersburg; three framed photographs of Parlow's parents[?]; two metal stamps of Parlow with her violin; two framed photographs of Parlow (one as a young child); the National Award in Music medal from the University of Alberta; a family photo album, including a family tree; an Edison cylinder record of Parlow playing Nocturne, Op. 9, no. 2 in E-flat Major by Chopin (recorded 1913); an Edison 78 RPM record of Parlow playing Melodie by Tchaikovsky; and, 2 audio cassettes with recordings of the Parlow String Quartet. Series also includes drawings and watercolours of Kathleen Parlow.

The photographs included in the family album are listed at the front of the album and transcribed here:
1 - Uncle James Hamilton
2 and 3 - Mr. and Mrs. Allan (St. John)
4 - Mrs. Taylor (Allan's daughter)
5 - Nell (Allan's granddaughter)
6 - James Allen
7 - Sisters Allen
8 - Mr. and Mrs. Ross
9 - Mary Jane Sterling (mother's cousin)
10 and 11 - Mr. or Dr. and Mrs. Cooper
12 and 13 - Estabrooks and sister
14 and 15 - "The two Miss Guns"
16 - Uncle Sam
17 - Uncle Johnie
18 - Miss. Everitt
19 - Cousin George
20 and 21 - Rev. and Mrs. Harvey
21 - Annie Howe (niece of Uncle Sam's)
22 - Edgar Thompson
23 and 24 - Deacon and Mrs. Conolly (cousin)
25 and 26 - Mr. and Mrs. Merritt
27 - Major Hartley
28 - Mrs. Twee[...?] (minister's wife)
29 - Mr. Good
30 - Rev. Blakeney
31 - Mrs. Jones
32 - Baby Estabrooks
33 - Mr. Taylor
34 - Nell Taylor
35 - Boardman Wheeler
36 - James Hamilton (uncle)
37 - Cousin George
38 - Minnie Wheeler
39 and 40 - Father and Mother
41 - Miss. Conolly
42 - Mr. Broderick (Auntie Hamilton's brother-in-law)
43 and 44 - Mr. and Mrs. James Wheeler
45 and 46 - Mr. and Mrs. Roberts
47 - another Miss. Conolly
48 - Nellie Allan
49 - Dr. Broderick.

Consists of 1 reel-to-reel tape of an address (?) by Dr. Glass, 1959-11-06.

Series consists of audio and video recordings of the Leslie Bell Singers; radio programs hosted and/or scripted by Leslie Bell; and radio programs where Leslie Bell made guest appearances. Series also includes some informal, candid recordings of the Leslie Bell Singers' reunions and Bell family gatherings.

The Leslie Bell Singers were featured on "Your Host - C.G.E. [Canadian General Electric]" [1949-1952] on CBC radio and on C.G.E. Showtime (1952-1959) on the CBC Television Network. They also performed regularly at the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) Bandshell, and Leslie Bell played their music on his own CBC radio shows. Bell was a commentator for CBC and CFRB radio and appeared regularly on "Assignment" (hosted by Bill McNeil and Maria Barrett) and his own show "Speaking of Music".

These sound tapes were given to Professor Barbeau by Professor Warwick Sawyer at the time of his retirement in the 1970s. Includes two 1964 lectures by professor Edward F. Assmus, Jr. (1931–1998) on Algebraic Coding Theory as well as a talk by Harvard Mathematics Professor Garrett Birkhoff (1911-1996) on the history of computing math. All three lectures were possibly for the same event in February 1964 “lecture to AYI”.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1965-1966 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1966-1967 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists.

Series consists of private recordings of Olga Stratton, recorded ca. 1951; John Stratton, recorded on February 27, 1955 with Olga Stratton, voice and Kate Dener, piano; and John Stratton, recorded in the 1960s at Avey Bryam's flat with Bryam at the piano.

This series includes 2 interviews with le Riche. One relates to South Africa and discusses his childhood, his early education, his family life as well as his opinions on various aspects of South African history, events and people. A second is an interview with Betty Kennedy done in 1967 discussing the problem of obesity and diet. Finally, the third tape is of a Methodist choir of the Basuto people taped by le Riche during a visit to his homeland. The choir is introduced by le Riche at the beginning of the tape.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1967-1968 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1968-1969 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1969-1970 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1970-1971 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists.

Twenty-nine years after Omond Solandt left the University of Toronto with a gold medal in medicine, he returned as Chancellor, taking up his three-year appointment on 1 July, 1965. It was renewed for a further three years in 1968.

The contents of this series includes correspondence, addresses, minutes, programs, reports and photoprints relating to his ceremonial duties and other activities associated with the office. Included are files on awarding of honorary degrees, the Presidential Search Committee, chaired by Dr. Solandt, for the successor to Claude Bissell, and the new (1971) University of Toronto Act. Included is an audiotape of the proceedings of his installation as chancellor.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1971-1972 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists. Series also includes programs from student recitals at the Faculty of Music during the 1971-1972 academic year.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1972-1973 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists. All recordings were made at the Faculty of Music. Series also includes programs from student recitals at the Faculty of Music during the 1972-1973 academic year.

Three sound recordings from the Madawaska Club:
-"Remembering the Past" [Go Home] (19 August 1973);
-"Remembrances" (19 August 1973) and
-"Grant Robertson" (27 August 1973)

One sound recording from George Ross Lord:
-"Plans for the future" (August 1973)

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1973-1974 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists. All recordings were made at the Faculty of Music. Series also includes programs from student recitals at the Faculty of Music during the 1973-1974 academic year.

Interviews were conducted with several staff and board members involved in the design, construction and administration of the Ashworth Square Housing Co-operative. Included in this series are the interview transcripts and tapes, as well as some interview notes. These interviews were conducted over two years from 25 May 1972 to 13 May 1974.

In addition to the attendance at meetings of CHAT and ASC board, staff and member meetings, and interviews and surveys of users and non-users, the researchers also collected background material on the Ashworth Square Housing Co-operative, and the United Church of Canada Board of Evangelism and Social Service National Housing Committee as one of its main funding bodies.

The background materials on the Ashworth Square Housing Co-operative itself include architectural drawings of the suite plans, a copy of the original proposal for its development, a copy of the occupancy agreement and by-laws, as well as general publicity for the co-op and information regarding the initial election of members to the Board of Directors. There are also seven b/w photographs of co-op members and children. The background materials on the United Church of Canada Board of Evangelism and Social Service National Housing Committee includes minutes of meetings of both the housing committee and the Technical Subcommittee, correspondence, reports, a brief on housing to Hon Paul Hellyer (Minister of Transport).

Professors Breslauer and Andrews also conducted research into housing issues, and co-op housing alternatives across Canada, the US and abroad. These files include information on the Co-op Housing Foundation, and the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation papers on co-op housing and in particular, on the Ashworth Square Housing Co-op. They also include information on co-op housing conferences, other housing co-operatives and organizations, and general housing issues and research published during this time period. Included in this series is a CBC radio special on housing cooperatives which includes a piece on the ASC.

In 1968, Dr. Fowler headed up a research team in a joint Canadian Mothercraft Society (CMS) – OISE study to determine the effects of quality child care on disadvantaged children. This two-year joint study formed the basis upon which the Early Childhood Education (ECE) curriculum was written. In particular it involved the development of a model infant day care centre for disadvantaged children from four months to two and one half years of age. It also included a follow up study conducted by Dr. Fowler in 1973-1974.

This series documents this joint study with Mothercraft in general and Dr.Fowler’s role in particular. It includes minutes of meetings of the Board of Mothercraft, and the OISE research staff, correspondence with Mothercraft officials, OISE faculty and staff, municipal, federal and provincial governments, private foundations (like the Atkinson Foundation, Laidlaw Foundation), research proposals, budget and publicity files, papers and progress reports. Also included is the film script for “Joint OISE-Mothercraft Infant Demonstration Program” with text of Dr. Fowler’s commentary (1973).

This series also includes film elements including original negative, sound track and release print to the OISE produced film A Demonstration Program on Infant Care and Education in which Dr. Fowler describes the OISE Infant care and education program and Mothercraft Society with emphasis on learning through play.

Dr. Pimlott was appointed to the Department of Zoology in 1962. This series contains all that has survived of course materials and student reports for three courses taught by Dr. Pimlott in zoology. Also included is a tape and transcript of instructions for a new course in Animal ecology dictated shortly before his death in March, 1978.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1974-1975 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists. All recordings were made at the Faculty of Music. Series also includes programs from student recitals at the Faculty of Music during the 1974-175 academic year.

Dr. Pimlott's expertise in wildlife preservation and the ecology resulted in requests to speak at conferences, government bodies and meetings of various local groups interested in the environment. These files consist of rough notes prepared for talks in Halifax, Sault Ste Marie, Regina and other unidentified locations on such topics as Arctic ecology and off-shore drilling, history of Algonquin Wildlands League, and wolves and men, among others. Also included is a tape recording of a talk by Stephen Lewis to public meeting of the Algonquin Wildlands League.

Prof. Rayside received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1976. During the early to mid 1970’s, he undertook research towards the completion of his dissertation, entitled Linguistic Divisions in the Belgian Social Christian Party and the Liberal Parties of Canada and Quebec. The study examines ethnic conflict in Belgium and Canada, as reflected in divisions within major political parties. Prof. Rayside’s research included conducting interviews with and sending questionnaires to Canadian Liberal Party and Belgian Social Christian politicians. This series documents Prof. Rayside’s doctoral research and includes correspondence, completed questionnaires, sound recordings of interviews, and interview transcripts and sound recordings of thesis advisor Robert Putnam meetings with Rayside.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1975-1976 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists. All recordings were made at the Faculty of Music. Series also includes programs from student recitals at the Faculty of Music during the 1975-1976 academic year.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1976-1977 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists. All recordings were made at the Faculty of Music. Series also includes programs from student recitals at the Faculty of Music during the 1976-1977 academic year.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1977-1978 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists. All recordings were made at the Faculty of Music.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1978-1979 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists. All recordings were made at the Faculty of Music. Series also includes programs from student recitals at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music during the 1978-1979 academic year.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1979-1980 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists. All recordings were made at the Faculty of Music. Series also includes programs from student recitals at the Faculty of Music during the 1979-1980 academic year.

Series consists of materials for: Cascando (1963-1965), Wordsong (1971-1973), Guitarmusic for John Cage (1972-1975), Wordmusic (1973-1974), Mikemusics (1973-1977), Silencesong (1974), Minutemusics (1977-1980), Thunderword (1978-1979), Nonologue (Onemanshow, 1980), and Sh! (Mikemusics, 1973-1977).

-Talk by Skilling on CBC Radio, recorded 10 September 1945 [3 "78" discs]
-Interview on the BBC, "Czechoslovakia", August 1978 [1 reel]
-"Central Europe", CBC Ideas, n.d. [1 cassette tape]

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1980-1981 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists. All recordings were made at the Faculty of Music. Series also includes programs from student recitals at the Faculty of Music during the 1980-1981 academic year.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1981-1982 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists. All recordings were made at the Faculty of Music. Series also includes programs from student recitals at the Faculty of Music during the 1981-1982 academic year.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1982-1983 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists. All recordings were made at the Faculty of Music. Series also includes programs from student recitals at the Faculty of Music during the 1982-1983 academic year.

Series contains audio recordings of various performances by Elyakim (Peter) Taussig and colleagues, predominantly from CBC radio broadcasts of his concerts.

Series consists of recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1983-1984 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists. All recordings were made at the Faculty of Music. Series also includes programs from student recitals during the 1983-1984 academic year.

Series consists of 68 audio cassettes made during the course of Head of House meetings or Regional meetings of L'Arche International. The Head of House provides support for the Community Leader by taking direct responsibility for the home. The Leader administrates the overall community, but the Heads of Houses take on the responsibilities of the home for the Leader. The Community Leader regularly meets with Heads of Houses to hear details, issues, listen to questions, to make community announcements, and create a supportive community around any situations that may need support.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1984-1985 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists. All recordings were made at the Faculty of Music. Series also includes programs from student recitals during the 1984-1985 academic year.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1985-1986 concert season including faculty, student, and guest artists as well as ongoing concert series and faculty ensembles.

Series consists of programs and recordings of the two operas performed at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music as part of the 1986-1987 concert season.

Series consists of recordings of New Music Concerts performances.

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1987-1988 concert season, including faculty, student, and guest artists. All recordings were made at the Faculty of Music. Series also include programs from student recitals during the 1987-1988 academic year.

Series consists of electronic music compositions created at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio (UTEMS) and copies of tapes made at other electronic music studios around the world. The series includes the two original card-catalogue indices for the tape collection, organized by tape number and by composer.

Among the tapes that originated at UTEMS are compositions by faculty and students from the Faculty of Music, independent composers who were granted access to the studio, and compositions created by visiting artists, scholars, and composers. Composers at UTEMS included Robert Aitken, John Beckwith, Brian Cherney, Gustav Ciamaga, Richard Henninger, David Jaeger, Larry Lake, John Mills-Cockell, James Montgomery, Harvey Olnick, Dennis Patrick, Myron Schaeffer, David Williams, and many others. Composers from other studios include Milton Babbitt, Henk Badings, Luciano Berio, Hugh Le Caine, Douglas Lilburn, Pierre Schaeffer, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Vladimir Ussachevsky.

In addition to tapes created at UTEMS, the collections includes compositions created at the following studios, listed alphabetically:

• APELAC (Brussels, Belgium)
• Bell Telephone Laboratories (Murray Hill, New Jersey)
• Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio (Waltham, Massachussetss)
• Bregman Electronic Music Studio (Hanover, New Hampshire)
• California State University, Northridge. Electronic Music Studio (Los Angeles, California)
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (Vancouver, Canada ; Montreal, Canada ; Toronto, Canada)
• Colgate Computer Music Studio (Hamilton, New York)
• Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Centre (New York, New York)
• Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
• East Carolina University. School of Music. Electronic Music Studio (Greenville, North Carolina)
• Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd. (London, England ; Putney, England ; Oxfordshire, England)
• Electronic Music Studios of Victoria University (Wellington, N.Z.) (Wellington, New Zealand)
• Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Germany (East). Rundfunk- und Fernsehtechnisches Zentralamt. Studio für Künstliche Klang- und Geräuscherzeugung (Berlin, Germany)
• Gotham Recording Studios (New York, New York)
• Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges (Bourges, France)
• Hartt College of Music (Hartford, Connecticut)
• Independent Electronic Music Center (Trumansburg, N.Y.) (Trumansburg, New York)
• Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique musique Paris (Paris, France)
• Institut national de l'audiovisuel (France). Groupe de recherches musicales (Paris, France)
• Instituut voor Psychoakoestiek en Elektronische Muziek (Ghent, Belgium) (Ghent, Belgium)
• Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik. (Darmstadt, Germany)
• Israel Center for Electronic Music (Jerusalem, Israel)
• M.I.T. Experimental Electronic Music Studio (Cambridge, Massacusetts)
• McGill University. Electronic Music Studio (Montreal, Canada)
• National Research Council of Canada. Electronic Music Laboratory (Ottawa, Canada)
• National University of Córdoba. Centro de Música Experimental (Córdoba, Argentina)
• New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (Auckland, New Zealand)
• Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai. Electronic Music Studio (Tokyo, Japan)
• Norsk rikskringkasting (Oslo, Norway)
• Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
• Princeton University. Computer Center (Princeton, New Jersey)
• Princeton University. Department of music (Princeton, New Jersey)
• Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht. Instituut voor Sonologie (Utrecht, Netherlands)
• S 2F M (Electronic music studio) (Florence, Italy)
• Siemens-Studio für Elektronische Musik (Munich, Germany)
• Simon Fraser University. Centre for the Arts (Burnaby, British Columbia)
• Southern Illinois University. Electronic Music Studio (Carbondale, Illinois)
• State University of New York at Albany. Electronic Music Studio (Albany, New York)
• Studio Apsome (Paris, France)
• Studio de recherches et de structurations électroniques auditives de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium)
• Studio di fonologia RAI Milano (Milan, Italy)
• Studio di Musica Elettronica di Torino (Torino, Italy)
• Studio Eksperymentalne Polskiego Radia (Warsaw, Poland)
• Tulane University. Electronic Music Studio (New Orleans, Louisiana)
• University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Electronic Music Studio (Champaign, Illinois ; Urbana, Illinois)
• University of New Mexico. Electronic Music Laboratory (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
• Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Studio für Elektronische Musik (Cologne, Germany)
• York University Electronic Music Studio (York, England) (York, England)

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

Series consists of programs and recordings of events hosted by the Faculty of Music during the 1988-1989 concert season including faculty, student, and guest artists as well as ongoing concert series and faculty ensembles. Series also includes programs from student recitals during the 1988-1989 academic year.

This series consists of 4 files including recording of interviews with social workers.

This series consists of unpublished and published manuscripts written by Mary O'Brien over the course of her career. Includes: coursework and M.A. dissertation proposal from her studies at York University; miscellaneous unpublished drafts; material relating to her books The Politics of Reproduction (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981) and Reproducing the World: Essays in Feminist Theory (Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1989); French and Greek translations of The Politics of Reproduction; book reviews of works by other feminist scholars; drafts of journal articles and book chapters in edited volumes; and drafts of conference addresses, keynotes, and lectures given by O'Brien.

Also included is a sound recording of an address given by O'Brien at the Centre for Women's Studies in Education at OISE in 1985.