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Fonds consists of the administrative records of Esprit Orchestra, from its foundation in 1983 as Esprit Contemporain, to 2021.

Records include meeting minutes and correspondence from the board of directors and associated committees; financial records, including budgets, year-end financial statements, and reports to granting agencies; performance records, including planning files from subscription and non-subscription concerts, national and international tours, and composer commissions; materials relating to the orchestra's education and outreach activities; promotional materials, including posters, photographs, programs, and reviews; records relating to recording projects, including CDs, music for films, and radio broadcasts; awards received by the orchestra and its musical director Alex Pauk; and correspondence with musicians, composers, and other associations.

Fonds consists of manuscript lead sheets, parts, and scores created and used by Gary Williamson. It consists of original compositions by Williamson and his arrangements of jazz standards. Most of the arrangements are not dated.

Fonds consists of research compiled by Grant for her book, A Meeting of Minds: The Massey College Story (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015), documenting the history of Massey College from its inception in 1962-63 through to 2013. Includes interview recordings, interview transcripts, extensive research files (chronologically, 1959-2017; and by subject), correspondence, publishing files, and manuscript drafts. Interviewees include many prominent members of the University of Toronto and Massey College community including Robertson Davies, Claude Bissell, John Evans, John Fraser, Ann Saddlemyer, (J.N.) Patterson Hume, Vincent Tovell, Geoffrey Massey, and Ed Safarian, amongst others.

Two Word files about the Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry [MPC] course in the Faculty of Arts & Science, compiled by Mary Brereton, BSc 6T3, MA 6T5.

1. 50th Anniversary Celebrations in 2013, article by Mary Brereton written in 2013 speaking to the 50th anniversary of the Lash Miller building and the graduation of the MPC class of 6T3
2. Memories of MPC 6T3 Grads: Collected after 60th Anniversary Celebrations, June 2023
   • Includes 3 group photographs from the reunion.

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.

Fonds consists of 2 accessions

B1987-0045: Photo of 1924 meeting of the Association; the University of Toronto professors represented are Charles Ryle Fay and Robert Morrison MacIver.

B2009-0026: Bound volume of printed programmes, tickets, blank forms, published notices etc. re activities at the Toronto meeting of the Association in August 1897.

Records documenting Claude Brodeur's career as educational psychologist in the Faculty of Education. Includes mainly correspondence, some files relating to workshops seminars and conferences, reports authored, speeches, articles, consultant files and some early counseling files.

Snapshots depicting student life on campus during Brooks' time in the Faculty of Medicine. Includes images of the centenary parade in 1927, activities at Hart House, Devonshire House, Varsity Arena, and the Medical Building. Four duplicate negatives can be found in box 002P.

Records documenting the activites of Milton Brown as professor in the Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine and head (1956-1967) of the Department of Public Health. There are extensive files on administrative matters and courses; on courses given at the Canadian Civil Defence College; on research relating to tuberculosis, other communicable diseases, and the development of vaccines; and on committees, especially those that Brown chaired, such as the Panel on Infection and Immunity of the Defence Research Board and the Committee on Accident Prevention of the Canadian Public Health Association. Some of Dr. Brown's files incorporate material produced by Donald Fraser, and there are also some of the latter's files.

Included is correspondence, memoranda and notes, financial records, grant applications, lecture notes, minutes, reports, addresses, manuscripts, publications and photoprints.

Contains notebooks, assignments and a textbook of Lachlan Taylor Burwash, who studied Mining Engineering at the School of Practical Science from 1893-1897. Included are Applied Chemistry (1893); Applied Chemistry II (1894?); Physics (1894); Dynamics and Kinematics (1894); Constructive Design and Surveying (1895). Also three general notebooks (1889, 1894, 1895) and assignments and a textbook from Book-keeping (1891).

Two diaries for the years 1919 and 1922 written by John Bacon Brodie, graduate of the University of Toronto (BA, 1918) documenting his day to day life in Toronto working for the "Varsity Magazine" World War I supplement and his courtship of Phoebe Wade.

Fonds consists of 2 accessions:

B1984-0006: Correspondence, pamphlets, invitation cards, programmes, articles, photographs and lantern slides relating to the Lister Centennial Commemoration, 1927, which Dr. Cameron attended as the representative of the Faculty of Medicine. (2 boxes, 1923-1930)

B1986-0014: Copy of W.S. Wallace's "A History of the University of Toronto, 1827-1927", annotated by Irving Heward Cameron, who recorded additional sources and provided commentary and personal reminiscences. (1 box, 1927)

B.A. (1885) and M.A. (1896) diplomas and 2 prize books awarded with the silver medal in Modern Languages (1885).

Copy of 1906 "Torontonensis", annotated with death dates of Campbell's classmates from the class of 1906 (Medicine). Included are some death notices and obituaries.

Notes, minutes, memoranda, correspondence, notices, and reports relating to Ontario College of Education training courses, curriculum studies, and the activities of the Ontario Secondary Teachers Federation.

Fonds consists of 5 accession:

B1976-0006: The records relate to the first and second drafts of the Battery. (5 items, 1916)

B1984-0001: The records consist of account books, financial statements, registers, scrapbooks, publications, press clippings and photographs. (5 boxes, 1915-1982)

B1984-0010: The records consist of: draft lists, minutes of meetings, publications, photographs and related material (6 boxes, 1916-1983).

B1988-0033: Correspondence, manuscript, programs and photographs (1 box, 1933-1982)

B1995-0043: Postcard of the 67th Varsity Battery. (1 item, ca. 1916)

Administrative records of the Canadian Council of Library Schools (1969-1983) and of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (1972-1977, 1982-1983).

Series 1: Correspondence (15 September, 1936 - 2 May, 1939), primarily to and from the chair of the Committee, George de T. Glazebrook, but also including correspondence with George W. Brown, who worked closely with him, and relating to the broadcasting of Canadian local history and "portrait" series on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation stations. Correspondents include archivists D. C. Harvey, W. Kaye Lamb, and M. Seraphin Marion; historians A. S. Morton, Chester New, Fred H. Soward, and Reginald Trotter; and broadcasters include D. W. Buchanan, H. W. Morrison, Murray Gladstone, Allan Plaunt, and Charles Jennings; and Sir Ernest MacMillan.|

Series 2: Administrative files: Membership lists; "stampbook" of broadcasts, 1936-1938; memoranda on the broadcasting of local history; memoranda, rough notes by Glazebrook relating to and scripts for "Yonge Street" in the broadcast series "Historic Roads in Ontario"; lists of broadcasts for the "Canadian portrait" series.

Minutes (1939-1941) and account books (1939-1946) of the Canadian Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, established at the University of Toronto to lend aid to scholars and scientists displaced by political events in European countries.

Fonds consists of 2 accessions:

B1977-0032: Copy of the papers of the CSBS, consisting primarily of the minutes of the CSBS and the Candian Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, mimeographed communications to members, lists of members, other secretarial correspondence and a stripped file of correspondence between the SBL and its Canadian section. (2 reels, 1933-1977)

B1980-0040: Copy of issues 1 to 36 of the Bulletin of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies. (2 reels, 1936-1976)

Certificates, dance cards, class and prize lists, and annotated copy of the calendar of the Toronto School of Music (1890-1891), and photocopy of music composition that won the Governor-General's Award in 1895, all documenting the activities of Genevieve Caniff while a student in music at University College and the Toronto College of Music (Mus.B 1899); photograph of Genevieve Caniff, aged 17. There are also catalogues of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (1923-1931) that record the participation of members of the Gray (her married name) family.

Photographs, diplomas and some sparse correspondence document Harold Caples's education in the Faculty of Medicine (M.D. 1924) as well as his career as an obstetrician and gynecologist. He is reported to have been the 3rd Canadian to have attained this specialist recognition by being admitted as a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The photographs relate mainly to the University of Toronto and include the graduating class for Medicine in 1924, the University of Toronto senior basketball team in 1923-24 as well as a composite of the Nu Sigma Nu fraternity for 1923-24. The correspondence relates to his medical training both at the University of Toronto and in the United Kingdom, as well as his early work in radiology and the use of radium. There are also military documents relating to his service both in World War I and World War II.

Fonds consists of 3 accessions

B1983-0002: Research files, including correspondence, notes, articles, periodicals, pamphlets and photographs used by Professor Helen Carpenter in the writing of her book, "A Divine Discontent -- Edith Kathleen Russell: Reforming Educator." (2 boxes, 1915-1982)

B1991-0006: Button removed from Blazer showing University of Toronto crest without the tree or motto. (1 item, ca. 1929-1933)

B1997-0017: Records documenting the career of Dr. Helen M. Carpenter, Director of the School of Nursing from 1962-1972, including correspondence, articles, addresses and papers; correspondence and reports relating to consultant work done for the World Health Organization; biographical files on past directors of the School/ Faculty of Nursing including Edith Dick, Nettie Fidler, Florence Emory and Kathleen Russell (1 box, 1955-1984).

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

Course notes for first year course in interior design, Faculty of Household Science, illustrated; mimeographed examples of furniture design, and the April, 1929 final examination questions for the course.

Deeds for land at Bloor and Spadina between George Dickson and the University of Toronto (July 1907) and for land at Bloor and Huron Street between W. G. Gooderham and Trustees and Governors of the University of Toronto (27 June 1907). Copy of an indenture, Jan. 20, 1836 between King's College and Ezra Annes, Township of Whitney for lot 28 in first concession of that Township containing 100 acres: "Enterest Kings College Registry page 101".

Personal records of Harry M. Cassidy, documenting his academic and professional activities as well as family records relating to his wife, Beatrice Pearce and children. The bulk of the records are found in accession B1972-0022 and consists of biographical files and articles; personal and professional correspondence; diaries (1917-1924) and a scrapbook; certificates and diplomas; papers, examinations, research notes and supporting pamphlets and articles; lecture notes and related teaching material; drafts of articles and books, with accompanying correspondence and research material and notes; book reviews; articles and addresses; photoprints; administrative files relating primarily to the teaching of social work at the University of Toronto, to committee work, and to special projects; course outlines, student assignments and grades; poems and stories written by Harry Cassidy and others; files relating to the Harry Cassidy Memorial Research Fund; artifacts consisting of World War I memorabilia and an academic hood.

Accession B1983-0007 (1 box) consists of membership files for associations and organizations in his field; biographical files; correspondence relating primarily to his employment as a professor of social work at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Toronto; articles, a brief to the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations (1938), and notes for an address.

Photographs documenting two members of the Cavell family at the University of Toronto: J. H. Cavell (BA, 1909) and H.W. Cavell (BA, 1916). Images include: University of Toronto graduating class in Arts, 1909; University College graduating class in Arts, 1916; University College Executive of 1915 in 1912-13; Varsity staff, 1916-17; executive of the Class of 1909 in 1908-09.

Correspondence and research notes, memoranda, newsletters, and press clippings assembled by R.A. Rosevear for his uncompleted history of the Faculty of Music, with additions by Professor Chandler.

"One hundred astronomical lantern slides", prepared by C.A. Chant. Includes slides and accompanying handbook.

Mimeographed notes, in six parts, prepared by Professor Chapelon for "Elementary Course on the Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions." They were designed to accompany a second year mathematics and physics course he gave from 1925 until he returned to France in 1934 (he resigned from the Department the following year).

Photograph album containing 34 black and white copy photographs commemorating Dr. Norman Bethune's activities at field hospitals in China ca.1938 to 1939. Includes captions in English and Chinese. Compiled by the Chinese Medical College. Presented to the University of Toronto Library. Accompanying Material: "In Memory of Norman Bethune", 2-page article written by Chairman Mao Tze-Tung, 21 December 1939. English translation. Appears at front of album.

Interviews conducted by Elspeth Chisholm of various individuals for the CBC programme "Innis of Canada: A Study of a Scholar" (1972).

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.

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.

Consists of 134 slides depicting the University of Toronto campus in the early 1980s. These images were taken by photographer Rudi Christl for use in "University of Toronto: A Souvenir" published by Oxford press in 1984. It also includes images that were taken for the book and not used as well as a series of images of Osgoode Hall.

There are general campus views as well as exterior and interior shots of campus buildings including: University College, Victoria College, Trinity College, St. Michael's College, New College, Wycliff College, Innis College as well as Scarborough and Erindale Colleges; other buildings include Sir Daniel Wilson residence, Flavelle House, Hart House, Sidney Smith Hall, the Athletic Centre, Newman Centre, Botany Greenhouses, Cumberland House, Sandford Fleming, McLennan Laboratories; libraries include: Robarts, Sigmund Samuel and Science and Medicine. This accession also includes several slides of Osgood Hall.

Slides also capture events on campus. For example, there are shots of homecoming floats and parade, student registration, student in study halls, convocation procession, engineering student march, skating and football on the back campus and student theatrical performances - to list only a few.

This accession comprises the entire fonds of personal letters of Mrs. Elspeth Clark to her mother, Mrs. Isabella Bertram Fripp, dating from embarkation by ship with her two children, Edwin and Shirley, in July 1940 until May, 1944, shortly before their return to England. The letters written on a weekly basis describe travel conditions aboard ship and overland to Toronto, and details regarding day to day life of herself and her children as guests of the CBOC in Toronto. Details of daily life include living conditions, children’s schooling (Edwin at U.T.S. and Shirley at Bishop Strachan) illnesses and other medical needs, summer camps, and Mrs. Clark’s work with the Red Cross, Hart House, and the War Guest Mothers’ Club, among others. In addition to the letters from Mrs. Clark are also the occasional enclosed letters of her children, Edwin and Shirley, to their grandmother. Additional notes by her son, E.F. clarify context of some information such as her memoir. Letter log books (1940-1949) provide dates, to whom sent and summary of contents of each letter. The log books also include lists, name and addresses and other notes relating to their stay in Toronto. Also included are photographs documenting Mrs. Clark, her children and other people relating to their stay in Canada.

Fonds consists of 2 accessions of photographs

B1987-0017: 6 photos of graduating classes of 1904 (Arts) and 1906 (Engineering); and of student societies.

B1985-0030:
-University College Literary and Scientific Society Executive, 1900-1901
-Executive of the University of Toronto Mathematical and Physical Society, 1902-1903
-University College Literary and Scientific Society Dinner Committee, 1903-1904
-Faculty of Arts, graduating class of 1904
-Executive Committee of the University of Toronto Union, 1905-1906
-Ontario School of Practical Science, graduating class of 1906
-University of Toronto Engineering Society Executive, 1905-1906

Course notes for the honours program in household economics in the Faculty of Arts (1930-1934); clothing budget for 4th year; notes on various matters, possibly taken for use in articles for the Varsity, to which Harriet Clark was a reporter.

These course notes were taken from lectures and for laboratory exercises by Harriet Clark as part of the honours program in Household Economics at University College, 1930-1934.Courses were offered both through the Faculties of Arts and Household Science. The material is arranged chronologically and, unless otherwise noted, the description is for course notes. The roman numerals designate the course level.

Fonds consists of 4 accessions:

B1981-0038: Course notes and notes on readings taken by Herbert A. Clark in the undergraduate Arts programme for third year honours courses on English law given by William Proudfoot and French literature given by John Squair.
-"No. 8: History of English Law" with notes from various texts, including Blackstone, Pollock, adn Reeve
-"No. 10: History of English Law, 17 Lectures by (Professor Wililam) Proudfoot in Michaelmas Term, '93, from Oct. 16 to Nov. 9"
-"No. 17: Lectures on History of French Literature by Professor (John) Squair", January-April, 1894.

B1982-0005: Course notes and notes on readings taken by Herbert A. Clark for fourth year honours Arts courses in political philosophy and constitutional law. The latter course was given by David Mills.
-#11: Political Philosophy, 4th year, 1894-95: Notes on Sidgwick's "Elements of Politics"; Notes on Pollock's "History of the Science of Politics"; Notes on Green's "Essays on Political Organization"; Notes on Ritchie's "Principles of State Interference"
-#11: Political Philosophy, 4th year, 1894-95: (insert) Notes on Bluntschli(?)
-#11: Political Philosophy, 4th year, 1894-95: (insert) Notes on Hobbes' "Leviathan"
-#12: Constitutional Law -- Federal, 4th year, 1894-95: Notes on 2nd half of Todd's "Party Government in the Colonies"; 13 lectures by Hon. David Mills, Professor of Constitutional and International Law, 4 Dec 1894-14 Jan 1895.

B1985-0014: Course notes taken by Herbert A. Clark for 3rd year honour political economy programme in the Faculty of Arts, University of Toronto; also term papers. Included are courses in law.

B1998-0009: Correspondence and memorabilia belonging to H.A. Clark (B.A. 1895) including a letter he wrote to the editor of the Toronto Telegram discussing the role of W.L.M. King in the student strike of 1895. There is also correspondence relating to a fund raising drive by the Class of 1895 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Class. Memorabilia includes programs for various dinners including the University Centenary Dinner in 1927.

William Clark's course notes in algebra and trigonometry for public and high school; his course notes taken while a student in 1st-3rd year mechanical engineering; files and photographs relating to the Overseas Education League (1924); photographs include Applied Science YMCA executive (1911-1912), University of Toronto Rowing Club (1923-1924), and the graduating class in Engineering (1924).

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, minutes and addresses relating to Donald Clarke's involvement with the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research. Included are files on the opening of the Best Institute, and the following activities linked to the impending construction of the Medical Sciences Building: a review of the BBDMR, renovations to the Banting Institute (including a blueprint), and meetings Faculty of Medicine Advisory Committee on Audio-Visual Resources. Included is a photograph of Clarke and Charles H. Best (1970), and of a frigate and corvette on which Clarke served as a group radar officer during World War II (1944-1945).

A research paper entitled "The March on Ottawa: A Study of the Committee for an Independent Canada," compiled and written by Robert George Clarke while a final year student in the Department of History; also research files consisting of a brief, with background articles and press clippings, submitted on 23 June, 1973 by the Committee for an Independent Canada to the House of Commons' Standing Committee on Finance, Trade and Economic Affairs regarding Bill C-132, which became the Foreign Investment Review Act.

Correspondence, course notes, lecture notes and draft articles largely compiled while a professor of English (1905-1950); typescript, photostat of original manuscript and microfilm copy, correspondence, etc. relating to "Life of St.Norbert" by John Capgrave and edited by Clawson; bound volumes listing students and marks for classes taught by Clawson (1914-1950); Clawson's own student notebooks (1901-1906) on courses on Chaucer and Robin Hood; typescript of "The religious thought of Sir Thomas More" by Gervase [?] Burke, n.d.

Course notes (1888-1890) taken by Allen Charles Mackenzie Cleghorn while a student at Trinity Medical College, and correspondence (1903-1914) relating to medical research; course notes (1925-1928) taken by his son, Robert Allen Cleghorn during 4th, 5th and 6th year Medicine at the University of Toronto. Included in the latter are courses taught by Professors Duncan Graham, W.E. Gallie and Harold W. Wookey.

Course notes and textbooks belonging to Clara E. Clinkscale when she was a student in the Faculty of Arts at University College (BA 1912); problem sets, experiments and exam papers from the years she taught in the Department of Physics during the Second World War.

Correspondence, postcards, certificates, class admission cards, examination papers, receipts, and programmes relating to William Edwin Raymond Coad's activities while a student in the Faculty of Medicine (1893-1897), with a few later certificates and receipts relating, in part, to his medical practice in the area around Franklin, Manitoba.

Material assembled by John Coleman relating to Leopold Infeld, whose PhD student he had been at the University of Toronto in 1943. The files contain a covering letter to the accession; correspondence between Coleman and Infeld in 1950, with covering letter of explanation, 1985; reviews of Infeld's book, 'Why I left Canada', 1978-1979; the programme for the Infeld Centennial meeting in Warsaw, June 22-23, 1998, which Coleman attended; and correspondence with Howard Stern of the Ottawa Citizen, who wrote articles (included) for the paper on Infeld in 1998 and 1999, with earlier letters and press clippings (1968-1999).

General administrative records of the Conference on Editorial Problems Committee relating to the organizing of its yearly conference. The files contain mainly correspondence but also include notes, memoranda, agendas, minutes, list of participants, and information packages about each conference. Arrangement is mostly by conference. Also included are the financial records of the Committee and records relating to the publishing of its proceedings.