The Administration Series consists of the records of Rev. George Daly, CSsR, spiritual and financial director (1922-1956), the elected leadership of Sisters General, council members and later directors, (1937-2011), the changing governance through the Circle Meetings (1998-2011) and the preparation for the Sponsorship Agreement with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto.

Correspondence documents the writing of the rules [of the congregation], approved in 1934 and the process of the rewriting the constitution and statutes between 1978 and its approval in 1983. The spiritual life is documented though community prayers, conferences, and liturgies while correspondence and reports of the original apostolates of the immigration, residences, hospitals, and teaching depict the success and challenges of the missions.

Changes in customs, rules, personnel and missions, as well as deaths and spiritual reflections were relayed through the circular letters of Sisters General and Father Daly. In response to Second Vatican Council’s call for renewal through participation by all members, sisters were kept abreast of the sisters at university and the opening/closing of missions from newsletters, From Headquarters and Council Notes.

Financial correspondence and reports document Fr. Daly’s financial management through bond issues and varied fund-raising options. Records show the early close collaboration and financial support of the Catholic Women’s League, the major contributor for 30 years, and the more than 500 benefactors. Financial statements of the SOS corporation and the Daly Foundation are included, as well as correspondence and documents of real estate purchases and sales.

The correspondence and reports, which are arranged alphabetically and chronologically, consist of the requests to establish missions, and annual reports to archdioceses and dioceses, where the sisters’ missions were located. Correspondence, reports and meeting minutes document the Circle meetings (1998-2011); the developments leading to the sponsorship agreement. At the signing of the agreement on 26 January 2011, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto assumed the administration of the Sisters of Service.

The series is divided into the following subseries:

1. Finances
2. Constitution, Rules, Customs
3. Spiritual Life - Prayers, Conferences, Liturgies
4. Apostolates - Immigration
5. Apostolates - Residences
6. Apostolates - Hospitals
7. Apostolates - Teaching
8. Sister General - Circular Letters
9. Sister General - Correspondence, Reports
10. General Council
11. Circle Meetings
12. Directors' Meetings
13. Sisters of Service of Canada Corporation
14. Real Estate
15. Correspondence, Reports - Archdiocese of Toronto
16. Correspondence, Reports - Archdioceses, Dioceses
17. Correspondence - Clergy
18. Correspondence [General]
19. Reports
20. Benefactors, Annuities, Bequests
21. Canadian Religious Conference
22. The Daly Foundation
23. Sponsorship Agreement with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto
24. Archives

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

Subseries consists of materials relating to the Spiritual Life of members of the SOS. These include prayer books, conferences [retreats and spiritual talks], liturgies for specific feasts, prayers, and spiritual readings.

File consists of a small bound prayer book, published in 1921, titled "Prayer: The Great Means of Salvation" by St. Alphonsus of Liguori, edited by Rev. John Bapt. Coyle, CSsR.

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

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.

This fonds consists of materials related to Mary Jane Gormley’s involvement in the editing and publication of Fr. Edward Synan’s texts. Materials largely derive from Gormley’s joint project with Janice Schultz-Aldrich where they took a collaborative effort to publish Fr. Synan’s previously unpublished and sometimes unfinished texts. Records consist of original texts, copy edits, notes, lists, correspondences, articles, books, and more.

This fonds contains the files of Edward Aloysius Synan, accumulated during his time as Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Seton Hall University, his time as professor of philosophy at the University of St. Michael's College and the University of Toronto, and his time as professor of mediaeval philosophy at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. His files also include materials from his time as President of the Pontifical Institute.

Materials include:

• papers, addresses, and sermons
• conference notes and presentations
• Projects
• Correspondence
• Class and teaching materials
• Dreyfus materials
• Solidarity materials

Fonds consists of sheet music used by Edith McConica when she accompanied silent films in Luseland, Saskatchewan in the 1920s, as well as some pedagogical sheet music used when she was learning piano from Leora Kridler (Mrs. Milton Herrold) in her home town of Findlay, Ohio, and teaching her children piano in Luseland.

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.

File consists of 1 single fold pamphlet containing the poem The Twa Corbies, a Scottish adaptation of an anonymous song.

The back page states:

"Hand-set in Poliphilus type
from the collection of Massey College

Published and printed by Nelson Adams
at the Dreadnaught press
24 Sussex Avenue Toronto Canada"

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 individual, non-bound issues of the China/Scarboro Missions Magazine.

File contains the complete run of the China/Scarboro Missions Magazine in bound volumes.

Subseries consists of Archbishop McNeil's correspondence and drafts relating to the founding and formation of the SOS. Accompanied by some materials related to his death.

File contains newspaper clippings regarding Archbishop McNeil's death.

Having considered the possibility of introducing lay people as members since the late 1960s, Scarboro Missions approved Fr. Joseph Curcio's proposal to establish an office in order to experiment with, and assess the feasibility of, the introduction of laymen into missionary work. Founded in December 1972, the Office on the Laity was also developed as a service of information for those seeking acceptance regarding missionary work. That is, Fr. Curcio also founded the Office as a means for laymen to acquire instruction for the purpose of helping them come to a decision regarding their motivations. In 1974, Scarboro Missions slowly began accepting laity into the Society through the Office on the Laity, wherein they offered a four-month long formation for cross-cultural mission work for single men, single women, and married couples.

During the 1987 Chapter, it was formally recognized that lay associate membership should no longer be considered an experiment, and the establishment of a Lay Department was mandated. As a result, the Department of Lay Association (DLA) was formed in September 1987, which gave lay associate members more responsibility and helped legitimize the lay mission vocation. The DLA itself was run by the Society's lay members and served to facilitate communication between them and the priests of Scarboro Missions, and to support the laity and the lay movement's growth. As such, it worked closely with the Formation-Education Department, which by now was predominantly training lay candidates interested in missionary work.

In 1993, the DLA was reconstituted as the Lay Mission Office (LMO), at which point laity were given more autonomy and authority over their own affairs within the Society. This restructuring served as an attempt to better integrate lay members with the community of priests at Scarboro Missions. The founding of the LMO thus renewed the laity's sense of belonging within the community by providing them with a space of their own while still remaining connected with the Society structure. LMO staff were given the responsibility of training, recruiting, sending, and directing new lay missioners, as well as supporting members in mission. Before long, the department instilled itself as a crucial part of Scarboro Missions.

The Lay Mission Office officially closed in 2018.

This subseries consists of records produced by the three successive offices. These include: discussions on lay membership and recruitment, policies and guidelines on laity membership, meeting and workshop transcripts, lay mission reports, departmental reports, circulars, correspondence, and lists of lay members.

This series consists of records created by or pertaining to the governance and administration of the Society which fall outside the responsibilities of the General Council (Series 2) and individual departments of the Society (Series 5).

The series is divided into the following subseries:

1. Constitutions
2. Office of the Secretary
3. Office of the Treasurer General
4. Cabinet
5. Committees and Commissions
6. Society Meetings
7. Anniversary Celebrations
8. Auxiliary Organizations

File consists of an annotated score with notes from a 1965 performance by the Canadian Opera Company, directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Wolfgang Martin, conductor; Brian Jackson, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

Performers: Garnet Brooks, Darlene Hirst, Donald Young, Maurice Brown, David Geary, Margaret Tynes, Roxolana Roslak, Joanna Myhal, Royce Reaves, Phil Stark, Arlene Meadows, Thomas Park, Danny Tait, Ian Garratt, Wallace Williamson, Tito Dean, Oskar Raulfs, Ermanno Mauro, Abbot Anderson.

File consists of an annotated score with Herman Geiger-Torel's notes from a 1965 performance and three photographs of the set and one of the opera singers. Annotations include a handwritten cast list from another, likely earlier, performance. The 1965 production for the Canadian Opera Company (COC) was directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Wolfgang Martin, conductor; Brian Jackson, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

Performers (1965): Garnet Brooks, Darlene Hirst, Donald Young, Maurice Brown, David Geary, Margaret Tynes, Roxolana Roslak, Joanna Myhal, Royce Reaves, Phil Stark, Arlene Meadows, Thomas Park, Danny Tait, Ian Garratt, Wallace Williamson, Tito Dean, Oskar Raulfs, Ermanno Mauro, Abbot Anderson.

File consists of an annotated score with notes from three different productions: 1934, 1938, and 1945.

File consists of an annotated score with notes from two different productions: one with William McGrath in the title role, and another from 1951.

File consists of an annotated score with Herman Geiger-Torel's notes from three productions: in Rio de Janiero, in Habana, and an unspecified location.

File consists of an annotated score for an unspecified production. Annotations include handwritten translations of the libretto from German to Spanish.

File consists of an annotated score for an unspecified production.

File consists of an annotated score with Herman Geiger-Torel's notes for a production by the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School in April 1955, directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Nicholas Goldschmidt, musical director and Mario Bernardi and Paul McIntyre, piano.

Cast: Patricia Rideout, Claudette LeBlanc, Joey Harris, Joan Augus, Marguerite Desjardins, James Whicher, Seweryn Weingort, Andrée Thériault, Suzette Nadon.

File consists of an annotated score from a production by the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School in April 1957, directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor and Mario Bernardi and Paul Timan, pianos.

Performers: Bernard Turgeon, Anne Stephenson, Teresa Stratas, Kathryn Buchanan, Margaret Briggs, Donald Bartle, Brian Beaton, Sheila Piercey, Lucie Dombrowski, James St. Lawrence, Ted Moskal, Victor Braun, Kenneth Brown, Lillian Bozinoff, Carolyn Leonard, Alan Crofoot, William Bourns, Glyndon Bowie, and Ossyp Hoshulak.

Series contains the following volumes, listed in alphabetical order by box and author:

Box 1:

• Ahrens, Cora / Ear training
• Ahrens, Cora / Rudiments of music
• Ahrens, Cora / Daily sight playing exercises for piano
• Baird, Robert / Piano plus!
• Berlin, Boris; Dubois, Pierre Max / Seven piano pieces: with preparatory exercises /
• Berlin, Boris; Melecci, Adelmo; / Technical requirements for piano with exercises in ear training and sight reading
• Berlin, Boris; Mould, Warren / Basics of ear training
• Butler, Margaret / Children's book for the piano
• Hutt, Doreen / Piano class teachers manual
• Hutt, Doreen / Piano class method
• Kammerer, Hope / The first period at the piano
• Kennedy, Margery; Kennedy, Peter / Dominion piano book
• Kennedy, Margery; Kennedy, Peter / Little music maker: the children's own piano book
• Kirby, Kelly / The Kelly Kirby kindergarten piano method
• Kirby, Kelly; Kirby, John / Theory and workbook
• Melecci, Adelmo / Beginners method for the piano: preparatory work leading to grade 1
• Paul, John B.; Werder, Richard H. / Instruction book / Piano course
• Saint-Jean, Rene / L'ABC du piano method facile
• Schaum, John / Piano course
• Sclater, Molly; Ringhoffer, Joe / Keys to music rudiments: Answers and approaches
• Vandendool, Grace / Keyboard theory
• Williams, Edith / Playtime piano method
• Williams, Edith / Playtime

Box 2:

• Bentley, Olive / Olive Bentley's piano course
• Berlin, Boris / Lessons in music writing: graded theory papers for piano students
• Berlin, Boris / Hanon: revised edition
• Berlin, Boris / ABC of piano playing: an easy method for beginners
• Berlin, Boris / Daily exercises for piano students / Four star sight reading and ear tests
• Berlin, Boris / Four Star sight reading for piano students: daily exercises based on the requirements
• Berlin, Boris / Daily exercises / Four star sight reading
• Berlin, Boris / Pianos on parade
• Berlin, Boris / Practical hanon and scmitt: 40 exercises from hanon, 40 exercises from schmitt
• Berlin, Boris / Complete scale and chord book
• Berlin, Boris / Essential daily exercises for piano
• Berlin, Boris / Musical kindergarten piano method
• Berlin, Boris / O Canada! And God save the Queen
• Berlin, Boris; Champagne, Claude / Practical sight reading exercises for piano students
• Berlin, Boris; Magee, Edward / Four star sight reading
• Berlin, Boris; Markow, Andrew; Smith ,Scott McBride / Daily exercises for piano students ; Four star sight reading and ear tests
• Berlin, Boris; Melecci, Adelmo / A piano textbook for adults
• Berlin, Boris; Mould, Warren / Rhythmic tests for sightreading
• Berlin, Boris; Sclater, Molly; Sinclair, Kathryn / Keys to music rudiments
• Blake, Jessie; Capp, Hilda / Making music: a piano book for beginners
• Blake, Jessie; Capp, Hilda / First grade piano pieces
• Blake, Jessie; Capp, Hilda / Writing music
• Blake, Jessie; Capp, Hilda / Christmas Carols
• Berlin, Boris; Macmillan, Ernest / The new modern piano student
• Brown, Margaret Miller; Shore, Mary Mackinnon / Piano hand book
• Eckstein, Maxwell / Let us have music for piano
• Graham, J. Lascelles / Music made easy
• Harris, C.L.M / Scales, chords and arpeggios
• Humber, Lorraine Muter / My merry music book
• Kennedy, Peter / Hand-building technic and studies
• Loth, John Ferris / 20 lessons on counting time / Loth theory series
• Loth, John Ferris / Piano play for every day
• Lovett, Chris / Recreational keyboard course for piano and organ
• Moy, Edgar / 60 writing lessons in musical theory
• Picha, Helen / Piano: for advanced beginners individual and class instruction
• Picha, Helen / Theory workbook for beginners: individual and class instruction
• Picha, Zdenka / Method for all beginners
• Wanless, Debra / Performance fun
• Warner, Jean / Brief technique ; Warner piano series ; A series of graded piano solos ; Festival Harris series ; New piano series ; Local examination in music: Primary pianoforte examination, technical work

File contains the collected "Laity in Missions" issues of the Scarboro Mission's magazine; these issues have a particular focus on the work of lay missioners.

File consists of an annotated copy of the manuscript score. Herman Geiger-Torel directed the Canadian Opera Company (COC) production in September-October 1966 and a production by the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School in April 1965. Both productions were conducted by Ettore Mazzoleni with Lawrence Schäfer, set designer (for COC), set and costume designer (for Opera School); and William Lord, costume designer (for COC).

Opera School performers (1965): Oskar Raulfs, Donald Young, David Geary, Genevieve Perreault, Jeannette Zarou, Lilian Sukis, Ermanno Mauro, Paul Brown, Thomas Park, Ian Garratt, Herman Rombouts, Lloyd Dean, Maida Rogerson, Nancy Greenwood, Asdghig Shakarian, Marcelle Zonta.

COC performers (1966): Howell Glynne, Bernard Turgeon, Oskar Raulfs, Patricia Rideout, Jeannette Zarou, Gianni Savelli, Richard Braun, Thomas Park, Howard Mawson, Maurice Brown, Nancy Greenwood, Nancy Gottschalk, Maida Rogerson.

File consists of an annotated score with Herman Geiger-Torel's notes from a Canadian Opera Company (COC) production of Rosenkavalier in September-October 1963. Herman Geiger-Torel directed the production with Walter Susskind, conductor and Horst Dantz, set and costume designer.

Performers: Helen Vanni, Marguerite Willauer, Wallace Williamson, Howell Glynne, Maurice Brown, Carol Anne Curry, Roxolana Roslak, Danny Tait, Bernard Fitch, Phil Stark, Patricia Rideout, Eleanor Calbes, Kathryn Newman, Naomi Alexandroff, Alan Crofoot, Ron Hastings, Bernard Turgeon, Marjorie Hays, Elizabeth Elliott, Garnet Brooks, Thomas Clerke, Peter Van Ginkel, Cathy Ball, Ernest Atkinson, Tito Dean, David Geary, and William Perry.

File consists of an annotated score for two productions (October 1957 and September-October 1971) by the Canadian Opera Company (COC). The 1957 production was directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Ernesto Barbini, conductor; John Engel, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer. The 1971 production was directed by Leon Major with Victor Feldbrill, conductor; Murray Laufer, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

1957 Cast: Alan Crofoot, Andrew MacMillan, Marie Gauley, Karl Norman, Alexander Gray, Don McManus, Joanne Ivey, Harold Mossfield, Constance FIsher, Patricia Snell, Bernard Turgeon, Sylvia Grant, Elizabeth Mawson, Ernest Adams, Lesia Zubrack, Lillian Bozinoff, Joyce Hill, Igor Gavon, James Whicher.

1971 Cast: Alan Crofoot, Jan Rubes, Gwenlynn Little, John Arab, Alexander Gray, Don McManus, Sheila Piercey, Peter Milne, Sonia Rohozynsky, Allen Coates, Lynne Cantlon, John Reardon, Judith Lebane, Kathleen Ruddell,Herman Rombouts, Richard Braun, Clare Bewley.

File consists of an annotated copy of the manuscript score, autographed by the composer to Herman Geiger-Torel with four loose pages of Geiger-Torel's notes. Geiger-Torel was the general director of the Canadian Opera Company when this opera was commissioned premiered in September 1973. Leon Major directed the production with Victor Feldbrill, conductor; Murray Laufer, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

Performers: Heather Thomson, Allan Monk, Don McManus, Emile Belcourt, Patricia Rideout, Phil Stark, Ronald Bermingham, Garnet Brooks, Jacques Lareau, Alan Crofoot, Donald Oddie, Peter Barcza, John Arab, James Anderson, Bruce Kelly, John Dodington, Kathleen Ruddell, Richard Braun, and Jill Pert.

File consists of an annotated score from a 1929 production (date inscribed on title page by Herman Geiger-Torel).

File consists of an annotated score from a production for the 1973-1974 Canadian Opera Company tour. The production was directed by Herman Geiger-Torel.

Performers (Cast A): Peter Milne as Don Alfonso ; Garnet Brooks as Ferrando ; Peter Barcza as Guglielmo ; Barbara Collier as Fiordiligi ; Carrol Anne Currey as Dorabella ; and Ann Cooper as Despina.

Performers (Cast B): Dagger ; [Kathleen] Ruddell ; [Janis] Orenstein ; Arab ; Bermingham ; [Jan] Rubes.

File consists of an annotated score with reviews of a Canadian Opera Company (COC) performance at the Shaw Festival Theatre in the St. Catherines Standard (December 10, 1973) and the rehearsal schedule for the COC's 1973-1974 tour. Rehearsals took place in the MacMillan Theatre. The production was directed by Herman Geiger-Torel.

Performers (Cast A): Peter Milne as Don Alfonso ; Garnet Brooks as Ferrando ; Peter Barcza as Guglielmo ; Barbara Collier as Fiordiligi ; Carrol Anne Currey as Dorabella ; and Ann Cooper as Despina.

Performers (Cast B): Dagger ; Kathleen Ruddell ; [Janis] Orenstein ; John Arab ; Ronald Bermingham ; Jan Rubes.

File consists of an annotated copy of the score for a production at the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School in May 1953, directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor.

Performers: Jon Vickers, Jacqueline Smith, Jeannine Perron, Charles Couture, Don Garrard, Ralph Roose, Alexander Gray, Bernard Turgeon, Sheila Craig, Patricia Rideout.

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

This fonds contains 17 accessions of records. See accession-level descriptions for more details.

File consists of an annotated score with Herman Geiger-Torel's lighting cue notes and stage design sketches. The score includes annotations for two productions directed by Herman Geiger-Torel.

1. 1970 production by the Canadian Opera Company (COC) with Victor Feldbrill and Alfred Strombergs, conductors; Lawrence Schäfer, set designer; abd Suzanne Mess, constume designer;
2. 1974 production by the University of Toronto Opera Department with James Craig, conductor; Brian H. Jackson, set designer; Suzanne Mess, costume designer; Douglas Holder, lighting designer; and Michael Evans, assistant conductor.

Performers (1970): Jan Rubes, Eileen Schauler, Justino Diaz, Don McManus, GarnetBrooks, Heather Thomson, Gwen Little, Claude Corbeil.

Performers (1974): Robert Vigod, Douglas McEachen, Deborah Jeans, James Anderson, Jonas Vaskevicius, José Hernandez, Stephen Young, Marion Harvey, Carol Ann Looman, Constance Adorno, Barbara Carter, Guillermo Silva, Robert Mang.

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

File consists of an annotated score with Herman Geiger-Torel's notes from a production by the Canadian Opera Company in Portland, Oregon.

This series consists of correspondence, notes, research notes, and background material on a broad variety of topics of that Professor Sugunasiri was interested in and about which he was often thinking and writing about.

There are three “shoe boxes” of 3” x 5” and 5” x 8” index cards with research and bibliographic notes, and files of notes, bits and pieces of manuscripts documenting Professor Sugunasiri’s thoughts, ideas, and activities that do not readily fit into other series. Some of the entries are partially or wholly written in Sinhala. Most of these cards were compiled between 1967 and 1974, though there are some later ones from 1991. There is some order to these cards; some from 1967-1974 are grouped by topic such as “Buddhism”, “Education” (with various subtexts), “Goals”, “Ideas”, “Medical curriculum”, and “References”. Otherwise, they are grouped as unpacked; where initially held together by elastic bands, plastic clips and metal binder clips have been substituted. The 1991 cards deal primarily with spirituality and dialogue. The 5” x 8” cards contain notes on ideas drawn from specific books.

The cards from 1966 and 1967 were compiled while the Sugunasiri’s were in the United States, but with a side trip back to Sri Lanka and preparing to immigrate to Canada, with.

Also present are files relating to research on numerous elements of Buddhism, South Asian anthologies and short stories, and the Indian diaspora in Canada (British Columbia and the Toronto are in particular).

File consists of an annotated score from a [1958?] Toronto production, directed by Herman Geiger-Torel.

File consists of an annotated score with a handwritten English libretto and photographs of the actors on stage with the set from a February-March 1954 Canadian Opera Company (COC) production that Herman Geiger-Torel directed with Ernesto Barbini, conductor; Hans Berends, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

Performers: Evelyn Gould, Joanne Ivey, Andrew MacMillan, Bernard Turgeon, Sylvia Grant, Patricia Rideout, Phyllis Mailing, Jon Vickers, Glenn Gardiner, Mary Morrison, James Milligan, Ernest Adams, Lesia Zubrack, Alexander Gray, William Copeland, Robert Goulet, Dolores Huck.

File consists of an annotated score from an unspecified production. Performers are handwritten on the cast page.

File consists of an annotated score from a production in Rio di Janeiro in 1947.

File consists of an annotated score from a 1929 production, as dated on the title page. Performers are handwritten inside the front cover.

File consists of an annotated score for an unspecified production directed by Herman Geiger-Torel.

File consists of an annotated score for a Canadian Opera Company production. Herman Geiger-Torel directed a touring COC production of Carmen in January-April 1966 with George Brough, conductor; William Lord, set designer; Warren Hartman, costume designer.

Performers: Sheila Piercey, Jeannette Zarou, Guy Lavoie, Jean Louis Pellerin, Oskar Raulfs, Marija Kova, June Genovese, Geneviève Perrault, Constance Fisher, Kathryn Newman, Elsie Sawchuk, Roland Richard, Donald Young, Thomas Park, and Wallace Williamson.