Series 4 - National Cancer Institute of Canada, Ontario Cancer Institute

0.51 m of textual and architectural records

Dr. Till was associated both with the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC, a granting agency) and the Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI, a research institute), where he was a salaried employee. The OCI is an affiliate of Princess Margaret Hospital, a teaching hospital at the University of Toronto and part of the University Health Network.

This series begins with Dr. Till’s files documenting his involvement with the NCIC, in particular his membership in a number of committees and centres. He chaired the NCIC’s Advisory Committee on Research (ACOR) from 1993 to 1995, and the Selection Committee for Executive Director (1996). Other committees documented here are the Committee on Planning and Priorities (1995), the External International Review Committee (1991), the National Task Force on Personnel (1992), and the Joint Task Force on Behavioural Research and the centre that arose from its recommendations, the Centre Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation (CBRPE). The NCIC files conclude with a review of its policies on workshops, its eighth course on oncology (1992), its 1995 annual meeting and Dr. Till’s presentation, ‘An ethics of research priorities’ (1994).

The files of the Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital document Dr. Till’s involvement with its Board and committee activities, centring around the relocation of the Princess Margaret Hospital to University Avenue in 1995 and the reappraisal of its research and teaching programs and related issues such as intellectual property rights. The most substantial files are on Board retreats, the committee to review clinical research, the intellectual property committee, the planning committee’s sub-committee on governance, and the health status group. Other committees and reports focus on aspects of structural reorganization, space requirements, ‘visioning’, and aspects of planning such as patient care.

The series ends with files on the quality of life assessment project (1993-1994) and a site visit to the OCI’s Division of Biological Research in November 1986.

The material in this series consists of correspondence, notes, memoranda, minutes, reports, press coverage, cartoons and architectural drawings. The arrangement is by descending order of authority within each organization and alphabetically by name of committee.

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Architectural drawings relating to the lease of 559 Jarvis Street in 1987 have been removed from box 015(14) to 001A.