Manuscript Collection MS COLL 00285 2B Annex - Morton Shulman Papers

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Reference code

CA OTUTF MS COLL 00285 2B Annex

Title

Morton Shulman Papers

Date(s)

  • 1882-[ca. 1982] (Creation)

Level of description

Manuscript Collection

Extent and medium

3 boxes, 2 vols., and mapcase

Context area

Name of creator

(1925-2000)

Biographical history

Morton Shulman, born in 1925, was a controversial public figure who had a multi-faceted career. He was a coroner, millionaire investor and philanthropist, politician and physician. He was appointed Chief Coroner for the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto in 1961, and was MPP for the New Democratic Party representing Toronto's High Park riding from 1967 to 1975. He died in 2000.

Name of creator

(1899-1987)

Biographical history

Julia Jarvis is the author of the books Three Centuries of Robinsons, The Company of New France and Louis Hébert.

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Gift of Morton Shulamn, 1987.

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Scope and content

The collection consists of a bound typescript of Shulman's The Pfeffenhauser Clock, and a copy of Julia Jarvis' In Good Faith, with some of the graphic materials that she assembled in preparing it. Most of the material relates to Jarvis' parents, Arthur and Frances Annie Julia Roe.

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Accruals

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Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://aeon.library.utoronto.ca

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Language of material

  • English

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    Finding aids

    Uploaded finding aid

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    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

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