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Legal documents

The series includes the original letters patent of the Corporation of Seven Wardens and copies of the by-laws of the Corporation. Also included are numerous letters, clippings and addenda concerning the copyrighting of the Ritual and the “Hymn of Breaking Strain” in Canada, the United States and abroad. The files have been arranged chronologically within the series.

Financial records

The series includes detailed financial statements, itemized accounts and receipts enumerating in detail the costs associated with the Ritual. Particular itemized receipts may be useful for indicating the costs and processes involved in manufacturing the iron rings. The manufacture of the rings has remained the primary expense of the Ritual, which is largely administered on a volunteer basis. Thus, by default, the series illuminates those few other expenses such as travel and meeting costs associated with the Ritual ceremony and its executive. Note that financial statements for Camp One are likely to be found in the correspondence series with other secretarial records in later accessions and also as addenda to the meeting minutes of Series 3. The financial records are arranged chronologically by file.

Correspondence

The correspondence series follows three distinct ordering systems. Those files that were separated as Haultain’s personal correspondence are placed at the front of the series (Box 006) and arranged in chronological order. The “personal” designation appears to have been imposed on the records by the rearrangement of Edith Birkett (see Series 8). Also included in this series are some miscellaneous Haultain correspondence files on a variety of topics, including the Ritual, and some personal correspondence that was filed with the Ritual records.

Boxes 007 through 009 are arranged chronologically and include correspondence between the Wardens and the Camps, some committee correspondence and general Kipling Ritual correspondence. The alphabetical arrangement appears to have been mostly applied following Birkett’s arrangement of the Kipling Ritual files and includes significant correspondence with Camp and Corporate Secretaries and Wardens including Norman Parkinson, Louis Trudel, Robert Marshall and Thomas Hogg. These letters are arranged alphabetically (Boxes 009 through 012).

In later accessions the records are mostly arranged in chronological order and are interspersed with various attachments such as receipts and meeting minutes. Largely these records contain the details of the activity of the office of the Camp One Secretary. For correspondence with the other Camp secretaries see also Series 7. Files (07) and (09) in B1982-0023/006 include early examples of the hand-hammered iron rings.

Publications

This series includes copies of “The Iron Ring”, a private publication for the Camp Wardens, printed as a kind of historical primer and general information circular. There is also a clipping file of publicity concerning the Ritual, correspondence regarding the various publications, and a printed musical score for a composition by Alice Roger Collins, to the text of the poem “The Sons of Martha” by Rudyard Kipling, dedicated to the “engineering profession”.
Accession B1995-0040 includes additional publicity clippings, more recent editions of “The Iron Ring”, a Manual of Camp Procedures and mark ups for a collection of Kipling poems. Accession B2009-0029 includes a copy of the reprinted Twenty Poems by Rudyard Kipling, issue no.8 of “The Iron Ring”, The Manual of Camp Procedure (1988), various articles and publicity concerning the Canadian postage stamp honouring the 75th anniversary of the creation of the Ritual, issued in April 2000.

Reports

Series includes several reports either written or co-authored by McKay. It also includes several unsigned reports along with a report by Kenneth C. Smith, now Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. Neither Appendix M nor file three (“Figures and Notations”) were attached to any document or set of documents at the time of their arrival at the Archives.

Education

Series documents McKay’s time as a university student. The physics and chemistry workbook
belongs to his undergraduate years as do the correspondence and clippings regarding his scholarships. Max Planck’s Treatise on Thermodynamics was gifted to McKay when the British Association for the Advancement of Science awarded him a bronze medal. Although the academic hood does not have a date, McKay most likely received it upon earning his Doctorate in 1934.

Employment

Series consists of a work log (year unknown) and a cumulative bibliography request from Claude Bissell, President of the University of Toronto. Attached to the request is a draft of McKay’s curriculum vitae, which chronicles his career up until 1965.

Conferences

The series consists of files relating to various conferences attended or organized by Prof. Eddie. Among the conferences documented is the First Conference on German Cliometrics, a joint project of the University of Toronto’s Joint Initiative in German and European Studies and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institute of Economic History) held in Toronto September 23 to 26, 1999. Prof. Eddie co-ordinated this conference with his colleague, Dr. Joerg Baten. Among the records documenting this conference are 10 cassette tapes of sessions as well as informal digital photographs of participants at sessions and social activities. Photographs were taken by Prof. Eddie and a student.
Other files document conferences held at the University of Toronto, International History Congress at Leuven (1989-1990), the Economic History Congress (IEHA) in Buenos Aires (2002), and the 2nd Conference on German Cliometrics, Tübingen, Germany (2006) and the Economic History Society at the University of Nottingham (2008). Files may contain correspondence, notes, manuscripts of papers delivered both by Prof. Eddie and others, etc.

Articles, book chapters and other shorter works

This series contains files documenting many of Prof. Eddie’s shorter literary products beginning with his doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961-1967). It includes mainly scholarly writings for academic journals, but also letters and ‘journalistic’ articles written in the early 1990s on various topics. Files may contain correspondence, notes, and manuscripts and some copies of final printed works.

Correspondence

Prof. Heichelheim maintained a regular correspondence with friends, family and colleagues both in Canada and around the world up to the year of his death. His brother’s name was Arthur Heichelheim and he lived in London England. This series dominates this fonds and includes correspondence with classical scholars at Cambridge and Oxford and at the University of Giessen (Prof. Heichelheim’s former employer), as well as at the University of Toronto. Such scholars include many of his co-authors such as E.N. Adler, Prof. F. L. Griffith, J. G. Tait, T. Frank, H. Michel, Prof. Elemer Balogh and Prof. Cedric Yeo. Correspondence is in English or German, depending on the nationality of the correspondent.

During World War II he continued to maintain ongoing correspondence with his brother and other family members, along with other scholars left in Europe and frequently describe living conditions, lost friends, the death camps and establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. Correspondence with family and friends is often in German.

Manuscripts: book reviews and articles

This series contains drafts of some of Heichelheim’s manuscripts for published and unpublished articles and books reviews. Among these works is a series of files of manuscripts and correspondence relating to articles submitted to the Oxford Classical Dictionary on Celtic gods, ancient economic history etc. 1938-1939.

Other inserts

Gerald M. Craig donated a number of books to the University of Toronto Library which contained a variety of inserts. These have been removed and listed below, along with the name of the book in which they were found.

Dale/Ryckman family

This series contains an assortment of documents relating to the Dale and Ryckman families. It includes the diary of Margaret Dale of her trip to Europe in 1930 (see Series 1 above for correspondence), Fredericka Dale’s diary of her trip with her daughter, Frances , to Europe in 1934 (for Frances’ account see Sous Fonds 3, Series 1, marriage certificate for William Dale and Fredericka Ryckman, education diplomas and other memorabilia of Frederika Ryckman, testimonials for her sister Louise Ryckman, Victoria University Senate resolution on the death of her father, Rev. E. B. Ryckman in 1916 and correspondence between the Dale children for three years, 1923, 1924 and 1927. There are four portraits included in this series: one of Fredericka Ryckman Dale (1902), two of her father Rev. Dr. Edward B. Ryckman and one of her mother Emmaline Baird Ryckman (ca. 188-).

Correspondence

Correspondence in this series contains letters written by Frances and received from friends, and family mainly in the 1930s, and correspondence generated as a result of her research on her father, William Dale. Of interest is a file of correspondence of her letters to her mother during her trips to Europe in 1934 and 1936 which supplement her diaries for that same period. There is only one letter for the 1940’s and none for the 1960’s. Correspondence in the 1950’s and between 1973 and 1986 consists mainly of responses from individuals and institutions relating to her research on her father, William Dale. Among the correspondents are archivists, academics and administrators from University of Toronto, Queen’s University, and McMaster University, researchers such as Robert Wilhelm and James Reaney who produced works related to her father’s life, and Prof. P.G.Cornell, Dept. of History, University of Waterloo, relating to the possible publication of her father’s lectures, essays and diaries.

Dale Family research

While conducting her research on her father and other Dale family members Frances Dale collected and compiled numerous clippings, documents, and notes. Among the clippings are birth, death and marriage notices for her parents and siblings, nieces and nephews.

Chronological Correspondence Files

Outgoing correspondence documenting many of Yates' professional activities including research, teaching and administration. Does not contain any incoming correspondence and some pieces may be duplicate of copies in other series.

Subject files

Includes files on tours and lectures, the Advisory Committee on the University of Toronto Library system, National Research Council Grants, Journal of American Chemical Society and the Awards Committee for the Royal Society of Canada. Files mainly contain correspondence, agendas, memos, and in the case of grants, research proposals and reports.

Books

This series contains drafts, notes and correspondence relating to two books Prof. Harney was preparing before his death. The first of these relates to the history of Italians in Canada, to be prepared for the Generations Series of the Multiculturalism Directorate of Secretary of State of Canada. The files documenting this work include various drafts of chapters, and correspondence relating to the Generations project. Also included is the manuscript of From the shores of hunger: Italians in Canada. Essays by Robert F. Harney edited by his son Nicholas De Maria Harney, and published in 1993 under the title From the shores of hardship: Italians in Canada. Essays by Robert F. Harney by Centro canadese scuola e cultura italiana. This book contains essays previously published by Prof. Harney during the 1980s.

The files relating to Terra Incolta e ghiacciato. Aspects of Italian immigration to Canada contain drafts of articles previously published by Prof. Harney between 1974 and 1988. For example, “The commerce of migration” was reproduced in From the shores of hardship. This book of collected articles does not appear to have been published, and may have been an earlier version of his proposed book on Italians in Canada.

Articles and addresses

This series includes correspondence, research data, draft manuscripts, figures, referees' comments and abstracts relating to published academic papers and addresses given at conferences or meetings. Files are titled either by the title of the article or by subject and are arranged more or less alphabetically.

University of Toronto Administrative Committees

This series documents some of Prof. McNeill's administrative positions within the University including member of the Slowpoke Reactor Committee (1970-1991); the Council of the Faculty of Medicine (1962-1967); the Presidential Advisory Committee on Appointments and Terms of Office (Haist Committee) (1964-1968); as well as various administrative positions with Trinity College. The amount and type of records vary from one position to another but usually include copies of minutes, correspondence, reports and memoranda and some original correspondence between Prof. McNeill and other committee members.

Consultant files

This series documents consultancy work done outside the University community mainly dealing with research and Prof. McNeill’s expertise relating to radiation. He was consulted widely by government, private industry and law firms. There are extensive records that document his work for the Ontario government with respect to emergency planning in the event of nuclear disaster. An early file relates to his work in the as a member of the Technical Advisory Group for Nuclear Contingency at Pickering and Bruce Generating Stations in the late 1970s. From 1986 – 1995, correspondence, agenda, minutes notes and reports document Prof. McNeill’s role as Chairman of the Technical Advisory Committee of Emergency Planning Ontario. During the same period he was as member of various Working Groups that prepared reports on emergency preparedness in the event of a nuclear disaster.

Files arranged by consultant job, chronologically. Records relating to the Technical Advisory Committee of the EPO are found in accession B2005-0004.

Personal files

This small series contains Dr. Glass' curriculum vitae, entries for biographical dictionaries, press clippings and articles; appointment calendars for 1974 and 1976; files from his employment as a stress analysts at Canadair (1945) and in 1947 as an aeronautical engineer with the Canadian Car and Foundry; and a file containing an offer of a position at Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology (1971-1972).

Correspondence

This series contains Dr. Glass' extensive correspondence files on a wide variety of personal and professional issues. The arrangement by broad topics (consulting, 1955-1982; "personal" correspondence from his office, 1950-1969), then general correspondence, filed chronologically (1959-1987), and finally by alphabetically by name of organization for the files relating to Dr. Glass' involvement in Jewish issues.

The last category begins with files on Canada-Israel cultural exchange, including the work of the Canada-Israel Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1972-1981). These are followed by files of the University of Toronto chapter of Canadian Professors for Peace in the Middle East (1974-1987), but the greatest volume relates to the conditions of Jews in the Soviet Union. Much of the work on this issue was done through the Canadian Academic Committee for Soviet Jewry and the Committee of Concerned Scientists, including its Canadian branch. Of particular concern was the treatment of the scientist, Benjamin Levich, in whose honour conferences were organized. Dr. Glass played a very active role in these events.

The files on Jewish issues contain, in addition to letters, press coverage, notes, memoranda, and minutes.

Student and related files

Dr. Glass maintained a series of files on his students, mostly those theses he supervised. He maintained a lively correspondence with many who later became significant academics and researchers in their own right. He also kept files on colleagues and visiting professors with which he was engaged directly in research or with whom he exchanged ideas.

The records contain correspondence, biographical data, notes, memoranda, and appraisals of research projects and theses.

Sabbatical leave and trips

Dr. Glass was granted sabbatical leave in 1957-1958, 1970-1971, and 1974-1975. His first leave was spent in England, primarily at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. His proposed sabbatical leave for 1966-1967 had to be postponed and he took it in 1970-1971. He arranged a global trip, which took him to the 8th International Shock Tube Symposium in London and the International Symposium on the Dynamics of Ionized Gases in Tokyo.

In 1972 he began planning for his next sabbatical. It began in England, and continued through France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Denmark. As his book, Shock Waves and Man, had recently appeared, he was much in demand both in academic and research (both military and civilian) circles as a speaker. He then went on to Israel, Iran, India, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Japan. While in Japan as a visiting professor, he attended the 10th International Shock Tube Symposium. He returned to Toronto via Hawaii, San Francisco and Chicago, giving lectures and seminars as he went.

In addition to his sabbatical leaves, Dr. Glass travelled widely. His first major trip was to the USSR in 1961, with a side vacation to Israel. In 1963, he visited a number of universities in the mid and western United States. In 1965, he was back in Europe attending the VII Symposium on Advanced Problems and Methods in Fluid Dynamics in Poland. In 1980, he made another tour of the Far East, visiting China as a guest of the Academy of Sciences, and then going on to Japan. In 1985, he made a return visit, receiving an "honorary professoriate" from the Nanjing Aeronautical Institute.

The files contain correspondence, calendars and diaries, notes, research notes, conference programs, abstracts, drafts of lectures and addresses, and photoprints. There is extensive material on the symposia mentioned above.

Correspondence

This series is divided into three sub-series: a) general correspondence, primarily incoming but with including some copies of responses, arranged chronologically and covering the years 1963-2004; b) carbon copies of “out” correspondence (1971-1988) with some additional documentation, arranged chronologically; and c) correspondence by author, arranged alphabetically. A few of the responses in the first sub-series are duplicated in the “out” correspondence. The first two sub-series are inter-related and the correspondence in all three sub-series ranges widely over Professor Guillet’s activities as a professor and his own experimental and development work. There are also a few letters on personal matters scattered throughout the first sub-series.

The correspondence arranged by author covers the years 1976 to 2002 and the seven correspondents – Bruce Balcom, Robert W. Billingsley, William Robert Bruce, Ramin Farnood, Joachim Klein, Michiel Kruijff, and Alastair North, range from colleagues and visiting professors to scientists involved with Professor Guillet’s research projects.

Research

This series begins with grant applications submitted by Professor Guillet between 1976 and 1996, followed by correspondence and reports on the research projects they funded. Next are notes on research projects at the University of Toronto (1969-1990), notebooks and, especially, his ‘Ideas’ files with voluminous notes taken between 1965 and about 1995. After these there come files on research projects, arranged alphabetically by the name of the project. The series ends with files on projects carried out by Professor Guillet’s students, arranged alphabetically by the name of the student.

The first grant application in the series is for a new drug delivery method for the controlled release of insulin Professor Guillet developed for the Canadian Diabetic Association in 1976-1977. The remainder is primarily to NSERC for research on various characteristics of and applications of polymers, including (after his appointment as Professor Emeritus) the relationship to solar energy, ultraviolet light and the remediation of chemical pollutants in ground water.

Professor Guillet’s notes, notebooks and ‘Ideas’ files cover a wide range of research issues and ideas gleaned from his own research, from notes taken at conferences and in discussions with his colleagues, students, and other scientists. Some of Professor Guillet’s ideas are further explored in the research projects described in this series and in Series 7 to 10.

Professor Guillet kept files on a number of research projects that contained notes and a variety of reports. One of the earliest of these at the University of Toronto was ebuillometry; Guillet’s research extended from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. Other projects documented here include gamma-ray radiation, glassy polymers, inverse gas chromatography, photochemistry of fibre-forming polymers, photo-oxidation of polymers and silicone polishes, polymer flocculants, and solar energy.

The remaining files in this series consist of research reports, with covering correspondence, carried out by students and post-doctoral fellows, research associates and visiting professors. Included are research notes and notebooks of two individuals mentioned in the previous series: Valery Kuleznev and Guojun Liu.

Correspondence and biographical

Consists of correspondence with colleagues, publishers, and his wife. Also includes a framed letter from Duncan Campbell Scott, 2 annotated books, educational diplomas and certificates, memoirs, scrapbooks, graduation robes, and various medals.

Other records

Consists of various records, including student work, a portrait of Louis Cazamian, and various academic work. See file listing for more details.

SCIEX

Records documenting Prof. French’s role in the administrative and operational activities of SCIEX, rather than research, can be found in this series. Included are planning and business development records such as strategic planning documents and business plans with related announcements and internal memoranda. Project reviews, progress reports, and presentations to the Scientific Advisory Board and the New Technologies Evaluations committee document overall research and development. Administrative records include minutes and agenda of the Senior Management meetings and the Operational and Financial Committee meetings. There are also files relating to licensing, awards established by SCIEX, publicity files and one file on SCIEX 25th anniversary.

Personal

This series contains daily personal diaries written while at Malvern Collegiate Institute (1922-1924) to his graduation from the University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science in Engineering in 1929. Also includes incomplete diary for 1930 following his graduation. In his diaries he writes about everyday events as a student and his home life and social life. Also included are two engineer’s booklets signed “Geo. A. McCarthy, Moncton, N.B.” and dated 1893. G.A. McCarthy (McGill 1898; died Nov. 13, 1930) was father of D.F. McCarthy and head of the Sewer Section of the Works Dept. of the City of Toronto.

Publishing activities

Series consists of records related to the publishing of Dr. Hawkins’ two books: Canada and Immigration: Public Policy and Public Concern (1972, 1988 2nd ed.) and Critical Years in Immigration : Canada and Australia Compared (1989, 1991 2nd ed.) Includes correspondence with publishers, reviewers, readers as well as documentation related to grants and promotion of the books. Also included are records relating to her final academic focus, individuals seeking asylum, out of which she published an article for Behind the Headlines entitled "The Asylum-Seekers” (1994).

Lecture notes

Dr. Hawkins’ lecture notes on courses given in political science. Topics include federalism, contemporary Britain and Quebec.

Jazz

  • UTA 1139-5
  • Series
  • 1963-2018 [photocopied material from 1946-1965]
  • Part of J.K. Chambers fonds

Prof. Chambers’ other major interest and expertise lies in jazz music. Over the years a personal love of the music has turned into a second career, writing articles and books on the history of jazz, attending conferences, etc. He has been a regular contributor to Coda, a Toronto based jazz magazine started in May 1958. Since the early 1970s he has made regular contributions of articles, and reviews. This series documents his activities in this subject area through correspondence with publishers, editors and other writers on this subject including academics and non-academics, collectors of jazz music, and others. The files may also include manuscripts of articles written by Prof. Chambers, reviews of musical recordings (mainly for Coda) assessments of other authors’ articles, etc. They are arranged in two sub groups: the first group of files are chronological, and the second consists of files by topic as indicated below. Correspondents include, among others, Bill Smith and John Norris, original owners and founders of Coda, and Jan Lohman, author of The Sound of Miles Davis – the discography 1945-1991 (1992).

Press clippings in files B2019-0038/001(06)-(09) include examples of Prof. Chambers’ writing about jazz.

Articles and reviews

This series contains files documenting Prof. Chambers’ published and unpublished articles, papers and reviews mostly produced during his career at the University of Toronto. They are predominantly on the discipline of linguistics, although the Review files contain mainly articles on jazz with some on linguistics published by the Globe & Mail. Files may contain manuscripts, correspondence, notes, reviews, clippings etc. Other articles, papers and shorter literary works relating to jazz will be found in Series 5.

Clippings of the published Globe & Mail articles documented in B2009-0044/025(01)–(05) can be found in B2019-0038/001(06). Other writing by Prof. Chambers may be found in press clippings in files B2019-0038/001(07) – (09), including book reviews about jazz and linguistics, a few articles about teaching and a few letters to the editor. These files also include clippings of reviews by others of books about jazz and linguistics written or edited by Prof. Chambers and a few articles relating to Prof. Chambers’ work as a language consultant in an obscenity trial.

Research project: Dialect Topography Project

This series contains files relating to a major research project undertaken over a 10 year period from 1991-2002. Prof. Chambers was the principal investigator. The dialect topography project is described in the grant application as “a set of methods for gathering information on English vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and usage from representative samples of adults in various Canadian regions, using a standard questionnaire….By correlating language use with social factors…we can determine how men and women use the language, how Canadians differ from Americans at border points, whether young people are using the language differently from their parents and grandparents…” The project consisted of macro-sociolinguistic regional surveys of regions across Canada including the Golden Horseshoe (Ontario), Ottawa Valley, Quebec City, Montreal, New Brunswick, Eastern Townships and Greater Vancouver, as well as adjacent U.S. regions (upstate New York, Maine, Vermont, and Washington).

This series contains files documenting agreements and contracts, grant applications, correspondence and notes, as well as correspondence relating to the various regions where surveys were conducted. The complete databases, including on-line tutorials, are stored on the University of Toronto’s Arts and Science web site at http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~chambers/dialect_topography.html

Notes

This series consists of notes taken for research purposes, addresses, and lectures that are not clearly identified with a particular project or event. They were compiled from about 1932 to 1991, with an number of accompanying, heavily annotated, articles that date from 1900.

They begin with eight "philosophical notebooks" compiled in the 1940s and the 1950s that cover topics from naturalism and Kant to the philosophy of biology. The remaining files document issues and individuals that were of continuing interest to Professor Goudge, along with topics that are more narrowly focused. Charles Peirce is especially well documented and Kant is also prominent. Over the years, Goudge assembled material on other philosophers such as Henri Bergson, Ludwig von Bertalanffy,

C. L. Lewis, Lloyd Morgan, Karl Popper, and A. N. Whitehead. Many of these individuals were to appear as biographical entries in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1967).

The majority of the files, however, document one of Professor Goudge's principal interests, Darwin and evolution and a part of the ongoing debate on the philosophy of biology. A selection of file titles demonstrates the wide ranging nature of the debate: "aspects of explanation", "causality", "evolutionary theory and ethics", and the "controversy over sociobiology".

Material that Professor Goudge wrote or assembled as a unit at a particular time was periodically broken up and redistributed to files he created for projects of the moment. For example, beginning about 1938 he wrote extensively about various aspects of philosophy for use in his lectures and research. Over the years, these notes became scattered throughout the several dozen files that form this series. The only material that has been removed to other series are clearly identified drafts of lectures, addresses, and articles.

Lecture notes

This series contains two types of lecture notes -- those delivered for regular philosophy courses in the Faculty of Arts and the School of Graduate Studies, and those delivered on occasion to students in other faculties such as Social Work and University Extension.

Any file may contain lecture notes, course outlines and bibliographies, and examination questions, but few have all categories. While the outside dates on the files are often well-spaced, the lectures themselves usually cover only a short time frame. The greatest concentration of lectures is for the 1960s and the 1970s.

The principal courses represented from the Faculty of Arts are 243E -- The age of reason, 17th century thought, 3j -- The philosophy of Emmanuel Kant, 3p --Epistemology and the philosophy of reception, and 4e -- Post-Hegelian philosophy; there is also material for four graduate courses.

Biographical and personal

This series gives an overview of Coxeter’s career and honors. It includes several files with biographical information including articles, clippings, tributes and obituaries that discuss his life and contributions to mathematics. There are also copies of his C.V.s, entries in biographical dictionaries, and his own notes on his reviews and publications.

This series also includes correspondence, certificates, diplomas and medals documenting the numerous recognitions and awards he received throughout his lengthy career. For photographs regarding awards, see Series 9: Graphic records. Finally there a few files of personal and family memorabilia as well as an autobiographical notebook in which Coxeter wrote his early recollections of his childhood, his early studies and education as well as professional biographical milestones.

Diaries

Daily diaries kept sporadically by Putnam throughout a large part of his career. Entries are both personal and professional in nature.

Articles, books and addresses

This series contains draft and edited manuscripts and typescripts of books, chapters of books and articles authored by Putnam throughout the course of his career. Included is a complete typescript of his book Canadian Regions first published in 1952 and subsequently revised several times. There are also files relating to his numerous contributions about Canadian geography to encyclopaedia such as the Chambers’s Encyclopaedia, the Encyclopaedia Americana and the Encyclopaedia of Britannica which also contain correspondence with the publishers.

Also in this series are addresses made by Putnam and memorandum written by him, most of which are undated. Of some interest are addresses “Thoughts on Geography in Canada” and “Geography in Canadian Universities” which detail Putnam’s thought on the state of the discipline, its teachers and praticioners. There is also a manuscript of a memorandum written in 1951 to Dean Beatty entitled “Geography at Toronto, - Past, Present and Future” which describes the history of the department and its current state.

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