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Milton T. Wilson fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2017
  • Fonds
  • [1955]-[1991]

Fonds consists of records relating to Dr Wilson‟s academic career and administrative role in the departments of English at Trinity College and the University of Toronto as well as correspondence, including poetry, relating to his position as editor of Canadian Forum.

Wilson, Milton T.

Office of the Dean of St. Hilda's College fonds

  • CA OTTCA F1008
  • Fonds
  • 1888 - 2004

The fonds deals with records relating to St Hilda's College from its founding until 2004. Most of them are from the office of the head of St Hilda's College (whose title changed over the years from Lady Principal to Principal and Dean of Women to Dean of Women and Dean of St Hilda's. Records include correspondence, student records, committee minutes, reports and statistics, photographs, policies, budgets and other administrative records. Note that there are no documents for the period 1953-1978 when Katharine Darroch was in office.

Office of the Dean of St. Hilda's College

Percival Hector Gordon fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2096
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1905

Fonds contains materials from Gordon’s time as a student at Trinity College including lecture notes, an essay, correspondence, examination information, and pamphlets and programmes for various Trinity events. Materials also include 16 black and white photographs showing students and Trinity faculty.

Gordon, Percival Hector

Robert E. Macdonald fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2004
  • Fonds
  • 1889-1893

Fonds consists of a notebook of lectures in medicine by Dr. W. B. Geikie, 1889-1892; a notebook of lectures in midwifery by Dr. A. Temple, 1889-1893; and a notebook on prescriptions, 1889-1890.

Macdonald, Robert Elgie

Samuel A.B. Mercer fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2171
  • Fonds
  • 1916-1942

Fonds comprises handwritten and carbon copies of the manuscripts for two books: “A Study in the Idea of God” and “Civilization in the Making.” As well, there is a Sign-List for Pre-Hammurabi Contract Tablets. There are some 100 lantern slides that Mercer was famous for using in his lectures. Some of these slides by photographer A.J. Reading show titles for the images; however there is no listing of them.

Mercer, Samuel Alfred Browne

Stephen J. Reynolds fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2273
  • Fonds
  • 1969-2010

The fonds consists of records kept by Stephen Reynolds during the course of his adult life. These include correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues that illuminate his personal life, his Christian faith, and his various pastoral and intellectual pursuits. Carbon copies of many outgoing letters were created and kept. Reynolds kept an intermittent diary through the time period represented here. These were sometimes typed, and often handwritten in small notebooks. He apparently removed pages from these notebooks and inserted them in files with correspondence and other material from the same time period.

Other records include academic papers, research material, sermons, prayers, drafts of manuscripts, course materials, and some official documents such as academic transcripts.

Contains series:

  1. Undergraduate education and MDiv degree
  2. Ministry
  3. Anglican Church of Canada
  4. For All the Saints
  5. ThD Degree
  6. Teaching
  7. Correspondence

Reynolds, Stephen James

Trinity Medical College Collection

  • CA OTTCA F1018
  • Collection
  • 1871 - 1917

This collection consists of administrative records, calendars, student academic records, and records of student life at Trinity Medical College. Administrative records include Minutes of Corporation, records related to the amalgamation of medical faculties at Trinity College and the University of Toronto, correspondence files, a small number of general administrative and financial records, a Register of Students, and miscellaneous reports. Student records include textual and photographic records of academic standing and participation; records of student life include documents and photographs related to college groups, committees, societies, and teams. Also in the collection are a cap, belt, (and blazer purported to be from Trinity Medical College), as well as a manual press of the seal of Trinity Medical College.
Contains series

  1. Administrative records
  2. Calendars
  3. Student academic records
  4. Student life
  5. Artefacts

Trinity Medical College

William Bleasdell fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2002
  • Fonds
  • 1860 - 1964

The fonds consists of four notebooks of lectures delivered in Trenton and Kingston for the benefit of the Trinity Hall Fund, and a fragment of a manuscript lecture on climate.

Bleasdell, William

Cartwright and Wood Families fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2182
  • Fonds
  • 1806 - 1968

Fonds consists of records relating to three generations of the Cartwright family, their relatives, friends and colleagues. Most prominent are the papers of Mabel Cartwright, which includes correspondence with her family and relatives, diaries, notebooks and photographs.

Correspondence and other records from earlier generations of Cartwrights are included, most from Mabel Cartwright’s parents dating from the late 1860s to the early 1920s. Letters from Mabel Cartwright’s siblings, including Stephen, a missionary in Japan, are included. Financial and legal documents are included from the time Mabel Cartwright lived with her sister Winifred. The fonds also contains material accumulated and written by Hilda Fern Wood about Mabel Cartwright, and some records relating to the Wood family.

Cartwright and Wood Families

Edgar William Pickford fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2001
  • Fonds
  • 1889-1909

The fonds consists of a notebook, with the title "Notes on the 39 Articles of the Church of England, the Provost" (the provost was C. W. E. Body); a sermon, "Pastoral Theology"; and a letter from A. H. Young, registrar of Trinity College, to Pickford acknowledging Pickford's intention to write the primary examination.

Pickford, Edgar W.

Earle Grey Players Collection

  • CA OTTCA F2311
  • Collection
  • 1949-1994

The Earle Grey Players Collection consists of programmes and brochures for the annual Shakespeare Festival held at Trinity College, historical information on the founding and development of the Shakespeare Festival, and ephemera related to the Festival, including a bronze plaque commemorating the location of a mulberry tree grown from a tree in Shakespeare’s birthplace Stratford-on-Avon.

Earle Grey Players

Edward C. Cayley fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2007
  • Fonds
  • 1888-1921

The fonds consists of correspondance relating to Cayley’s appointment to St. Simon’s Church in 1900, clippings of articles written by Cayley, and manuscripts of sermons and talks by Cayley.

Cayley, Edward C.

Elizabeth R.M. Dashwood fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2297
  • Fonds
  • 1908-1960

Fonds consists of personal documents from Betty Dashwood’s time at Trinity College. Files include correspondence and information about College and University registration, classes, and services, newspaper clippings, receipts, invitations, and programmes. Files also include a wooden St Hilda’s plaque with Elizabeth Dashwood’s name and year on it, a felt T with the U of T crest, an attendance book for the St Hilda’s Alumnae Association, and 8 black and white photographs of Trinity teams and clubs.

Dashwood, Elizabeth R.M.

George Warren fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2321
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1938

Fonds consists of handwritten and typed notes, addresses, sermons and newspaper clippings related to the Anglican Church and the debate over separate schools in Ontario.

Warren, George

Graham Owen fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2158
  • Fonds
  • [1976]

The fonds consists of an essay by Graham Owen entitled ‘Trinity College, Hoskin Avenue, Toronto: Sources, Plans and Buildings, for Professor D. S. Richardson

Owen, Graham

Graeme H. Patterson fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2008
  • Fonds
  • 1824-1993

The fonds is comprised of material relating to Patterson's teaching activities at Trinity College, including correspondence, manuscripts of his writings and publications, thesis notes, materials for lectures and research materials. The fonds also contains family papers which include material on the people and events of Paris, Ontario, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including records relating to the immigration of Home Children to Canada.

Contains series

  1. Correspondence
  2. Personal Information
  3. Writings and publications
  4. Thesis notes
  5. Materials for lectures
  6. Other research materials
  7. Family papers

Patterson, Graeme H.

J. Allan Walters fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2029
  • Fonds
  • 1908-1990

Fonds consists of extensive correspondence from Dr Walters to his parents, his brother and sister from 1925 to 1945, when he wrote home every few days. They cover student life at Queen's University and more extensively at Trinity College, his working experiences on a Great Lakes steamer, his early married life, his experiences during the Second World War and his career as a doctor.

Contains series:

  1. Trinity College
  2. Correspondence
  3. Dr Kathleen Wark Walters
  4. Medical notes
  5. Personal
  6. Subject Files

Walters, J. Allan

Adam Chapnick Fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2341
  • Fonds
  • 1941-2014

The fonds contains the material collected by Adam Chapnick during his research for his biography of John Wendell Holmes, Canada’s Voice: The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes, published by University of British Columbia Press in 2009. It includes his research in the Holmes fonds at Trinity College and Holmes’ letters to his family (Nancy Skinner Papers now incorporated into Holmes fonds), transcriptions of interviews and correspondence with various individuals, copies of some of Holmes’ writings, photographs, and correspondence relating to the publication of the book. Most of the research for his biography of John Holmes was undertaken between 2005 and early 2007.

Adam Chapnick

Desmond J. Conacher fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2156
  • Fonds
  • 1936-2000

The fonds contains the scholarly output of Conacher’s career, including research notes, lectures, offprints of his own and others’ work, personal and professional correspondence, and administrative records.

Desmond J. Conacher

Mary Hore Disher fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2209
  • Fonds
  • 1916-1946

The fond consists of a scrapbook containing photographs with interspersed textual material that documents the early lives of Mary Hore Disher, her family, her husband and his family, as well as the history of Trinity College and its students during the time of her attendance from 1933 to 1935.

MARY HORE DISHER

Duckworth Family Collection

  • CA OTTCA F2062
  • Fonds
  • [1900?]-1919

Fonds consists of textual material relating to the Duckworth Family, including notebooks, scrapbooks, correspondence and invitations.

Duckworth Family

Hicks Family Fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2074
  • Fonds
  • 1898-1979

Fonds consists of textual material and photographs relating to the Hicks family. Some material relates to the university career of RKH and includes research notes, articles, translations, book reviews, and poetry in the field of French literature. The majority of the material includes draft copies of RKH’s memoirs as well as diaries that he kept in the years leading up to his retirement in 1953 until his death in 1964. Some of the material relates to RKH’s personal life, including family correspondence, Christmas poems, and records pertaining to the life and amateur pursuits of Marjorie Ogilvy Edgar Hicks, including a scrapbook and two drafts of various chapters of an incomplete historical novel. Some material relates to the education and career of RKH’s son, John Edgar Hicks, including family correspondence and financial documents.

Rivers Keith Hicks

Ross Parmenter fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2360
  • Fonds
  • 1967 - 1984

Fonds consists of correspondence from Ross Parmenter and two article reviews discussing two of Mr. Parmenter’s publications.

Ross Parmenter

Dorothy Metcalf Deane Fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2098
  • Fonds
  • 1922-2003

The fonds consists of materials collected by Dorothy Deane and Edward F. Borbridge while at Trinity College and after graduation. Materials include ephemera, artefacts, correspondence and photographs.

Deane, Dorothy Metcalf

Roger Savory fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2091
  • Fonds
  • 1964-1995

Files relating to Middle East, international, and religious studies, especially at the University of Toronto, the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, the Canada Council, and Trinity College. Documents include academic and administrative papers.

Roger M. Savory

Brett Club Collection

  • CA OTTCA F2154
  • Collection
  • 1977-1992

The collection consists of constitutions, correspondence, promotional material, attendance lists, and financial records.

Brett Club

C. Allan Ashley fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2003
  • Fonds
  • 1910 - 1974

The fonds consists of writings, including memoirs, plays, and academic papers; materials relating to Trinity College and the University of Toronto; correspondence; printed materials; financial records; the records of the executor; and photographs of friends, family and travels.

Ashley, Charles Allan

Carolyn Purden fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2336
  • Fonds
  • 1968-1993

Fonds contains files created by Carolyn Purden to support her writing about the ordination of women as priests within the Anglican Community worldwide. Documents include her correspondence, notes, interview transcripts, and draft articles. Also included are publications, press releases and reports from the Anglican and Episcopal Churches, and clippings from newspapers and magazines.

Carolyn Purden

Charles Davidson Gossage fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2159
  • Fonds
  • 1951-1964

The fonds includes correspondence and pamphlets regarding the Trinity College Conference on the Humanities, 1952, and the Handbook of the Church’s Ministry of Healing.

Charles Davidson Gossage

Charles E. Stanbury fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2234
  • Fonds
  • [188-?]-[193-?]

The fonds consists of documents and photographs related to Dr. Stanbury’s education at the Trinity Medical College, and his later life in Chicago.

Charles E. Stanbury

Clifton Gardner fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2330
  • Fonds
  • 1941-2000

This fonds consists of records about the life and career of Clifton Gardner as an Anglican priest in England and Canada as well as his time as Chaplain in the Royal Navy. The fonds includes some published and unpublished works authored by Gardner, his sermon notebooks, and a diary.

Gardner, Clifton

Ethel Ridley fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2115
  • Fonds
  • 1895-1980

The fond consists of photocopies of records that document her military career, and photographs pertaining to the life, education and military career of Ethel Blanche Ridley.

Ridley, Ethel

F. Kenneth Hare fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2016
  • Fonds
  • 1968-2000

Fonds contains records relating to Hare’s work as a climatologist, geographer, and scholar. Files include correspondence, conference and meeting materials, published and unpublished reports and articles (by Hare and others), scientific data, photographs, newspaper clippings, letters of reference, pamphlets, newsletters, and other publications. Files also include a typed copy of Hare’s memoir, I’ll Always Take a Windowseat, as well as academic certificates and degrees.

Hare, F. Kenneth (Frederick Kenneth)

Florence Elizabeth Westacott fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2044
  • Fonds
  • 1914-1916

Fonds consists of an 18-page typescript enclosed in a paper cover, entitled ‘Poems by Miss Florence Westacott, B.A. (Trin) '06’. The typescript includes editorial annotations.

Westacott, Florence

George Ignatieff fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2020
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1911]-1989

Fonds consists of records pertaining to George Ignatieff’s professional career and personal life. Genealogical information about the Ignatieff family documents their lives in Russia and immigration to Canada. Some records relate to the Parkin and Grant familes. Family records include memoirs, diaries, photographs, student records, journals and correspondence. Ignatieff’s professional life as a diplomat with the Canadian government is documented by correspondence, subject files, speeches, reports, newspaper clippings and photographs.
Records from 1972 to 1986 are mainly from Ignatieff’s career as an administrator at the University of Toronto. These records were generated during day-to-day operations of these offices and include correspondence, subject files, speeches, writings, clippings and notebooks. In addition, there are documents associated with other organizations and activities in which he was involved, as well as documents relating to his honorary degrees and awards. Extensive background material and drafts trace the evolution of Ignatieff’s published memoir, The Making of a Peacemonger.

Correspondence and photographs can be found throughout the fonds. Researchers are encouraged to search broadly.

Ignatieff, George

John Strachan Collection

  • CA OTTCA F2021
  • Collection
  • [1778-1868]

The collection includes correspondence from every period of Strachan's life, official documents, notes, and writings.
Contains series

  1. Early Life
  2. Life in Canada
  3. Notes
  4. Official documents

Strachan, John

John W. Holmes fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2260
  • Fonds
  • [187-]-1991, predominant 1930-1991

The fonds consists of textual material and photographs. Much of the material relates to articles, speeches, books, book chapters, radio/television scripts, and book reviews written by JWH in the areas of Canadian foreign policy and international organization. As well, there is material relating to conferences and seminars in which he participated and organizations with which he was involved, files on his teaching at Glendon College, the University of Toronto, and Leeds University and his doctoral students, files of business and personal correspondence, material collected for his two-volume work, The Shaping of Peace, family and professional memorabilia.

Contains series

  1. Articles
  2. Speeches
  3. Books
  4. Book Chapters
  5. Radio & Television
  6. Book Reviews
  7. Conferences, Seminars, Convocations
  8. Glendon College, University of Toronto, Leeds University
  9. PhD Students
  10. Comments on Others’ Papers/Interviews with JWH
  11. CIIA Fellowships
  12. Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
  13. Other Organizations & Institutions
  14. Miscellaneous Correspondence
  15. Papers Collected for The Shaping of Peace
  16. Personal Correspondence
  17. University Activities
  18. Miscellany
  19. Death/Memorials
  20. Photographs

Holmes, John W.

Margaret Machell fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2289
  • Fonds
  • 1978

The fonds consists of records relating to the Larkin-Stuart Lecture on church furnishings, deliv-ered on 14 November 1978 including drafts, research materials and slides.

Machell, Margaret

Marguerite Joyce Mudge fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2092
  • Fonds
  • 1922-1988

The fonds contains correspondence, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and other items relating mainly to Convocation. The fonds further consists of ephemera and printed material relating to Trinity College collected by both M. Joyce Mudge and Gordon M. Mudge. The fonds contains three black and white photographs.

Mudge, Marguerite Joyce

Mortimer family fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2030
  • Fonds
  • 1854-1982

The fonds contains correspondence, financial records, a letter-book, and diaries of Charles White Mortimer and Arthur Beresford Mortimer.

Mortimer, Charles White

Robert Gordon Sutherland fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2036
  • Fonds
  • 1894-1914

The fonds consists of typescripts of a journal of a trip across Canada written sometime after 1898 and of six lectures on Shakespearean plays and heroines, as well as of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and printed items.

Sutherland, Robert Gordon

Trinity College Dramatic Society Collection

  • CA OTTCA F2126
  • Collection
  • 1985 -

This collection consists of scrapbooks, administrative records, and records of productions and events. Records of productions and events comprise the bulk of this collection and include programs, posters, scripts, newspaper clippings, sound recordings, photographs, and more.
Contains series:

  1. Scrapbooks
  2. Administrative Records
  3. Productions and Events
  4. Special Productions
  5. Non-TCDS Records

Trinity College Dramatic Society

Trinity College Literary Institute Collection

  • CA OTTCA F2025
  • Collection
  • 1849 -

Fonds consists mainly of administrative records of the Trinity College Literary Institute, including the Debates and Conversazione Committees. These records show the wide variety of activities in which the Trinity College Literary Institute has traditionally been involved and the large part played by “The Lit” in the life of the College. Annual social events included TCLI dinners with some well-known speakers, as well as the annual formal dance, the Conversazione which began in 1871. Elaborate programs, posters and graphic works were produced to promote and advertise these and other events.
Contains series:

  1. Administrative Records, Minutes of Meetings
  2. Financial Records
  3. Debates Committee and Debating
  4. Conversazione Committee
  5. Miscellaneous

Trinity College Literary Institute

Trinity College Senate fonds

  • CA OTTCA F1021
  • Fonds
  • 1992-2015

Fonds includes agendas, minutes, and supporting documents of Senate meetings. Files also include correspondence and notices of meetings as well as reports and documents pertaining to the sub committees of the Senate: the Library, Media, and Academic computing committee; Student Awards committee; Academic Appointment committee; Planning and Outreach committee; Community Affairs committee; and the Nomination committee.
Contains series

  1. Minutes and supporting documents
  2. Subcommittees

Trinity College Senate

G. Wilson Knight Collection

  • CA OTTCA F2066
  • Fonds
  • 1926 - 1982

The collection consists mainly of material relating to Knight’s theatrical performances and productions in Toronto and the United Kingdom, including theatre programs, review articles and newspaper clippings pertaining to the theatre, as well as a few published articles.

Knight, George Wilson

Irving H. Cameron fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2067
  • Fonds
  • 1866-1932

Fonds includes material Cameron collected on six topics: John Ambery, the Ontario Medical College for Women, the Trinity College Company of the Queen's Own Rifles, Beverly Jones, the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of John Strachan's Birth, and the fire that destroyed Old Trinity (the University of Trinity College at Queen Street West). Materials include letters, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes.

Cameron, Irving Heward

Edward Marion Chadwick fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2351
  • Fonds
  • 1858 - 1921

Fonds consist of six bound and four unbound handwritten diaries dating from 1858 to 1921. The diaries also include newspaper clippings, letter seals, cards, correspondence, photographs, playbills, menus, militia directives, and illustrations of friends, outings, and women’s fashion.

Edward Marion Chadwick

Keith MacMillan Fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2346
  • Fonds
  • 1947-2004

Fonds consists mainly of records related to the production of the musical comedy/operetta Saints Alive! (1949) for which Ronald Bryden (later a theatre critic and academic) wrote the libretto and Keith MacMillan wrote the music during their time at Trinity College. Included are copies of the script, libretto, and score; MacMillan’s scrapbook about the show, with his annotations on the script; lists of cast members; programs and reviews. As well, there is a script and parts of the handwritten music manuscript for another collaboration by MacMillan and Bryden: the one-act musical comedy What – No Crumpets! (1947). The fonds includes other creative writing by MacMillan from his Trinity days.

Keith MacMillan

Frederick Parker Fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2328
  • Fonds
  • 1894-1900

Consists of records relating to the life and practice of Dr. Fred Parker of Stratford, Ontario.

Frederick Parker

T.A Reed Fonds

  • CA OTTCA F2173
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1958

Fonds consists primarily of research notes and typescript drafts of biographies and histories that Reed was either engaged in writing or was annotating. Fonds also contains photographs and printing plates with photographs and illustrations used in his book A History of Trinity College 1852-1952.

T.A Reed

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