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University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services (UTARMS) Series
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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.

UTDU/U of T Admin

This series contains material relating to the administrative side of the University of Toronto Debating Union. It includes meeting notes, a list of past UTDU Executives, as well as other administrative material such as budget summaries and grant requests. It also contains UTDU Correspondence, including invitations to various university debating tournaments, as well as letters to UTDU members reminding them of meetings and upcoming events.

Debates/Tournaments

This series contains material relating to the various debating tournaments the University of Toronto Debating Union took part in at U of T and other universities. The material includes, posters, judging ballots, rules, and ads in U of T newspapers such as The Varsity.

Correspondence

This series contains correspondence regarding Buerger’s application to the Campus Co-operative Residence Housing.

Publication activities

This series contains records relating to Prof. Berger’s scholarly activities as writer, reviewer, assessor and editor over three decades. Prof. Berger published four books and numerous articles and reviews. This series contains files with correspondence, reviews, and notes on all four books. Unfortunately, only the manuscript for Science, God and nature will be found. His first book, The Sense of Power: studies in the ideas of Canadian imperialism 1867-1914 published in 1970 is still considered an essential work for any student of Canadian history. In 1976 he received the Governor-General’s Award for Non-fiction for The writing of Canadian history: aspects of English Canadian historical writing, 1900-1970. The file containing an original typescript of Harold Innis’ autobiography received through Mary Quayle Innis may have been acquired during the research for this book.

In addition to files on his books, this series also contains files on articles, lectures and chapters in books, as well as reviews for such scholarly journals as the Canadian Historical Review. Records relating to his editorial work on The West and the nation: essays in honour of William L. Morton (1976) with Ramsay Cook, and Literary History of Canada Vol. IV (1990) will also be found. See list below.

Teaching

This series documents Prof. Berger’s teaching related activities including course instruction and supervision of predominantly PhD graduate students. During his career at the University, Prof. Berger taught five undergraduate courses in Canadian history. Three of his undergraduate courses are documented in this series: HIS 261 “Canada since Confederation”, HIS 464 “The Prairie West since 1850”, and HIS 361 “Twentieth century Canada”. Handwritten lecture notes are included for HIS 361 arranged by topic of each lecture. Graduate course files include 1155Y “Topics in the History of Victorian Canada” and a file on PhD field work examination. Also included are copies of some student papers.

This series also contains files for graduate students Prof. Berger supervised between 1968 and 1997, arranged alphabetically by surname. These files contain correspondence, assessments and progress reports on the thesis and other records. In addition there is a file on theses for students he did not supervise. Finally, there are files documenting his graduate students who did not complete their theses (1970-1982).

Letters of reference

This series contains confidential communications by Prof. Berger in response to requests for references relating to his undergraduate and graduate students who are applying for employment, research grants or other related academic activity. Also included are files of letters of reference for colleagues and former students applying for employment or research grants.

Professional activities

This series contains primarily correspondence files relating to various topics or events. Among the files are his appointment file for the University of Toronto containing personal information relating to salary and promotion (initially as Lecturer in 1964), as well as a copy of his curriculum vitae. Other files document awards and honours, external activities relating participation in conferences and associations, as well as administrative duties with the University of Toronto. In addition to correspondence, files may contain project proposals, reports, manuscripts of papers and some photographs.

Correspondence

This extensive series contains both personal and professional correspondence received by Prof Berger during his academic career. Some of Prof. Berger’s draft replies will be found in later files. The earliest letters document his doctoral education and his appointment to the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Correspondence from the 1970s through the 1990s document his flourishing career as prominent historian, author, teacher and advisor, etc. Later correspondence is dominated by requests from editors and other scholars relating to his publications, requests for review of other manuscripts, as well as his history of the Royal Society (1996)

Correspondents include, among others, prominent academics such as Prof. Ray MacLean, Dept. of History, St. Francis Xavier University (b 1927 d. 2004), Prof. Ramsay Cook, George (now Sir George) S. Bain, a former classmate at the University of Manitoba and member of Board of Bombardier Aerospace, as well as former students such as Doug Owram (professor, University of Alberta 1976-2006), and colleagues at Canadian and foreign universities. Subjects include personal information about family, friends and colleagues, academic correspondence with students and other academics about research progress, requests for letters of reference and support, comments on recent publications, and other academic activities. Two files at the end of this series contain letters to single correspondents: M. Brook Taylor (1986-2006) former student and faculty member in Department of History, Mount St.Vincent University and Sam Waller, amateur historian and founder of the Sam Waller Museum in The Pas, Manitoba.

Benson Family

This series contains assorted files relating to the Benson family in general and Dr. Benson’s parents in particular. Included are records relating to the family property in Port Hope, estate papers for her father Judge Thomas Benson, correspondence between Judge Benson and his second wife, Laura Fuller Benson (Clara Benson’s mother), account records for the management of the house and property in Port Hope.

B2010-0008 contains mainly family papers. Included are records relating to Clara Benson’s sister Emily C. Morris, including estate correspondence. Other members of the Morris family for which there are records: William Morris and Alexander Morris. Correspondence, wills, clippings and memorabilia also document Benson family members, particularly Thomas Bingley Benson, son of Thomas Moore Benson and Laura Fuller. Many of the records relate to his work as a naval architect and yacht broker as well as his estate of which Clara Benson was executor. Finally there are drawings and some financial records relating to the family home in Port Hope – Terralta.

Teaching and research

This series consists of lecture notes and course outlines for courses in household science, mainly food chemistry. Received in some disarray, they have been arranged roughly by topic including baking powder and leavening agents, collaids, cereals, fruits and vinegars, metabolism, milk and butter, fats and spices. Many notes are undated and not specifically associated with a course. There is one file relating to a science course at Macdonald Institute in Guelph “arranged by H. L. Fulmer”, ca 1935.

Other activities

In 1921, Dr. Benson was elected the first president of the Women’s Athletic Association of University of Toronto and was involved from the beginning in the campaign to build an athletic building for women. Among the records relating to this activity are correspondence, notes, financial statements and blueprints of proposed buildings. Also included in this series are correspondence, minutes and reports relating to her work as Chair of the Foreign Committee of the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) focusing primarily on an international survey on leadership (1930-1932). Other documents include two undated and unsigned manuscripts of stories, a collection of cards acquired during a trip to the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, and a scrapbook of pressed flowers with identification collected by Clara Benson ca 1890’s.

University of Toronto

This series contains predominantly records documenting her academic activities at the University of Toronto. There is correspondence, reports, notes and plans documenting Benson's efforts, along with others, to have a women's athletic building built. The documentation dates from the 1920s through to the 1940s. There is also correspondence and notes relating to other aspects of physical education for women including a proposed affiliation with the Margaret Eaton School as well as a plan for an Ontario College of Physical Education for Women. Finally there is correspondence with colleagues and publication houses relating to the acquisition of off prints of articles as well as a few brochures on events she attended at the University.
Three items were added to this series from B2018-0019: a scrapbook mainly documenting Benson’s career, a Macleans issue from April 1915 describing the graduates of the School of Household Science and a 6oth Anniversary Program for the Faculty of House Hold Science, 1960.
An original wax seal from the University of Toronto can be found in B2022-0021.

Education and miscellaneous notes

This series includes school books, essays, assignments and report cards produced while in public school and high school in Port Hope, her diplomas for Bachelor of Arts (1899) and Ph D. (1903) from the University of Toronto, and certificate as Fellow of Canadian Institute of Chemistry (1927). Also includes miscellaneous undated notes and lists of librettos and operas in her collection.

Personal and biographical records

This series contains financial records, clippings and memorabilia. In particular B2003-0005, contains one file of correspondence relating to personal financial matters (1911-1956) and a collection of personal bank books (ca 1910-1939).
Accession B2022-0021 contains records relating to Clara Benson’s funeral including letters of condolence as well as newspaper issue featuring Benson.

Personal correspondence

This series contains mainly correspondence received by Clara Benson from family and friends. Two files contain correspondence that is undated, but seems to be predominantly created prior to her retirement in 1945. Correspondents include, among others, letters from her parents, her brother Bingley, her sisters Emily, Jessie, and Ethel, cousins, school friends, professors such as A. B. Macallum, and colleagues such as Professor Annie Laird. Subjects discussed include studies at University of Toronto, congratulations on her doctorate in 1903, postcards home to family about her trip to Europe in 1904, and 1910-1913, matters relating to her involvement on the Executive Committee of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions (1912), and other professional and academic activities. Also includes file of correspondence about and from French children sponsored by Dr. Benson such as Maryse Deslandes and Madeleine Killian (1958-1964).

Diaries

This series contains 24 appointment book diaries from 1894 to 1962. Most detail events attended but sometimes contain personal observations. Also includes one note book and several loose pages written in pencil in which Clara Benson discusses visits with friends, home life and school activities (1889-1891). In particular, there is a hand written account of Sir Wilfred Laurier’s honorary degree ceremony on October 7 1897 in accession B2022-0021.

Associations

This series reflects Professor Bay’s involvement in the American Political Science Association and its radical Caucus for a New Political Science which was formed by 200 dissident political scientists, of which Professor Bay was one, at the September, 1967 meeting of the APSA. Bay was president from 1971 to 1972. Material included is minutes of meetings, correspondence, newsletters, memos, and election material. Some material related to addresses presented at panels and conferences can be found in this series. Related material may also be located in the correspondence series.

Publications and manuscripts

This series reflects Professor Bay’s research interests that were published in academic journals, as well as sources for public consumption such as magazines and newsletters. The material in this series includes tributes, letters to the editor, commentaries, and publications (books, book chapters, and articles). Related material is arranged with the corresponding manuscript which may include documents such as correspondence, drafts, publication releases, and royalty statements. Additional correspondence related to publications and manuscripts may be located in the correspondence series.

Addresses

This series reflects Bay’s research interests that were expressed through addresses as presentations for academic conferences and public lectures. Related material, such as correspondence and drafts, are arranged with the corresponding address. Additional material related to addresses presented at panels and conferences can be found in the professional associations series. Additional correspondence related to addresses may be located in the correspondence series.

Academia and teaching materials

This series documents some of Professor Bay’s academic and associated activities. It includes teaching material (reading lists, syllabi, lectures, and exams) and his work within academia (committee work, appraisals and references, and departmental involvement) at the various universities where he taught. The files on “referees and appraisals” at the University of Toronto include references for academics and students and comments on books and articles forwarded to him for his input. Also included are files on the proposal to abolish the death penalty in California and, in particular, the attempt to stop the execution of convicted murderer and rapist, Caryl Chessman; and copies of "Key List Mailing: Selected Documents of Current and Lasting Interest in the Civil Rights Movement", a biweekly publication produced by the San Francisco Regional Office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Additional material related to academia and teaching material may be located in the correspondence series. Material related to his research in addresses and publications is located in the publications series. Material related to his involvement in professional associations can be found in the professional association series.

Correspondence

This series contains letters written to Professor Bay by members of his family and friends, as well as professional correspondence. The correspondence is largely personal in nature in early years but becomes mainly professional in later years. The material includes replies sent by Bay. Approximately a third to half of the material is written in Norwegian.

Boxes B2014-0010/006-/038 were arranged by Professor Bay. This arrangement consists of grouping correspondence by several months at the time and then arranging the correspondence in alphabetical order. The remaining correspondence boxes were then divided by professional or personal nature, and by language when possible, and arranged chronologically. In the correspondence with the notations “Parts I and II”, Professor Bay usually included lists of his correspondents. This system broke down in the last couple of years of his life.

Biographical and personal records

The series consists of biographical and personal records of Professor Bay. The material reflects his personal life, and includes press clippings, articles, and a thesis about him; personal documents such as educational records; documents of identification; personal papers related to life events (baptism, marriage, home ownership, inheritance, death certificates); calendars and a condolence scrapbook.

The arrangement of the material begins with biographical information (press clippings, biographies, curriculum vitae, referees, work about Bay), then personal papers, followed by what he termed “his personal collection”, consisting of items primarily in Norwegian relating to his family and Norway generally. The most intriguing portion of this “collection” is the folders of “illegal papers” [/002(28) – (30)] that Professor Bay buried when he hurriedly left Norway early in World War II and which he dug up sometime after he returned. There are also books about Norwegian resistance, and two books by his uncle.

Research Files (general)

Consists of general research files used by Dr. Paul A. Bator in the writing of his Within Reach of Everyone, a history of the School of Hygiene.

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.

Manuscripts and publications

In the summer of 1983 Professor Barbeau was invited to write an article on mathematical problems for the alumni magazine, University of Toronto Graduate. Thirty-eight columns appeared between September 1984 and the summer of 1993. Associated with it
was the newsletter, After Aftermath, also compiled by Barbeau. Each column contained a cryptic crossword and posed a mathematical problem and, over the years, it drew responses from several hundred readers, including about two dozen “regulars”. The columns were assembled in book format and published as After Math: puzzles and brainteasers in 1995. This column, the resulting correspondence, and the newsletter form the bulk of this series.

Other publications in this series are, in chronological order, The Mathematical Oak, a newsletter of the Department of Mathematics edited by Professor Barbeau between 1986 and 1992; Polynomials (1989), a course book “designed to stand between the high school
and university curricula”2; Power Play (1997), the focus of which is power of numbers; a paper co-authored with P. C. Stangeby, “Some foundations of analysis for engineering science (MAT194F)” (2002); reviews of Pell’s Equations (2003); and a copy of a manuscript by Don Patterson, “University of Toronto – Honours Mathematics and Physics and Chemistry, 1927-1931; some memories as of December 1993.”

The files may contain correspondence, notes, drafts of manuscripts, page proofs, printed columns and newsletters.

Professional organizations

This small series encompasses three professional organizations with which Professor Barbour was involved. There is a slim folder of correspondence from when he was editor of the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin, and extensive files on the Gelfand Club of Ontario, a correspondence program founded in 1969 by Professor Israel Halperin of the University of Toronto “to provide resource material for able secondary school students interested in mathematics and to encourage them to correspond with mathematicians.” Professor Barbeau took over the program in January 1970 and ran it until October, 1978. The files contain notes, problem sets, and answers.

There are also three slim files on his involvement with the Mathematical Association of America, including its joint meeting in Toronto in 1976 and short courses Professor Barbeau offered for it in 1991 and 1993.

Administrative and teaching files

This series begins with a file containing Professor Barbeau’s curriculum vitae. It is followed by a single file on courses he taught at the University of Western Ontario (1964-1966). The remaining files document his activities in the Department of Mathematics at
the University of Toronto. There are a few general files, followed by a report of the Committee on the Structure of the Governance of the Department (1973), and files on selected staff, the Fields Institute and the Fields Medal. This section concludes with two
boxes of index cards listing students registered in the Mathematics and Physics program between 1903 and 1966, along with cards on interested Commerce and Finance students, physics students, and students who received the Samuel Beatty Fund Scholarship
between 1953 and 1959. One use made of these cards was to compile statistics on the number of students registered in the Mathematics and Physics (M&P) program.

The main part of the series contains material relating to courses Professor Barbeau taught at the University of Toronto, beginning in 1969. It ends with files on a number of publications and organizations at the University of Toronto. For most courses of the courses in this series, Professor Barbeau inserted a memo providing the background and context of each. The material for each course ranges from memoranda, notes and reports, reading lists, and supplementary notes to problem sets, analysis, tests and examinations. Included is the occasional term paper. Until the 1980s, Professor Barbeau developed detailed mimeographed material for his courses; he then switched to typewriters and eventually to computers. Some files, such as those for courses 129, 133Y, and 1030F, contain manuals, drafts of papers, and supplementary notes. Course 439 has drafts of chapters for a work by Barbeau on ‘functional analysis,’ the topic of his doctoral thesis.

Professor Barbeau taught both at the undergraduate and graduate level at the University of Toronto, and also did a lot of outreach work with high school students and working professionals. His taught his first course at the University of Toronto in 1960-1961,
while taking his Master’s degree: calculus to pre-medical students. Later he taught the history of mathematical analysis, a course on chaos and dynamical systems, and a research course of Pell’s equation (the last not represented in this series). He also
developed a general course in mathematics for students in other disciplines, particularly engineering students (see, for example, MEC 362F and MAT 2432/335) and a course in mathematics for intending elementary students. At the graduate level, besides courses in functional analysis and Fourier series, he helped develop a course on problem solving for a Master of Science in Teaching program.

Professor Barbeau’s interest in introducing high school students to mathematics is well documented in this series. Beginning in 1970 and for a quarter century thereafter, he ran a number of courses for high school students. The first, in the summer of 1970 and 1971, was the John Honour Special Seminar in mathematics, while the longest running program, from 1985-1995, was a correspondence course in polynomials, initially for high school students in Metropolitan Toronto. It was soon extended across Canada. In the 1980s he also ran a quantum mechanics seminar (1986), a recreational mathematics and combinatorics course (1987-1988), and he also encouraged high school students to compete in the American High School Mathematics Examination competition.

Another area of outreach was working professionals who needed to upgrade their knowledge. There are two examples in this series, a mathematics seminar for secondary school teachers (1964, 1965) and”Operation alert for engineers”. Each fall between 1972 and 1975, the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering offered an engineering update program in seven three-hour sessions, initially for about 40 working engineers from General Electric and later engineers from General Motors in Oshawa.

Professor Barbeau taught one of the sessions in each semester, on linear algebra and linear analysis.

This series ends with files on a number of publications and organizations at the University of Toronto. “Mathematical Mayhem” was a mathematical journal for gifted high school students and undergraduate students created by students at the University of
Toronto. In 1979, Professor Barbeau conceived of the idea of an essay contest in mathematics open to high school students, named in honour of Samuel Beatty, former Dean of Arts and head of the Department of Mathematics, which ran until 1982. The
quality of the submissions was sufficiently high that the trustees of the Samuel Beatty Fund published two volumes of the best essays.

Reports

This series contains two reports belonging to Dr. Baker relating to First Nations native health care: “First Nations child health care study. Final Report” produced by staff at McMaster University in 1992 and “Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority. Final Report I: Health Needs Assessment” by T. Kue Young (1995).

External professional activities

For most of his active career, Dr. Baker was involved with organizations related to his specialty in paediatrics and later, Indigenous health. This series contains files documenting his involvement with the Canadian Paediatric Society including his chairmanship of the Indian and Inuit Health Committee. These files include minutes of meetings, drafts of papers, notes and correspondence. Also included are files on the Council of Faculties of Medicine of Ontario and the Northern Ontario Committee which he chaired from 1992 to 1997. There is also one file of the Canadian Psychiatric Association relating to a meeting in September 1989.

Academic activities

This series consists of files documenting some of Dr. Baker’s teaching and writing activities mainly produced during his years at the University of Toronto. There are two files containing drafts, notes and correspondence relating to Native Health lectures given to 2nd year medical students in January 1993. These are followed by four files containing drafts of papers on the history of the Sioux Lookout Program, as well as health issues faced by Indigenous communities in the north, and children’s health concerns.

Subject files – Sioux Lookout Program

This series consists of files documenting some of the activities relating to this program. These include the Child Abuse Workshop, Indigenous health care including the NODIN Mental Health care services, orientation manual for visiting medical staff and visiting professorships. Files may include correspondence, reports, notes, presentation drafts, etc.

Correspondence and notes

This series contains files of correspondence and working notes regarding activities relating to the Sioux Lookout Program and external activities with such organizations such as the Council on Faculties of Medicine. Also included are Dr. Baker’s personal diaries notes for the period 1989 to 1992.

Personal /biographical

This series contains four files relating to personal and biographical information prepared by Dr. Baker. It includes curriculum vitae, brief biographical summary, correspondence relating to his appointment and salary at the University of Toronto, sabbatical leave in 1993, and personal correspondence.

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