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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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 is comprised of historical overviews, publications, promotional materials, ephemera, newspaper clippings, photographs, and albums related to the Our Lady of Fatima pilgrimage. The collection predominantly concerns Fr. Patrick Moore’s world tours, though it also includes records relating to Msgr. McGrath and Fr. Alphonsus Chafe.

The series is divided into the following subseries:

1. Textual records
2. Newspaper Clippings
3. Photographs
4. Albums
5. Artifacts

Historical Overview:

The Society’s relationship with the statues of Our Lady of Fatima begins in October 1947, when the Society granted Msgr. William C. McGrath a leave of absence to accompany the second replica statue on a pilgrimage to the United States. The statue was blessed by the Bishop of Leiria in Fatima, Portugal on 13 October 1947. On October 19, the statue was crowned by Archbishop Alexandre Vachon on the grounds of Ottawa University and Msgr. McGrath’s initial two-year Fatima pilgrimage in America began.

In those two years, the Pilgrim Virgin statue visited more than fifty Dioceses in Canada and the United States, spreading the message of Fatima to approximately five million people across 900 churches, stadiums, and amphitheatres. Afterwards, Msgr. McGrath was to continue his pilgrimage for another 19 years.

In April 1948, Fr. Patrick Moore, SFM, travelled to Fatima to obtain the third replica statue of Our Lady of Fatima. Fr. Moore had previously been associated with Msgr. McGrath’s pilgrimage in the United States. After obtaining the third replica statue Fr. Moore then travelled to Rome, where Pope Pius XII gave his Papal blessing to the statue on May 22. From here, the statue was transported by Fr. Moore to the Dominican Republic, where she was enshrined in Ciudad Trujillo (now Santo Domingo) for the first time on 6 June 1948.

Fr. Moore’s pilgrimage would continue for 36 years, until 1984, covering nearly 300,000 miles by land, sea and air.

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

Series consists of personal records and effects of Bishop Kenneth Turner, SFM. These include seminary coursework and notes, biographical records, correspondence, Turner's documents collected during the Second Vatican Council, and materials related to his death. The series is divided into the following subseries:

1. Textual Records
2. Photographs
3. Artifacts

This fonds contains 76 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

This fonds contains 26 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

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).

Fonds consists of six accessions of records documenting the life of Martin L. Friedland, as a student, professor of law and administrator at the University of Toronto; as an expert on legal matters and a contributor to the formation of public policy at the provincial and federal levels; and as an author of several books and numerous articles, in particular the researching and writing of his book University of Toronto: A History (University of Toronto Press, 2002 & 2013).

See accession-level descriptions for further details.

Sculpture made by the survivors of the Golden Venture ship while in prison in York, PA. In a plexiglass and wood case. Includes a newspaper clipping from 2014 with notes from Harley Spiller.

This series contains passports, daily agendas (58 volumes) and an address book, as well as files relating to the Banff School of Fine Arts, Professor Peers’ academic life, awards that he received and books that he wrote. Also included are a class photograph of the East Coulee School where Peers taught and was principal from 1939-1942, personal correspondence, photographs of Peers with friends, travel documents and records relating to his 90th birthday and the memorial service held upon his death. The series concludes with a file of records relating to David Rayside, a U of T professor and close friend of Peers.

The “biographical information” file [/003(04)] contains, amongst many other items, several pieces that Professor Peers himself penned between 1980 and 2002 about his family and background and his years as a high school teacher. Included with this is a CD from one of his nieces, Bev Swanton, titled “Acadia Valley Homecoming 2012”, that celebrates the hamlet, the surrounding farms (including that of the Peers family) and includes the centennial parade.

Metal pin from Vancouver Chinese Public School owned by Beatrice Jai.

Series contains textual records and other materials related to the Toronto Yet Hoy Cantonese Music Club, which both Beatrice and Raymond Jai were members of this club from 1960s to 1990s.

Series contains textual records, photographs and other materials related to the Vancouver Ching Won Musical Society, which both Beatrice and Raymond Jai were members of this society between 1930s to 1950s. Additional photographs related to the Ching Won Musical Society can be found at photo albums F002-S3-6-2 and F002-S3-6-4.