Records in the fonds relate to Vivienne Poy’s family, education, writing and publishing, entrepreneurship, business and community leadership, philanthropy, public service and public profile. Record types include business and personal correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, awards and photographs, and sound recordings.

The fonds consists of four series: Family and education; Political papers; Personal, business and community; and Awards and Photographs. Many of Poy’s records are functionally and thematically interrelated across the four series and between files.

Fonds consists of 3 accessions:

B1984-0007: Lecture and other notes by Ray F. Farquharson, Head of the Department of Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine. (1 box, 1935-1950)

B1991-0003: Personal files, correspondence, addresses, publications, lecture notes, patient files and photographs documenting Dr. Farquharson's career in the Faculty of Medicine and as a member of the National Research Council and the Toronto Regional Subcommittee on Shock and Blood Substitutes (1942-1944). (9 boxes, 1924-1989)

B2012-0008: 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. (10 boxes, 1897-2012)

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.

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.

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.

Fonds consists of 7 accessions

• B1986-0032: Personal records of J. W. Michael Bliss, Professor in the Department of History. (9 boxes, 1958-1975)
• B1987-0043: Personal records of J. W. Michael Bliss, Professor in the Department of History. (11 boxes, 1962-1982)
• B1988-0076: Correspondence regarding and drafts, with comments, of manuscript for J. W. Michael Bliss's book, "Northern Enterprise: five centuries of Canadian Business" published by McClelland and Stewart, 1987. (5 boxes, 1985-1986)
• B2006-0015: Personal records of Michael Bliss, professor of history, consisting of correspondence, consulting and editorial work, manuscripts and publications, lecture notes and associated teaching files, addresses, references; 1,216 slides illustrating a wide variety of subjects in Canadian history; 93 slides illustrating the Montreal smallpox epidemic of 1885; photographs relating to themes in Canadian business and general history. (31 boxes, 1881-2005)
• B2017-0007: Further personal records of Michael Bliss, Professor Emeritus of History, consisting of personal and family correspondence, and photographs; other correspondence; scrapbooks; interviews; files relating to the University of Toronto, including memorabilia from his years as a senior fellow on the Massey College; addresses; drafts of articles, a play, books (including biographies of Sir William Osler and Harvey Cushing, and Bliss’ memoirs), short stories and book reviews; files on consulting and editing projects; files on professional organizations, especially the American Osler Society. (38 boxes and 4104 digital files, 1856-2017)
• B2017-0008: Handwritten, typed, and word-processed journals, along with digital versions covering Bliss’ life and career from 1967 to 2017. (3 boxes and 56 digital files, 1967-2017)
• B2021-0023: Records surrounding his health and subsequent death. Includes his medical records, diary and notes he made about his health, and email correspondence from friends who reviewed his medical records after his death, on behalf of the Bliss family. Also includes items following his death including obituaries and tributes, letters of condolence, and the guest book from the Memorial Service at Massey College.

File consists of Winifred Preston's typewritten and handwritten notes for talks on teaching music in elementary schools and a photograph of the 1947 summer school at Jarvis Collegiate Institute (photo by E. MacKintosh). File also includes letters from teachers and students and copies of Preston's letters to the Superintendent of Public Schools, Director of Music, and North York Board of Education at the end of her tenure as Supervisor of Music.

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.

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.

File contains spiritual bouquets, prayer cards, and notes received by Fr. Daly.

File contains Fr. Daly's retreat notebook and prayercards from retreats.

File contains collection of prayer cards.

File contains memorial cards belonging to Fr. Daly of his deceased friends.

File contains memorial cards belonging to Fr. Daly of his fellow Redmptorists.

File contains mass cards, sympathy cards, and the signed guest book from the funeral home relating to Fr. Daly's death and funeral.

The fonds consists of records relating to the Larkin-Stuart Lecture on church furnishings, delivered on 14 November 1978 including drafts, research materials and slides.

Fonds consists of records documenting the professional and personal life of Prof. Hassanpour, Kurdish-Iranian Marxist scholar and Professor at UofT’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. Material reflects key areas of Prof. Hassanpour’s research, most significantly Kurdish history and culture; the history of political movements, grassroots organization, and class struggle in Iran, Iraq and Turkey; and communication theory and sociolinguistics. Material includes correspondence with colleagues and scholars internationally, documentation of research with particular focus on Prof. Hassanpour’s dissertation and his Peasant Movement Project, records relating to conference presentations, interviews, and teaching, as well as his publishing activity.

Prof. Hassanpour was deeply invested in the preservation of Kurdish oral, visual, and textual documentary heritage as a response to the historical state suppression of cultural-political struggle of Kurdish people. Reflected in records throughout the fonds is Prof. Hassanpour’s work in pursuing the establishment of Kurdish Studies as a discipline, his work editing journals related to Kurdistan, and his effort in exposing and circulating books on Kurdish Studies to libraries and research institutions internationally. Prof. Hassanpour also actively collected and preserved Kurdish texts, dailies, and visual materials. This material is included in Series 9 (Reference material) and through bibliographic and audio material held in other repositories at the University of Toronto Libraries (please see the related material note below).

Series includes material related to Prof. Hassanpour’s education and employment, and additional biographical material. Records documenting Prof. Hassanpour’s education cover his studies in Iran and the U.S.A., as well as his involvement with the Confederation of Iranian Student in the U.S.A. and the Kurdish Student Organization in Europe and the U.S.A. Career and employment records include letters of application, contracts, and correspondence documenting Prof. Hassanpour’s positions and organizational membership. Files related to his employment at the University of Windsor document multiple contracts as well as covering a human rights dispute between Prof. Hassanpour and the department. Included are also syllabi, course evaluations, correspondence and course descriptions that cover Prof. Hassanpur’s teaching, particularly related to his work at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto.

Series consists of selected reference material collected by Prof. Hassanpour that is considered rare. Records include handwritten manuscripts, original historical documents, original or copied historical newspapers (mainly in Kurdish and Persian), bulletins, political declaration and reports. Subject matter covers Kurdish nationalism, political movements in Kurdistan and Iran, human rights, and language. Recordings include documentation of 1970s internationalist student activism, recordings of several P.M. Dr. Mossadiq 1950s speeches, and Kurdish pop, ballad, and folk music.

Fonds consists of material documenting the professional, academic, and artistic activities of Dr. Shahrzad Mojab and a sous-fonds documenting the work of Dr. Mojab’s close friend and late feminist leftist scholar, Hammed Shahidian (refer to the sous-fonds description for more information). Records cover multiple aspects and outputs of Dr. Mojab’s research and collaborations, including presentations, articles, monographs, and artistic productions. Fonds also includes collected research material retained given their political sensitivity and unavailability of additional copies in Canada or Iran. Please see series descriptions for additional details.

Fonds consists of material documenting the professional, academic, and artistic activities of Dr. Shahrzad Mojab. Records cover multiple aspects and outputs of Dr. Mojab’s research and collaborations, including presentations, articles, monographs, and artistic productions. Fonds also includes collected research material retained given their political sensitivity and unavailability of additional copies in Canada or Iran. Please see series descriptions for additional details.

Series consists of textual material, artworks and audio-visual recordings that document artistic projects that Dr. Mojab has been involved in, including dance productions, exhibitions, and documentaries. Material documents her work with Shahrzad Arshadi, Bethany J, Osborne, and others.

Material primarily comprises mixed media and audio-visual content related to Dr. Mojab’s Toronto Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council funded project, Words, Movement and Colour: Remembering and Learning Through Narrative and Visual Art.
The material includes plasticine artworks and paintings created by anonymous participants who were former political prisoners or were affected by violence in the Islamic Republic of Iran and other oppressive states through the Words, Colour, Movement workshops.

This series also includes items B2024-0029/001P– 011P, original paintings independently created by an anonymous Iranian woman and former political prisoner and gifted to Dr. Mojab.

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

Textual records, graphic material, published books and digital records related to commercial and artistic graphic design by Deborah Barnett. Graphic materials include proofs, sample prints, polymer plates, photographs and film negatives.

While a teacher in southern Alberta, Catherine Donnelly nursed two families during the influenza pandemic in November 1918. Struck with the absence of religious faith in the settlers’ homes, she saw education as a solution through a women religious community, dedicated to teaching in rural public schools. After her unsuccessful attempts of enter a teaching congregation, she and Fr. Coughlan set in motion the planning of an untraditional women’s community. Coughlan contacted the Toronto archbishop and appointed Fr. Daly as a temporary director to find candidates and finances for the new community.

The majority of the records were created during the early years between 1922 and 1938 of the Sisters of Service and document that period through the official and personal correspondence. Arranged alphabetically and chronologically, the records contain much of Fr. Daly's and Sister Donnelly's writings, manuscripts and articles of their specific direction of the community and their general reflections throughout their lives. A complete set of Fr. Daly's circular letters to the community reflect his administrative and spiritual direction. Sister Donnelly's accounts and correspondence capture her underlying philosophy for the community, and are found in memoir Ecumenism Blossom. Her catechetical tours in 1934 and 1936 in the British Columbia interior of the Cariboo area provide an application of her philosophy.

The series is divided into the following subseries:

1. Archbishop Neil McNeil
2. Rev. Arthur Coughlan, CSsR
3. Rev. George Daly, CSsR
4. Sr. Catherine Donnelly, SOS
5. Early History

Carl Holman visiting campus, at the Meeting Place and the Campus Pub.