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Photographs

As a long time professor in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, L. E. Jones photographed and collected images of many Faculty and campus events including convocations, memorials, award ceremonies, retirements and open houses. Of particular notice are images of: the Engineering Centenary celebrations in 1973: the mounting of the lintel from the Old S.P.S. building and the installation of Becca's H in front of the Galbraith building; the fire, rebuilding and reopening of the Sandford Flemming building, 1977-1982; the excavation of the site of the Old Magnetic Observatory, 1979; the design, construction and installation of the Sundial, 1993.

As Engineering Archivist, Jones also collected many historical images documenting the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering as well as its predessor the School of Practical Science. Included in this collection are portraits of faculty and students groups, images of student activities, buildings, Gull Lake Survey Camp and Ajax Campus. These photographs mainly document the first half of the 20th century.

Compositions

Series consists of manuscript scores and parts, master copies, drafts, sketches, worksheets, and libretti for compositions by Michael Colgrass.

Contracts, royalty statements, and financial documents

Series consists of contracts for commissions, workshops, and publishing (with Carl Fischer and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, or ASCAP); royalty statements; and tax returns for Michael Colgrass (1967-1998). Series also includes articles and correspondence relating to Colgrass' Pulitzer Prize (1978) for Déjà vu, and his Central Savings bank book (1956-1959).

Performances

Series consists of records pertaining to the performance of Michael Colgrass' compositions, including programs from concerts that Colgrass also attended; program notes written by Colgrass; recordings, including many premiere performances; and reviews of performances.

Photographs

Series consists of professional portraits of Michael Colgrass, as well as photographs from workshops, concerts, and rehearsals, and family photographs. Series includes photographs of Colgrass in Stuttgart when he was a timpanist with the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra (1955-1956); from his time in Copenhagen for the performance of his Rhapsodic Fantasy by the Danish Radio Orchestra conducted by Tamas Vetö (1965); from his Fort Wayne Residency (1972); of his rehearsals with the Canadian Brass for Flashbacks (1979); from a production of Colgrass' "Something's gonna happen" at Duggan Jr. High School in Edmonton, Alberta (1982); from rehearsals of Chaconne with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis (1984); neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) workshops, particularly at the Dynamic Learning Center at NLPU in Santa Cruz, California (1987); workshop at University of New Mexico (1988); at Longmeadow High School and Springfield Public School in Massachusetts (1992); University of Manitoba workshop (1997); and Winona Drive School workshop (1999).

Writings

Series consists of manuscripts, drafts, notes, and clippings pertaining to various writings by Michael Colgrass, including articles written for journals, magazines, and newspapers; two books; his correspondence with friends and colleagues; and poems and satires.

Biographical information and personal memorabilia

Series consists of miscellaneous memorabilia and biographical information pertaining to Michael Colgrass, including Ulla Colgrass' speech for the celebration of Michael Colgrass at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music (2019); biographies of Michael Colgrass and lists of his works and recordings; letters saved as "Ego boosters"; Michael Colgrass' first passport; a "Wanted" poster for Michael Colgrass; astrological charts for the Colgrass family; humorous drawings and writings; and a certificate for the "Michael Colgrass" star from the International Star Registry.

Series also includes videos from Colgrass' 85th birthday party (2017), obituaries, sympathy notes from friends and colleagues following his death, and videos from the Michael Colgrass Life Celebration Party held at Walter Hall, University of Toronto Faculty of Music (November 2019).

UTDU/U of T Admin

This series contains material relating to the administrative side of the University of Toronto Debating Union. It includes meeting notes, a list of past UTDU Executives, as well as other administrative material such as budget summaries and grant requests. It also contains UTDU Correspondence, including invitations to various university debating tournaments, as well as letters to UTDU members reminding them of meetings and upcoming events.

Debates/Tournaments

This series contains material relating to the various debating tournaments the University of Toronto Debating Union took part in at U of T and other universities. The material includes, posters, judging ballots, rules, and ads in U of T newspapers such as The Varsity.

Swim News

This series consists of 320 issues of Thierry’s monthly publication, Swim News. The series also contains a small amount of research in the form of print-outs, newspapers clippings and some correspondence used by Thierry and his team of writers to develop and publish articles for the magazine. The first part of the series is a nearly complete set of Swim News from 1974 to 2012.

Correspondence

This series consists of correspondence received by Nick Thierry from various people associated with swimming, both in Canada and internationally. A large portion of the correspondence is a set of letters collected by Thierry from prominent Canadian swim coach Howard Firby which Thierry kept in three large-ring binders. Much of the correspondence from Firby is in regards to his thoughts on the status of Canadian swimming and the coaching of amateur athletes, but a great deal of the later correspondence deals more with Firby and Thierry’s personal lives.

Swim meets, results, rankings and guides

This series consists of Thierry’s handwritten and typed results for various swim meets. The competitions covered in this series include the Summer Olympics, World Championships, European Championships, Pan American Games, Pan Pacific Games, the Commonwealth Games, numerous Canadian university meets, age-group meets and provincial competitions. The series also includes files on national swim records from around the world, swimmer profiles, statistics and biographies, and world rankings – many of which have been compiled by Thierry.

Swimming history texts and scrapbooks

This series contains texts written and sent to Thierry by J.G. Kelso, a Professor at the School of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia. The texts are overviews of Canadian aquatic and swimming accomplishments, and provide an extensive history of swimming in Canada. The series also contains a number of scrapbooks compiled by Thierry which hold newspaper clippings. The clippings are all related to doping and the use of performance enhancing drugs in both Canadian and international sport.

Canadian Swimming Coaches Association Bulletins

This series contains typed bulletins published by the Canadian Swimming Coaches Association. The bulletins contain information on the CSCA’s annual meetings and decisions, swim meet selection criteria, coaching techniques and standards, and Canadian swim club scoring and rankings. The bulletins have been arranged in chronological order. The bulletins were most likely accumulated by Thierry during his time as secretary and chairman for the CSCA.

Photographs

This series contains photographs and slides from various swimming events. Many of the photographs appear to have been used by Thierry in issues of Swim News, or for the creation of swimmer biographies and profiles in media guides. The photographers and the events being documented are only clearly identified for some of the images. Some of the photographs are attributed to Marco Chiesa.

Collected Memorabilia and artifacts

This series contains several items collected by Thierry over his years attending and documenting swimming events. The series includes media event passes issued to Thierry for a variety of swim meets including the Summer Olympics, World Championships and Commonwealth Games. The series also includes a collection of vintage and contemporary postcards commemorating the Olympic Games, as well as postcards of various swimmers. Some of the postcards have been autographed, including ones by Alexander Popov and Michael Phelps. Finally, the series contains 2 binders which held swimmer’s information for members of the media during the XI Commonwealth Games and the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Compositions

Series consists of manuscript music and scores for Buczynski's radio music and children's pieces.

Correspondence and programs

Series consists of correspondence with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Canadian Music Centre (CMC), Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, performers, representatives of performing organizations, friends, and colleagues. The series also contains programs, Polish community activities, press notices and reviews, and notebooks and journals.

Tape collection

Series consists of electronic music compositions created at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio (UTEMS) and copies of tapes made at other electronic music studios around the world. The series includes the two original card-catalogue indices for the tape collection, organized by tape number and by composer.

Among the tapes that originated at UTEMS are compositions by faculty and students from the Faculty of Music, independent composers who were granted access to the studio, and compositions created by visiting artists, scholars, and composers. Composers at UTEMS included Robert Aitken, John Beckwith, Brian Cherney, Gustav Ciamaga, Richard Henninger, David Jaeger, Larry Lake, John Mills-Cockell, James Montgomery, Harvey Olnick, Dennis Patrick, Myron Schaeffer, David Williams, and many others. Composers from other studios include Milton Babbitt, Henk Badings, Luciano Berio, Hugh Le Caine, Douglas Lilburn, Pierre Schaeffer, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Vladimir Ussachevsky.

In addition to tapes created at UTEMS, the collections includes compositions created at the following studios, listed alphabetically:

Musical compositions

Series consists of compositions and arrangements by Gena Branscombe, including published sheet music with inscriptions from the composer and manuscript copies of scores and parts.

Personal memorabilia

Series consists of personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other memorabilia that Patrick O'Neill collected during his political career and in his personal life, including relics of St. Anthony and St. Oliver Plunket contained within a leather pouch.

Correspondence

This series encompasses four decades of Dr. Edward Safarian's professional correspondence. It covers his relationships with numerous professional associations and a range of professional activities including correspondence with publishers, academic colleagues and government agencies. The broad time frame of the series begins with Safarian's leaving graduate studies at the University of California for the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in Ottawa, his tenure as a professor at the University of Saskatchewan, and his later teaching and administrative activities at the University of Toronto. In addition, it illustrates his wide network of connections with universities across North America and around the world.

The bulk of the series is arranged chronologically by year. Following the chronological arrangement, there is a file of "personal" correspondence. This is followed by a grouping of professional correspondence arranged by Safarian according to specific subjects. Most relate to his ongoing interest in foreign investment in Canada and to the controversy surrounding the publication of The Struggle for Canadian Universities, edited by Robin Matthews and James Steele.

Some of this correspondence is in the nature of postcards and telegrams, and accompanying certain letters are notes, addresses, reports, and programmes.

Employment (miscellaneous)

The records in this series document Dr. Safarian's employment outside the University of Saskatchewan where he taught from 1956 to 1966 and the University of Toronto where he as been since then.

From 1950 to 1955, Dr. Safarian was employed in the International Trade Division of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in Ottawa. In the summer of 1956 he joined the research staff of the Royal [Gordon] Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects. He also served as a consultant to federal and provincial governments; documented here is his work during the summer of 1980 with the Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce in Ottawa on a comparative study of foreign investment studies.

Dr. Safarian's academic activities extended well beyond the Universities of Saskatchewan and Toronto. Between 1963 and 1980, he taught courses during ten sessions at the Banff School of Advanced Management. During sabbatical and research leave in 1976-1977 and 1981-1982 he was Visiting Research Professor in the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Nice.

Employment files (Universities of Saskatchewan and Toronto)

Dr. Safarian accepted a position as associate professor in the Department of Economics and Political Science at the University of Saskatchewan in 1956. In January, 1962 he was promoted to the position of full professor and head of the Department. In addition to administrative matters, there are files on the introduction of medicare (1962) and the James Coyne affair (1960).

In 1966 he left for the Department of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, where he served as the last head (1976-1982) before its reorganization. Thereafter, he remained on the staff of the Department of Economics until his retirement in 1989. From 1971 to 1976 he was Dean of the School of Graduate Studies. Following his retirement and appointment as Professor Emeritus, he became a professor of business economics in the Faculty of Management.

The records in this series cover the years of his academic career. They are comprised of correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, programs, relating to administrative matters, to teaching duties, and to research activities.

Teaching files

This series contains Dr. Safarian's teaching files from his years at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Toronto. The records of the teaching appointments he held elsewhere, principally at the Banff School of Advanced Management and the University of Nice, are to be found in Series 3.

Included in the records is correspondence, notes, examination questions, student marks, course outlines and readings, and lecture notes on economics at the undergraduate and graduate level. The principal course topics covered are introductory economics, international economics, statistics, economic fluctuations, and the economics of enterprise.

Course notes

Edward Safarian entered University College at the University of Toronto in the autumn of 1942. In second year he transferred to the honours program in political science and graduated with a BA (hons.) degree in 1946. The professors who taught him included Donald Creighton, Alexander Brady, Harold Innis, C. B. MacPherson, Lorne Morgan, Lawrence Skeoch, Edward Hodgetts, William R. Dymond and R. MacGregor Dawson.

He "kept his scholarships in spite of serving on the executives of the `Lit' [University College Literary and Athletic Society], the Political Science and Historical Clubs".

Following graduation in 1946, Safarian headed for the University of California at Berkeley, from where he graduated with a PhD in economics in 1956. The interest in international economics that he had acquired as an undergraduate was emphasized in his studies at Berkeley, where his professors in economics, business, and international finance and trade included M. Knight, H. Ellis, W. Fellner, R. A. Gordon, and Drs. Condliffe and Buchanan. While there, he was a teaching fellow and then head teaching fellow in economics and statistics.

This series consists, at the undergraduate level, largely of course notes taken at lectures and seminars, notes on readings for same, term papers, examination schedules and questions. Additional material at the graduate level includes notes for Safarian's doctoral thesis, correspondence, and lecture notes for courses in economics and statistics he taught while a teaching fellow.

Addresses

This series is a compilation of addresses, speeches and talks given by Dr. Safarian at public and academic functions over a period of nearly four decades. They document Dr. Safarian's chief concerns of foreign investments, national management policies and multinational corporations.

The files contain drafts of addresses, addresses, notes, research materials and press clippings. Arrangement is chronological. Some of the addresses were originally created as subject files by Dr. Safarian.

Professional activities

Dr. Safarian belonged to a large number of academic and professional associations and was a member of or a consultant to a number of provincial and federal commissions and committees.

The files in this series contain correspondence, notes, reports, press releases, articles, briefs, and press clippings relating to his activities. The arrangement is chronological by the name of the organization.

Conferences, colloquia and symposia

This series outlines Dr. Safarian's attendance over a twenty year span at and participation in conferences, symposia and colloquia related to economic issues. Notable amongst these are the Canada-Mexico Colloquium sponsored by El Colegio de Mexico at Oaxtepac, Mexico (1967), and the Seventh World Congress of the International Economic Association held in Madrid in 1983. The series illustrates Dr. Safarian's range of economic interests as well as his contact with contemporary economists and agencies.

It consists primarily of correspondence, agendas, announcements, conference papers and reports, including some delivered by Dr. Safarian himself.  Arrangement is by title of conference.  Most are subject files that he created.

Manuscripts and publications

Dr. Safarian's doctoral thesis on the Canadian economy in the Great Depression was his first major publication. It was published in 1958, two years after its completion. Articles and books began to appear earlier, in 1952, and he has maintained an impressive publication record since then. His writings have concentrated on the relationship of the Canadian economy to those of other countries, primarily through analyses of theories of foreign investment and ownership, and multinational enterprise. He has written or co-authored eleven books, contributed chapters to a dozen books, and has had over fifty papers published in academic and other journals.

Most of the files in this series contain drafts of his writings, with covering correspondence and reviews.  A selection of research material for his latest book, Multinational Enterprise and Public Policy (1993), has been preserved.

Employment

This series consists of records documenting Professor Safarian's employment by the Government of Canada and the Universities of Saskatchewan and Toronto.

The first file contains notes, reports and memoranda relating to Safarian's work at the Dominion Bureau of Statistics between 1950 and 1955, initially with the Foreign Exchange Control Board (1950-1952) and then with the International Trade Bureau. The second file contains a number of documents prepared by Louis Rasminsky between 1943 and 1950 when he was head of the Foreign Exchange Control Board.

These are followed by two files relating to the University of Saskatchewan where Safarian was associate professor in economics (1956-1961) and head of the department (1962-1963). They contain lecture notes and related course material, and correspondence and notes relating to the theses of ten graduate students in the masters program at the University (1959-1963).

At the University of Toronto, Professor Safarian served as Dean of the School of Graduate Studies from 1971 to 1976. His correspondence, notes, memoranda and minutes cover a number of policy issues discussed with President John Evans, including the decision not to appoint John Seeley to the Department of Sociology. There is also a file (1967-1990) relating largely to the final oral examinations of doctoral students at the University of Toronto, and three files of references (1961-1987), arranged alphabetically, for colleagues and former students.

In 1967, Professor Safarian was hired to appraise the proposal by Carleton University to introduce a doctoral studies program in economics. In 1982 the federal Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce invited him to become a member of its Consultative Committee of Experts on National Industrial and Regional Policy which sat throughout the year and early 1983. During the same period, he accepted an invitation from the Ontario Economic Council to become one of two members of its Research Advisory Committee, a body which assisted the Council's Industrial Policy Committee in evaluating research proposals and provided recommendations on methodology as the studies proceeded.

Addresses

This series consists of three files of addresses delivered in 1982, 1984 (repeated in 1985), and 1989 respectively to the British North America Committee in London, the C. D. Howe Institute and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto, and the Department of Political Economy at the University of Geneva. The topics were direct investment in developing countries, Canadian policy towards multinationals, and multinational firms and European integration.

Included in the files is correspondence, notes for, and drafts of the papers presented. The arrangement is chronological.

Correspondence

This series consists of a single file of correspondence largely of a professional nature. Included are letters relating to the Canadian-American Committee, the Usque Group, requests to give seminars, and ideas and writings in economics. The arrangement is chronological.

Course notes

Edward Safarian studied economics at the University of Toronto, receiving his BA (hons) in 1946, and did postgraduate work at Berkeley in the late 1940s, obtaining his doctorate in 1956. This series includes a file of term papers (not all his own) for Professor Vincent Bladen's fourth year course in international economics at the University of Toronto in 1945-46, and a portion of his course notes, reading notes, and term papers [others may be found in B94-0019] for his courses at Berkeley between 1946 and 1948. The latter included Economics 202, 216, 290 and 298. Included are some notes for his PhD orals.

Conferences

Professor Safarian was much sought after for his expertise in international trade. When Joe Clark, Secretary of State for External Affairs, established a Canadian National Committee for Pacific Economic Co-operation in 1985, he invited Professor Safarian to be a member. Its purpose was to reflect "Canadian interests in the continuing Conference on Pacific Co-operation", and involved "contributions to the work of PEC Task Forces; attendance at workshops and subsequent Conferences, and arrangements for the Fifth Pacific Co-operation Conference, scheduled to be held in Vancouver on November 16 to 19, 1986."

Safarian had long been recognized as an expert in this field. In 1979 he had been invited to participate in the 10th Pacific Trade and Development Conference in Canberra but, at the last minute, was unable to attend. At the 11th Conference in Seoul the following year, he commented on two of the papers presented. For the next twelve years he participated in a bewildering array of conferences and meetings, largely organized by the Pacific Economic Co-operation (PEC) ["Committee" was usually added later, making it PECC] Task Force Co-ordinators, and for which, in addition to the usual correspondence, programmes, and briefing documents, he kept careful preparatory notes, drafts of papers given, and summary reports where he participated as a discussant.

In 1982, the Japanese Task Force on Direct Foreign Investment for the Pacific Basin Co-operation invited him to be an advisor to provide Canadian input to its Task Force for a seminar to be held in Jakarta in November, 1983. This dovetailed with another invitation to participate in the work of the newly formed Canadian Pacific Co-operation Committee, the purpose of which was to ensure tri-partite response to reports of the PECC Task Forces that were to meet in Bangkok in May, 1983 (Safarian was already a member of Canadian panels associated with that conference). A series of meeting were held in Ottawa to co-ordinate Canadian participation in these events and in the PECC Task Force workshops on Direct Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer and on Trade in Manufactured Goods that met in Tokyo and Seoul respectively in June.

In October, 1984, the PECC held two workshops in Hawaii -- on technology transfers, where Safarian presented a major paper, and on capital flows. Safarian kept copies of other papers presented, along with extensive notes on foreign direct investment in the Pacific Basin.

Working with the Canadian National Committee for Pacific Economic Co-operation, Safarian attended the PECC Conference on Direct Foreign Investment in Bangkok in April, 1986. Subsequent meetings included the 5th PECC Conference in Vancouver in November (at which he presented another paper), the International Seminar on New Technologies held in Rio de Janeiro in January, 1987, and the PECC Trade and Investment Workshop on the Uruguay Round at the end of August. In conjunction with these meetings, Safarian prepared a paper for the CNCPEC on the "improvement of data on foreign direct investment in the Pacific area".

The files for 1988 and 1989 cover the 6th PECC Conference held in Osaka in May, 1988 and Safarian's preparation for and participation in the 3rd Symposium on Pacific Energy Co-operation held in Tokyo in January, 1989. The last files in this series document the 3rd Global Contribution Seminar, held in Tokyo in May, 1992. At these, Professor Safarian either presented formal papers or led discussion groups.

Manuscripts and publications

This series contains covering correspondence and research material for and drafts and/or offprints of articles, chapters of books, and books written by Professor Safarian between 1957 and 1992 that are not included, or are only partially represented, in Accessions B89-0032 and B94-0019. The arrangement of the files is chronological and by title.

The first substantial new addition is the files relating to his 1980 study for the Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce, "National policies towards multinational enterprises: a comparison between the developed market countries."

Except for a single file on Governments and Multinationals (1983) [for drafts of this book see B94-0019, boxes 030 and 031] and several articles published between 1990 and 1992, the remainder of the series documents the research that Professor Safarian undertook for his book, Multinational Enterprise and Public Policy: A study of the industrial countries (1993). The files contain notes about and correspondence with the publisher and with interviewees. There are also notes for tables, data for dependent and independent variables, and summaries, and notes on secondary organization and research, chapter outlines, and on chapters 10 - 12. The research files for and drafts of this book are in B94-0019, boxes 032-040.

Correspondence

Personal correspondence and some other private exchanges with individuals, covering a variety of issues and activities; numerous letters of reference are included. There is also a file on the seventh Table Ronde d’Économistes France-Canada, held in Paris, France, in 1991 and one on the honorary degree awarded to Arthur E. Child by the University of Toronto in 1984, at which Professor Safarian gave the citation. The files contain, in addition to correspondence, memoranda, notes, and drafts of reports and addresses. The arrangement is chronological and by name of event or individual.

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