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Robert Arnold Russel Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00190C
  • Manuscript Collection
  • [185-]-2011 (predominately: 1949-2011)

Contains the personal and professional records of Robert Arnold Russel. This includes photographs of Russel and his family, information regarding his early life including schooling and university, family tree information and identifying documents such as baptism records and passports. The collection contains a comprehensive collection of Russel’s diaries and daytimers spanning from 1949 to his death in 2011. Professional records include materials pertaining to his early career in theatre, film and broadcasting, during the course of which he resided in France, England and Montreal. His career as an information professional and futurist is recorded extensively including his penning of the term “intersex” and “cybersex” in 1967 and his interview with Marshall McLuhan in 1962. As a futurist, Russel’s operated several businesses, most specifically, Orba Information (also called Orbafilm and Orba Inc), which operated between 1967 and 1993, which is archived in great detail, a smaller amount of information on later businesses including Rapid Response Inc., Toronto, Institute for Research on Public Policy and The Consortium for National Development is also available. Collection also contains drafts, proposals, budgets and storyboards surrounding Russel’s personal creative writing, including The Spark, a proposed television program and I am Haida, a proposed CD-ROM and game on Haida culture, and novels – The Petrans and Clone.

Contains series:
Series 1: Personal Papers
Series 2: Theatre
Series 3: Career as a futurist and information professional
Series 4: Writing
Series 5: Audio and video cassettes

Russel, Robert Arnold

Explorations 28

"Explorations, number 28." edited by Marshall McLuhan, University of Toronto Graduate, v. 3, no. 3, 1970, pp. 65-96.

Explorations 27

McLuhan, Marshall. "The University and the City." In Explorations 27, edited by Marshall McLuhan, University of Toronto Graduate, v. 3, no. 2, 1970, pp. 75-80.

Explorations 25

McLuhan, Marshall. "Harold Innis." In Explorations, number 25, edited by Marshall McLuhan, University of Toronto Graduate, v. 2, no. 3, 1969, pp. 91-98.

Explorations 21

"Explorations, number 21." edited by Marshall McLuhan, University of Toronto Graduate, v. 1, no. 2, 1968, pp. 65-96.

Explorations 22

"Explorations, number 22." edited by Marshall McLuhan, University of Toronto Graduate, v. 1, no. 4, 1968, pp. 65-96.

Explorations

"Explorations." edited by Marshall McLuhan, University of Toronto Graduate, v. 1, no. 1, 1967, pp. 65-96.

Love

McLuhan, Marshall. "Love." Saturday Night, vol. 82, no. 2, 1967, pp. 25-28.

[Conference Proceedings] Technology and World Trade

"Technology: Its Influence on the Character of World Trade and Investment." Speakers: Prof. Marshall McLuhan, Dr. Frederick Seitz, and Prof. Richard Cooper. Symposium on Technology and World Trade, 16-17 November 1966, Gaithersburg, MD, edited by Robert L. Stern, National Burea of Standards, 1967, pp. 7-30.

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