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University of Toronto Students' History Collective fonds

  • UTA 1897
  • Fonds
  • 2016-2019

Fonds consists of promotional materials, budgets, planning files, grant applications, and draft website content for the University of Toronto Students' History Collective (UTSHC), documenting the activities of this undergraduate-led club. Also included are raw and edited video files of an on-camera oral history interview of Margaret MacMillan and an HTML file of the group chat amongst members from Facebook Messenger.

University of Toronto Students' History Collective

University of Toronto. University College fonds

  • UTA 0213
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1820s - ca. 2000

This fonds contains 16 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

University of Toronto. University College

University of Toronto. Women's Athletic Association fonds

  • UTA 1911
  • Fonds
  • 1966-1977

Budget (1971-1976), correspondence (1977) and statistics (1966-1969); listing of clubs, programs, course schedules, descriptions and registration (1974-1976/77); notices of competitions (1975) and dance films show (1976/77).

University of Toronto. Women's Athletic Association

University of Toronto. Women's War Service Committee fonds

  • UTA 1915
  • Fonds
  • 1939-1951

Fonds consists of 2 accessions:

B1968-0002 (1939-1948): Records of the University of Toronto Women's War Service Committee, consisting of files of its Central Committee and the Committee for British Overseas Children. Included is correspondence, minutes, financial records and reports. Some restrictions apply to this accession.

B1972-0004 (1939-1951): Records of the University of Toronto Women's War Service Committee, including its Central Committee and sub-committees, including the Committee for British Overseas Children. Included is correspondence, constitution, reports, and press coverage.

University of Toronto. Women's War Service Committee

University Settlement. Women's Auxiliary fonds

  • UTA 1916
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1987

Fonds consists of 2 accessions

B2000-0028: The records document the Women's Auxiliary of the University Settlement. The Women's Auxiliary was established in 1920, ten years after the creation of the University Settlement. The records in this accession consists of histories of the Women's auxiliary, its constitution, lists of members, correspondence and minutes from their committee meetings. Files also document the University Settlement Board meetings, the Camp Boulderwood initiative, and literature distributed by the University Settlement itself. Also includes a photograph of Marilyn MacDonald, president of the Women's Auxiliary University Settlement accepting the Annual Commnunity Leadership Award on behald of the auxiliary.

B2001-0010: The records document the Women's Auxiliary of the University Settlement. They consist of: copies of its constitutions; reports of officers and committees including President (1939-54), Secretary (1932-1950), Treasurer (1931-1983) House and Buying Committee (1933-1969), Public Relations (1945-74), Tea Conveanor (1963-1986) and Fashion Show (1980-1886); original minute books from 1920-1983; misc. correspondence (1940-1987); membership and supporters lists; one file relating to the writing of the history of the Women's Auxiliary. Also included are University Settlement Board of Directors minutes and reports, 1976-1984 as well as some miscellaneous publications, 1980-1986. Also includes 3 photographs and 33 negatives documenting a fashion show sponsored by the Women's Auxiliary of the University Settlement.

University Settlement. Women's Auxiliary

Upper Canada College fonds

  • UTA 0220
  • Fonds
  • 1824-1961

This fonds contains 2 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

Upper Canada College

Ursula Martius Franklin fonds

  • UTA 1287
  • Fonds
  • 1934-2014 [predominant 1945-2014]

Fonds consists of records documenting the personal, professional, and public life of Dr. Ursula Franklin, physicist, engineer, materials scientists, pacifist and feminist. Records document Dr. Franklin’s early life and career, later employment by the University of Toronto, awards and honorary degrees, teaching, research process and output, publishing activities, travel, service on national scientific boards, work with the CBC, peace work with the Quakers and Voice of Women, as well as other advocacy and activism.

A series of chronological files documents Dr. Franklin’s speeches, talks and attendance at a variety of academic and community events. Fonds also includes a significant amount of correspondence with colleagues, family, friends, fellow activists and ordinary citizens, as well as electronic copies of more than 575 pages of surveillance of Dr. Franklin by the RCMP. One series also documents a wide range of matters at the University of Toronto relating to Massey College, Museum Studies, the SLOWPOKE Reactor, and other matters. Yet another series documents Dr. Franklin’s involvement with the Ursula Franklin Academy.

Records include day planners, notebooks, correspondence, publications, news clippings, reports, drafts, research data and notes, background material, photographs, sound and moving image recordings and some copies of government documents and records.

See series and subseries descriptions for more detail.

Franklin, Ursula Martius

Ursula Mary Anderson fonds

  • UTA 1028
  • Fonds
  • 1970-1973

Records documenting Professor Ursula Anderson's research project, Toronto Child Health Study, including correspondence, research files, working papers, drafts of the study, and the abbreviated report as accepted by the Department of National Health and Welfare; her submission for a senior scientist award, files on projects reviewed by Dr. Anderson, and an article written by her.

Anderson, Ursula Mary

UTARMS' Oral History Collection on Student Activism

  • UTA 0302
  • Collection
  • 1972-2020

Collection includes seventeen oral history interviews focused on illuminating the impact of student action and initiatives across UofT’s three campuses. Themes within the interviews cover a broad range of topics including community building and mentorship, institutional response, and the deep personal and educational value drawn from commitments to systemic change.

University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services

Van der Smissen Family fonds

  • UTA 1922
  • Fonds
  • 1889-1987

Papers of William Van Der Smissen, Professor of German, University of Toronto, consisting of photographs of trips to Europe and various family events; also, an annotated copy for further editions of Professor Van der Smissen's translation of Faust and an album of press reviews; and, a scrapbook of cartoons by du Maurier.

van der Smissen Family

Velyien Ewart Henderson fonds

  • UTA 1369
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1902-1918, 1927-1928

Fonds consists of 2 accessions

B1985-0002: Henderson family photo album containing family photographs, early images of campus buildings including University College, University gates, Medical Building, Victoria College, Biology building. There are also images of the 198th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, showing parades, ceremonies, military exercises and athletic activities such as baseball, possibly at Aldershot. (ca. 1902-1918, 1 photo-album)

B1987-0024: Correspondence amongst members of the Henderson family including Velyien Ewart Henderson and his wife concerning family and university matters. In particular the letters relate to matters in the Departments of Pharmacology and Physiology, as well as the Faculty of Medicine, Hart House and campus societies. There are also correspondence discussing the departure of J.J.R. Macleod. (1927-1928, 1 box)

Henderson, Velyien Ewart

Vera Peters fonds

  • UTA 1655
  • Fonds
  • 1948-1993

Biographical files, photographs, correspondence, drafts of addresses, research notes, manuscripts and articles documenting Dr. Vera Peter's career as a medical researcher and a pioneer in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and breast cancer.

Peters, Vera

Vernon Russell Davies fonds

  • UTA 1202
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1958

This fonds contains records documenting Mr. Davies' university education at McGill University and some records relating to his teaching at University of Toronto (mainly internal publication of Staff notes for courses such as Elementary Surveying), and the Royal Military College, Kingston (1938-39) The majority of the records relate to the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors and its examinations ca 1948-1955. These records include lecture notes and copies of examinations relating to Algebra, Astronomy, Curves, Surveying, Drainage laws, etc. and collected and produced while operating his Tutorial School.

Davies, Vernon Russell

Victor Ernest Graham fonds

  • UTA 1325
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1955-1984

Consists of research files and papers relating to 16th century royal entries in France, including photocopies of original documents, and documentation from "The Royal Tour of France by Charles IX and Catherine de Medici (1564-66)", U of T Press, 1979, and additional royal entries, court festivals and important secondary sources, both before and after the Royal Tour.

Graham, Victor Ernest

Victor George Smith fonds

  • UTA 1789
  • Fonds
  • 1931-1967

Mostly teaching materials, such as lecture notes, graphs, and engineering drawings, of Victor George Smith, professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1927 to 1967. In addition, there is also some correspondence, created mostly in the 1960s, concerning the AIEE, grants, research, and references. No personal records are contained herein.

Smith, Victor George

Victor Howard fonds

  • UTA 1394
  • Fonds
  • 1969

Consists of transcripts and tapes of interviews with individuals working at the University of Toronto Press. The interviews were arranged by Prof. Victor Hoar of the University of Western Ontario, who had a grant to carry out an "oral history" project concerning academic publishing in Canada. Dr. Hoar later changed his surname to Howard. The tapes and transcripts were transferred to the Archives in 1979, with the intention of adding them to the Archives' own oral history collection.

Box 1 contains transcripts of interviews with Harold Bohne, Miss Cragg (now Mrs. D. Sutherland), ___ Fanning, Allan Fleming, J.G. Garden, Roy Gurney, and Eleanor Harmon.

Box 2 contains transcripts of interviews with D. Hayne, Marshall Jeanneret, Hillary Marshall, Ian Montagnes, and B. Plewman.

There are also audiotapes of the recordings for Cragg, Fleming, Garden, Garvey, Hayne, Jeanneret, Montagnes, and Plowman. There is also an audiotape of an interview with Francess Halpenny, for which there is no transcript.

Howard, Victor

Vincent Wheeler Bladen fonds

  • UTA 1066
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1979

Fonds contains 2 accessions of personal records of Vincent W. Bladen.

B1974-0073 (8 boxes) consists of correspondence; biographical and subject files; briefs to and reports of commissions and committees (e.g., Royal Commission on the Automotive Industry and the Commission on the Financing of Higher Education in Canada); addresses and speeches; and photographs.

B1982-0002 (15 boxes) consists of subject files including Medicine as popular culture; income tax forms (1929-1976); course notes on administration (Spring 1976); manuscripts of articles, books including papers of Jeff Harcourt, "Bladen on Bladen"; personal family records including will of Mrs Bladen and estate of Mrs. Bladen's mother, correspondence from James H. Bladen re: estate of parents, courtship correspondence of V.W. Bladen, displaced English children at Bladen home during World War II, Michael Joy Bladen correspondence, family tree, certificates and diplomas; photoprints; film reels and videocassette of home movies of Bladen family at King and Bladen family at Glenorchy (Jack Ball's Farm), circa 1941 and 1946.

Bladen, Vincent Wheeler

Vivian M. Rakoff fonds

  • UTA 1682
  • Fonds
  • [194-]-2020

Fonds consists of records documenting the professional, personal and creative life of Dr. Vivian Rakoff, psychiatrist, administrator and professor. Records include correspondence, certificates, articles, research and background material, creative writing, sketches, and records relating to Dr. Rakoff’s many appearances on CBC programs, including tapes of the shows.

See series descriptions for more information.

Rakoff, Vivian M.

W. G. Stepler fonds

  • UTA 1807
  • Fonds
  • 1915-1921

Course notes of W. Gordon Stepler while a student in the Faculty of Arts and Pharmacy including: laboratory notebook for 1st year science, 1915-1916; course notes for two courses in pharmacy; notes for organic chemistry and materia medica and pharmacognosy (1920-21). Also includes one photograph of South House residence, 1915-1916.

Stepler, W. G.

Waddell family fonds

  • UTA 1928
  • Fonds
  • 1903-1908

Graded essay, publications consisting of conference material relating to the International Federation of University Women, admit to lecture card, issues of "Old Lit"; and photographs of U of T Graduating Class in Arts and the University College Executive.

Waddell family

Walter Frisby Fellowship fonds

  • UTA 1936
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1983

Records of the Walter Frisby Fellowship, formerly known as the Public Speaking Association and now changed name to Dr. Zoltan Mester Fellowship. Include correspondence, minutes of meetings, notices, financial statements, reminiscences and a gavel.

Walter Frisby Fellowship

Wayne Ray fonds

  • UTA 1687
  • Fonds
  • 1980-1985

Nine-two coloured slides document the grounds and landscaping at 93 Highland, the official residence of the University of Toronto President. They were taken while Ray was a grounds keeper in the Physical Plant Department and include views of a retaining wall construction, a slope reconstruction, the rock garden, the greenhouse potting shed and the conservatory. In addition there is one landscape drawing of the rock garden done by Ray. Also included are 75 b&w and colour photographs showing the University of Toronto Bookstore move to the Koefler Centre in 1985 as well as various images of physical plant staff members at work.

Ray, Wayne

Wayne Roberts fonds

  • UTA 1709
  • Fonds
  • 1969-1971

Charles Street Tenants Association files on rent strike and action by students.

Roberts, Wayne

Wilbert P. Brian fonds

  • UTA 1081
  • Fonds
  • 1933-1934

Three photographs documenting Wilbert P. Brian experiences as a member of Devonshire Residence East House. Included is a view of the 1934 freshmen bed race in which Brian took part. Accompanying these photographs are two pages from a scrapbook with clippings about the freshmen bed races and other related events.

Brian, Wilbert P.

Wilbur Rounding Franks fonds

  • UTA 1288
  • Fonds
  • 1935-1956, 1995

Fonds consists of 2 accessions:

B1975-0031: Handwritten notebooks of students and Dr. Franks used for recording experiments including index, summary notes and numbered laboratory slides. One oversize folder containing plan of Banting Institute dated 1933 and plans of apparatus and tanks. (111 Boxes plus 1 oversize folder., 1935-1956)

B1995-0042: Two colour photographs of the Franks Flying Suit on display at Camp Borden, Ontario (1995). Once copy print of Franks in his WWII uniform. Also includes 1 file with photographs that documents his brother Hugh Franks appointment to the Board of the Royal Ontario Museum in 1981

Franks, Wilbur Rounding

William Arthur Charles Harvey Dobson fonds

  • UTA 1219
  • Fonds
  • 1931-1981

Fonds consists of 2 accessions

B1989-0019: Correspondence, minutes, reports, address and publications relating to Professor Dobson's involvement in organizations specializing in Chinese studies. (4 boxes, 1931-1978)

B1998-0019: Consists of a manuscript and research notes for Professor Dobson's English translation of the Chinese history, Tso Chuan; research notes for a Chinese dictionary; and correspondence with linguistic scholars. (4 boxes, [197-]-1981)

Dobson, William Arthur Charles Harvey

William Barber fonds

  • UTA 1034
  • Fonds
  • 1902-1905

Athletic photographs and graduation diploma of William Barber who gradutated with a Bachelor of Applied Science in 1905. Photographs include: Faculty of Applied Science Track Team, 1902; Varsity Assault at Arms Team, 1903-1904; University of Toronto Track Team, Inter University Champions, 1903; and University of Toronto Track Team, 1905.

Barber, William

William Beverley Scott fonds

  • UTA 1756
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1856-2014 [predominant 1923-2014]

Accession B1991-0020 contains correspondence, articles, minutes and addresses documenting the activities of the Ectology Committee of the Department of Zoology and the Passamaquoddy Salmon Associates. Correspondence is among Scott, A.G. Huntsman and Harold H. Harvey.

Accession B2016-0001 contains the personal records of W. Beverley Scott, Professor Emeritus of Zoology at the University of Toronto, former Curator of Fishes at the Royal Ontario Museum, and former Director of the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. The records include correspondence, certificates, diaries, travel files, journals and field notes, research files, manuscripts and publications, and drafts of addresses, with associated photographs, slides, x-rays, notes, other related material, and a number of packets of fish scales.

This accession contains approximately 400 photoprints and 200 negatives and strip negatives, along with 41 slides, 48 x-rays, a few postcards, and a number of drawings.

Scott, William Beverley

William Bruce Charles fonds

  • UTA 1140
  • Fonds
  • 1944-1989

Correspondence of Dr. Bruce Charles with Dr. Duncan Graham (1944, 1967) and with Robert Kerr, co-author of biography of Dr. Graham entitled "Duncan Graham Medical Reformer and Educator" (Toronto: Hannah Institute & Dundurn Press, 1989). Also includes some clippings.

Charles, William Bruce

William Cameron Blackwood fonds

  • UTA 1065
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1884- ca. 1910

Views of University buildings, including University College, (including winter view) Victoria College, School of Military Aeronautics, Parliament Buildings, Library, Wycliffe College, Biology Building, Gymnasium, Chemistry and Mining Building, Medical Building, School of Practical Science, Senate Chamber; portraits of Robert A. Falconer and John Galbraith. Many photographs are undated. Taken by William Cameron Blackwood.

Blackwood, William Cameron

William Campbell Murdie fonds

  • UTA 1602
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1912-1914

Fonds consists of a portfolio of technical drawings, maps and charts prepared by William Campbell Murdie while a student of engineering at the University of Toronto, 1913-1914, and 2 photographs.

Murdie, William Campbell

William Cooper Lumbers fonds

  • UTA 1494
  • Fonds
  • 1897-1907

Certificates, photographs and engineering drawings reflecting William Lumber's years as an undergraduate in the diploma programme (mechanical and electrical engineering) of School of Practical Science. Includes his graduating photo (1901) and diploma as well as the School of Practical Science graduating class photo for 1899-1900. Also two group photos of the Engineering Society of the School of Practical Science.

Lumbers, William Cooper

William Craig Heron fonds

  • UTA 1375
  • Fonds
  • 1968-1972

Consists of files containing correspondence, reports, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, newsletters and periodicals, dealing with university discipline, the library crisis, Berkeley student protests, the 1971 University of Toronto Act, women's liberation, daycare, SAC, Glendon Forum, unemployment, student aid, Canadian Union of Students, drugs, and other student and education-related topics.

Heron, Craig

William E. Beckel fonds

  • UTA 1049
  • Fonds
  • 1953-1998

Manuscripts of speeches and articles prepared by Prof. William E. Beckel as student in Botany (1953) and later professor of Zoology and Dean of Science Scarborough College. Also includes speeches given as Dean of Scarborough College and also after leaving University of Toronto. Includes copy of CV updated to 1998.

Beckel, William E.

William E. Carswell fonds

  • UTA 1125
  • Fonds
  • 1966-1969

Fonds consists of 2 accessions:

B2001-0004: Watercolour paintings by William Carswell, former professor in the School of Architecture. Two of the paintings are of the old School of Practical Science - "old red Skule House" The other, identified as Columbus,Ontario, shows buildings and a church steeple. 1967-1969

B2008-0028: Two framed watercolour paintings by W. E. Carswell, former professor of the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto: 1) Winchester Close, 1966 and 2) Go Home Rapids, 1968

Carswell, William E.

William Edward Christian fonds

  • UTA 1137
  • Fonds
  • 1980

Typed copy of W.E. Christian's manuscript, "Harold Adams Innis--The Idea File: Notes and Reflections, 1945-1952," which was published as "The Idea File of Harold Adams Innis" by the University of Toronto Press in 1980.

Christian, William Edward

William Edward Gallie fonds

  • UTA 1307
  • Fonds
  • [189-?] - 1963

The William Edward Gallie fonds consists of 6 series based largely on his work as a surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children and the Toronto General Hospital, as well as his role at the University of Toronto as Dean and Professor at the Faculty of Medicine. The majority of the records relate to Gallie’s publications, lectures, public addresses, and research. The fonds also includes a small amount of personal ephemera such as event invitations and newspaper clippings. The W. E. Gallie fonds consists of the following series: 1) Writings & Publication Drafts, 2) Lectures and Public Addresses, 3) Research, 4) Correspondence, 5) Personal Ephemera, and 6) Photographs & Graphic Materials.

Gallie, William Edward

William Edward Young fonds

  • UTA 1987
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1934

Architectural drawings covering W.E. Young's years as a student in the Faculty of Applied Science. Included is one submitted in his unsuccessful bid for the Darling and Pearson Prize in 1934.

Young, William Edward

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