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Richard Birdsall fonds

  • UTA 1057
  • Fonds
  • 1842

Letter, dated 24 February, 1842, from Henry Boys, Bursar of King's College, to Richard Birdsall of Belleville, surveyor to the Canada Company and surveyor of the land on which King's College was built, requesting him not to seize the timber on Lot No. 18 in the 14th concession of Seymour Township, which the College had sold to E.D.S. Wilkins.

Birdsall, Richard

Barbara Barrow fonds

  • UTA 1040
  • Fonds
  • 1843-1850

Warrants appointing William Bulmer Nicol to a professorship in Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Botany at the University of King's College (1843) and University of Toronto (1850).

Barrow, Barbara

John Onderdunk fonds

  • UTA 1627
  • Fonds
  • 1848-1850

Two letters from Bursar, King's College (University of Toronto) to John Onderdunk relating to payments for land in Ameliasburg Twp. ie: East 1/2, Lot 95, 1st Concession.

Onderdunk, John

George Mountain Evans fonds

  • UTA 1248
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1848-1860

Fonds consists of certification of lecture attendance for Frank Evans, Student of the Laws, from the Law Society of Upper Canada, Osgoode Hall (1860) and manuscript notes and notes on texts by a King's College student (late 1840s).

Evans, George Mountain

James Patton fonds

  • UTA 1647
  • Fonds
  • 1845-1863

Collection of 8 pamphlets relating to University of Toronto with mss annotations by James Patton. Pamphlets included are: "The university question considered: by a graduate" (1845), "Wesleyan conference memorial on the question of liberal education in Upper Canada, explained and defended by numerous proofs and illustrations, by a committee".(1860), "University reform. Report of the resolutions adopted at a great public meeting of the inhabitants of Kingston..." (1861), "Address before the select committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed to inquire into the management of the University of Toronto..." by Daniel Wilson (1860), "Report of the commissioners appointed to enquire into the expenditure of the funds of the University of Toronto, and into the state of its financial affairs..." (1862), "University reform defended: in reply to six editorials of the 'Globe' and 'Leader'..." by a committee of the Wesleyan Conference (1863), "Defence of the plan of University reform proposed by the Senate of the University of Toronto..." (1863), "Statutes of the University of Toronto, 1857".

Patton, James

Thomas Dawson Delamere fonds

  • UTA 1214
  • Fonds
  • 1864

Notebook of course notes taken by Thomas Dawson Delamere during the first term of the year-long course in metaphysics taught by James Beaven in University College, 1864-1865. The notes are of Thomas Reid's "Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man" in Hamilton's edition as interpreted by Beaven and were taken from dictation.

Delamere, Thomas Dawson

George Bruce fonds

  • UTA 2013
  • Fonds
  • [after 1865]

Fonds consists of one handwritten and one transcribed version of Rev. Dr. George Bruce's account of the Fenian Raids a University College from when he was a student. The text covers his perceptions of the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish republicanism, trepidations with exams and the funeral of an acquaintance who was killed at Ridgeway.

Bruce, George Nigel

Sylvia Ann Cook fonds

  • UTA 1170
  • Fonds
  • 1877

Deed of Land of J. Neill et ux to E. Crombie for sale of property located on the east side of St. George St. (Park Lots 13 and 14) north of Willcocks St. Dated November 3, 1877.

Cook, Sylvia Ann

Charles Chester Kemp fonds

  • UTA 1444
  • Fonds
  • 1877-1879

Five notebooks of Charles Chester Kemp, Beamsville, Ontario who went to the University of Toronto in fall 1878. Cover period from his high school days (1877) to university days and include notes on lectures and examinations.

Kemp, Charles Chester

James Metcalfe MacCallum fonds

  • UTA 1497
  • Fonds
  • 1884

14 pages from the journal of Dr.James M. MacCallum relating to his journey to Canadian Northwest to vaccinate Indians on reservations in July, 1884.

MacCallum, James Metcalfe

Robert James Wood fonds

  • UTA 1968
  • Fonds
  • 1882-1886

Signed admission tickets to classes in the Toronto School of Medicine, 1882-1886; announcement for examinations for license from the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, 1886; cartoon of the "Quack Doctor", n.d.

Wood, Robert James

Stacey (William) Family fonds

  • UTA 1802
  • Fonds
  • 1798-1889 (predominant 1850-1889)

Correspondence and accounts of William Stacey and family; includes correspondence of Mary Adams to her daughter Maria Stacey and letters of sisters of William Stacey.

Stacey (William) Family

Robert Bell fonds

  • UTA 1050
  • Fonds
  • 1889

Four letters from Sir Daniel Wilson to Robert Bell concerning archaeology, his manuscript for the Royal Society of Canada, and the meeting in Toronto of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Bell, Robert

David Boyle fonds

  • UTA 1077
  • Fonds
  • 1852 and 1891

Copy of the Final Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the Affairs of King's College University and Upper Canada College (Quebec, 1852) with a tipped-in letter to Boyle from Joseph Workman, 4 March 1891; affixed to the report is the bookplate of the Baldwins of Spadina.

Boyle, David

Joseph Workman fonds

  • UTA 1972
  • Fonds
  • 1848-1851, 1867-1893

Fonds consists of 2 accessions

B1965-0040: Minutes, memoranda, extracts of official records, cash and rent ledgers, and the final report of the Commission of Enquiry into the affairs of King's College University and Upper Canada College, 1848-1851.

B1980-0015: Diary, 1867-1893.

Workman, Joseph

Hanly Family fonds

  • UTA 1345
  • Fonds
  • 1889-1893

Consists of technical drawings, course assignments of J. Bruce and Samuel Cyrus Hanly, students in the mechanical and electrical engineering programme of the School of Practical Science.

Hanly Family

Frederick Barber Goodwillie fonds

  • UTA 1316
  • Fonds
  • 1892-1894

Two volumes of course notes taken by Frederick Barber Goodwillie while a student in the Faculty of Arts at University College. The first is of notes on lectures in Medieval History delivered by Charles Allan Stuart, who took over from Sir Daniel Wilson at the beginning of March, 1892 and taught for the remainder of the term. The second volume contains notes of the complete set of lectures delivered by Professor William John Alexander to fourth year honours students in English (October 1893 to April 1894).

Goodwillie, Frederick Barber

Lachlan Taylor Burwash fonds

  • UTA 1095
  • Fonds
  • 1889-1895

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

Maurice Hutton fonds

  • UTA 1406
  • Fonds
  • 1876-1895

Consists of programmes, correspondence and scrapbook with photographs relating to a production of Sophocles' Antigone at University College (1882), as well as a watercolour by Lucius O'Brien, entitled "University College in 1876", and a scrapbook with clippings (1893-1895).

Hutton, Maurice

John Home Cameron fonds

  • UTA 1099
  • Fonds
  • 1885, 1896

B.A. (1885) and M.A. (1896) diplomas and 2 prize books awarded with the silver medal in Modern Languages (1885).

Cameron, John Home

James Gibson Hume fonds

  • UTA 1402
  • Fonds
  • 1891-1897

Consists of annotated pamphlets, manuscripts and notes belonging to James Gibson Hume.

Includes seven pamphlets by Hume, bound together, consisting of

  1. Value of the study of ethics...Toronto 1891, 24 p.
  2. Political economy and ethics. Toronto, 1892, 40 p.
  3. Practical value of psychology to the teacher...Toronto 1897, 8 p.
  4. Moral training in the public schools. n.p., n.d. x6p. caption title
  5. Pedagogics as a university subject. Offprint, pages 33-47, periodical unidentified
  6. Prohibition as a problem of individual and social reform. Reprinted from Acta Victoriana, n.d. 15 p. Annotations indicate that Hume would have changed the title in the event of republication, to "Individual self-control and collective self-control - can they be reconciled?", retaining the previous title as a subtitle, and omitting the first paragraph.
  7. Socialism. An address delivered before the Knox College alumni association at their post-graduate session. Reprinted from the Knox College Monthly, n.d. *1892). annotations show how Hume would have changed the title page, added a qualifying phrase to the final sentence, and added what he calls 'Summary of results &c" without further explanation.

Printed application by Hume to Hon. G.W. Ross, Minister of Education for Ontario, for the chair of Metaphysics and Ethics, and Logic, August 14 1889. 4 p. 4to. Minor annotations

Manuscript essays on temperance and prohibition, and on Indians in Canada and the United States, written during his university days.

Personal letters from S.J. MacLennan, St. Austin Aikins, W.J. (?) Dobbie, and others, including letter and agreement of rental "Of Professor Hume's cottage at Shanty Bay Ont" to Allan G. Findley.

Three pages of manuscript notes "The practical value of Psychology to the teacher" - different from the pamphlet of the same name.

12 pages manuscript on "The interrelation of law and moral conduct"

A few miscellaneous items including 2 printed cards - programs for the Canadian Institute 1899 and 1902.

Hume, James Gibson

James Bain fonds

  • UTA 1037
  • Fonds
  • 1896-1897

Consists of notices, programmes, addresses, excursion pamphlets, and other material pertaining to the 1897 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Toronto in August of 1897.

File 1: Circular letter from the Canadian Institute and a program of the Toronto meeting.
May 1896

File 2: Scrapbook containing invitation cards, tickets, letterhead, and guidebooks, forms, information about the Association, guidebooks and excursion pamphlets, and other material relating to the organization of the meeting.

File 3: Bound volume containing address by Sir John Evans, president, and sectional addresses; list of resident and non-resident members and associates; journal of sectional proceedings, no. 1-7, 18-25 August; preliminary programme, 1896; Programme of local arrangements; list of apartments and other lodgings; official list of hosts and guests

File 4: Sulte, Benjamin. “Origin of the French Canadians”. Address read before the British Association, Toronto. August, 1897

Bain, James

John Charles Fields fonds

  • UTA 1268
  • Fonds
  • 1895-1899

Mathematical notes and notebooks, presumably collected/compiled by Prof. Fields during his studies in Europe at Goettingen, Paris and Berlin. Some notebooks in German, as well as English.

Fields, John Charles

Mulock Trust Fund fonds

  • UTA 1600
  • Fonds
  • 1898-1900

Records of Mulock Trust Fund established in 1898 by Sir William Mulock on the failure and winding up of The Farmers' Loan and Savings Company. Includes minute book, financial statements, correspondence with applicants for funding; receipts for donations to Fund.

Mulock Trust Fund

Rev. Charles Dade fonds

  • UTA 1191
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1830-1901; predominant 1830-1872

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings presumably collected by Rev. Charles Dade (b1803-d1872) former Mathematical Master at Upper Canada College (ca1829). Inside cover inscribed "C. Dade Toronto U. Canada 1835". Obituaries at front of volume. Clippings relate to events in Upper Canada, including U.C. College and education.

Dade, Charles, Reverend

Isaac Albert Rumble fonds

  • UTA 1734
  • Fonds
  • 1902

The records relate to Isaac Albert Rumble, who graduated from Victoria College in 1902 and taught business in Toronto. The records consist of three items: an unidentified class photograph from 1900; a photograph of the graduating class in Arts from 1902; and a certificate of chartered accounting from 1913.

Rumble, Isaac Albert

George Armstrong Peters fonds

  • UTA 1654
  • Fonds
  • 1897-1902

Case studies of medical patients, with 24 photographs tipped in belonging to Dr. George A. Peters (MB 1886; MD, CM Trinity, 1887; FRCS, England), Associate Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery.

Peters, George Armstrong

Toronto School of Medicine fonds

  • UTA 1832
  • Fonds
  • 1870-1902

Fonds consists of:

  • Bound minute book of the Corporation of the Toronto School of Medicine, 1877-1902
  • 2 photoprints of Second and Third-Year Students of the Toronto School of Medicine,1870-1871

Toronto School of Medicine

Daniel Graisberry Revell fonds

  • UTA 1694
  • Fonds
  • 1892-1904

Course and laboratory notes taken by Daniel G. Revell while a student in Arts (1892-1894) Medicine (1898-1900), and as a Fellow in Anatomy at the University of Toronto. Also included are notes taken at this time and later when he was an instructor (1901-1907) at the University of Chicago.

Revell, Daniel Graisberry

William Barber fonds

  • UTA 1034
  • Fonds
  • 1902-1905

Athletic photographs and graduation diploma of William Barber who gradutated with a Bachelor of Applied Science in 1905. Photographs include: Faculty of Applied Science Track Team, 1902; Varsity Assault at Arms Team, 1903-1904; University of Toronto Track Team, Inter University Champions, 1903; and University of Toronto Track Team, 1905.

Barber, William

Palmer Family fonds

  • UTA 1639
  • Fonds
  • 1864-1905

Five student notebooks of Benson Jones Palmer and Elgin Burpe Palmer from the University College School of Agriculture, 1869-1872; one farming contract book 1871-1897, and inserts.

Palmer Family

University of Toronto. Natural Science Association fonds

  • UTA 1899
  • Fonds
  • 1879-1906

Consists of records documenting the University of Toronto Natural Science Association, including minute books, regulations and rules of order, proceedings, reports and correspondence, papers read before the Association, invitations and programs and addresses,

University of Toronto. Natural Science Association

Sir Edward Albert Kemp fonds

  • UTA 1446
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1906

Handbook of the British Medical Association's Toronto meeting, 1906; Menus for the annual dinner of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1893 and 1900; photograph of University College, South elevation, pre 1900.

Kemp, Sir Edward Albert

Donald Bruce MacDonald fonds

  • UTA 1498
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1906

Scrapbook containing letter of appointment to the Ontario Royal Commission on the University of Toronto, 1906, and press coverage; photoprint of father, J.K. MacDonald.

MacDonald, Donald Bruce

Charles Totton fonds

  • UTA 1934
  • Fonds
  • ca.1905-1906

Photographs of Charles Totton and classmates of the biological and physical sciences course. Included are informal views of students in laboratories including one during a dissection. There is also a formal group photograph of the Biological and Physical Sciences Class of 1907 as well as Totton's graduation portrait and diplomas. Also included is the programme of the University College Ninth Annual Dinner complete with signatures of classmates, professors as well as the guest of honour Sir Wilfred Laurier.

Totton, Charles

Sir William Ralph Meredith fonds

  • UTA 1570
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1906

Files assembled by Sir W.R. Meredith as a member of the Ontario Royal Commission on the University of Toronto consisting primarily of correspondence, statutes, reports on university federation and administrative memoranda.

Meredith, Sir William Ralph

Cassels Brock and Blackwell fonds

  • UTA 1127
  • Fonds
  • 1836-1907

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

Florence Helen Maud Neelands fonds

  • UTA 1610
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1907

Correspondence of Florence Neelands with family members, including her brother, Ernest Victor, friends and fellow students while a student in modern languages at the University of Toronto. Topics include the 1894 production of 'Antigone' and the 1895 student strike. Also included are photographs, mostly of family members and friends (some identified) but also including images of tribesmen, possibly in Papua-New Guinea.

Neelands, Florence Helen Maud

William Cooper Lumbers fonds

  • UTA 1494
  • Fonds
  • 1897-1907

Certificates, photographs and engineering drawings reflecting William Lumber's years as an undergraduate in the diploma programme (mechanical and electrical engineering) of School of Practical Science. Includes his graduating photo (1901) and diploma as well as the School of Practical Science graduating class photo for 1899-1900. Also two group photos of the Engineering Society of the School of Practical Science.

Lumbers, William Cooper

James Joseph Gray fonds

  • UTA 1331
  • Fonds
  • 1903-1907

Consists of correspondence, programs of the Mock Parliament and of the Canadian Rugby Championship, examinations, correspondence and financial records relating to Torontonensis, receipt for subscriptions to the Varsity, and Varsity songbook.

Gray, James Joseph

Thomas H. Hogg fonds

  • UTA 1384
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1903-1907]

Fonds consists of student notebooks, the Kipling Ritual handbook, engineering journals, Hydro reports and photographs related to Hogg's studies in Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto.

Hogg, Thomas Henry

George Jones Fothergill fonds

  • UTA 1281
  • Fonds
  • 1895-1907

Student notebooks, textbooks and files on student activities and organizations kept by George Jones Fothergill, a first year Arts undergraduate. Notebooks include sketches.

Fothergill, George Jones

William Edwin Raymond Coad fonds

  • UTA 1159
  • Fonds
  • 1890-1908

Correspondence, postcards, certificates, class admission cards, examination papers, receipts, and programmes relating to William Edwin Raymond Coad's activities while a student in the Faculty of Medicine (1893-1897), with a few later certificates and receipts relating, in part, to his medical practice in the area around Franklin, Manitoba.

Coad, William Edwin Raymond

Edward Blake fonds

  • UTA 1067
  • Fonds
  • 1856-1908

Correspondence, notes, memoranda, and drafts of reports, primarily by and to Edward Blake in his capacity as a member of the Senate of the University of Toronto and Chancellor, relating to University matters, including the hiring of James Loudon as professor of Natural Philosophy in 1875 and the introduction of the science curriculum, the rebuilding of University College following the fire of 1890, and the writing of the report of the joint Senate/Board of Trustees Committee on Revenues and Requirements (1891). Also included are related acts, statutes, orders-in-council, financial reports and testimonials.

Blake, Edward

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