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Correspondence

This series contains a mixture of personal and professional correspondence with friends, colleagues, government departments, publishers and non-governmental organizations relating to all aspects of Metta Spencer's career. The correspondence, in the form of letters, faxes and e-mail, document her network of friendships especially throughout the international peace community as well with other North American sociologists.

Subject files

This series consists of A-Z subject files that are primarily related to Rodney Bobiwash's professional activities as a First Nations and Anti-Racist activist. The series documents the far-right political movement that took place in Toronto, and throughout Canada, in the early and mid-1990s. The series includes profiles of far-right racist agitators, white supremacist newsletters and propaganda such as the Heritage Front's Up Front, documentation of the KKK in Canada, and documents related to the anti-racist resistance mounted by Bobiwash and other activists. The series is arranged alphabetically by subject, with records dating from 1980 through to 1997. Photos of Aryan Fest 1992 can be found in Series 10, Boxes /001P and /004P. Series 1 provides a comprehensive overview of the far-right movement in Toronto, and in Canada, during the 1990s, and an understanding of the role Rodney Bobiwash and other First Nations/anti-racist activists played in combating right-wing hate groups.

Manuscripts and publications

Professor Urban’s writings focus on the relationship between art and architectural design. Six of his publications are present in this series. Some of those that appeared before 1986 and all published afterward are absent. His earliest writing are based on his involvement with Networks Limited in Halifax, then on collaboration with New York City artist Brian Boigon, and finally on his research in Italy in the 1980s.

Disks

Series consists of 5.25 inch and 3.5 inch floppy disks containing Prof. Simeon’s work, including correspondence, papers, manuscripts, drafts, speeches, bibliographies, research, notes, databases, teaching records, essay comments, memos and other records relating to various projects and activities documented throughout the accession.

Professional associations

This series relates to Prof. French’s involvement with various professional associations and funding bodies for a ten year period through the 1980s. Included are files on the National Research Council, the Royal Society, the Science Council of Canada, the Canadian Society for Chemistry as well as several others. Correspondence, memos, agenda, papers and notes usually document his role as an advisor, reviewer or participant at a conference or meeting. There is also a file on the Bell Canada Forum Award that Prof. French received in recognition for excellence in business-university research collaboration. Files are arranged chronologically.

Electronic records

Series consist of floppy disks kept by Prof. Marrus, documenting most aspects of his career, including teaching, publishing and travel.

Sound recordings

This series consists of 4 files including recording of interviews with social workers.

School of Graduate Studies (SGS) Gender Issues Committee

From 1989 to 1993, Morgan chaired the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) Gender Issues Committee which was tasked to advance gender equity at SGS and raise retention rates for women. Initially titled “Women’s Issues Committee”, Morgan argued that the committee needed to do empirical research including all graduate students in order to determine what might be attributable to gender with respect to equity considerations, and as a result the committee was renamed “Gender Issues Committee”. The committee undertook a large empirical research project, surveying all female graduate students at the U of T (approximately 4000) and 1000 male graduate students.

Committee members:

  • 1989-1990: Eleanor Cook, Ursula Franklin, Niall Byrne, James (Jim) Prentice, Jennifer Nedelsky, Lois Reimer, Angela Hofstra (graduate student), June Larkin (researcher)
  • 1990-1991: Catherine Grise, Ursula Franklin, James (Jim) Prentice, Alison Li (graduate student), Lois Reimer, Sam Minsky, June Larkin (external researcher), Sylvia Bashevkin, Rachel Webster (post-doc), Jennifer Nedelsky, Joe Carens

The Final Report was never tabled, but nevertheless several of the recommendations were implemented by SGS and the University.

Files include: background readings and reports of similar work being conducted at other universities and in other areas of the U of T in parallel; literature reviews; minutes, correspondence, and memos; draft recommendations and feedback by Rose Sheinin, Ursula Franklin, Bruce Kidd, David Rayside, Alison Prentice, Ann Saddlemyer, Frank Cunningham, Lorna Marsden; quantitative data and qualitative data categorized by sex and SGS division; conference presentations and reports to campus groups including the SGS Council of Deans.

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.

Teaching and course material

Series consists of records related to courses taught and guest lectures given by Prof. Friedland. Material includes notes, lecture slides and correspondence that reflect diverse areas of occupational therapy education from the history of the profession to psychological and spiritual understanding.

Teaching material

This series consists of course notes and readings for graduate courses in Comparative Literature and French Studies taught by Professor Nesselroth at the University of Toronto. The majority of the courses are on literary subjects, including French and literature and literary figures, such as Isidore Ducasse (Lautréamont), as well as psychoanalytics and semiotics. Documents relating to the
courses include course reading lists, lecture notes, assignments, handouts and syllabi, some of which are in French. There are also documents relating to the Centre for Comparative Literature, including the proposed elimination of the Centre in 2010. Correspondence and project descriptions for the Camargo Foundation, a one year fellowship in Cassis, France, are also included.

Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence kept by Prof. Ng, including letters with colleagues, scholars, advocacy groups, potential students, editors, publishers, and associations. These records provides some documentation of her publishing activities, relationships with colleagues, defense of scholars not supported by their universities, and personal and professional life. The series also includes a sampling of the greeting cards she kept.

Employment: University of Waterloo

Upon leaving Halifax, Professor Richards taught for a year at the University of Toronto (see Series 8) before being hired as an associate professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. In 1982, he was appointed dean for a six-year term. In addition to his broad administrative duties, including the hiring of five new faculty members, he coordinated a number of design courses, including the 1982 Thesis Programme and was instrumental in developing the School’s new first year programme, upper level option studios, revised technology stream, its fund raising campaign, computer laboratory, slide library, Rome facilities, exchange agreement with the Nanjing Institute of Technology (Southeast China University) and the guest lecture series. Professor Richards also served on the University of Waterloo’s Board of Governors Buildings and Properties Committee as it dealt with three projects – the William G. Davis Computer Centre, the Student Centre, and an addition to Burt Matthews Hall. He sat (1983-1987) on the Senate and four of its sub-committees and on the Faculty of Environmental Studies Executive Committee (1982-87). He also served on a number of professional bodies (see Series 13), was guest critic at Carleton University and the University of Toronto and in 1987 was appointed guest editor and curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.

This series documents most of the activities described in the first paragraph above. The files are arranged in descending order of hierarchy, beginning with the Board of Governors. The work of Board and School committees is covered in considerable detail, as are the courses offered in so far as their facilitation and structure is concerned (there are few extant lectures). Some of the courses, such as 493 (Options Studio), include study tours to cities such as Montreal and Los Angeles. The courses are arranged by course number and chronologically, and photographs accompany some of the files. The series ends with files on lecture series, exhibitions, and university publicity.

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.

Teaching materials: University of Waterloo and University of Toronto

This series consists primarily of files relating to courses taught by Teichman in her career as an instructor and subsequently professor at the University of Waterloo, and the University of Toronto. Includes syllabi, course readings, and lecture notes. Also includes material relating to correspondence courses, mid-terms, grades and grade petitions.

Conference presentations, workshops, and talks

Series consists of records relating to Prof. Fletchers conference presentations and workshops. Presentations reflect Prof. Fletcher’s early interest in political psychology and civil rights, particularly through the findings of both the Charter Project and the Australian Rights Project. Files primarily include speaking notes, drafts, and lecture slides in addition to some correspondence.

Advocacy

Throughout his teaching career at the University of Toronto, Prof. Rayside has been an advocate on gay, lesbian and feminist issues. His university advocacy activities are numerous. Between 1985 and 1987, he served on the Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women, University of Toronto. Prof. Rayside was also a Member of the Sexual Harassment Hearing Panel, University of Toronto, 1988-1992. In this capacity, he heard the first case under the new Sexual Harassment Policy, Torfason vs. Hummel. He was a founding member and coordinator of the Committee on Homophobia from 1989-1991 and remained a member until 1994. In addition, between 1989 and 1994, Prof. Rayside was a member of the Men’s Forum. He also served on the Teach-In Committee and was responsible for organising a university-wide teach-in on sexism and violence against women in 1990. Prof. Rayside also participated on the Ad hoc crisis team to handle the case of a U. of T. residence student with AIDS, 1991-1992, and helped prepare a discussion of report on university AIDS policy. He also assisted in the organisation of the “Queer Sites: Studies in Lesbian and Gay Culture” Conference in 1993.

Records in this series document Prof. Rayside’s advocacy activities and leadership on equity issues relating to gender and sexual orientation. Types of records include: correspondence, reports, briefs, notes, meeting minutes, programmes, and conference posters.

Committees documented in B1998-0029 are: Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women; Ad hoc crisis team to handle the case of a U. of T. residence student with AIDS; Men’s Forum, Queer Sites Conference Organising Committee; Sexual Harassment Hearing Panel; and Teach-In Committee.

Groups or committees documented in B2008-0023 include: Committee on Homophobia, Men’s Forum, Positive Space Campaign, Lesbian and Gay Academic Society, Toronto Centre for Gay and Lesbian Studies, Working Group on Policy Issues (response to homelessness) and the Equity Committee for the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences. Other files generally document Rayside’s involvement on issues of pay equity, diversity, human rights as well a gay and lesbian rights. There are two files that document the Bent on Change conferences in 2000 and 2002 of which Rayside was a key organizer. Finally, filed separately because of restrictions are two files documenting Rayside’s legal challenges against councillor Betty Disero over election funding.

Groups or committees documented in B2013-0015 include the Bill 7 Coalition, The Body Politic, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Community Research Initiative of Toronto, Free the Press Foundation, Committee on Homophobia, Positive Space Campaign, Right to Privacy Committee, and the Toronto Gay Community Council. There are also select files related to court cases and affidavits Prof. Rayside was involved in, or wrote, and files related to activism carried out within the University of Toronto, as well as his work related to gender issues, including the Hummel case. Files are arranged alphabetically by name of the group, organization, or person they pertain to, and in rare cases, the name of the issue they concern, if no group, organization, or person name is available. This series also contains one file of photographs and one file of artifacts.

Photographs

  • B2002-0009/001P(01)-(05): Sikh Studies Conference: photographs taken at a dinner in the home of Prof. Israel.
  • B2002-0009/001P(06)-(07): Photographs of the office in the Centre for South Asian Studies, room 2054 Sidney Smith, 1985
  • B2011-0004/001(18): Photographs of M. Israel at the Indo-Canadian Institute, 1980, with Canadian students, and Resident Director

Office of the Principal

This series consists of the subject files for this office during Prof. Schabas' tenure as Principal. Files are arranged alphabetically by title and contain correspondence, financial statements, minutes of meetings, notes,etc. File titles include among others the Ministry of Employment and Immigration, Metro Toronto, the Canadian National Exhibition, Canadian Music Council, Guelph Spring Festival, Frederick Harris Music Co,and the New Music School.

University College Literary & Athletic Society

Tony Clement was President of the "UC Lit", the students' administrative council of University College from 1981-1982. This series contains minutes of meetings, general and subject arranged correspondence, constitution revisions, and other files relating to functions of the Council such as elections, orientation, and finances.

Course materials

This series consists of files on various courses taken as an undergraduate and as a student in the Faculty of Law. Among the undergraduate files (1979-1983) are notes, term papers, exams, reading lists and course outlines for courses in history, political science, economics, English, and french. Law course materials (1983-1986) include courses in civil procedure, torts, evidence, taxation and moot court.

Ministry of Natural Resources. Rabies Advisory Committee

In 1979 Dr. Rhodes accepted an appointment as Chairman of the Rabies Advisory Committee within the Ministry of Natural Resources. This series documents some of the activities of this committee focusing primarily on immunization against rabies nationally and internationally. Included are general correspondence relating mainly to his appointment and reappointment to this committee and his retirement, and subject files relating to the World Health Organization conference in Essen, Germany, oral immunization of wildlife, safety standards and a seminar in Maple, Ontario on “Public, Intra- and Inter-Agency Relations in Rabies Control programs: a review”

Lectures and criticism

Frederic Urban gave a number of addresses as a visiting artist and lecturer. In 1979 he was a visiting artist at Ohio State University, where he photographed a number of student street performances. In October 1981 he was guest lecturer with the Venice Study Abroad Program run by the Department of Architecture at the University of Toronto. The following year he was a guest lecturer at University College in the University of Toronto for Larry Richard’s course, “Introduction to architecture”. In 1984 and 1985 he gave lectures
on his Sacri Monti project at Carleton University and the University of Toronto. In 1991 he
was a visiting lecturer at the University of Wisconsin at Stout. Some of the addresses are documented in this series. For related correspondence, see Series 2.

Professor Urban was a member of the Board of Directors of the Sharon Temple Museum Society from 1996 to 2001 and he and Larry were invited to participate in a series of readings and performances.

Born-digital records

These born-digital records include professional materials that relate to Greenfield's appointment at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (correspondence with students and faculty, letters of reference, memoranda, and manuscripts), editorial work related to Greenfield's position as Associate Editor of "Curriculum Inquiry," manuscripts and correspondence related to the organization "Gay Fathers of Toronto," manuscripts for "The educational programs and purposes of the Batchewana Band: a management audit,"and personal correspondence and manuscripts relating to finances, politics, and family.

Book: Canada and the Reagan Challenge

Canada and the Reagan Challenge: Crisis in the Canadian-American Relationship (James Lorimer, 1982) was commissioned by the Canadian Institute for Economic Policy in 1981 and was Clarkson’s first book to examine Canadian American relations, a subject he had been teaching since 1968. That year, it won the John Porter prize for the best book in social sciences and proved so popular that a second edition was published in 1985. It was titled Canada and the Reagan Challenge: Crisis and Adjustment, 1981-85 and focused on the Mulroney government.

Records in this series include notes, interview notes, correspondence, research materials, lectures, manuscripts, as well as related documents on workshops and articles written by Stephen Clarkson. There is also documentation with the publisher including contracts, correspondence reviews and material relating to the promotion of the book.

Other professional and community activities

In spite of his busy academic and administrative schedules, Professor Morton has made time for what he termed ‘community service’ activities, usually in the form of committee work. His interests are focussed on educational, historical, military and community matters. Those documented as discrete entities in their own files are described forthwith.

Military interests include membership in the regimental senate of the Fort Garry Horse, the tank regiment that his father had commanded during World War II. In 1992 Dr. Morton became a founding member of the Canadian Battle of Normandy Foundation, established to help commemorate the 50th anniversary of ‘D’ Day. He is also a member of the Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War,
and has been a member of the Canadian War Museum Advisory Committee of the Canadian Museum of Civilization since 1992.

In 1979 Dr. Morton began delivering a series of lectures at the Canadian Forces (later the Canadian Forces Command and) Staff College in Toronto. One series (given in conjunction chiefly with Jack Granatstein) was on ‘Canada as an Ally’; another, principally with the demographer, David Foot, was on Canada’s labour market. These continued until shortly after Dr. Morton moved to Montreal. In 1982 he started a
lecture series on Quebec-Canada relations and regionalism for the Canadian Forces
Staff School, also in Toronto, which he continued until the Staff College was closed in 1994. Only the correspondence relating to these lectures survives in this series.

Dr. Morton has also been a frequent consultant to the Department of National Defence. He chaired the Department of National Defence’s Advisory Group on Political Activity in Defence Establishments, which produced a report in 1987. From 1991 to 1994 he sat on its Advisory Committee on Social Change in the Canadian Forces. In January of 1997, Douglas Young, the Minister of National Defence, established a committee, the Special Advisory Group of Military Justice and Military Police Investigation Services, to advise the Ministry on the restructuring of the military. This was done in the wake of and a week after he had pulled the plug on the Somalia inquiry. Members of this committee included Dr. Morton, historians Jack Granatstein and David Bercuson, and retired army Lieutenant-Colonel General Charles Belzile. Brian Dickson, former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, headed a separate inquiry into the military justice system. Both groups were to submit their reports by the end of February.

This series contains general correspondence relating to Dr. Morton’s relationship with the Department of National Defence, and correspondence, reports and other material relating to the specific military activities mentioned above. These records are located in B1999-0023, except for the following: DND affairs generally from 1994 on and specifically to the 1997 Special Advisory Group, and the Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War, which are located in B2000-0010.

The federal government also benefitted from Dr. Morton’s interest and experience in political matters. From 1991 to 1994 he was a member of the management committee of the Cooperative Security Competition Program in the Department of External Affairs and International Trade. In 1992 his vigorous support of the ‘Yes Canada Campaign’ resulted in an extensive file in his papers.

Dr. Morton also maintained an active interest in labour issues. He periodically served as an expert witness in court cases, the affidavits from two of which (from the mid-1980s) are represented in this series. He sat on the board of directors of the Canadian Labour Hall of Fame from 1990 to 1994.

Dr. Morton’s interest in a variety of educational issues is reflected in the number of such organizations that he joined and in his work as a consultant. From 1981 to 1983, he was a member of the History Subject Advisory Group of the Ontario Assessment Instrument Pool. In 1984-1985 he served on the advisory committee to Ontario Commission on Private Schools (the Shapiro Commission). His commitment to public education led, at the end of the 1980s, to his opposition to the Coalition of Free-Standing University-Level Institutions which advocated the establishment of private universities in Ontario (the Ontario Council on University Affairs had released a discussion paper on the issue), in particular the proposed Wolfe University. In 1993 he conducted an appraisal of the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario for the Ontario Council of Graduate Studies. Beginning in 1981, Dr. Morton acted as a consultant to Grolier Ltd., first in relation to their ‘Century of Canada Series’ and then their ‘Focus Series’. In the mid-1980s, he acted as a consultant to Cross Canada Books as it tried to attract American customers. All of these activities are described in this series.

Dr. Morton’s concern for and involvement in community matters is reflected in a wide variety of activities concentrated in the Region of Peel where he lived and worked. He sat on the Peel Cheshire Home, on the Peel Police Community Race Relations Committee (for which he produced a report), was a member of the Peel Literary Guild, and acted as an advisor to Distress Line Peel Inc. He wrote a column in the Mississauga News for several years, and also wrote about local history, as did his wife, Janet. Some of his writings can be found in series 8 and 10; hers are located in series 1

Addresses

Most of this series is comprised of files on the radio broadcast, ‘Proof and truth in mathematics’, that Professor Barbeau presented on the CBC “Ideas” program on 11, 18, and 25 May, 1982. Included is covering correspondence, drafts of the scripts and transcripts of the tapes, and interviews with H.S.M. Coxeter, Chandler Davis, Stillman Drake, Charles V. Jones, Morris Kline, Frank Tall, Gregory Moore and Israel Weinzweig. The remainder of the series consists of a number of other addresses by Professor Barbeau and one by Serge Lang. The arrangement is chronological.

Papers, Articles and Reviews

The records in this series from B2008-0023 document many articles and papers published by Rayside from 1977 to 2002. The topics range from his early interest and research on federalism and small towns to his extensive research on gay rights and gender equality for which he is now so well known. Arranged chronologically, most files contain correspondence and draft typescripts and some also contain research notes and reader’s comments. There are also some interview transcripts and notes for Prof. Rayside’s article “Gay Rights and Family Values: The Passage of Bill 7 in Ontario” (1987) as well as for a series of articles written in the early 1990s on AIDS in Canada with Evert Lindquist. Most published reviews written by Rayside from 1979 to 1994 are amassed in one folder. Note that many records in this series are electronic. Also included are cassette recordings of some of his talks and public appearances.

Records from B2013-0015 document Rayside’s published peer-reviewed articles, chapters in books, encyclopedia entries, magazine and newspaper articles and reviews. Topics for these records focus mainly on gay rights and gender equity. Sub-topics include marriage, parenting and workplace safety.

Records from B2017-0024 includes assessments done by Rayside for refereed papers 2013-2017. There are also drafts for papers Employment Equity written with Gerry Hunt and The Inadequate Recognition of Sexual Diversity published in in the Journal of Canadian Studies. Records also document his contributions to two books Queering Ontario (UBC Press, 2012 ?)and After Marriage Equality: the Future of LGBT Rights (NYU Press 2015) Finally there are two files relating to his contribution to Who’s Who in Gay and Lesbian History (Sidney’s Biographies), 1999-2006.

Conferences and workshops

This series documents a number of conferences and workshops with which Dr. Evans was associated. The files contain correspondence, notes, memoranda, minutes, and programs and supporting documents. The arrangement is alphabetical by name of the event.

The series begins with a file on the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges ‘Trilateral 2000’ conference. Next are conferences held at the Bellagio Study and Conference Centre, Lake Como, Italy in 1979 (‘Health and population in developing countries’) and 1995 (‘Seeking a new paradigm for sustainable human development’), of which the Rockefeller Foundation was a sponsor. In 1995 Dr. Evans was invited by the board of directors of the Commonwealth Fund in New York City to join their retreat, where he gave an address, ‘Implications of turn-of-the-century addresses for foundations’. There is also a file on a workshop held in Montebello, Quebec in June 1999, where ideas and concepts generated produced a report, ‘The future of global and regional integration’.

Dr. Evans has long been interested in issues relating to governance in the corporate sector. This is reflected, in particular, in files on three different organizations, the Director’s College
at McMaster University, the National Association of Corporate Directors, and the ICD Corporate Governance College module held at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in 2004.

There are also files on the National Forum on Canada’s International Relations (1994) where Dr. Evans was praised for “the strong leadership you gave to your group”. Next is a file on the Ontario Medical Association conference, ‘Ensuring a healthy future for Canadians: a dialogue on the Canada Health Act,’ held in Toronto in May 1999. The series concludes with files on the first two Symposiums on Public Health held in Montreal in 1992 and 1994. The theme of the latter was the socio-political and moral aspects of positive health and Dr. Evans gave an address, ‘Renewing community: a critical dimension of local and global stewardship’ (see Series 6).

University College

Both during and after his academic years at University College, Mr. Clement continued to be an active member, participating on various committees of the College and representing the College on U. of T. bodies. This series consists of files documenting his role as a student representative on the U.C. Council including the Programme Committee (1979-81), on the Dean's Search Committee and Review Committee, the Graduate Students' Committee and while he was a member of the University College Alumni Association. For additional information on this latter activity see Series III.

University of Toronto

This series documents Mr. Clement's activities on various University of Toronto committees during his years as an undergraduate student and Faculty of Law student and his involvement with other campus student organizations such as the U. of T. Progressive Conservatives Association, the Students' Law Society, Lawyers for fundamental freedoms, and Hart House Debates Committee.

Grants and research

Throughout his career Prof. Richardson applied for and received grants for research leave and research trips. This series contains application files to SSHRC as well as other funding sources both inside and outside the University of Toronto. Not all grants applied for were successful. This series also contains files documenting Prof. Richardson’s research trips and other related scholarly activities utilizing his expertise in religious studies and architecture. These files contain correspondence, travel arrangements, contacts information, and notes. Some files, such as those for trips to Israel compliment “Study Abroad” files in Series 7. Another file documents his trip to China in 1992.

Correspondence

Series consist of professional correspondence received and written by Dr. Sessle. Content includes discussions with colleagues regarding articles, findings, and presentations; invitations to various academic meetings; and letters of recommendation supporting students and colleagues for academic posts, awards, and research positions. Also included are some advocacy letters on the subjects of animal cruelty and support for the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. Finally, two files of patient consultations are included at the end of the series.

Education

This series contains material relating to Buerger’s time at U of T as a student. Specifically, it includes a course schedule for an American history class.

Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-four on International Monetary Affairs (G24)

“The G24…was founded in 1971 to provide more effective voice for developing countries in the international financial institutions….Early in its development, it established a research programme, funded by the UNDP [United Nations Development Program], administered by UNCTAD [United Nations Commission on Trade and Development], and run by Sidney Dell, as a backup for its efforts.” In the 1980s Dell approached Professor Helleiner to undertake research on behalf of the group. One of the latter’s projects was to plan, synthesize and summarize two of the G24’s research programme’s major projects – “one on the implications of the post-1971 (flexible) exchange rate regime for developing countries, and the other on the longer-term implications of the balance of payments crisis in developing countries which had been created by the severe exogenous shocks of the 1970s.” In the mid-1980s Professor Helleiner was able to find alternate funding through IDRC [International Development Research Commission] for the G24 research programme when it was about to run out of money. He also did most of the organizational work and editing (he also contributed a paper on African finance and debt) of a memorial volume in honour of Sidney Dell (who died in 1990) that appeared in 1995 as Poverty, prosperity and the world economy.

In 1991 Professor Helleiner agreed to replace Dell as the co-ordinator of the G24 research programme, in spite of being very busy with other projects, which he directed until 1999. He noted that “UNCTAD tended to see this program as a project of their own, and to see me as their employee…[as they] handled all of the G24 research programme’s administration…” Professor Helleiner’s duties included attending all the G24’s deputies’ and ministerial meetings and often its Bureau meetings as well. He also attended International Monetary Fund/World Bank meetings, most often in Washington but once every three years in other cities – Bangkok (1991), Madrid (1994) and Hong Kong (1997).

The research programme’s budget never exceeded $200,000 per year, but Professor Helleiner was able to attract further support from the governments of the Netherlands and Denmark and, later from individual G24 governments as well. Between 1992 and 1999, he commissioned over 80 papers, most of which were “published – in batches – in 11 volumes of a new UNCTAD series created solely for this purpose, entitled International monetary and financial issues for the 1990s. Further unpublished issue papers were done in response to specific requests from developing country Eds.” Unfortunately, most of the time these papers were ignored by the IMF and the World Bank staff which had their own permanent research units. Professor Helleiner believes that research programme’s greatest success was at the 1994 conference in Cartagena which was convened to review, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference that created the IMF, “the state of the international monetary and financial system from the standpoint of the interests of developing countries.

A subsequent innovation, resulting from a meeting in Antigua, Guatamela in August that year, was a decision to create “a G24 Technical Group to improve the relations between the research programme (and its coordinator), the G9 Executive Directors and the G24.” It met twice a year in G24 national capitals as well as Washington, the site of annual fall meetings. The first meeting in November 1994 was followed by specially ones in Abidjan (February 1995), Islamabad (March 1996), Margarita Island, Venezuela (March 1997), Algiers (March 1998), Colombo (March 1999). Professor Helleiner was responsible for the programmes and missed only the Venezuela meeting. Again, the capacity of the Technical Group’s research papers, even when right on topic, to influence G24 members efforts was limited by international political considerations.

This series contains correspondence, memoranda, notes, minutes of meetings, contracts and related legal documents, drafts of research papers, reports, and press coverage.

Scripts

Series consists of three scripts written by Prof. Thornton, two of which are operettas.

Research

This series contains a diverse set of records documenting many of the main research projects under taken by Prof. Prentice. Many resulted in publications of books and this series therefore relates to records found in Series 7 Publishing. Projects documented include:

1) the history of teachers, especially women in teaching – research was done for a book that was being prepared with Marta Kanylewycz on teachers in Quebec, before her untimely death in 1985

2) women in physics including some oral histories in the form of written notes

3) studies on the status of women in the historical profession – prepared for a session organized for a Canadian Historical Association conference in 1990

4) research on women historians including taped interviews and correspondence on her co-edited book Creating Historical Memory

5) research undertaken as part of the Women and Professional Education Network that resulted in the co-edited book Challenging Professions.

There are also several other smaller research interests documented including research on faculty wives, women on University of Toronto campus, the feminization of maps, as well as a file on the McQueen project undertaken with Margaret Conrad of the University of New Brunswick. Also included are oral histories transcripts and tapes for interviews with Elizabeth Allin, Charity Grant, Jean Burnet, and Bertha Houston. There are also several other interviews contained only on tape including Canadian women scholars Ursala Franklin, Margaret Prang, Debby Gorban as well as several of Prof. Prentice’ graduate students, Australian educational historians and former faculty wives. . B2019-0015 also contained trascripts with Irene Spry and Margaret Ormsby as well as an unpublished paper on physicist/astrophysicist Allie Vibert Douglas.

Files contain extensive correspondence and e-mail mainly among the research partners who were among the first generation of historians to focus on women’s history. The correspondence gives a solid portrayal of the collaborative nature of this research. Also included are research notes and collected essays, drafts of papers and chapters, oral history tapes and transcripts, grant applications and at times correspondence relating to publishing.

Writing

Series 3 contains Rodney Bobiwash's professional and creative writing, both published and unpublished. Included in this series are short stories, reviews, poems, and book proposals, as well as articles and publications related to Bobiwash's professional activities. Box /018 contains a mix of professional and creative writing, though the majority of the records are professional in nature. Box /018 also contains nine articles with various titles under the heading "My View, which Bobiwash wrote for The Forum for Global Exchange between 1999-2000, as well as an article for a Canadian history CD ROM and an article for Akwesasne News, among other documents. Included in this box are several small collections of Bobiwash's poetry. Box /019 also contains a mix of Bobiwash's professional and creative writing. This box contains mostly creative writing such as short stories, poetry collections, and book proposals, including two proposals to Daykeeper Press for books titled "Red Sun in the Morning"

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