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Drafts

This series is composed of drafts of various writings, both by Easterbrook and by others. The drafts cover a range of materials from lecture papers to addresses. They also include offprints for articles and reviews written by Easterbrook. The majority of drafts are undated but several documents (including the aforementioned drafts) are dated by year if not by month and day.

Correspondence

This series consists of correspondence between the MacKinnon and Wrong families. Transcripts of the majority of letters as well as copies of the original letters are available for researchers. The transcripts include short descriptive notes at the top indicating the correspondents and any features of note. These notes were written by George M. Wrong, and the transcripts were prepared later. The majority of the header information is correct, but in a few cases mistakes have been made. The listing here has attempted to rectify these mistakes.

A note on names. The family is quite fond of a handful of names, particularly Sophia. This makes identifying the correspondent or the subject in some of the letters difficult. In addition, both the correspondents (and later annotators and transcribers) have not always been consistent with spelling. This finding aid uses MacKinnon instead of McKinnon where it appears for clarity, as well as Sophia, though it often appears as Sophy or Sophie. Finally, The name Ann and Nancy appear to be interchangeable, and may also have been nicknames for Neil MacKinnon’s wife, Agnes.

There is a family tree in the case file which compiles all the genealogical information into one place, as well as notes from the donor and other family members. Researchers may find it valuable, but it should be noted that it may not be completely accurate in some cases (questionable linkages have been indicated).

Family and education

This series provides some documentary evidence regarding Prof. McNaught’s early education through letters to his parents while on a school trip to Scotland in 1935, and samples of undergraduate course papers in history for professors such as Saunders, Glazebrook, McInnes, Flenley and Underhill at the University of Toronto (1938-1941). Also included is a file containing copies of articles by his grandfather, W. K. McNaught, as a member of the Ontario Legislature (1909) and member of the Hydro-electric Power Commission of Ontario (1916).

A 1991 curriculum vitae prepared by Prof. McNaught will also be found in this series.

Professional activities

This series consists of predominantly incoming and outgoing correspondence with colleagues, associates, and others relating to his research, publishing and association activities. The majority of the correspondence begins with his appointment to the University of Toronto, Department of Zoology in 1962 and continues until his death in July, 1978. Among the correspondents are H. Albert Hochbaum (including copies of "Wilderness wildlife in Canada" (1969), representatives of various national and international governments regarding the study of wolves, private individuals including school children interested in the protection of wolves, organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund, the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Nature Resources (Wolf Specialist Group) and others.

Personal

These boxes contain personal materials relating to my early years, my undergraduate years, various correspondence from and to family members and others, materials relating to the immediate family, files involving homes and other property that we owned, my income tax returns, other financial matters, and assorted other files.

There is relatively little material relating to my early years, including my high school years (files 3 and 4). I saved very little of that material. Similarly there is very little with respect to my University undergraduate years (files 5-16). There are no files relating to courses in Commerce and Finance (file 7). There are a few scattered things involving the university fraternity, the University College Literary and Athletic Society (UC “Lit”), U of T athletics, Hart House, and the Historical Club (files 6-13). A few postcards and letters and newspapers relate to the World University Service (WUS) trip to West Africa in the summer of 1955 and the many trips thumbing through the states while an undergraduate and law student (files 14 and 15). Material relating to my time at law school is contained in the “Law School” sub-series in Series 4.

I have included correspondence and other documents involving our children and the immediate family (files 17-27) and letters received from Judy’s and my folks while we were in Israel (files 28-30). Letters relating to our times in Cambridge are found in the boxes on Double Jeopardy and Law Reform (Series 5).

There are files relating to the purchase and sale of 169 Hillsdale, our first house, and the purchase and rentals while away of 77 Belsize Drive, our second house (files 31-38). There is also a file on the purchase and sale of property in Barrie, Ontario (file 39). I have not included at this time the material that I have on the purchase from Dean WPM Kennedy’s son, Frere, in 1983 of the Kennedy property in Kearney, Ontario, where our summer place is.

I have included a file relating to the estates of Ben and Sarah Garfield, Judy’s uncle and aunt, of which I was an executor (file 48). There are also other financial matters in the files, particularly my income tax returns for the years 1963-1992 (files 50 and 52-57).

Other miscellaneous files include records of the Public Lending Rights scheme (file 41), a Cambridge Boat Race Dinner speech that I gave in 1990 (file 42), some correspondence with Jewish groups (file 43), and various who’s who entries (file 40).

Publications

This series contains offprints of articles, and correspondence by Dr. Ivey and colleagues, such as J.N.P. Hume. Also included is a file relating to his textbook, Physics Volume 1 published in 1974.

Lectures

This series consists mainly of files on the various physics courses taught by Prof. Ivey during his career at the University of Toronto. Files on each course may contain correspondence, copies of problem sets, lecture notes, tests and examinations. Some of the courses represented in this series are Engineering Physics, Engineering Science, Introduction to thermodynamics, and other undergraduate physics courses. In addition there are files on Physics 400 course taught at UBC in the summer of 1962, and a file on a Physics seminar given at McMaster University on the physics of rubber in 1953.

Degrees, awards, and certificates

This series consists of Dr. Welsh’s numerous degrees, awards, and certificates. The files within this series have been arranged in chronological order. Also included are several posters promoting the H.L. Welsh Lectureship series.

Manuscripts

Prof. Jones published extensively in the area of community health, and nursing education. She also made numerous presentations to schools of nursing in hospitals as well as within the Faculty, to branches of Victorian Order of Nurses, the School of Hygiene at University of Toronto and other organizations and at professional conferences. This series contains correspondence and manuscripts of published and unpublished works, and presentations. In addition, there is a file (06) containing “An annotated bibliography concerning nursing diagnosis” (1977, 1980) prepared as part of a project supported by the National Health Research and Development of the Department of Health and Welfare. The Conference on Research Methods for Validating Nursing Diagnosis (1989) file (07) contains copies of conference papers along with her commentary entitled “Future Directions”.

Personal and professional correspondence – general

Personal and professional correspondence documents Ivey’s activities with various professional associations relating to physics such as the American Association of Physics teachers, Canadian Association of Physicists, his numerous speaking engagements both on the U. of T. campus, across Canada and internationally. Also included is correspondence with colleagues both at the University of Toronto and at other institutions and organizations such as the Polymer Corporation.

Public television

From 1958 to 1966, Prof. Ivey, with Dr. J. N. P. Hume prepared and presented television series for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Over 100 half-hour programs were produced during this period and brought the science of physics to a generation of young people. These programs included “Focus on Physics” (1958), “Two for physics” (1959), “The ideas of physics” (1962), “The nature of physics” (1963), “The constants of physics” (1966) and a series of programs for “The Nature of Things” produced from 1960-1965.

The files in this series contain correspondence, contracts, and scripts. As well scripts for “Throwing Dice” and “Measure of Man” by Lillian Andrews are also included.

Research

This series documents a research study on the Canadian electorate based, in part, on information collected by the Canadian National Elections Studies. This research looked at voting patterns in relation to several variables including: 1) party identification, 2) perceptions of the party leader specifically Pierre Elliot Trudeau, and 3) religion and language. It was compiled through the 1990s with Joseph Fletcher, and while several papers and talks were prepared and at least one was published, the research as an aggregate was never published. Included here is original collected data as well as analysis, drafts of papers given conferences and correspondence.

Professional correspondence

Professional correspondence in this series is arranged chronologically. It documents Prof. Hume’s varied activities but, noting the volume (1 box), it is clear that it is by no means complete. Early correspondence files contain job offers, discussions for contract work, invitations to talks and to attend meetings, as well as memoranda on faculty salaries. Correspondence during the 1960s, reflect his work on television and film productions and the development of the taped FORTRAN lectures for university use. There is also some correspondence on the establishment of the graduate program in Computer Science. This time period as well as the following decade is also characterized by Prof. Hume’s role as a peer reviewer and referee. Included are comments and reviews for several editorial boards, letters of recommendations for graduate students as well as recommendations given to peers for awards and appointments. Correspondence also document’s Prof. Hume’s many invitations and responses to speak or participate in seminars and meetings.

There is only a small amount of correspondence after 1980 and most of this relates to his appointment as Master of Massey College. Absent is any correspondence documenting his many administrative roles other than congratulatory notes. Correspondence with publishers have been kept with the related manuscripts in Series 3 and there is additional correspondence regarding his broadcasting endeavors in Series 5.

Talks and addresses

This series documents Prof. Hume’s talks and addresses on various subjects. General interest topics often discussed the growth of computers in society, changes in technology, and the development of computer languages. These were written for general public consumption at invited lectures. There are also a few talks on physics.

More technical talks and addresses focused on computer programming, computer graphics, and computer languages such as TRANSCODE, FORTRAN and Turing. These were most often delivered at professional meetings and symposiums. Prof. Hume recorded a series of lectures with accompanying slides on FORTRAN and another computer language called LISP. These were recorded as a type of tutorial on how to use the University’s computer and were designed to teach computer programming to a wide range of academic users at the University of Toronto. This series contains a copy of the tapes on reel to reel as well as some of the accompanying slides - although it is not clear exactly how they originally matched up. Of particular note are the very early views of the Computer Center and its computers that were included in the slide lecture showing the IBM 650, the IBM 7090 and the IBM 7094.

Files are arranged chronologically with undated talks placed at the end. They contain notes, copies of the talks, overhead transparencies, related event programs and correspondence. In addition, there is a card index of talks that essentially gives outlines and notes. Some of these are related to files in this series while others are unique talks. Apart from the FORTRAN lectures, there is one taped lecture of Prof. Hume giving a key note address at the New College Honours Students dinner.

Professional activities

This series has some documentation on various activities and groups that Prof. Hume was involved with including the Royal Society of Canada, Massey College, and the Department of Computer Science. There are a few files on professional association such as the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) and reviews done for the Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) journal Computing Reviews. Finally some files document contract work or agreements with private companies.

Students' Administrative Council

From the time he arrived on campus as an undergraduate at University College in the fall of 1988, Charles Levi immersed himself in student poltics. In second year (1989-1990) he served as University College representative on the Students' Administrative Council (SAC). He was co-author of the Final Report of its Horizons Working Group on SAC History, and an active participant in the restructuring process of SAC Horizon. He was also a member of the Coalition for Reduced Parking. The next year he was the representative from Landscape Architecture on the Students' Administrative Council. He organized and collated the results of a survey of student attitudes to parking on campus and assisted in the preparation of a SAC parking policy. In fourth year he was the University College representative on SAC.

During his last year as an undergraduate (1991-1992) he was a full-time undergraduate representative on the Academic Board of the Governing Council. He lobbied for student representation on the University search and tenure committees and served on the Academic Appeals Tribunal. The records documenting his activities in these areas are not represented here.

This series contains minutes, memoranda, correspondence, drafts of reports and flyers documenting his involvement with the Students' Administrative Council.

Professional associations and activities

The files in this series document Professor Flinn’s appraisal of manuscripts submitted to the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and to the University of Toronto Press and other publishers, correspondence with the Public Lending Rights Commission over his authorship of articles and his translations, and his involvement in the Société Internationale Renardienne/International Reynard Society, which ran the International Beast, Epic, Fable and Fabliau Colloquium.

The files contain correspondence, notes, and programmes.

Correspondence

The correspondence in this series consists of incoming and outgoing letters to a wide variety of personal and professional acquaintances of Professor Friedland. Included are many of his students, lawyers (including attorneys-general and ministers of justice), members of the Supreme Court of Canada and of provincial courts, and foreign judicial figures. Some of the files contain letters of reference and appraisals. Included with the correspondence are memoranda, addresses (especially ones relating to the awarding of honorary degrees at the University of Toronto), and some student papers.

In general, correspondence relating to a specific project will be found with that project. Documents that do not naturally belong to another project can be found here. So, for example, correspondence and other documents from Rob Prichard on conflicts of interest are contained in the boxes relating to that subject and correspondence from my Cambridge supervisor, Glanville Williams, relating to my work on double jeopardy are to be found in the boxes dealing with double jeopardy. Other correspondence is filed alphabetically in these boxes.

Legal documents

The series includes the original letters patent of the Corporation of Seven Wardens and copies of the by-laws of the Corporation. Also included are numerous letters, clippings and addenda concerning the copyrighting of the Ritual and the “Hymn of Breaking Strain” in Canada, the United States and abroad. The files have been arranged chronologically within the series.

Financial records

The series includes detailed financial statements, itemized accounts and receipts enumerating in detail the costs associated with the Ritual. Particular itemized receipts may be useful for indicating the costs and processes involved in manufacturing the iron rings. The manufacture of the rings has remained the primary expense of the Ritual, which is largely administered on a volunteer basis. Thus, by default, the series illuminates those few other expenses such as travel and meeting costs associated with the Ritual ceremony and its executive. Note that financial statements for Camp One are likely to be found in the correspondence series with other secretarial records in later accessions and also as addenda to the meeting minutes of Series 3. The financial records are arranged chronologically by file.

Correspondence

The correspondence series follows three distinct ordering systems. Those files that were separated as Haultain’s personal correspondence are placed at the front of the series (Box 006) and arranged in chronological order. The “personal” designation appears to have been imposed on the records by the rearrangement of Edith Birkett (see Series 8). Also included in this series are some miscellaneous Haultain correspondence files on a variety of topics, including the Ritual, and some personal correspondence that was filed with the Ritual records.

Boxes 007 through 009 are arranged chronologically and include correspondence between the Wardens and the Camps, some committee correspondence and general Kipling Ritual correspondence. The alphabetical arrangement appears to have been mostly applied following Birkett’s arrangement of the Kipling Ritual files and includes significant correspondence with Camp and Corporate Secretaries and Wardens including Norman Parkinson, Louis Trudel, Robert Marshall and Thomas Hogg. These letters are arranged alphabetically (Boxes 009 through 012).

In later accessions the records are mostly arranged in chronological order and are interspersed with various attachments such as receipts and meeting minutes. Largely these records contain the details of the activity of the office of the Camp One Secretary. For correspondence with the other Camp secretaries see also Series 7. Files (07) and (09) in B1982-0023/006 include early examples of the hand-hammered iron rings.

Publications

This series includes copies of “The Iron Ring”, a private publication for the Camp Wardens, printed as a kind of historical primer and general information circular. There is also a clipping file of publicity concerning the Ritual, correspondence regarding the various publications, and a printed musical score for a composition by Alice Roger Collins, to the text of the poem “The Sons of Martha” by Rudyard Kipling, dedicated to the “engineering profession”.
Accession B1995-0040 includes additional publicity clippings, more recent editions of “The Iron Ring”, a Manual of Camp Procedures and mark ups for a collection of Kipling poems. Accession B2009-0029 includes a copy of the reprinted Twenty Poems by Rudyard Kipling, issue no.8 of “The Iron Ring”, The Manual of Camp Procedure (1988), various articles and publicity concerning the Canadian postage stamp honouring the 75th anniversary of the creation of the Ritual, issued in April 2000.

Reports

Series includes several reports either written or co-authored by McKay. It also includes several unsigned reports along with a report by Kenneth C. Smith, now Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. Neither Appendix M nor file three (“Figures and Notations”) were attached to any document or set of documents at the time of their arrival at the Archives.

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