Records documenting the life and career of Mel Watkins, Professor Emeritus of the Departments of Economics and Political Science at the University of Toronto. Though not a comprehensive account of his life and career, the records nevertheless document Watkins’ active involvement across many groups and organizations, in particular the federal government’s Task Force on the Structure of Canadian Industry and The Waffle and the New Democratic Party. Also includes numerous writings and talks about Canada’s economic history, Harold Innis, and the anti-nuclear movement.

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Fonds consists of one accession of records that were created and collected by Prof. Neil Nevitte throughout his academic and professional careers. The records primarily document his teaching, publishing, and research activities since the 1980s, but also include some correspondence as well as records related to his administrative activities at the University of Toronto. The fonds is organized into 6 series.

Series 1 and 5 highlight Professor Nevitte’s education and his administrative and professional activities. Series include materials such as CVs, samples of his work as a doctoral student, an employment offer and annual activity reports from U of T, as well as records documenting his participation in various conferences and committees.

Series 2 consists of correspondence and over 22000 emails with colleagues from the University of Calgary, the University of Toronto, and various other institutions; co-investigators; co-authors; publishers; friends; and family.

Series 3 includes extensive sets of syllabi and teaching materials for courses Professor Nevitte taught at Harvard University, the University of Calgary, and the University of Toronto.

Series 4 and 6 document the planning, administration, analysis, findings, and publication of several of Professor Nevitte’s research and consultation projects. The materials provide significant coverage of projects such as the Canadian Election Study, the World Values Survey, the Political Ethics Survey, the North American Academic Survey Study, and his work with the NDI.

Records in the fonds were created and collected by members of the Asianadian Resource Workshop in their founding and production of a quarterly magazine titled The Asianadian: An Asian Canadian Magazine.

The fonds consists of two series: Textual records; and Magazine.

Fonds consists of correspondence, subject files, course material, research records, and conference and publication files documenting the life and career of Prof. Roxana Ng, professor at OISE and community activist. Fonds also includes administrative material from OISE, in particular from AECP (Adult Education and Counselling Psychology) Department, the AECD (Adult Education and Community Development Program), CIARS (Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies), and the CWSE (Centre for Women’s Studies in Education).

Fonds also includes records relating to Prof. Ng’s involvement in various community groups, NGOs and grassroots organizations, including the Apparel Textile Action Committee (ATAC), CERIS (The Ontario Metropolis Centre), the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW), The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), INTERCEDE (International center to End Domestic Exploitation), Inter Pares, The Jade Garden Adjustment Committee, the National Organization of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women of Canada (NOICMWC), UNITE (the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees), Women Working with Immigrant Women (WWIW), and the Homeworkers Association (HWA)