Fonds F2020 - George Ignatieff fonds

Fonds consists of records pertaining to George Ignatieff’s professional career and personal life. Genealogical information about the Ignatieff family documents their lives in Russia and immigration to Canada. Some records relate to the Parkin and Grant familes. Family records include memoirs, diaries, photographs, student records, journals and correspondence. Ignatieff’s professional life as a diplomat with the Canadian government is documented by correspondence, subject files, speeches, reports, newspaper clippings and photographs.
Records from 1972 to 1986 are mainly from Ignatieff’s career as an administrator at the University of Toronto. These records were generated during day-to-day operations of these offices and include correspondence, subject files, speeches, writings, clippings and notebooks. In addition, there are documents associated with other organizations and activities in which he was involved, as well as documents relating to his honorary degrees and awards. Extensive background material and drafts trace the evolution of Ignatieff’s published memoir, The Making of a Peacemonger.

Correspondence and photographs can be found throughout the fonds. Researchers are encouraged to search broadly.

Library and Archives Canada holds other Ignatieff papers. Michael Ignatieff fonds, F2327 contains considerable material relating to the Ignatieff and Grant families. The Sonja Sinclair fonds, F2223, contains interviews and research creating during the writing of The Making of a Peacemonger.

Throughout this document, George Ignatieff is referred to as "GI" and Alison (Grant) Ignatieff as "AI". Some early documents refer to her as "JAG" (Jessie Alison Grant) "Ignatieff" is also spelled as "Ignatiev" In some documents. "Defence" is sometimes spelled as "defense." "Dima" refers to Vladimir Ignatieff.