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John Reid Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00544
  • Manuscript Collection
  • [195-]-

Collection consists primarily of manuscript drafts of John Reid's various writing projects, including novels, short stories, poetry, memoirs and librettos. It also contains some material related to a proposed biography he wished to write on Wyndham Lewis.

Reid, John

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

Wilfred Watson fonds

  • CA ON00389 F7
  • Fonds
  • 1941-1998

Fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, sound recordings, drawings and diaries created and accumulated by the poet and playwright Wilfred Watson, husband to Sheila Watson. Material has been arranged to align with the Wilfred Watson fonds held by the University of Alberta Archives.

Fonds is comprised of 8 series:

  1. Journals and Notebooks
  2. Literary Drafts/Writings
  3. Sketches/Artwork
  4. Correspondence
  5. Student Records-Watson (held within the University of Alberta’s Wilfred Watson fonds)
  6. Reference Material
  7. Personal Papers
  8. Audio-Visual Records

Watson, Wilfred

Sheila Watson fonds

  • CA ON00389 F6
  • Fonds
  • 1880-1998, predominant 1933-1998

Fonds consists of journals, literary manuscripts, correspondence, teaching and student materials, reference materials, business and financial records; and personal photographs and objects of the author and professor of English, Sheila Watson. Also consists of collections of correspondence purchased and preserved by Watson for the purpose of her doctoral thesis and personal interest in the painter and author Wyndham Lewis.
The Sheila Watson fonds series consist of:
1.0. Diaries, reading journals and day planners
2.0. Manuscripts and drafts
3.0. General correspondence
4.0. Publishing records and business correspondence
5.0. Professional activities materials
6.0. Student material
7.0. Teaching material
8.0. Research and reference materials
9.0. Financial and legal records
10.0. Personal photographs
11.0. Personal records, artwork and artifacts
Ephemera
12.0
The White Pelican editorial material sous-fonds (the records of Watson's role as editor of her literary journal) series consists of :
1.0. Editorial Records
2.0. Financial Records
3.0. Design and printing records
4.0. Correspondence

Watson, Sheila

Fred Flahiff fonds

  • CA ON00389 F15
  • Fonds
  • 1956-2006

Fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts and transcripts of archival material and accumulated by Fred T. Flahiff, professor of English at the University of St. Michael's College. Includes research materials and manuscripts related to Flahiff's biography of author Sheila Watson, "Always Someone to Kill the Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson", and his role as executor of her estate and custodian of her personal papers.

Includes five series:

  1. Incoming correspondence
  2. Collected Material after Sheila Watson's death
  3. Collected Material for biography
  4. Material related to publication of biography

Flahiff, F. T. (Frederick Thomas)

James Feeley fonds

  • CA ON00389 F14
  • Fonds
  • 1963 - 2006

Feeley collected monographs, copies of articles and newspaper clippings for the project and corresponded with McLuhan to verify facts and locate material. Fonds consists of three series:

  1. Bibliography working files, 1962-2006

  2. Letters to Feeley from Marshall McLuhan, 1964-1965, 1977

  3. Administrative and working files as Explorations Administrator, 1966-1970

Feeley, James

Love

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

Love

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

The role of obsolescence... [Marshall McLuhan]

File consists of 1 two-colour letterpress commemorative poster with a quote from Marshall McLuhan: "The role of obsolescence is sparking creativity and the invention of new order". The poster is printed on deckle-edged paper and signed by Eric McLuhan.

The poster states:

"Designed and produced in a limited edition in 2011 to celebrate Marshall McLuhan on the 100th anniversary of his birth
McLuhan Legacy Network
Someone.ca"

Pencil notation at the bottom of the print denotes that this copy is #7 in an edition of 25.

McLuhan on McLuhanism

McLuhan, Marshall. "McLuhan on McLuhanism." Interview with Marshall McLuhan, Eric Barnouw, Robert K. Merton, Richard Shickel. Moderated by Eric Larrabbee. Channel 13 Sunday Showcase,15 May 1966.

Canadian Poetry

McLuhan, Marshall. "Canadian Poetry." The Concise Encyclopedia of English and American Poets and Poetry, edited by Stephen Spender and Donald Hall, Hutchinson, 1965, pp. 68-70.

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