The Artifacts Collection consists of artifacts related to Victoria University and the Vic community. Categories of artifacts include: athletics, pins and medals, awards, jewelry, clothing, buildings, pennants, ceremonial sticks, and more.

Fonds consists of the records of the Registrar and Associate Registrar, primarily relating to Victoria College students and student records as well as awards, prizes and scholarships, convocations, registration procedures, baccalaureate services, receptions, counselling, etc. Fonds also consists of material related to the Registrar's work with the Senate. Records include correspondence, annual reports, as well as ephemera and photographs.

Fonds consists of three series: Correspondence/subject files, 1893-2013; Student records, 1837-2008; Photographs.

File consists of correspondence and a copy of the speech by Helmut Kallmann regarding the Diplôme d'honneur that John Beckwith received from the Canadian Conference of the Arts (1996).

File consists of one metal crucifix with painted detailing. According to Sue, this cross was Henri's and was given to him by his father. Henri's father gave it to her after Henri died.

This fonds contains the personal and professional papers of Dr. Helen Sawyer Hogg documenting her contribution to professional astronomy, her high regard as a popular educator as well as her responsibilities as a parent, daughter, wife and friend. The records have been arranged into series either by type of record or to reflect a certain type of activity. Records documenting various aspects of her career are filed first, followed by papers reflecting her personal life.

Included is both professional and personal correspondence; records relating to her activities on associations, boards and organizations; records such as draft manuscripts, correspondence and outlines and data relating to her publishing activities and research; papers relating to her education and her teaching responsibilities; as well as diaries and family papers series.

Because Dr. Hogg's career spanned nearly seven decades during a time astronomy as a discipline was still developing both nationally and internationally, these records are not only useful to those researching Dr. Hogg's achievements but will be insightful to those researchers studying the development of astronomy as a science and profession. Moreover, Dr. Hogg was a woman in a field of science, which is still dominated by men. Those studying women's history may find Dr. Hogg's personal records a useful case study in one woman's success in a largely male dominated profession.

Contained within the Helen S. Hogg personal records are three sous-fonds: Frank S. Hogg [1922-1952], her first husband and also an astronomer at the David Dunlap Observatory; Prof. Ruth Northcott [1932-1969], close personal friend and professional colleague of Helen Hogg, also on staff at the D.D.O.; Dr. C.A. Chant [193- - 194-], director emeritus of the D.D.O and head of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Toronto from 1904-1935. These sous-fonds are individually described and have been filed after the Helen Hogg personal records.

This collection includes drafts, notes, proofs, and other materials pertaining to the writing process of writing publications; professional and personal correspondence; newspaper reviews and profiles; publicity materials; research; diaries; books, and magazines. The collection also includes Weinzweig's typewriter and other material related to her personal and professional life.

Subseries consists of materials by or about SOS Co-Founder Fr. Georgey Daly, CSsR. The includes his clerical documents, extensive writings, correspondence, circular letters to the SOS, publications, speeches, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and some personal items.

Fonds consists of the governance, administrative, and personnel records for the community of the Sisters of Service. This includes reports, financial records, meeting minutes, policies, General Chapter records, operational correspondence, publications by and about the SOS, photographic materials, audiovisual materials, personal records of Sisters, and a collection of artifacts and memorabilia related to the SOS.

In addition to records of the SOS members and co-foundress, Sister Catherine Donnelly, the fond also contains records of its priestly co-founders, Archbishop Neil McNeil, Rev. Arthur Coughlan, CSsR, and Rev. George Daly, CSsR.

The Fonds is divided into the following series:

1. Founding
2. Governance and Administration
3. General Chapters
4. Motherhouse
5. Novitiate, Formation, Vocations
6. Missions
7. Personnel
8. Writings
9. Catechetics and Religious Education
10. Photograph and Slide Collection
11. Audio Visual Collection
12. Artifacts and Memorabilia

Series consists of Henri Nouwen memorabilia and ephemera received by the archives after Nouwen's death. Material in the series includes articles, promotional materials, catalogues, research files, souvenirs, and artefacts. The series is separated into four subseries:

1. Nouwen events, promotional material, programs and souvenirs
2. Publisher materials
3. Artefacts

This accession consist of one item:

Red sweater with felt letter patch featuring embroidered skull and crossbones and lettering 5T1 Meds.

File consists of one simple glass chalice and a glass paten, used by Henri Nouwen while at l'Arche Daybreak.

File consists of one framed print of Monet’s painting “Boat Studio,” which belonged to Henri Nouwen.

File consists of four coffee mugs featuring van Gogh artwork which belonged to Henri Nouwen, given to him by Frank Hamilton.

File consists of one painted clay crucifix. The artefact was given to Peter Kyne by Henri Nouwen. Kyne says the figure was very dear to Nouwen, but Nouwen wanted him to have it. Kyne now wants to give the figure to the Nouwen Archives because the crucifix was so important to Nouwen.

Fonds consists of records related to the founding of Upper Canada Academy, which later became Victoria College. Records includes the Royal Charter, constitutions, financial records, register of students and notebooks of Reverend John Beatty and Matthew Richey. Also included are one series of minutes: Minutes of the Upper Canada Academy Building Committee, 1831-1836; Minutes of the Upper Canada Academy and Victoria College Managing Committee, 1836-1843; and minutes of the Victoria College Financial Committee, 1843-1849.

This accession consists of material related to the work of Gerard Brender à Brandis as a wood engraver and book artist. The collection contains 73 prints created between 1964 and 1992. 64 of these are made from wood engravings, 8 are made from linocuts, and 1 is made from a combination of both. The collection also includes 5 original wood blocks.

The Canadian Theatre Programs collection includes hundreds of items from cities across Canada, dating from 1896 to 2017. Note: The finding aid organized by province, city and Theatre Company.

The collection consists of movie posters, ads, trading cards, postcards, books, magazines and journals, related to Frank Buck (Frank Howard Buck (1884-1950), a renowned American hunter, animal collector, film director, actor author and producer. The collection also consists of material related to zoo displays and architecture, catalogues and books related to zoo and animal collecting, photographs off various zoo related animals found in different parts of America and a board game. The material is divided into five series:

1. Frank Buck
2. Chimpanzee performance
3. Zoo Architecture and display
4. Miscellaneous printed materials.
5. Zoo photographs

Throughout his teaching career at the University of Toronto, Prof. Rayside has been an advocate on gay, lesbian and feminist issues. His university advocacy activities are numerous. Between 1985 and 1987, he served on the Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women, University of Toronto. Prof. Rayside was also a Member of the Sexual Harassment Hearing Panel, University of Toronto, 1988-1992. In this capacity, he heard the first case under the new Sexual Harassment Policy, Torfason vs. Hummel. He was a founding member and coordinator of the Committee on Homophobia from 1989-1991 and remained a member until 1994. In addition, between 1989 and 1994, Prof. Rayside was a member of the Men’s Forum. He also served on the Teach-In Committee and was responsible for organising a university-wide teach-in on sexism and violence against women in 1990. Prof. Rayside also participated on the Ad hoc crisis team to handle the case of a U. of T. residence student with AIDS, 1991-1992, and helped prepare a discussion of report on university AIDS policy. He also assisted in the organisation of the “Queer Sites: Studies in Lesbian and Gay Culture” Conference in 1993.

Records in this series document Prof. Rayside’s advocacy activities and leadership on equity issues relating to gender and sexual orientation. Types of records include: correspondence, reports, briefs, notes, meeting minutes, programmes, and conference posters.

Committees documented in B1998-0029 are: Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women; Ad hoc crisis team to handle the case of a U. of T. residence student with AIDS; Men’s Forum, Queer Sites Conference Organising Committee; Sexual Harassment Hearing Panel; and Teach-In Committee.

Groups or committees documented in B2008-0023 include: Committee on Homophobia, Men’s Forum, Positive Space Campaign, Lesbian and Gay Academic Society, Toronto Centre for Gay and Lesbian Studies, Working Group on Policy Issues (response to homelessness) and the Equity Committee for the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences. Other files generally document Rayside’s involvement on issues of pay equity, diversity, human rights as well a gay and lesbian rights. There are two files that document the Bent on Change conferences in 2000 and 2002 of which Rayside was a key organizer. Finally, filed separately because of restrictions are two files documenting Rayside’s legal challenges against councillor Betty Disero over election funding.

Groups or committees documented in B2013-0015 include the Bill 7 Coalition, The Body Politic, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Community Research Initiative of Toronto, Free the Press Foundation, Committee on Homophobia, Positive Space Campaign, Right to Privacy Committee, and the Toronto Gay Community Council. There are also select files related to court cases and affidavits Prof. Rayside was involved in, or wrote, and files related to activism carried out within the University of Toronto, as well as his work related to gender issues, including the Hummel case. Files are arranged alphabetically by name of the group, organization, or person they pertain to, and in rare cases, the name of the issue they concern, if no group, organization, or person name is available. This series also contains one file of photographs and one file of artifacts.

B2023-0032 includes files on political loans, Rayside’s involvement in the apology for the 1981 bath raids in Toronto and other political activity around LGBT rights. Some of the files include the Body Politic, Jordon Pederson, Community One Foundation, Egale, Gay North Bay and the LGBT caucus of the Association of Political Science of Canada, and Sexual Studies Association.

The collection is comprised of menus from around the world featuring a variety of cuisines including Afghan, American, Argentinian, Armenian, Asian, Bangladeshi, Brazilian, Burmese, Cambodian, Caribbean, Chinese (Peking, Szechuan, Shanghai, Yunnan, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hunan and Jiangnan), Colombian, Cuban, Dutch, Ecuadorian, Egyptian, European, Filipino, Finnish, French, Hong Kong style, Indian, Indochinese, Indonesian, Islamic, Israeli, Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Latin American, Lebanese, Malaysian, Mediterranean, Mexican, Middle Eastern, Mongolian, Moroccan, Mughlai, Nepalese, Pakistani, Pan-Asian, Peruvian, Russian, Scandinavian, Singaporean, Southwestern, Spanish, Taiwanese, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Venezuelan, Vietnamese, seafood and vegetarian.

Menus are from restaurants located in Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, China (Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai), Egypt, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Turkey, Vietnam, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados Bermuda, Canada (British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Yukon Territory), Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, El Salvador, Greenland, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, the United States (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming), Australia, New Caledonia (France) New Zealand, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Venezuela.

Menus types included placemat menus, single sheet menus, trifold and four fold menus, five fold, seven fold and menus in booklet style. Some menus are laminated while others are in vinyl enclosures. Menus range from take away and delivery, to eat in and include wine lists, menus for cafes, breakfast menus and menus for cafeteria lunches.

The material is divided into Series 1 Menus. The series is divided into 6 subseries: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania and South America.

The Mission Information Department (MID) was established in 1974 to promote and educate on the missionary work of the Society. At its founding, MID took on the tasks of the Promotion Department (founded in 1950), responsible for making Scarboro Missions and its work widely known and generating funds for the Society. MID also took on the tasks of the Public Relations Department (established in 1961), which circulated the Scarboro Missions Magazine and performed outreach.

The MID was originally comprised of four sections: Promotion and Outreach, Magazine & Communications, Audio Visual, and Mission Centre. The Promotion and Outreach team worked on campaigns and produced materials to promote the Society and its work. The Magazine section focused on the publication and distribution of the Scarboro Missions magazine, which ran from 1919-2018. The Audio Visual branch served to promote the work of mission by distributing the Society's multi-media mission education materials. And finally, the Mission Centre ran programmes such as seminars, courses, lectures, conferences, study weeks, retreats, and others.

This subseries consists of records relating to the Mission Information Department and its two precursor departments, Promotion and Public Relations. It includes reports, meeting minutes, memos, correspondence, press releases, circular letters, analyses, and various promotional and fundraising materials. It also includes the collected volumes of the China/Scarboro Missions Magazine.

Fonds consists of the extant personal papers of J. (Joseph) Churchill Arlidge, including family letters, photographs, biographical materials, manuscripts from his original compositions and arrangements, and programs from his performances.

Records belonging to Dr. Ray Farquharson (1897-1965) document professional trips, meetings and awards. Included is correspondence, notes, agenda and memorabilia. Also included in this donation are records relating to Dr. Ray Farquharson collected by colleagues James Dauphinee and Bob Kerr and passed to the Farquharson family. Finally, there are a set of early letters belonging to Dr. Farquharson’s uncle, University of Toronto alumnus, Dr. Edgar Nesbitt Coutts (M.B. 1900). The letters mainly cover his time as part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the First World War and afterwards in a Swiss sanatorium recovering from tuberculosis. Includes correspondence with Farquharson.

Series consists of a promotional materials, including programs and posters, from performances by J. Churchill Arlidge, flute, and his son (Joseph) Augustine Arlidge, tenor. Series also includes J. Churchill Arlidge's wooden conductor's baton.

Item consists of a wooden baton owned and used by Joseph Churchill Arlidge.

Personal records of Professor Suwanda Sugunasiri, who lectured in interfaith studies at Trinity College and multiculturalism at OISE/UT, is a Buddhist scholar and founder of the Nalanda College of Buddhist Studies and a number of Buddhist organizations in Canada. Includes correspondence, teaching files, research files, drafts of manuscripts and addresses, diaries and travel material, conference files, photographs and slides, audiotapes of addresses and interviews, videotapes, files relating to provincial and federal aspects of multicultural policy making, files relating to Nalanda College, the Buddhist Council of Canada, and the Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies, and numerous other Buddhist organizations, primarily in Canada. Some material is written in Sinhala and Pali.

Fonds consists of the governance, administrative, and personnel records for the community of the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society.

This includes: reports, financial records, meeting minutes, policies and handbooks, General Chapter records, Society Constitutions, correspondence, publications by and about the Society, photographs, audiovisual materials, and personal records of Society members.

In addition to general administrative records of the Society's domestic and international operations, the fonds also contains reference materials and publications from other Catholic missionary societies, collected materials on the Our Lady of Fatima Pilgrimmage tour led by SFM priests, Msgr. William C. McGrath and Rev. Patrick Moore, sub-collections on SFM founder Msgr. John Mary Fraser, and member, Bishop Kenneth Turner, and a collection of ephemera gathered by SFM members over the years documenting their Society.

The Fonds is divided into the following series:

1. General Chapters
2. General Council
3. Governance & Administration
4. Civil Corporation
5. Society Departments
6. Seminary and Novitiate
7. Missions
8. Personnel
9. Society Institutes
10. Property and Houses
11. Graphic Collection
12. Audiovisual Collection
13. Our Lady of Fatima Collection
14. SFM History Collection
15. Msgr. John Mary Fraser Collection
16. Bishop Kenneth Turner Collection

File contains mite box cards, notes, and promotional materials adverstising the Scarboro Missions Marian Shrine Mite Box fundraiser. Includes appeal letters by Fr. Roland Roberts, Director of Promotion. Accompanied by several versions of the carboard mite box, a plastic Marian statute into which the mite box was placed, and photocards advertising the Society's work with a written appeal on the rear for donations.

File contains updates on department activity sent by the MID (and its precursors) to Society members. Accompanied by supplemental materials including brief internal department correspondence, lists of publications (Catholic newspapers, A/V materials, etc.) available for reference in the MID)

File contains mailing cards, envelopes, flyers, and appeal letters regarding various fundraising appeals conducted by the Society. Includes the Fatima Statue sticker/stamp appeal, memorial gift plaques in the new [1950s] seminary chapel, and the "Mission Sack" program.

Fonds consists of diaries, 1900-1912, family correspondence, 1875-1931, notes, clippings, publications, biographical material, 1941, scrapbook, a portrait, monogrammed handkerchief, and broach.

This fonds contains 74 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

John Gould (1929-2010) was a Canadian artist and jazz musician. This collection, donated by his wife Ingi Gould, contains a wide variety of material from both his personal and professional life that capture the richness of Gould’s life. In 2020, a biography of Gould titled Just Me and the Paper was written by Gerrit Verstraete (a signed copy of which can be found in Box 16) documenting his life and legacy; series 5 includes material used by Verstraete to produce said biography. This accession notably includes personal photographs from throughout his life, both original prints and film slides of his drawings, and recordings of the Fig Leaf Jazz Band performances where he played clarinet. Also included are a series of sketchbooks titled “Coffeeshop People” by Gerrit Verstraete, donated by him “in the spirit of John Gould.”

Series consists of correspondence, notes, and other records pertaining to significant special projects at the Music Library, including: correspondence, budgets, floor plan, memos establishing responsibilities and procedures, and descriptions of the library and its collections from the construction of the Edward Johnson Building (which included the Edward Johnson Music Library on the third floor); correspondence with Robert H. Blackburn, Chief Librarian at the University of Toronto (1954-1981); correspondence regarding cataloguing of music materials (1962-1970); correspondence (1966-1970) between David Esplin and Harvey Olnick regarding book selection; Pat Wardrop's music education bibliography project (1973-1974); correspondence regarding Rudolf Serkin and Adolf Busch (1976-1977); and a MARC record from 1977.

Series also includes one of the shovels used in the July 14, 1988 groundbreaking ceremony for the Faculty of Music and Law construction project, which included the Rupert E. Edwards Wing of the Edward Johnson Building. Shovel pictured in the University of Toronto Bulletin (July 25, 1988). 21 shovels were used in total with representatives from both faculties, the Ontario Premier David Peterson, benefactors, and other dignitaries.

Contains artifacts and ephemera related to Audrey Morris’ studies and her life as a student at the University of Toronto. One box contains photographs taken during her time at the University, including photographs in and around student residences.

Fonds consists of records that pertain to the career of Canadian conductor Victor Feldbrill, including his conductor's scores for Canadian compositions (many of which he premiered), including his annotations and corrections, and composers' autographs. Fonds also includes audio recordings of performances that Feldbrill conducted, including many premiere performances of Canadian compositions, spanning Feldbrill's entire career conducting various orchestras in Canada and abroad.

This series consists of records documenting the life and activities of John Mary Fraser, founder of the Society. The series is divided into the following subseries:

1. Personal and Biographical
2. Correspondence
3. Memoribilia and Collected Ephemera
4. Photographs