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Resource material on Putnam

Records in this series do not belong to the Putnam Fonds. Most were created by Bill Irving, a former student of Putnam’s, in the course of his research and writing on Putnam. They include: an early draft and published copy of his article; original tapes and related notes of his interview of Dr. Lyman Chapman in 1984; notes relating to Putnam’s diaries; and correspondence between Irving and Putnam’s colleagues with the hopes seeking out further Putnam correspondence.

This series also includes an Honours paper on Putnam written by geography student, Steve Charbonneau. Included is a good bibliography of Putnam’s works as well as a compiled chronology of his accomplishments. According to many of the footnotes Charbonneau interviewed several of Putnam’s colleagues and students in the course of his research.

E-mail

This series complements Series II since many of the same type of discussions on mathematical theory ensued via the Electronic Mail especially for the years after 1991. Areas of research for which there are ongoing discussion include: "Exceptions Handling", "ENABLE Proposal", "Muliprecision Computation" and "TURING language". More so than the correspondence, most of the interchange on E-Mail is highly technical and often relates directly to collaborations on publications.

Loose E-Mail has been grouped by year and arranged chronologically. Wherever there were obvious groupings and/or identification as to the content of the E-Mail, this was kept together. E-mail on specific topics is also accompanied by notes and these have been filed at the end of the chronological files.

Articles and papers

This series documents Hull's extensive publishing activity in the field of applied mathematics and computer arithmetic. Included are files on refereed and non-refereed articles as well as papers presented at meetings and symposiums. This series is by no means complete but it does represent a good sample of his work. Files contain manuscripts, typescripts, notes, correspondence and e-mail with co-author(s), editors and publishers as well as referee comments and revisions.

Professional Association

Consists mainly of correspondence relating to the professional associations to which Hull belonged including the Association of Computing Machinery and its newsletter SIGNUM, the Canadian Mathematical Society and ARITH II.

Research notes

Research notes on various mathematical topics complement discussion on such topics found both in Hull's E-mail (Series III) as well as in his articles and papers (Series IV).

Reviews and recommendations

Includes referee reviews done by Hull for scholarly articles as well as letters of recommendation for colleagues and former students. Reviews are filed at the beginning of this series and letters of recommendation have been sorted alphabetically and filed after the reviews.

Teaching

This series consists of course files that can contain lectures, course outlines, assignments, and reading lists. It documents Prof. Armatage’s approach to the teaching of both Women’s Studies and Cinema Studies in the early years as they were emerging into disciplines of study and research.

Files in B2005-0020 focus on teaching in the 1970s. For these early courses, except for INI 112Y Introduction to Cinema Studies and NEW 260Y Introduction to Women’s Studies, all courses were developed and taught solely by Prof. Armatage.

Files in B2009-0020 relate exclusively to courses she taught in Cinema Studies from 1990-2007. This accession also contains subject files used for course lectures, covering various topics in film studies. These files contain lecture notes and outlines to lectures and are arranged alphabetically by topic.

Files in B2012-0002 focus on two courses she taught in Cinema Studies from 2006-2010, INI 323 Feminist Approaches to Cinema and INI 484 International Film Festivals. This accession also contains several subject files used for course lectures, covering various topics in film studies. These files contain lecture notes as well as teaching resources published by the British Film Institute, and are arranged alphabetically by topic.

Courses in Cinema Studies at Innis College:

B2005-0012/001 (08)-(17) /002 (01)-(22)

  • INI 112 Introduction to Film Studies
  • INI 212/NEW 212 Introduction to Cinema Studies
  • INI 225 Documentary Film
  • INI 280 and 281 Women’s Cinema
  • INI 321 Film Study
  • INI 322 Experimental and Avant-Garde Film
  • INI 323 Women and Representation
  • INI 325 Dream, History and Narrative in the Cinema
  • INI 327 Race and Representation
  • INI 428 Dream, History and Narrative in the Cinema
  • INI 429 Post Colonial Film and Third Cinema

B2009-0020/002 (01)-(13)

  • INI 214 Film Theory
  • INI 323 Women and Representation
  • INI 325 Documentary Film
  • INI 327 Race and Representation
  • INI 330 Contemporary Film Theory
  • INI 385 Canadian Film
  • INI 423 Melodrama
  • INI 424 Current issues in Film Theory
  • INI 425 Apparatus and After: Film Theory since 1970
  • INI 429 Dream, History and Narrative in the Cinema
  • INI 481 Advanced Studies in Cinema

B2012-0002/001 (03)-(05)

  • INI 323 Feminist Approaches to Cinema
  • INI 484 International Film Festivals

Courses in Women Studies at New College

B2005-0012/002 (23)-(30)

  • NEW 220 Women Writers
  • NEW 260 Introduction to Women’s Studies
  • NEW 360 Introduction to Women’s Literature
  • NEW 363 Selected Topics in Feminist Theory

Subject Files – Cinema Studies
B2009-0020/002 (15)-(24) and /003
B2012-0002/001 (06)-(16)

See also electronic files:
B2012-0002/Disks 001, 003, 006, 010 – 011, 017, 019 – 020

Publishing and talks

This series documents a small selection of academic papers and talks published or given by Prof. Armatage throughout her career. Files can contain edited typescripts, correspondence, e-mail and readers’ reports. There are two files of her published reviews and a file with copies of some of her magazine contributions. Additionally, there are records relating to her book The Girl From God’s Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 2003). These include research notes, correspondence and a copy of the manuscript.

Professional activities

This series documents various professional activities and research including participation in conferences, film festivals and screenings, and particularly Prof. Armatage’s work within the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program. The series includes her correspondence with a small number of notable women filmmakers, including Dorothy Arzner and Tracey Moffatt, as well as posters, programs, and pamphlets on women and cinema collected over the course of her professional career. There is also one file relating to her time teaching in Japan in 2002.

Elgin Rowland Hastings

This series is comprised almost wholly of material assembled by Elgin Hastings while a student in the then new five-year Bachelor of Medicine program at the University of Toronto between 1908 and 1913. The records consist primarily of a comprehensive collection of course notes, laboratory notes and drawings. Hastings kept detailed notes, dated his notebooks and many of the lectures and exercises, and often recorded the name of the professor or tutor teaching the course. He also preserved a list of all the courses for which he had registered at the beginning of each academic year and the professors who taught them. He did, however, take some additional courses that were not listed; one example is a course in psychiatry taught by Ernest Jones during the Easter term 1912. The course notes are arranged by academic year and alphabetically by name of course within each year.

The series also contains certificates relating to Hastings’ medical education and professional certification, a student handbook, memorabilia of his extra-curricular activities, photographs of some of his classmates, photographs including family members and the graduating Class of 1913 (Medicine), and a transcript of the evidence given in a court case in 1914 (two pages of Hastings’ evidence have been torn out).

Other professional activities

Dr. Hastings’ professional activities are largely related to his interests in community medicine and often have close links to his work at the University of Toronto. The files are arranged alphabetically by the name of the organization or event with which they are most closely associated.

The series begins with a file on his participation in a round table discussion on “surveillance and the role of public health” for the Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada (Krever Commission) in 1995. This is followed by background material for and memoranda, statements and briefs, with which Dr. Hastings was involved, that were submitted to the Royal Commission on Health Services between 1961 and 1963, along with subsequent press coverage. He and Dr. William Mosley of the School of Hygiene submitted a massive report, “Organized community health services” in 1963, following a brief, drafts of which are preserved here, presented by the School’s director, Dr. Andrew Rhodes, the previous year. The School of Hygiene was one of only a few medically-related groups to support a Public Medicare program at the time and, thereby, became known in some quarters as “The Little Red School House”.

Hastings was also a member of committees of the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), the United Church of Canada and the Canadian Council of Social Development that submitted briefs in 1962.

Other files document Dr. Hastings’ activities with Canadian College of Health Service Executives, for which he chaired the Extendicare Award Selection Committee for 1984 – 1986; in the mid – 1980s, the Canadian Council on Social Development (formerly the Canadian Welfare Council), on whose board he served for a number of years and for which he helped develop strategies for community health services; and the Canadian Hospital Association, for which he participated in a study on the Future of Hospitals in Canada.

Dr. Hastings was made an honorary life member of the Canadian Public Health Association and of the Ontario Public Health Association for his many contributions. The files (boxes 036-038) document his activities as CPHA president (1996 – 1997), as a member of its board of directors and several committees, including public health practices, archives, higher education and, especially, the International Health Secretariat (1988 – 1992) and its review, and a planning committee for a national workshop on public health education (1991). Dr. Hastings found the work with CPHA particularly satisfying, especially his close working relationship and friendship with Gerald Dafoe, the executive director, and Margaret Hilson, the assistant executive director for international programs. There is a substantial file on the drafting of a national health plan for the Palestinian people (1993). Other files include the restructuring of Ontario health services (1997), the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and the Association’s annual conferences for 1980 and from 1991 to 2000. There are also a number of briefs and reports.

The files on the Canadian Welfare Council (later the Canadian Council on Social Development) document the activities of its special committee on health services’ submissions to the Royal Commission on Health Services. These are followed by files on health issues faced by the City of Toronto in 1992 and 2002; Dr. Hastings had been a member of the liaison committees of the University of Toronto with the teaching health units for East York, North York and the City of Toronto.

In 1971, Dr. Hastings went on full-time leave for a year from the University of Toronto to direct a major study of community health centres for the Conference of Health Ministers of Canada. His files (boxes 039-041) include correspondence, memoranda, notes, budgets, position papers, minutes of meetings, interim and progress reports, and working seminars, along with drafts of the final report and reactions to it. The files in B2023-0013 also includes 17 case studies from the 8 provinces where community health centers had been initiated, a seminar paper, and a review of the report by the Ontario Council of Health. The template for the case studies was created by Professor Peter New, a medical sociologist at the University of Toronto, who was commissioned by Professor Anne Crichton of UBC on behalf of Hastings; the purpose of the case studies was to bring together the findings of the studies so they could be incorporated into the final report. The report, instantly dubbed “The Hastings Report”, was widely praised and cemented Dr. Hastings’ reputation as a leading authority in his field. The extensive range of research papers for the project were published by the Canadian Public Health Association.

Other activities documented in this series include two conferences on epidemiology, one in Cali, Colombia (the founding meeting of the International Epidemiological Association, of which Dr. Hastings was a member for many years) during his tour of public health services in South America in 1959 and the other a joint National Cancer Institute of Canada/U of T meeting in 1988. There are files for conferences on comparative health services at Ditchley, England (1972) and Dublin (1980), and for consulting on health administration in selected countries of Western Europe for the Informatie en Communicatie Unie in the Netherlands (1981) and the Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (1992). There is also a copy of an undated (ca. 1976) and unpublished report on an overview of the Canadian health system.

Dr. Hastings’ association with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) dates from the 1960s. Late in 1964 he was a participant in a special program on health planning sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO), the PAHO and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America, for which he visited Chile, Uruguay and Argentina, already referred to in Series 3. The files here date largely from 1974, when he critiqued a long-term planning report for the WHO, and his consultancy two years later for that organization on health services in Brazil and Chile. This and other work lead to him receiving the PAHO Administration Award for 1987. The majority of the PAHO files relate to the Canadian-Caribbean Health Initiative (boxes 042-044), a joint PAHO/University of Toronto/CPHA project for which, from its inception in 1988, Dr. Hastings served as chair of the steering committee. There are also files relating to the Caribbean Public Health Association and the Caribbean Regional Epidemiology Centre.

Dr. Hastings acted as a consultant and expert on many issues relating to community health, including two in Quebec -- Programs in Community Health (1980) and the Quebec Commission de l’Enquête sur les Services de Santé (1987, Rochon Commission), and pediatric issues for the Thames Valley District Health Council (1988). One of his early research projects (1966 – 1970) was a joint Canada-WHO study of the delivery of health services in Sault Ste. Marie, due to the then unique program in Canada of Algoma Steel Corporation offering its employees a choice of health benefits through the local district group health association or a private carrier. The findings were published in 1973, a follow-up study was carried out by the Ontario Ministry of Health in 1975, and a history of the Sault Ste. Marie and District Group Health Association followed in 1981.

In 1992 Dr. Hastings was invited to address a seminar on heath care systems organized by the Mexican Foundation for Health and the National Academy of Medicine, to be held the following March in Mexico City. He kept extensive files on the proceedings. In 1994 he was invited to be a member of a consultant group to the World Bank’s health project for the newly independent republic of Georgia. He kept detailed files on his activities, including correspondence, notes, reports, and photographs.

The series ends with several activities related to Dr. Hastings’ travels in the 1950s and the early 1960s to Asia, and to his involvement with the World Health Organization both at the beginning and the end of his career. In 1953, on the way back to Canada from his World University Service trip to India (see Series 3 and below), he stopped off in Britain to attend the first World Conference on Medical Education in London, to take in the Queen’s coronation, and to visit Scotland, especially Edinburgh and Iona. He kept a file on this conference and on the Third World Conference on Medical Education in New Delhi in 1966, after which he toured northern India, and making a side trip to Madras and Ludhiana, before going on to Hong Kong and Japan.

In 1960 a World Health Organization travel fellowship enabled Dr. Hastings to study medical care, public health and the teaching of social medicine in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, the USSR, India, Ceylon, Singapore, and Japan. Again, he kept detailed records of his travels, including notes and accounts of his impressions, especially on the Soviet Union. Afterwards, he wrote a detailed report on his experiences. Later WHO–related activities include an employment offer as chief of WHO’s Organization of Medical Care Unit in Geneva (1969), which Dr. Hastings reluctantly turned down; and his work as member of WHO’s Expert Advisory Panel on Public Health Administration between 1974 and 1990.

In the summer of 1953, as one of three University of Toronto student representatives at the World University Service of Canada International Mysore Seminar, Dr. Hastings had an opportunity to gain first hand insights into and an understanding of the many problems facing developing countries. He visited India, Ceylon and Pakistan, and carefully preserved his correspondence, notes, reports and photographs. Two years later, he was a University faculty member on the WUSC International Japan Seminar, and spent a further month studying medical education and medical care in Japan through an arrangement with the World Health Organization. His correspondence, diaries, minutes of meetings, and notes served him well; he found himself much in demand on the lecture circuit, especially after his report on medical education in Japan and other articles reflecting on his experiences appeared in 1956 and 1957. The series ends with a 1962 report on the WUS student tuberculosis sanatorium in Japan and a file on the WUSC Chile Seminar in 1964.

B2002-0014/063 - /064 include materials related to his World University Service of Canada (WUSC) trips to India (1953) and Japan (1955) and reunion in 1996. B2002-0014/065 includes a scrapbook with photographs of 1955 trip to Japan.

Family correspondence

This series contains family correspondence between James Conacher and family members. Correspondence from the 1940s and early 1950s is with his parents, his brother Desmond who was a professor of English at Trinity College and wife Muriel. Much of the correspondence with his family while at Harvard and during WW II is interfiled with general correspondence found in B2005-0011 /001. Later family correspondence was exchanged while the Conachers were on research leaves and is mostly with their grown children. Arrangement is chronological.

Also included in this series is some historical correspondence and documents belonging to ancestor James Roy Conacher (1938-191-).

Talks, addresses and articles

This series contains correspondence and manuscripts relating to talks and papers many given at symposiums, conferences and meetings. There are also drafts of some published articles as well as a copy of his M.A. thesis from Queens (1939) and a draft of his Ph.D. Thesis from Harvard. Files are arranged chronologically.
His writings on British history are found in two main files containing mainly drafts, as well as a file documenting his contributions to Encyclopedia Americana. On various occasions Conacher gave tributes to many well known Canadian historians. There are typescripts for his tribute to Donald Creighton, C.P. Stacey, Arthur Lower and close friend Kenneth McNaught. Also included in this series are notes prepared for an oral history interview in the early 1980s as well as a draft copy of his unpublished memoirs. Both are interesting for their insights on the University administration and the Department of History in particular.

Professional activities

Records in this series document Conacher’s active involvement in several professional associations including: the Canadian Historical Association, the American Historical Association, the Council of Conference on British Studies, the Champlain Society and the Canadian Catholic Historical Association. There is one file relating to his early involvement in the Canadian Association of University Teachers (1950-1957). Finally there are also files that document his time on the editorial committee of the John Stuart Mill Project (1960- 1990) and the Journal of Modern History (1971-1973). Files are arranged alphabetically by name of association. Canadian Historical Association files are boxed in B2005-0011/022.
Associated Material: Original Editorial files (1951-62) for the Champlain Society have been moved to the Champlain Society Papers (MG 50) in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

Teaching and research notes

This series consists of notebooks and some loose notes most likely used for course lectures and research starting in 1947 to 1976. Some of the subjects include: Differential Geometry, Advanced Calculus, Generator and Relations, Non-Euclidean Geometry and Discrete Groups. Some remain unidentified and have been placed at the end of the series.

Also included are notes on visiting lectures to other universities including Dartmouth College, St. Andrews, University of Warwik and Utrecht. Of particular interest is a notebook for his visiting lectureship for the Mathematical Association of America (March – May 1958) which Coxeter identified as the basis for his classic book Introduction to Geometry.

Publishing activities

Throughout his career, Prof. Lemon published over 40 scholarly articles including chapters in books as well as several non- refereed articles and reviews. Records in this series document much of this publishing activity and include correspondence with colleagues and publishers, draft manuscripts, comments by referees, notes, reviews and outlines.

Records are arranged either by the name of the paper/article or by the name of the publisher/journal. There are also four files of general correspondence relating to publishing covering the years 1967-1969, 1980-1982, 1996-2003.

Teaching files

This series consists of files of courses taught by Prof. Lemon in the Department of Geography and Interdisciplinary Studies and are arranged chronologically. They contain lecture notes, course outlines, assignments, exams, course evaluations, bibliographies and handouts.

This series also contains a collection of student term papers for several of Prof. Lemon’s urban history courses, in particular Historical Toronto. Essays cover such topics as housing, residences, city politics, planning, transportation, streets, waterfronts, trade and social issues. All are contained in accessions B1984-0027, arranged by subject and B1986-0015 and B1988-0054, arranged alphabetically by author’s name. These papers are copies for reference only and contain no marks or comments.

Professional Associations and Community Groups

Records in this series reflect not only Prof. Lemon's involvement in academic associations but also his active commitment to community causes. Files are arranged alphabetically by association or group and contain a diversity of records from original correspondence to newsletters and minutes of meetings.

Among the more notable groups in which Prof. Lemon was involved are the Bathurst Street United Church and the Student Christian Movement Advisory Board. There is also one file on the Spadina Expressway Issue which contains a brief written by Prof. Lemon to the Metro Toronto Transportation Committee.

Personal correspondence

This series contains mainly correspondence received by Clara Benson from family and friends. Two files contain correspondence that is undated, but seems to be predominantly created prior to her retirement in 1945. Correspondents include, among others, letters from her parents, her brother Bingley, her sisters Emily, Jessie, and Ethel, cousins, school friends, professors such as A. B. Macallum, and colleagues such as Professor Annie Laird. Subjects discussed include studies at University of Toronto, congratulations on her doctorate in 1903, postcards home to family about her trip to Europe in 1904, and 1910-1913, matters relating to her involvement on the Executive Committee of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions (1912), and other professional and academic activities. Also includes file of correspondence about and from French children sponsored by Dr. Benson such as Maryse Deslandes and Madeleine Killian (1958-1964).

Education and miscellaneous notes

This series includes school books, essays, assignments and report cards produced while in public school and high school in Port Hope, her diplomas for Bachelor of Arts (1899) and Ph D. (1903) from the University of Toronto, and certificate as Fellow of Canadian Institute of Chemistry (1927). Also includes miscellaneous undated notes and lists of librettos and operas in her collection.

Other activities

In 1921, Dr. Benson was elected the first president of the Women’s Athletic Association of University of Toronto and was involved from the beginning in the campaign to build an athletic building for women. Among the records relating to this activity are correspondence, notes, financial statements and blueprints of proposed buildings. Also included in this series are correspondence, minutes and reports relating to her work as Chair of the Foreign Committee of the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) focusing primarily on an international survey on leadership (1930-1932). Other documents include two undated and unsigned manuscripts of stories, a collection of cards acquired during a trip to the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, and a scrapbook of pressed flowers with identification collected by Clara Benson ca 1890’s.

Subject files

Files in this series contain correspondence, reports, notes, minutes of meetings, articles and other documents and relate to his personal and professional activities. Files include among others, Canadian College of Microbiologists, Canadian Public Health Association, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and Ontario Medical Association, University of Edinburgh.

University of Toronto

Dr. Rhodes had a long association with the University of Toronto as administrator and as teacher. This series contains correspondence and reports relating to his period as director of the School of Hygiene and other activities on committees and task forces relating to community health and microbiology. Included are files relating to the U. of T. Biosafety Committee, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, correspondence with the Faculty of Medicine, and Department of Bacteriology, and others.

University Teaching Hospitals

Following his retirement from the Ministry of Health, Dr. Rhodes returned to the University of Toronto from 1977-1979 to survey the virus diagnostic services in the University Teaching Hospitals. (He also held the position of Chair, U. of T. Biosafety Committee. See Series 7). His office was located at Mount Sinai Hospital. This series contains files relating mainly to this survey as well as other related committees and include correspondence, reports, and research data.

Correspondence

This series contains routine professional correspondence arranged chronologically. Types of activities documented include: appointments, awards, attendance at conferences and symposiums, the publishing and reviews of papers in journals, memberships in professional organizations, requests for technical and research data regarding specific projects, visits to other research facilities and tours given of UTIAS. Scattered through all the chronological files are requests from various institutions and firms looking for Ph.D. graduates to fill an ever growing aerospace engineering industry as well as the ongoing search for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers for UTIAS. Filed at the end of this series are files relating to recommendations written for students.

Organizations and conferences

Dr. Glass belonged to many professional associations, and was in wide demand at conferences. He also, as already has been noted, was deeply involved in a number of organizations devoted to various causes on behalf of Jewish peoples. The activities of both groups overlapped, especially on the issue of scientific freedom.

The organizations represented here are the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1980-1981), the Canadian Committee of Scientists and Scholars (1980-1981), the Commission on Post-Secondary Education in Ontario (1971), the Committee of Concerned Scientists (1980-1986), the 2nd International Colloquium on Gasdynamics of Explosions held in Novosibirisk, USSR, in 1969 (1966-1972), the International Conference in Honour of Andrei Sakharov (1981), the 15th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics held at the University of Toronto in 1980 (1979-1980), the Sino-Judaic Institute (1981-1990), and the University of Toronto protest regarding anti-Semitism in the USSR (1976-1978).

The organization files contain primarily correspondence, with some background and other reports, programs, notes, manuscripts and press clippings. The conference files also contain some addresses.

The arrangement is alphabetical.

Addresses and publications

This series contains, in four folders, two addresses by Dr. Glass, with covering correspondence, and background files. The first was delivered at the 7th International Shock Tube Symposium in Toronto in 1969. The second, "China and its vanished Jews", was also delivered in Toronto on 8 February, 1981. The files relating to it contain correspondence and reports in Chinese, with the originals of the translations into English, along with other background material and press clippings. The final address, "Jewish life at the crossroads: the role of Yiddish literature in the 20th century", is by Dr. Glass's wife, Anne, delivered in 1982 shortly before she died.

Six of the remaining nine files in this series are devoted to Shock Waves and the Man, which was published in 1974 to great academic acclaim as the reviews and notices demonstrate.

Negotiations began almost immediately for its translation into Russian (1977), while editions in Chinese, Polish, Hindi, and Japanese followed. The files for each edition contain correspondence, notes, and some contracts that document the process.

The seventh file contains correspondence, notes, press clippings and other articles that were received in response to Dr. Glass's article, "Terrestrial and cosmic shock waves", that appeared in the July/August, 1977 edition of the American Scientist. Next, there is a file of correspondence with Cambridge University Press (1985-1988) over a proposed book, "Fundamentals of shock waves and shock tubes". The final file contains a copy of Professor Glass's retrospective article, "Forty years of continuous research at UTIAS on nonstationary flows and shock waves", that appeared in the first issue of Shock Waves in 1991, of which Dr. Glass was editor-in-chief.

Co-operative Housing Case Study: user interviews

These files contain the instruments, schedules and coding manuals for the first wave of user interviews of Ashworth Square Co-operative housing residents as well as the follow-up surveys with residents and interviews with prior residents. The files contain raw data collected as well as write-ups and notes on Professors Breslauer’s and Andrews’ findings. The first interviews were conducted in May 1973 and the follow-up surveys and interviews with prior residents were conducted.

Manuscripts, addresses and reports

This series represents the most complete survey of Williams' scientific writings. Included are progress reports for research done both at Polymer Corp., Sarnia and the Department of Chemical Engineering; addresses and papers given at symposiums and conferences; papers and articles, published and unpublished; as well as patents. These works are filed by year and are mainly original manuscripts or printed unpublished reports.

There are also manuscripts for works published in collaboration with other scientists, often graduate or former students. These files are filed alphabetically by the name of the co-author and may include some correspondence relating to their work together.

Finally this series also contains records relating to the Williams textbook Polymer Engineering, his contribution to Forest Chemistry, as well the manuscript to his Dunlop Lecture.

Association files

This series documents Williams' membership and participation in various professional and academic associations. Files contain mainly correspondence but can also include memoranda, notes, questionnaires, membership lists, announcements, agenda, conference programs and reports. Among some of the more notable associations with which Williams was involved are the Chemical Institute of Canada - Macromolecular section, the High Polymer Forum and the Industrial Materials Research Institute.

Chemical Engineering Research Consultants Limited

Records in this series document the activities of this consultant group, of which Williams was a director, through minutes of meetings, agendae, annual reports, financial statements and some correspondence. Also included in this series is an alphabetical index of the companies presumably for which William did consultancy work. Some of the entries summarize what type of work was done and what resulted. Dispersed throughout this index are photographs included for supportive documentation.

Administrative files

This series documents van Ginkel's administrative activities within the Faculty of Architecture. It consists of subject files arranged alphabetically by file title, containing, for the most part, notes, correspondence, memos, clippings, reports and minutes of meetings. Included are files relating to the planning of the Centenary Celebrations for the Faculty of Architecture, as well as records on the controversial recommendation to close the School of Architecture in 1986. Also included are files containing correspondence with the Dean, minutes of the Faculty Council and Programme Committee.

Professional associations

This series consists of minutes, memorandum, correspondence, discussion papers and membership lists documenting van Ginkel's wider activities within her profession through various associations. Included are numerous files from the Ontario Association of Architects while she served on its Registration Board, and from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture of which she was president in 1986/87. Her activities in other associations noted here include the Congress of International Union of Architects and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Records are grouped by association and are filed chronologically.

Teaching files

Included are lectures, assignments, student evaluations, project reviews, thesis statements and reports. Also found in these files are correspondence, memos and notes on the teaching of various courses within the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Arrangement is by course chronological.

Personal and biographical

This small series contains personal items relating to Spencer including awards, documents, promotions file, diplomas, personal notes and memorabilia.

Manuscripts and publications

This series contains mainly manuscripts and typescripts to both unpublished and published books. Included is the manuscripts, typescripts, notes, reviews and correspondence relating to Spencer's sociology textbook Foundations of Modern Sociology First published in 1976, this widely used textbook underwent four American editions and seven Canadian editions. Other early works include her contribution to Adolescent Prejudice which she co-authored (Harper and Row, 1975) as well as her unpublished work Shrinks, Gurus and Trainers: Making Sense of the Consciousness Culture. There is also notes, correspondence and a typescript of her most recently edited publication Lessons of Yugoslavia. Various typescripts document early versions of works in progress such as Soviet Agriculture and Bears and Doves. This latter work has evolved from the hundreds of interviews Spencer has conducted with western peace activists (Doves) and soviet dissidents ( Bears). It studies the relationship between the two groups prior to and after the fall of the Soviet Union. This work is still in progress.

Of the over 100 refereed and non-refereed articles, reviews and chapters in books only a few have survived and are found in at the end of this series. Most reflect her interest and work in peace especially in eastern Europe.

Student notes and papers

Records in this series include Spencer's course notes, course papers, notes on Ph.D. oral examination and a copy of her Ph.D. thesis. All these document her undergraduate and graduate education at University of California, Berkeley at a time when Berkeley was not only the top sociology department in the United States but was also the focus of the student and faculty movements for free speech, civil rights as well as anti-Vietnam protests.
Spencer took courses for example with sociologists Herbert Blumer, Wolfram Eberhard and Philip Selznick and Neil Smelser. Renown sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset was her thesis adviser. Other renown academics documented in Spencer's course notes include political scientist Peter Odegard, criminologist Jerome Skolnick, and philosopher John E. Searle.

Professional correspondence

This series contains several different groups of incoming and outgoing correspondence. Half of the correspondence has been filed alphabetically by letter. For example, correspondence relating to the Canadian Historical Association is filed under “C” , while correspondence documenting visiting Argentinean Political Scientist José Nun is filed under “N”. This alphabetical correspondence documents everything from his relationships with colleagues and students at the University of Toronto, to invitations to speak, to advice on research topics and innumerable other activities and interests. The correspondence dates mainly from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s.

A second run of correspondence is filed chronologically. Most of his early correspondence prior to 1960 can be found in two files dating from the 1940s. Some files were marked “Personal Correspondence” but this is mainly interpreted to be professional correspondence related directly to Prof. Nelson’s appointments, assessments of his own work, pursuit of research grants, remuneration, etc.. These chronological files do not only contain correspondence but often have attached documents related to the correspondence. For example, correspondence relating to curriculum may have an annotated report attached or correspondence regarding attendance at a conference may have notes or program attached.

Finally, there are a few files with specific subject headings. Most deal with administrative matters relating to his research such as correspondence with research institutions and with the Nuffield Foundation. Of note is one file containing correspondence written by Prof. Nelson in 1966 commenting on changes in curriculum in the department of history and returned to him with reflections on that period in 1989. For further documentation on curriculum changes in the Department of History, see Series 9.

Lecture notes

Lecture notes are filed by topic and were most likely used for various courses. They are similar to those notes found in Series 6, Research Notes and it may have been the case that Prof. Nelson took notes for the purpose of research and then reworked the notes into lectures. The broader topics include the World Wars, European history, Anglo Russian relations, international organizations, international relations, peace and peacemaking.

University of Toronto administration

In addition to teaching, Dr. Nowlan held several administrative positions at the University of Toronto. Between 1968 and 1974, he was Director of the University of Toronto – CIDA – Tanzanian Project. The purpose of the Tazanian Project was to provide economic advice to the Tanzanian government and to conduct research on the economies of developing African countries. Later, between 1978 and 1981, Dr. Nowlan served as Vice Dean, School of Graduate Studies and, between 1981 and 1983, as Registrar. In 1981, he was appointed Vice-President of Research. In this capacity, Dr. Nowlan was responsible for the development of over all strategies concerning university funding and research. He remained in this position until 1988. Finally, in 1994-1995, Dr. Nowlan served as Provostial Advisor on Environmental Education and assisted in the development of the Environmental Studies Programme.

The records in this series document Professor Nowlan’s administrative positions at the University of Toronto. Types of records include professional correspondence, memoranda, personal notebooks, briefs and reports.

Consulting

Throughout his academic and administrative career, Professor Nowlan has also served as an economic, transportation, and land use consultant to various public organizations. In 1979, Dr. Nowlan was a member of the Commonwealth Economic Mission to Uganda to help rehabilitate the Ugandan economy. Further, in 1984, he served as Vice-Chairman of the UNCTAD “Group of Experts to Study the Ways and Means of Improving Transit-Transport Infrastructure and Services for Landlocked Countries Developing Countries”. In addition, Dr. Nowlan has also consulted the Ontario and Canadian governments regarding the price of serviced lands, 1977; the Ontario government regarding the Cadillac Fairview Buildings evaluation, 1983; and the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto concerning the Central Area Transportation Study, 1995

The records in this series document Professor Nowlan’s activities as a consultant external the University of Toronto. The records include correspondence, research notes, journals, briefs and reports relating to various consulting projects.

Publications

Professor Nowlan has written widely on the subjects of developing economies, economic theory, transportation economics, urban economics, and land use. This series contains correspondence, research, manuscripts related to Dr. Nowlan’s publications.

Addresses and conferences

This series consists of records relating to various academic and professional conferences attended and addresses given by Professor Nowlan. The series includes correspondence, research notes, speeches and pamphlets.

The following conferences are represented in this series: “Remarks to the National Conference on Canadian Goals”, Progressive Conservative Association of Canada, 1964; Notes for a Presentation to Marshall McLuhan’s Centre for Culture and Technology, 1965; “Land Conversion and Land Policy in the Central City”, Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting, 1976; “The Use of Dynamic Game Theory in Understanding Adaptive Responses”, the Environmental Adaptation Research Group’s Seminar on Modeling and Learning Adaptation in Natural and Human Systems, March 1995; OECD Economic Survey Roundtable, 1996; “Compactness and Commuting”, TRED Conference on Transportation and Land Use, Lincoln Institute, Cambridge Mass. 1996; and the Jane Jacobs Seminar, SPRAWL, 1997

Course notes

After receiving his MA in Sweden, Paul Biringer came to the University of Toronto as a doctoral student in electrical engineering. He received his PhD in 1956.

The single file in this series consists of problem sets and an examination in the course "power system stability” for the 1952-1953 academic year.

Lecture notes

Dr. Biringer was appointed an assistant professor in the Department of Electical Engineering in 1957 and a full professor in 1965. During his career, he supervised twenty doctoral students.

The lecture notes and problem sets in this series apply to courses given to undergraduate and graduate classes between 1965 and 1990. There is a single file for a lecture given at Memorial University in 1989. The lectures are not necessarily complete for any year and there are none for the academic years 1965-1967, 1968-1971, 1972-1974 and 1975-1976.The arrangement is chronological.

Patent files

Over the years, Dr. Biringer took out many patents on his inventions. Between 1954 and 1969, for example, he registered twenty-six in Canada, France, Mexico, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

This series contains copies of most of those he registered between 1954 and 1973. In addition there are several folders of patents in his areas of expertise that had been registered by other inventors between 1914 and 1965.

Correspondence

Consists of 3 files

  1. Thomas Hodgins to Sir William Mulock, April 9, 1897
  2. John George Hodgins to Sir W.R. Meredith, 1900
  3. Letters between Rev. T.C. Street Macklem and J.W. Flavelle, March, 1906
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