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- 1963-2024 (Creation)
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4.3 m of textual records
335 photographs
5 DVD-Rs
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Administrative history
U of T Mississauga (UTM) was established in 1967, with one temporary academic building, 155 students, 28 faculty and 40 staff members. Situated on 225 acres of protected greenbelt along the Credit River, the campus has grown to become the second-largest division of U of T, Canada’s largest university. UTM now includes 16,000 undergraduate students and 900 graduate students, more than 3,800 full- and part-time employees (including 1,500 appointed faculty, staff and librarians) as well as more than 75,000 alumni. The campus is situated on 225 acres of protected greenbelt along the Credit River, 33 kilometres west of the university’s St. George campus in Toronto. U of T Mississauga has 15 distinct academic departments, 145 programs and 88 areas of study, and includes the Institute for Management & Innovation and Centre for South Asian Civilizations. The Mississauga Academy of Medicine is located on campus in the Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex. - https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/about-us
Archival history
The collection was accumulated by staff of Erindale College Library (later renamed the University of Toronto Mississauga Library) since the founding of the college in 1967. The material consists of duplicate copies of historical records which were provided to the library for posterity, as well as material dropped off by various units over time due to their historical interest.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Accession 2025.002 comprises all material collected by UTM Library staff since 1967, in which the exact provenance of the material is unknown.
Accession 2017-004 (Box 15) was transferred to the Archives by Prof. Nicholas Collins, Associate Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, in 2017.
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Scope and content
The collection consists of historical records (originals and duplicates) related to the cultural memory of Erindale College (University of Toronto Mississauga). Material includes planning reports, inter-office memoranda, circulars and leaflets, posters, guidebooks, and ephemera.
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Further accruals are expected.
System of arrangement
Boxes 001 and 002 consist of historical documents, artificially arranged by Erindale College Library staff, and described as "The History of the College" for teaching and institutional memory. Subsequent boxes have been arranged by the archivist to reflect a coherent internal structure in which similar materials are grouped together.
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Governance and student records of Erindale College (University of Toronto Mississauga) are held by the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services (UTARMS).
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Created: 2 Sep. 2025, C. Long