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Part of John Robert Evans fonds
Part of John Robert Evans fonds
Part of John Robert Evans fonds
This series includes some personal correspondence including many congratulatory letters when Evans was appointed President of the University of Toronto. There is one box of documents that Evan himself pulled together for a possible autobiography. Accompanying these are his notes on various aspects of his career. This series includes documentation including certificates, diplomas, plaque and medals for his many awards and recognitions. Finally, cassette tapes of interviews Dr. Evans did on radio programs including “Voice of the Pioneer and CBC Morningside.
Part of Sir William Mulock fonds
Part of McCarthy Family fonds
Brass; engraved with Charles Verdin, France [ca 1878-1900]. Box lid (inside) engraved “JH Chapman Montreal”. Mechanical device used to measure blood pressure in the nineteenth century. It is considered the first external, non-intrusive device used to estimate blood pressure. It may have belonged to a member of the Moffatt family.
Part of McCarthy Family fonds
Includes: two trophies relating to bowling (1929-1930) and U of T Rowing club (1925); Chancellor’s Circle medal for the Spring reunion in1994 of engineering graduates of 1929; collection of pins for University of Toronto.
Part of Edward Killoran Brown fonds
Consists of Prof. Brown's doctoral cap, Governor General Literary Award (1944), Lorne Pierce medal, and Phi Beta Kappa key, (1943).
Correspondence and biographical
Part of Edward Killoran Brown fonds
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.
Commemorative medal from the British Army inscribed “Jerrold [sic] Edward Blake”
Part of Gerald Edward Blake fonds
Military orders, notes and communiqués of Gerald Blake contained in canvas pouch
Part of Gerald Edward Blake fonds
Printing blocks for floor plans of Biological Building
Part of William H. T. Baillie fonds
Part of William H. T. Baillie fonds
Printing blocks for floor plans of Biological Building
Part of Robert William McKay fonds
Part of Robert William McKay fonds
Part of Robert William McKay fonds
Part of Robert William McKay fonds
Series contains is composed of records dating from McKay’s time at the National Research Council. During the Second World War, the organization was mobilized to support the Allied war effort. As a result, most of the series’ records relate to military research and development. Canadian Army Operational Research Group (C.A.O.R.G.) reports compose approximately half the files that make up the series. These reports cover subjects ranging from blast measurements for anti-tank mine clearance to the number and distribution of Japanese paper balloons in North America. There are also two summary reports on Japanese balloon incidents.
The remainder of the textual and graphic records are made up of committee minutes, general Department of Defence documents, and a short paper on Canada’s part in the development of the radio proximity fuse, which McKay contributed to as assistant to project leader Professor Arnold Pitt.
Also included in this series are the remains of a Japanese paper balloon. Paper balloons, also known as balloon bombs, were a by-product of an atmospheric experiment by Axis scientists, which discovered a powerful air current traveling across the Pacific at about 30,000 feet [1]. Taking advantage of this knowledge, the Japanese military developed what may well have been the first intercontinental weapon in the form of explosive devices attached to paper balloons. These balloons were released in Japan and carried along the Pacific by a jet stream, ultimately finding their way to North America’s West Coast. Although the Japanese are thought to have released as many as 9,000 paper balloons, only 1,000 or so are thought to have reached North America, resulting in a total of six casualties [2].
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Part of Miller Family fonds
Suitcase "F.A.M."containing artifacts of Miller family
Part of Miller Family fonds
Books, correspondence, artifacts certificates. W. Lash Miller
Part of Miller Family fonds
Crest for intramural sport (basketball)
Part of Ethelda Jane Cloke Haig fonds
Crests for intramural sports (basketball)
Part of Ethelda Jane Cloke Haig fonds
Part of Ethelda Jane Cloke Haig fonds
University of Toronto 'T' crest, won by Jane Cloke for her two years on the Women's basketball team
Part of Ethelda Jane Cloke Haig fonds
Part of Ethelda Jane Cloke Haig fonds
Consists of crests: see file listing for more information.
Part of Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer. Office of the Camp Wardens fonds
The series contains primarily correspondence with Camps Two through Nine, much of it dealing with the matter of verifying candidate credentials from different jurisdictions. There is also some correspondence of a social nature related to the establishment of authorities and Camp Wardens in new jurisdictions. The system of record keeping by Camp appears to have stopped in 1954, after which correspondence pertaining to the Camps may be found in the individual correspondence files in series 5. Arrangement is by Camp number, followed by the records pertaining to discussions of expanding the Ritual to the United Kingdom, India and the United States.
Camp Ten records pertain to a proposed camp in Ottawa, which was never established. Camp Ten, when it was established, became the camp for the Université Laval in Québec City in 1956. Camp Twelve was established by Carleton University in Ottawa in 1958. The B1995-0040 accession includes one file of material, from 1978-1987, related to the expansion of the “Links” programme of the Order of the Engineer organization, based in the United States. The records for Camp Five contain an example of an early iron ring.
Part of Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer. Office of the Camp Wardens fonds
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.
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.
Part of Ernest Fidlar fonds
Two hand weights used for exercises
Part of University of Toronto. Household Science Alumnae Association fonds
Part of Bessie Mabel Scott Lewis fonds
Part of Bessie Mabel Scott Lewis fonds
Undergraduate gown belonging to Bessie Scott
Part of James Nairn Patterson Hume fonds
Acquired with this fonds are two artifacts from early computers. A vacuum tube from FERUT and a tape spool winder.