Ursula Martius Franklin fonds
Franklin, Ursula Martius
Fonds consists of records documenting the personal, professional, and public life of Dr. Ursula Franklin, physicist, engineer, materials scientists, pacifist and feminist. Records document Dr. Franklin’s early life and career, later employment by the University of Toronto, awards and honorary degrees, teaching, research process and output, publishing activities, travel, service on national scientific boards, work with the CBC, peace work with the Quakers and Voice of Women, as well as other advocacy and activism.
A series of chronological files documents Dr. Franklin’s speeches, talks and attendance at a variety of academic and community events. Fonds also includes a significant amount of correspondence with colleagues, family, friends, fellow activists and ordinary citizens, as well as electronic copies of more than 575 pages of surveillance of Dr. Franklin by the RCMP. One series also documents a wide range of matters at the University of Toronto relating to Massey College, Museum Studies, the SLOWPOKE Reactor, and other matters. Yet another series documents Dr. Franklin’s involvement with the Ursula Franklin Academy.
Records include day planners, notebooks, correspondence, publications, news clippings, reports, drafts, research data and notes, background material, photographs, sound and moving image recordings and some copies of government documents and records.
See series and subseries descriptions for more detail.
1934-2014 [predominant 1945-2014]
14.3 m of textual records
1.10 m of graphic records
3 boxes of oversized textual records
6 boxes of artifacts
117 audiocassettes
39 VHS tapes
1 Betacam tape
10 CDs
13 DVDs
Electronic records: 5 PDF files, 19.8 MB
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University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services (UTARMS)
The majority of the fonds is open, with the exception of the following:
• Series 14: 1 file is closed until 2028: B2015-0005/061(17).
• Series 15: Subseries 3: 3 files are restricted for third-party personal information: B2015-0005/062(28)-(30). Please contact the University Archivist.
• Series 17: 1 file containing student information (B2015-0005/065(08)) is restricted until 2045.