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Mary Brereton fonds

  • UTA 1108
  • Fonds
  • 2013, 2023

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.

  1. 50th Anniversary Celebrations in 2013, article by Mary Brereton written in 2013 speaking to the 50th anniversary of the Lash Miller building and the graduation of the MPC class of 6T3
  2. Memories of MPC 6T3 Grads: Collected after 60th Anniversary Celebrations, June 2023
    • Includes 3 group photographs from the reunion.

Brereton, Mary

Samuel Hollander fonds

  • UTA 1386
  • Fonds
  • 1954-2022

These accessions of personal records provide a fairly complete representation of Samuel Hollander’s professional life as an academic. The accessions cover his entire career from his student days at the London School of Economics to his retirement from the University of Toronto in 1998 and his appointment at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel in 2000. Correspondence, found in the various series gives a rich commentary on his professional endeavours and gives a good overview of the debates surrounding Hollander’s work. Lecture notes and taped lectures document how his ideas were taught in the classroom and his Ph.D. files found in Series 5 show his dedication to the teaching and mentor roles for which he is so highly regarded.

Hollander, Samuel

Personal

Contains personal correspondence with family and friends, mainly documenting Hollander’s achievements including many congratulatory notes from colleagues regarding awards or the publication of his major works.

Correspondence and related documents also document his appointment as University Professor and the campaign beginning in 1991 to procure for him a Nobel Prize in Economics. Also documented are his appointments through the University ranks, his salary, retirement and the awarding of grants to support his research including activity reports and grant applications.

This series also contains records collected by Hollander over his academic and professional career, and includes various graduate school lecture notes, school transcripts, honorary degrees, scholarships, two manuscripts given to Hollander by H. D. Dickenson before his death; and a heavily annotated copy of David Ricardo’s book Principles of Political Economy which he kept separate from other professional and academic papers.

Filed at the beginning of each accession is his most updated C.V. at the time the records were acquired (see B1998-0027/001(1) and B2012-0018/001(1)). There is also a portrait of Hollander, to be found in B1998-0027/001P.

Books

This series consists of drafts and research notes relating to each of Hollanders major works which are individually described in the sub-series descriptions.

John M. Carland fonds

  • UTA 2016
  • Fonds
  • 1972-2021; predominant 1972-2000

Fonds primarily consists of Carland’s correspondence with A. P. Thorton and C. P. Stacey, two prominent history professors with whom Carland studied as a doctoral student at the University of Toronto. Records also include news clippings and correspondence with historian Norman Hillmer related to C. P. Stacey.

Carland, John M.

David Wolfe and Meric Gertler fonds

  • UTA 2007
  • Fonds
  • 1993-2021, predominantly 1998-2012

Fonds consists of records documenting Wolfe and Gertler’s research collaborations through several initiatives including POIS (Project on Ontario’s Innovation System), PROGRIS (Program on Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems), the ISRN (Innovation Systems Research Network), and ONRIS (Ontario Network on the Regional Innovation System). There is also documentation of the ISRN’s receipt of two SSHRC MCRI (Major Collaborative Research Initiatives) grants. The ISRN was a network of researchers examining innovation in various cities and regions across Canada. The ISRN was launched in 1998 and received MCRI grants in 2001 and 2006. ONRIS was one of the five subnetworks of the ISRN, was hosted by PROGRIS at the Munk School of Global Affairs, and served as the ISRN’s National Secretariat.

Records include conference and meeting files, research papers, grant applications, reports, and budgets. Digital files further document these research initiatives and the administration of the grants. Included are website backups from 2002, 2005 and 2007, and web archive from 2021.

Wolfe, David A.

Correspondence

This series contains mainly professional correspondence with academic colleagues regarding research and professional activities. It documents the academic discussions and exchange of ideas between Hollander and well known international economists such as R.C.D. Black, Walter Eltis, T.W. Hutchinson, Mark Blaug, Martin Brofenbrenner, Don Patinkin, Giovani Caravale, Piero Bruchi, Maurice Daune, Ronald Meek, William Jaffe, A.P. Lerner, Hal Brauner, and R. Dorfman. Among his Canadian colleagues represented are Jack Robson, E.G. West, Scott Gordon, Harry Johnson, C.B. MacPherson, Tom Rymes, and A.M.C. Waterman.

His continued connections to his former universities are documented through his correspondence with Lord Robbins and Michio Morishima of the London School of Economics and with William Baumol and Fritz Machlup of Princeton University. Former students, academics in their own right, are also represented in the correspondence including Margaret Schabas, Evelyn Forget and Sandy Peart.

There is also extensive correspondence with Nobel Laureates Sir John Hicks documenting their collaborative research on Ricardo in the 1970s and with Paul Samuelson of MIT. Other Noble laureates represented include R.H. Coase, Kenneth Arrow, Arthur Lewis and George Stigler.

Biographical and personal

This series contains biographical materials such as CV, awards, and memorabilia. It contains five Life Summary documents that she prepared when donating this accession: Family Background, Childhood to Ph.D. 1938-1967, Kalahari Years 1967-1969, Princeton Years, 1969-1972, University of Toronto 1972-1985, University of Toronto Part 2 1989-2004.

University of Toronto. Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

Oral histories about the David Dunlap Observatory with three faculty members from the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics: Ernie Seaquist, John Percy, and Christine Clement. Includes recorded interviews, transcripts as well as supporting documentation such as photographs, scans of course outlines and publications. Each interviewee speaks about their work, mainly focusing on astronomy at University of Toronto and at the David Dunlap Observatory.

File formats include PDF, DOCX, JPEG, WAV, MP3, and MP4.

Nancy Howell fonds

  • UTA 1322
  • Fonds
  • 194- - 2021

Records in this fonds mainly document Nancy Howell’s research on the !Kung San of Botswana. Her nearly three years researching in the field with her anthropologist husband Richard Lee were formative to a lifetime of research on the !Kung San hunter gatherers. Included is much of her original data that has formed the basis of her research in this area as well as the basis of research collaboration with others. More than half of this fonds is her original data on the !Kung San from that 1960s field trip.
Her two main works that are well documented in this accession are Surviving Fieldwork: Health and Safety in Anthropological Fieldwork (1990) and Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung (2010). Her teaching and administrative roles at the University of Toronto are not documented in this accession.

Howell, Nancy

Correspondence

The correspondence files in this series are arranged alphabetically by author and concentrate on the years 2002 onwards. (Earlier correspondence from this series is found in accession B2002-0023.) The letters, notes, cards, programmes, drafts of articles, and press clippings document Professor Friedland’s activities as a friend, as a colleague assisting in honours bestowed on his peers, as an author, and as an authority on legal matters. They also document the increased leisure that came with official retirement.

The wide range of material in the files includes correspondence, notes, grant applications, legal documents, press clippings; and drafts of articles, chapters of books, addresses (including convocation addresses), with a few offprints; and at least one play. There are also numerous greeting cards, including some with reproductions of paintings by Roy McMurtry.
The correspondence touches on many aspects of Professor Friedland’s life, both personal and professional and reflects the enormous network of contacts in legal and academic circles that he had built up over the years. The files cover a wide range of issues that he has been researching, including gun control, justice independence, court mergers, and access to the law, and others that he had been discussing with his colleagues, such as international terrorism (for example, see the files on Stanley Cohen). In the same vein, Professor Friedland was periodically contacted for his views on court cases. Although officially retired, he continued to be consulted about University of Toronto policies and appointments, and still received requests for references from students and colleagues. Because he sat on the manuscript review committee of the University of Toronto Press, he continued to evaluate manuscripts and to critique manuscripts otherwise forwarded to him. He periodically hired law students as research assistants and assisted them (and other students) as they started their careers. In addition to correspondence on these activities, there are also letters of congratulation and of reference, and correspondence on trips taken. The files contain numerous invitations, with accompanying programmes and related material, to dinners, installations and other events, and tributes to deceased friends and colleagues.

Personal and Family

This series documents some of Professor Friedland’s personal and family activities, some partially covered in accession B2002-0023 and some not. Some of the material (birth certificate, old wills and passports, entries for Who’s Who and like publications) provide an overview of Professor Friedland’s activities at various times in his life. The files on his Toronto residences and his cottage (originally owned by W.P.M. Kennedy) document one aspect of the upward mobility of a prominent academic and writer. There is memorabilia in the form of selected greeting cards and files on trips taken over fifty years provide some insights on cultural and intellectual influences. Material on Arts and Law reunions and anniversaries at the University of Toronto, Cambridge University, and elsewhere provide additional comparisons of “then” and “now”.

The correspondence with members of Professor Friedland’s extended family focus on family affairs generally and on personal lives, including professional achievements and social activities, births, weddings and deaths. The most substantial files related to his children, Tom, Jennifer and Nancy, and his mother, Mina, who died in 2000. The large number of photographs provides visual documentation of the family spanning a century.

The files contain correspondence, appointment books, addresses, certificates and programmes, greeting cards and other memorabilia, legal documents, a memoir, notes, flyers, passports.. The records are grouped by activity and arranged, in the case of most of the correspondence, by the name of the family member to which it refers.

Research files – Other projects

The principal research project in this series is described by Ms Winearls as “The mapping of western North America in the 19th century with particular reference to the De Fonte fantasy and the earlier ‘Sea of the West’ fantasy”. (The maps showed purported water routes between the west coast and the Northwest Passage or the central North American plains.) This project was begun in the early 1990s but not completed as planned and led to an article on one particular map, “Thomas Jefferys Map of Canada and the mapping of the western part of North America, 1750-1768’, that appeared in 1996. The second research project is on carto-bibliographic analysis and methodology re 18th century printed maps of North America [1].

The series begins with map bibliography & notes, consisting of preliminary bibliographic entries for Mer de l’Ouest/Riviere Longue de l’Ouest, and an early draft of a bibliography of maps relating to the De Fonte fantasy, followed by files of maps arranged by area: World, Arctic, Western hemisphere, North America, and Canada. There are also source files with notes, correspondence, and copies of documents, maps and other source material, covering De Fonte, early Canadian maps, and archival sources in British Columbia, the United States and Europe. Much of the photocopied material that has been retained is annotated. These files are followed by research notes and correspondence on Northwest-De Fonte and biographical sources, and on related maps, along with requests for microform and maps. Included are reproductive copies of maps and other copies.

The files for the research project on carto-bibliographic analysis and methodology re 18th century printed maps of North America include sample entries, copies of maps and published bibliographies and sources (largely annotated), along with bibliographical analyses and North American maps sources for analysis. Some oversized maps are included.

The series ends with Ms Winearls’ research on book illustration in Canada for the History of the Book in Canada project. Three volumes were planned under the general editorship of Patricia Lockhart Fleming and Yvan Lamonde, and they appeared between 2004 and 2007. Ms Winearls’ contribution was to the first volume. The files contain correspondence, contracts, notes, and source material. Drafts of the manuscript are in Series 8.

B2016-0009 contains research Ms Winearls did on Canadian bird artist J. Fenwick Lansdowne from 2000-2013. Included are original photographs of the artist, interviews, notes, compiled bibliography and exhibition list. There is also collected photocopies of ephemera relating to the artist, reviews of his works and exhibition catalogues. Finally, Winearls collected copies of correspondence and contracts between Lansdowne and his agent Bud Feheley (restricted to 2035).

B2022-0005 consists of research and working files related to Ms. Winearls research for her articles on another Canadian bird artist, Allan Cyril Brooks, and her Catalogue Raisonné of Brooks’ artwork. The records primarily contain notes and annotated copies of source materials related to Allan Brooks’ biography and chronology; auctions and sales of Brooks’ artwork; related bird artists such as Louis Agassiz Fuertes and George Lodge; critical articles about Brooks by bird artists; and Brooks’ correspondence from various archival sources (Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology at McGill University; British Columbia Archives/Royal British Columbia Museum; Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa; Natural History Museum in London, UK; Cornell University Library; Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology; and the National Audubon Society in New York).

Some of the research files focus on special aspects and problems related to the Brooks’ catalogue including undated works; sketches, and his paintings and illustrations in The Condor, William Leon Dawson’s Birds of California, Birds of Washington, Howard Smith/ Domtar calendars, National Association of Audubon Societies (NAAS) educational leaflets, Recreation, the Taverner Birds of Western Canada, and other illustrated books. These files also include photographs of sketches and undated works as well as copies of loose sketches and one of Brook’s sketchbooks that were owned by J. Fenwick Lansdowne.

The remaining files within this series consist of correspondence, notes, art lists, and some photographs related to collections of Brooks’ art at Canadian institutions including the Glenbow Museum, Belkin Gallery, Greater Vernon Museum Archives, the Vernon Art Gallery, the Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology, and the Canadian Museum of Nature; American institutions including the Moore Laboratory of Zoology (MLZ)(Occidental College), UCLA, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (UC Berkeley), the San Diego Natural History Museum, Peabody Museum of Natural History, the Massachusetts Audubon Society Visual Arts Centre, the University of Michigan, Cornell University, Virginia Tech University, and Washington State University; and various private collections including the Allan Brooks Jr. Family Collection. Drafts of the Allan Brooks Catalogue and articles are in Series 7.

NOTES

[1] The descriptive portion of this series is drawn largely from notes provided by Ms Winearls in a container list she provided to the compiler of this inventory.

Oral History Interview with Julie Mathien conducted by Ruth Belay

Julie Mathien, a long-time childcare reform advocate and former public servant, was an early member of the Campus Community Cooperative Daycare. Established in 1969, the collective developed the childcare centre at 12 Sussex Ave. at the St. George Campus of the University of Toronto. Mathien recounts her experiences as both a volunteer and staff member providing insight into the underlying philosophy, membership, and organization of the collective. She describes the history of negotiations and tensions with UofT’s administration, including what led to the 1969 occupation of Simcoe Hall, as well as the shifting media coverage on the centre. Mathien explains the evolving discourse on approaches to childcare that have been part of her research and later work with the municipal and provincial governments. The interview also covers Mathien’s work with the Huron-Sussex Residents Organization, where she describes past confrontations with the University and their jointly developed plans for the future of the neighborhood.

Organizations

  • Campus Community Cooperative Daycare Centre
  • Daycare Reform Action Alliance
  • Office of the President, University of Toronto
  • Canadian National Advocacy for Childcare
  • Toronto Board of Education
  • Province of Ontario
  • City of Toronto
  • University Planning, Design and Construction, University of Toronto
  • Huron-Sussex Residents Organization

Subject Topics

  • Child care
  • Early childhood education
  • Cooperatives and collective models
  • Protests and sit-ins
  • Women’s movement
  • Institutional response
  • Community engagement
  • Neighborhood advocacy
  • Toronto city planning and development

Oral history interview with James Nugent conducted by Ruth Belay

Dr. James Nugent, currently Lecturer at the University of Waterloo, received his undergraduate degree in 2006 from UTSC and continued with his graduate work at UofT’s St. George Campus. Nugent shares his early experiences of student activism and involvement at UTSC, particularly through Resources for Environmental and Social Action (RESA), while also reflecting on the larger societal and political shifts following 9/11. Nugent remarks on the unique student environment at UTSC, noting events, initiatives, as well as the cross-cultural learning he experienced there. In describing his participation in the anti-globalization movement and peace action, through to his later work on climate justice and social policy, Nugent discusses the impact of service learning and community engagement in education. He reflects on the pressures faced by current students and questions how these will shape youth activism, as well as considering the effects of social media and the breadth of issues in which students are engaged both here and abroad.

Organizations

  • Resources for Environmental & Social Action (RESA)
  • International Development Studies Association (IDSA)
  • University of Toronto Scarborough College (UTSC)
  • Grrl Fest, University of Toronto Scarborough College
  • The Meeting Place, University of Toronto Scarborough College

Subject Topics

  • Anti-globalization movement
  • Protests and demonstrations
  • Anti-war movement
  • International development studies
  • Fair trade
  • Climate / environmental justice
  • Community partnerships
  • Social media
  • International students

Oral history interview with Ikem Opara conducted by Ruth Belay

Ikem Opara, currently Director of National Learning Partnerships at the Rideau Hall Foundation, was an international student at UofT’s St. George campus. His active involvement at the University included executive roles with Black Students’ Association (BSA), playing Varsity football, and membership in organizations such as the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the African Students’ Association and the Nigerian Students’ Association. Opara describes the personal impact that these organizations had in forming deep social connections, while emphasizing throughout the interview their commitment to create spaces of belonging on campus that reflected both racial and ethnic identities. He recounts many of the BSA’s and Alpha Phi Alpha’s activities, including mentorship initiatives, talks, social events, and discusses their underlying goals, particularly regarding the strategic use of space to highlight Black presence at the University. He reflects on the BSA’s engagement in issues such as representation within curriculum and broader community activism around police violence in the city, while also reflecting on challenges faced at UofT.

Organizations

  • Black Students’ Association (BSA)
  • High School Conference, Black Students’ Association
  • BLACKLIGHT, Black Students' Association
  • African Students’ Association (ASA)
  • Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (AΦA)
  • Nigerian Students’ Association (NSA)
  • Tan Furu
  • UofT Korean Students’ Association (UTKSA)
  • Hart House, UofT

Subject Topics

  • Acculturation
  • Varsity sports
  • Mentorship
  • Equity in education
  • Community engagement
  • Solidarity networks
  • Social networks
  • Food
  • Organizational memory
  • Institutional response
  • Institutional racism
  • Funding of student groups
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