- UTA 1078
- Fonds
- 1899-ca.1924
Slides of postcards of events, buildings, and grounds at the University of Toronto and in the City of Toronto.
Bradley, Christopher
Slides of postcards of events, buildings, and grounds at the University of Toronto and in the City of Toronto.
Bradley, Christopher
Fonds consists of 2 accessions
B1986-0018: Personal records of Alexander Brady, consisting of addresses, correspondence and diaries; course and lecture and research notes; administrative files (Department of Political Economy) and subject files; maps, monographs, and photographs, relating primarily to the application of political theory to the evolution of the British and Commonwealth political systems. (253 boxes, ca. 1884-1985)
B1988-0008: Correspondence, notes, pamphlets, press clippings, reports, lecture notes, addresses and manuscripts documenting Alexander Brady's interest in Canadian economic, industrial and constitutional development, modern political thought, and Commonwealth relations. (14 boxes, 1911-1979)
Brady, Alexander
Consists of lecture notes, articles, addresses, and radio broadcasts on philosophical themes; presentation certificate from students at Government College, Lahore (1908); and biographical sketches and tributes. Includes convocation address "Western University London" n.d.
Brett, George Sidney
Three photographs documenting Wilbert P. Brian experiences as a member of Devonshire Residence East House. Included is a view of the 1934 freshmen bed race in which Brian took part. Accompanying these photographs are two pages from a scrapbook with clippings about the freshmen bed races and other related events.
Brian, Wilbert P.
British Association for the Advancement of Science fonds
Fonds consists of 2 accessions
B1987-0045: Photo of 1924 meeting of the Association; the University of Toronto professors represented are Charles Ryle Fay and Robert Morrison MacIver.
B2009-0026: Bound volume of printed programmes, tickets, blank forms, published notices etc. re activities at the Toronto meeting of the Association in August 1897.
British Association for the Advancement of Science
Records documenting Claude Brodeur's career as educational psychologist in the Faculty of Education. Includes mainly correspondence, some files relating to workshops seminars and conferences, reports authored, speeches, articles, consultant files and some early counseling files.
Brodeur, C. Claude
This description is under review
Personal records of the Davidson Black family, covering three generations, with particular reference to Davidson Black, the discoverer of Peking Man. Included are his diaries, extensive family correspondence and a few professional letters; files on his education, his employment, including his service in World War I but especially at Peking Union Medical College, his life in China generally, along with a few on his writings, and some artifacts. There is an extensive and well documented photo collection that helps tie the whole together. There are also a number of films made by Davidson Black between the late 1920s and 1932.
Black (Davidson) Family
Snapshots depicting student life on campus during Brooks' time in the Faculty of Medicine. Includes images of the centenary parade in 1927, activities at Hart House, Devonshire House, Varsity Arena, and the Medical Building. Four duplicate negatives can be found in box 002P.
Brooks, Lewis Horton
This fonds consists of three accessions containing correspondence, notes, diaries, certificates and diplomas, manuscripts and copies of printed articles, lecture notes, and photographs documenting Prof. E.K. Brown's career as professor of English literature at the University of Toronto, University of Manitoba and University of Chicago. Also includes correspondence to his widow, Margaret Brown (1953-1988), artifacts such as his doctoral cap, Governor-General Literary award of 1944 and Lorne Pierce Medal awarded to him posthumously by the Royal Society of Canada.
Brown, Edward Killoran
Records documenting the activites of Milton Brown as professor in the Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine and head (1956-1967) of the Department of Public Health. There are extensive files on administrative matters and courses; on courses given at the Canadian Civil Defence College; on research relating to tuberculosis, other communicable diseases, and the development of vaccines; and on committees, especially those that Brown chaired, such as the Panel on Infection and Immunity of the Defence Research Board and the Committee on Accident Prevention of the Canadian Public Health Association. Some of Dr. Brown's files incorporate material produced by Donald Fraser, and there are also some of the latter's files.
Included is correspondence, memoranda and notes, financial records, grant applications, lecture notes, minutes, reports, addresses, manuscripts, publications and photoprints.
Brown, Milton Herbert
Fonds consists of 4 accessions of records. This fonds consists of materials from 15 different family members and is arranged in series based on the size of the materials from each member (with six family members contributing to most of this fonds). There are 8 series overall (with series 7 consisting of additional family members and series 8 as the photography series). Each series within
this fonds predominantly consists of correspondence between family members, legal documents, financial records, articles, diaries, genealogical research, and analog photographs, and a video. This fonds also consists of objects such as medals, ribbons,
and an engraved plate. See accession-level descriptions for further detail.
Brown, Joshua Price
Personal records of George Brown, including personal and professional correspondence, course notes (?), lecture notes in Canadian and American history, including mimeographed ones prepared for the Prisoner of War camps in Canada during World War II (1943-1944); research notes, drafts of articles and offprints; bibliography cards; glass-plate negatives and card index to photographs.
Brown, George Williams
Rules for compiling and copy of a logging report (with photographs), "Logging Operation of J.R. Booth Co. Ltd.," by Charles P. Howard and Robert M. Bullock, carried out for the Faculty of Forestry in 1931; "Notes on logging dam construction" by J. A. Gilles, Upper Ottawa Improvement Co., 1931; table of wages for logging and sawmill industry, 1913-1931; sketch maps, a sketch of equipment, and publications relating to the forest products industry in Ontario.
Bullock, Robert McCallum
Contains notebooks, assignments and a textbook of Lachlan Taylor Burwash, who studied Mining Engineering at the School of Practical Science from 1893-1897. Included are Applied Chemistry (1893); Applied Chemistry II (1894?); Physics (1894); Dynamics and Kinematics (1894); Constructive Design and Surveying (1895). Also three general notebooks (1889, 1894, 1895) and assignments and a textbook from Book-keeping (1891).
Burwash, Lachlan Taylor
Personal records of Helen J. Breslauer, consisting primarily of a study of which she was a principal investigator along with Professor Howard Andrews, “Co-operative housing: a case study of decision-making in design and user satisfaction” (1968-1975). This fonds also includes files relating broadly to the development of an urban studies programme at Erindale College, with particular emphasis on course CGR/SOC 340E: “Concepts, methods, and values in urban studies” (1972-1976).
Seven of the eight series in this fonds deal with the Co-operative housing case study and are arranged according to the areas of research mapped out in the interim reports [see Series 7]. In addition there is an administrative series and a reports series which provide an overview of the research methodology, findings and administration of the research project.
Breslauer, Helen J.
Two diaries for the years 1919 and 1922 written by John Bacon Brodie, graduate of the University of Toronto (BA, 1918) documenting his day to day life in Toronto working for the "Varsity Magazine" World War I supplement and his courtship of Phoebe Wade.
Brodie, John Bacon
Fonds consists of 2 accessions:
B1984-0006: Correspondence, pamphlets, invitation cards, programmes, articles, photographs and lantern slides relating to the Lister Centennial Commemoration, 1927, which Dr. Cameron attended as the representative of the Faculty of Medicine. (2 boxes, 1923-1930)
B1986-0014: Copy of W.S. Wallace's "A History of the University of Toronto, 1827-1927", annotated by Irving Heward Cameron, who recorded additional sources and provided commentary and personal reminiscences. (1 box, 1927)
Cameron, Irving Heward
B.A. (1885) and M.A. (1896) diplomas and 2 prize books awarded with the silver medal in Modern Languages (1885).
Cameron, John Home
Angus Alexander Campbell fonds
Copy of 1906 "Torontonensis", annotated with death dates of Campbell's classmates from the class of 1906 (Medicine). Included are some death notices and obituaries.
Campbell, Angus Alexander
Fonds consists of the personal records of Prof. David R. Cameron, political scientist. The majority of the records document Prof. Cameron’s work with the federal and provincial governments, rather than his academic work.
Much of the fonds documents Prof. Cameron’s work with the federal and Ontario governments on constitutional renewal, national unity, and French-English relations in the late 1970s and 1980s. In particular, there is significant documentation of the Pépin-Robarts Task Force on Canadian Unity, and Cameron’s work with the Federal-Provincial Relations Office. Prof. Cameron’s work on post-secondary education with the Secretary of State is also well documented, as is his work on constitutional renewal and Ontario-Quebec relations with the Ontario government in the 1990s.
Records relating to this government service include day planners and steno pads, correspondence and memos, briefings, news clippings, government documents, reports, proposals, research and background files, travel records, contracts, drafts and revisions, and meeting agendas, minutes and briefings.
Fonds also includes records relating to Prof. Cameron’s involvement with the Romanow Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (2001-2003), the Walkerton Inquiry (2001-2002), and the Sri Lankan peace process (2002-2005).
Academic records include employment records, correspondence, some conference files, and publication files, especially those related to his Patterns of Association project (1997-2006).
Cameron, David R.
Notes, minutes, memoranda, correspondence, notices, and reports relating to Ontario College of Education training courses, curriculum studies, and the activities of the Ontario Secondary Teachers Federation.
Campbell, Mary A
Canada. Canadian Army. 67th (Varsity) Battery Association
Fonds consists of 5 accession:
B1976-0006: The records relate to the first and second drafts of the Battery. (5 items, 1916)
B1984-0001: The records consist of account books, financial statements, registers, scrapbooks, publications, press clippings and photographs. (5 boxes, 1915-1982)
B1984-0010: The records consist of: draft lists, minutes of meetings, publications, photographs and related material (6 boxes, 1916-1983).
B1988-0033: Correspondence, manuscript, programs and photographs (1 box, 1933-1982)
B1995-0043: Postcard of the 67th Varsity Battery. (1 item, ca. 1916)
Canada. Canadian Army. 67th (Varsity) Battery Association
Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Officers Training Corps. University of Toronto Contingent fonds
This fonds contains 4 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.
Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Officers Training Corps. University of Toronto Contingent
Personal records of William James Callahan, Professor Emeritus of History, consisting of term papers and related material associated with his undergraduate and graduate education at Boston College and at Harvard University; personal and professional correspondence, including letters from two Spanish friends who were keen commentators on the end of the Franco regime in Spain and its successor governments, and from Jock Galloway; teaching files including lecture notes and grading books; material relating to his being principal of Victoria College and chairman of its religious studies department, and to the removal of the United Church Archives from Victoria; research notes, drafts of articles and addresses; book reviews of his own publications and book reviews written.
Callahan, William James
Two Word files about the Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry [MPC] course in the Faculty of Arts & Science, compiled by Mary Brereton, BSc 6T3, MA 6T5.
Brereton, Mary
Canadian Council of Library Schools fonds
Administrative records of the Canadian Council of Library Schools (1969-1983) and of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (1972-1977, 1982-1983).
Canadian Council of Library Schools
Canadian Historical Association. Committee on Historical Broadcasting fonds
Series 1: Correspondence (15 September, 1936 - 2 May, 1939), primarily to and from the chair of the Committee, George de T. Glazebrook, but also including correspondence with George W. Brown, who worked closely with him, and relating to the broadcasting of Canadian local history and "portrait" series on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation stations. Correspondents include archivists D. C. Harvey, W. Kaye Lamb, and M. Seraphin Marion; historians A. S. Morton, Chester New, Fred H. Soward, and Reginald Trotter; and broadcasters include D. W. Buchanan, H. W. Morrison, Murray Gladstone, Allan Plaunt, and Charles Jennings; and Sir Ernest MacMillan.|
Series 2: Administrative files: Membership lists; "stampbook" of broadcasts, 1936-1938; memoranda on the broadcasting of local history; memoranda, rough notes by Glazebrook relating to and scripts for "Yonge Street" in the broadcast series "Historic Roads in Ontario"; lists of broadcasts for the "Canadian portrait" series.
Canadian Historical Association. Committee on Historical Broadcasting
Canadian Historical Review fonds
This fonds contains 7 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.
Canadian Historical Review
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies fonds
A series of lectures sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Urkranian Studies.
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
Fonds consists of the personal records of Alan Rodney Bobiwash, documenting his career as a university instructor, aboriginal and anti-racist activist, consultant, and representative for global Indigenous rights. Series 1, the most extensive series, consists of an A-Z subject files that document Bobiwash’s aboriginal and anti-racist activism, and provides the best overview of professional activities during the 1980s and 1990s. Series 5 is a chronological collection of records related to the conferences and seminars Bobiwash attend in various professional capacities from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. The fonds also contains personal correspondence and records that document Bobiwash’s education, personal relationships, and activities, as well as Curriculum Vitae and obituaries. Included in the personal records are notebooks, journals and prayer books which document Bobiwash’s day-to-day personal life, his travels, spirituality, and the progression of his professional career from a private point of view. Other series document Bobiwash’s personal and professional writing, and the Metis bibliography he created. Finally, series 10 contains both personal and professional photographs, the majority of which are related to Bobiwash’s professional activities in the 1990s, and early 2000s.
Bobiwash, A. Rodney
Canadian Society for the Protection of Science and Learning fonds
Minutes (1939-1941) and account books (1939-1946) of the Canadian Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, established at the University of Toronto to lend aid to scholars and scientists displaced by political events in European countries.
Canadian Society for the Protection of Science and Learning
Canadian Society of Biblical Studies fonds
Fonds consists of 2 accessions:
B1977-0032: Copy of the papers of the CSBS, consisting primarily of the minutes of the CSBS and the Candian Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, mimeographed communications to members, lists of members, other secretarial correspondence and a stripped file of correspondence between the SBL and its Canadian section. (2 reels, 1933-1977)
B1980-0040: Copy of issues 1 to 36 of the Bulletin of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies. (2 reels, 1936-1976)
Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
Canadian Union of Public Employees. Local 1230 fonds
Files relating to union certification, contract/memorandum of agreement, applications of union membership, minutes of meetings, membership list, grievance case files, subject files, newsletters.
B2019-0032 includes a folder with memos, newsletters, strike bulletins, and newspaper clippings related to the 20-day strike by library workers in 1975.
Canadian Union of Public Employees. Local 1230
Certificates, dance cards, class and prize lists, and annotated copy of the calendar of the Toronto School of Music (1890-1891), and photocopy of music composition that won the Governor-General's Award in 1895, all documenting the activities of Genevieve Caniff while a student in music at University College and the Toronto College of Music (Mus.B 1899); photograph of Genevieve Caniff, aged 17. There are also catalogues of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (1923-1931) that record the participation of members of the Gray (her married name) family.
Caniff, Genevieve Elaine
Photographs, diplomas and some sparse correspondence document Harold Caples's education in the Faculty of Medicine (M.D. 1924) as well as his career as an obstetrician and gynecologist. He is reported to have been the 3rd Canadian to have attained this specialist recognition by being admitted as a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The photographs relate mainly to the University of Toronto and include the graduating class for Medicine in 1924, the University of Toronto senior basketball team in 1923-24 as well as a composite of the Nu Sigma Nu fraternity for 1923-24. The correspondence relates to his medical training both at the University of Toronto and in the United Kingdom, as well as his early work in radiology and the use of radium. There are also military documents relating to his service both in World War I and World War II.
Caple, Harold
Fonds consists of 2 accessions:
B1998-0034: This accession consists of the professional records of James Maurice Stockford Careless and documents his career as a student, teacher, writer, and historian at the University of Toronto. Unfortunately, many of Professor Careless’ early records were destroyed or damaged in a flood at Sidney Smith Hall in 1958. As a result, this accession mainly documents Dr. Career’s later career. Most of this accession pertains to his research and writing, most notably, his work on Brown of the Globe. However, Professor Careless’ student, teaching, administrative, and professional activities are also documented. Types of records include student notes, professional correspondence, research notes, and draft manuscripts. No personal family records are contained herein. (15 boxes, 1852-1997)
B2001-0020: Typescripts for various publications written by J.M.S. Careless including 'Canadian Heritage', 'Ontario Frontier and Metropolis', 'Toronto to 1918', and 'Brown of the Globe'. [Found in series 6: Writings and research] (3 boxes, 1959-1989)
Careless, J.M.S (James Maurice Stockford)
Fonds consists of 3 accessions
B1983-0002: Research files, including correspondence, notes, articles, periodicals, pamphlets and photographs used by Professor Helen Carpenter in the writing of her book, "A Divine Discontent -- Edith Kathleen Russell: Reforming Educator." (2 boxes, 1915-1982)
B1991-0006: Button removed from Blazer showing University of Toronto crest without the tree or motto. (1 item, ca. 1929-1933)
B1997-0017: Records documenting the career of Dr. Helen M. Carpenter, Director of the School of Nursing from 1962-1972, including correspondence, articles, addresses and papers; correspondence and reports relating to consultant work done for the World Health Organization; biographical files on past directors of the School/ Faculty of Nursing including Edith Dick, Nettie Fidler, Florence Emory and Kathleen Russell (1 box, 1955-1984).
Carpenter, Helen Maude
Fonds consists of 2 accessions:
B2001-0004: Watercolour paintings by William Carswell, former professor in the School of Architecture. Two of the paintings are of the old School of Practical Science - "old red Skule House" The other, identified as Columbus,Ontario, shows buildings and a church steeple. 1967-1969
B2008-0028: Two framed watercolour paintings by W. E. Carswell, former professor of the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto: 1) Winchester Close, 1966 and 2) Go Home Rapids, 1968
Carswell, William E.
Berdee Elizabeth Cartwright fonds
Course notes for first year course in interior design, Faculty of Household Science, illustrated; mimeographed examples of furniture design, and the April, 1929 final examination questions for the course.
Cartwright, Berdee Elizabeth
Cassels Brock and Blackwell fonds
Deeds for land at Bloor and Spadina between George Dickson and the University of Toronto (July 1907) and for land at Bloor and Huron Street between W. G. Gooderham and Trustees and Governors of the University of Toronto (27 June 1907). Copy of an indenture, Jan. 20, 1836 between King's College and Ezra Annes, Township of Whitney for lot 28 in first concession of that Township containing 100 acres: "Enterest Kings College Registry page 101".
Cassels Brock and Blackwell
Personal records of Harry M. Cassidy, documenting his academic and professional activities as well as family records relating to his wife, Beatrice Pearce and children. The bulk of the records are found in accession B1972-0022 and consists of biographical files and articles; personal and professional correspondence; diaries (1917-1924) and a scrapbook; certificates and diplomas; papers, examinations, research notes and supporting pamphlets and articles; lecture notes and related teaching material; drafts of articles and books, with accompanying correspondence and research material and notes; book reviews; articles and addresses; photoprints; administrative files relating primarily to the teaching of social work at the University of Toronto, to committee work, and to special projects; course outlines, student assignments and grades; poems and stories written by Harry Cassidy and others; files relating to the Harry Cassidy Memorial Research Fund; artifacts consisting of World War I memorabilia and an academic hood.
Accession B1983-0007 (1 box) consists of membership files for associations and organizations in his field; biographical files; correspondence relating primarily to his employment as a professor of social work at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Toronto; articles, a brief to the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations (1938), and notes for an address.
Cassidy, Harry Morris
Photographs documenting two members of the Cavell family at the University of Toronto: J. H. Cavell (BA, 1909) and H.W. Cavell (BA, 1916). Images include: University of Toronto graduating class in Arts, 1909; University College graduating class in Arts, 1916; University College Executive of 1915 in 1912-13; Varsity staff, 1916-17; executive of the Class of 1909 in 1908-09.
Cavell Family
Correspondence and research notes, memoranda, newsletters, and press clippings assembled by R.A. Rosevear for his uncompleted history of the Faculty of Music, with additions by Professor Chandler.
Chandler, Ronald E.
Stanley Bernard Chandler fonds
Records of Stanley Bernard Chandler, professor and later Head of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto (1957-1986). The records primarily document his research into Italian literature and include: research notes relating to Verga, Manzoni and other authors; offprints of his articles; lectures on various topics; correspondence; reviews of his works; articles relating to Chandler; and index cards containing bibliographical references. This accession also contains bibliographical information relating to Chandler, teaching mark books; and photographs.
Chandler, Stanley Bernard
"One hundred astronomical lantern slides", prepared by C.A. Chant. Includes slides and accompanying handbook.
Chant, Clarence Augustus
Mimeographed notes, in six parts, prepared by Professor Chapelon for "Elementary Course on the Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions." They were designed to accompany a second year mathematics and physics course he gave from 1925 until he returned to France in 1934 (he resigned from the Department the following year).
Chapelon, Jacques
Charles H. Best Foundation fonds
Consists of 2 accessions:
B1990-0050: Correspondence, minutes, financial files, grant applications and research reports documenting the activities of the Foundation. (3 boxes, 1959-1987)
B2001-0047: Records documenting the activities of the Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation as assembled by its secretary, C. E. Creber, president of George Weston Limited. Included are a copy of the letters patent, correspondence and related material regarding financial transactions (1961-1968), and copies of the annual financial statement (1961-1964). (1 box, 1960-1968)
Charles H. Best Foundation
Photograph album containing 34 black and white copy photographs commemorating Dr. Norman Bethune's activities at field hospitals in China ca.1938 to 1939. Includes captions in English and Chinese. Compiled by the Chinese Medical College. Presented to the University of Toronto Library. Accompanying Material: "In Memory of Norman Bethune", 2-page article written by Chairman Mao Tze-Tung, 21 December 1939. English translation. Appears at front of album.
Chinese Medical College
Interviews conducted by Elspeth Chisholm of various individuals for the CBC programme "Innis of Canada: A Study of a Scholar" (1972).
Chisholm, Elspeth
William Edward Christian fonds
Typed copy of W.E. Christian's manuscript, "Harold Adams Innis--The Idea File: Notes and Reflections, 1945-1952," which was published as "The Idea File of Harold Adams Innis" by the University of Toronto Press in 1980.
Christian, William Edward