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Donald Solitar fonds
F0414 · Fonds · 1964-1972, predominant 1968-1972

The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, reports and related material of Donald Solitar for committees of the York University Senate, the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and the Faculty of Arts.

Solitar, Donald
Donna Davey fonds
F0506 · Fonds · 1975-2006

Fonds consists of material that documents Davey's career as a writer, director and producer. It includes film proposals, scripts, contracts, research, interview transcripts, photographs, publicity material, productions files, financial records, audio-visual records and other material related to the productions "Locked in - locked out," "Investing in yourself : women, money and self-esteem," "Helen Lucas ... her journey - our journey" and "Michele Landsberg ... iron in her soul," among others.

Davey, Donna
Dorothy Henderson fonds
F0227 · Fonds · 1975-2001

The fonds mainly consists of material related to Margaret Laurence and Dorothy Henderson's work as a member of the Margaret Laurence Home committee. Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings and articles, brochures, reports and programs.

Henderson, Dorothy Campbell, 1916-
Dorothy Stepler fonds
F0170 · Fonds · 1915-1945

Fonds consists of diaries and approximately 150 letters of Gordon Stepler written during World War I and sent to his parents and sister. Also included are postcards, a discharge certificate, a photograph album and other photographs, a pay book, leave passes and other ephemera, as well as letters to Gordon Stepler's family from friends of Gordon Stepler and articles by Dorothy Stepler regarding her brother's participation in World War I, and pamphlets related to World War I and World War II.

Stepler, Dorothy
Douglas How fonds
F0327 · Fonds · 1971

Fonds consists of a typewritten memoir of Douglas George How's two years as assistant to Robert Henry Winters, Canadian Minister of Public Works, 1955-1957.

How, Douglas, 1919-
Douglas V. Verney fonds
F0458 · Fonds · 1961-1966

Fonds consists of Douglas V. Verney's personal correspondence and papers as chair of the political science department at York University.

Vernay, Douglas V. (Douglas Vernon)
F0649 · Collection · 1924-1998

Collection consists of promotional material, family documents, correspondence, news clippings, recordings of public lectures, television and radio appearances and newsletters created by or regarding Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn.

Mendelsohn, Dr. Robert S.
E. A. Beder fonds
F0264 · Fonds · 1921-1972

The fonds documents Edward Arthur Beder’s activities as political activist and author and includes manuscripts, 1921-1972; correspondence, 1923-1972; membership lists; files of the Socialist Party of Canada; files of the League for Social Reconstruction, ca. 1933; files of the Canadian League Against War and Fascism, 1934-1937; project outlines files, 1935-1936; lecture notes and abstracts, 1934-1965; notes, 1935-1946; printed material, 1930-1972; and news clippings, 1921-1972.

Beder, E. A. (Edward Arthur), 1895-1978
Earle Beattie fonds
F0126 · Fonds · 1972-1982

Fonds consists of files relating to Earle Beattie's involvement with the formation and maintenance of the publication, Media Probe (1972-1976), which was renamed the Canadian Journal of Communication (1977-1982).

Beattie, Earle
E.C.A. Gordon fonds
F0315 · Fonds · 1856

The fonds consists of a diary of E.C.A. Gordon and account book for work in the shipyards at Galatea, Constantinople, for the year 1856. The accounts are kept in piastres [Spanish currency] and British pounds.

Gordon, E.C.A, fl. 1856
Edgar J. Dosman fonds
F0557 · Fonds · [ca. 1911]-2010

Consists of Dosman's project records and research files pertaining to his critically-acclaimed biography of Raul Prebisch. There are project correspondence files including photographs, notebooks, letters and notes from Prebisch's widow, interview files, and secondary biographies; special correspondence files between Prebisch and his colleagues and contemporaries; unpublished transcripts of Prebisch's "conversations" with colleagues; tributes on the occasion of Prebisch's death; manuscript drafts; copies of Prebisch texts and writings; considerable rare secondary source material from Argentina, Chile and other South American countries, CEPAL, critics and scholarly papers; correspondence files; government documents; office correspondence between CEPAL Santiago to Washington (primarily when David Pollock was Director of the Washington office of CEPAL during the period when Prebisch was resident in Washington and advisor to Enrique Iglesias, Executive Secretary of CEPAL); World Bank library documents; IMF library documents; UNCTAD correspondence and documents; Prebisch's office correspondence files; press clippings; and other material.

Dosman, Edgar J.
Edgar Tilden Alberts fonds
F0253 · Fonds · 1955-1971

The fonds documents Edgar Tilden Albert's activities as a member of the Organizing Committee of York University and his travel to the Soviet Union for the period 1955-1971.

Albert, Edgar Tilden
Edgar Wardwell McInnis fonds
F0353 · Fonds · 1918-1973, predominant 1930-1968

The fonds consists of McInnis' publication files, including scholarly articles and correspondence, drafts, research notes, photographs, and other material for "The Long Cold Peace: Treaty Making after World War II", "The East", "Canada: A Political and Social History", "North American Nations", and other works. Fonds also includes professorial files documenting his teaching at the University of Toronto and York University; Canadian Institute of International Affairs files; research files; and other material reflecting his varied interests in history, current events and world politics.

McInnis, Edgar, 1899-1973
Edith Fowke collection
F0368 · Collection · 1972-1979

The collection consists of the Ontario Folklore Archives which includes student essays and cassettes of folklore in Canada. Subjects discussed in the student essays include folk medicine, folklore from regions in Ontario and Canada (Oshawa, Ontario, Feversham, Ontario, Newfoundland), from cultural groups (Jews, Ukrainians, French Canadians), musical folklore, social folklore (children’s jokes, urban graffiti), and related topics. In addition, there are recordings on audio cassettes and audio reels of Scottish folk songs and customs, old-time fiddling, songs of the Scottish regiment and of other subjects.

Fowke, Edith, 1913-1996
Edward Snowden collection
F0413 · Collection · 1914-1943

The collection consists of war diaries of the 2nd Field Company of Canadian Engineers (including Intelligence summaries and progress reports) for the period, 1915-1919, 1940-1941 (latter dates confined to Fort York, Toronto). In addition, there are regimental documents including list of regimental numbers, officers and men discharged (1915-1918), nominal rolls, transfer rolls, daily register, register of recruits (1930-1943), and company orders (1921-1925).

Snowden, Edward
Edwin Clarence Guillet fonds
F0161 · Fonds · 1943-1949

Fonds consists of the original manuscripts, and some additional typescripts, of the 'Famous Canadian Trials' series, volumes 1-50, created between 1943 and 1949.

Guillet, Edwin C., 1898-1975
F0733 · Collection · 1964-2022

Collection consists of records accumulated by the Egypt Migrations project pertaining to the history and activities of Coptic immigrants in Canada and the Egyptian diaspora. It also consists of records documenting the administration, activities, and interests of the project.

Egypt Migrations: a Public Humanities Project
Eliza Clark fonds
F0207 · Fonds · 1984-2000

The fonds consists of manuscript and typescript drafts of Eliza Clark's work, personal and professional correspondence, copies of articles by or about Clark and other material that documents her career as a writer.

Clark, Eliza, 1963-
Elizabeth Kilbourn fonds
F0131 · Fonds · 1904-2015

Fonds consists of correspondence, personal files, photographs and writings by Elizabeth Kilbourn, as well as records related to her community involvement and her professional activities as a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada. The fonds includes family records, photographs and correspondence relating to her parents, William Kilbourn (her first husband) and their extended family, her memoirs, and the writings of her second husband, Richard Mackie.

Kilbourn, Elizabeth
Ellen C. Adams fonds
F0251 · Fonds · 1956-1978

The fonds documents Ellen C. Adams' political activities at municipal level in the Toronto area for the period 1956-1975, including her involvement with the Avenue Bay Cottingham Ratepayers' Association and the Confederation of Resident and Ratepayer Associations (CORRA). Records include subject files pertaining to the City of Toronto Council, the City of Toronto Planning Board, Toronto municipal elections, transportation and the waterfront, as well as meeting minutes, periodicals, books, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, a map and directory, reports, papers and briefs.

Adams, Ellen C., 1925-1982
Ellie Prepas fonds
F0774 · Fonds · 1933-2009

Fonds consists of correspondence, notes, reports, essays, publications, flyers, and other documents created or received by Ellie Prepas while a graduate student in Environment Studies at York University about the Waffle movement within the New Democratic Party, including environmental initiatives, the Mackenzie Valley pipeline, opposition to foreign ownership of Canadian resources and industries, her candidacy for the NDP in the riding of Toronto Trinity and her involvement with the North Metro Waffle, and the Waffle Women.

Prepas, Ellie
Enid Rutland fonds
F0401 · Fonds · 1970-1983

The fonds consists of a series of letters between Enid Rutland and Margaret Laurence (1970-1983), dealing in the main with the production of 'The collected plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood,' (1982), but containing some personal notes as well.

Rutland, Enid Delgatty
Eric Koch fonds
F0472 · Fonds · 1938-2004

Fonds consists of material that documents his career as a writer and broadcaster and, as such, includes correspondence with publishers, fan mail, research material, newspaper clippings, reviews of his work, notes, drafts and galleys related to his novels and works of non-fiction. The writing files include photocopies of his own letters written to his mother when he was an internee in England and manuscript and photocopies of letters written to Koch from Daria Hambourg and used as research material for his novel, "The Brothers Hambourg". Fonds also includes transcripts of interviews as well as written reminiscences in the form of letters from many former German internees; these letters were subsequently used as resource material for his book "Deemed Suspect: A Wartime Blunder". Fonds includes a complete set of published copies of his books. The broadcasting files contain correspondence, memos, notes and drafts of scripts, scrapbooks and other material that documents his long career with the CBC.

Koch, Eric, 1919-2018
Eric Trist fonds
F0681 · Fonds · [ca. 1900]-2014, predominant 1919-1993

Fonds consists of records pertaining to the life and work of social scientist Eric Trist. Records include photographs and textual material pertaining to Trist's early life and education in Dover, England, student records from his time at Cambridge and Yale Universities, and material related to his career as a theorist and academic in the fields of psychology and organizational development. These latter records consist of publications, presentations and other writings authored or co-authored by Eric Trist, records pertaining to Trist's teaching career in both the United States and Canada, and material related to the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, of which Trist was a founding member.

Trist, Eric Lansdown, 1909-1993
Ernest H. Bartlett fonds
F0122 · Fonds · 1910-1971

Fonds consists of personal files containing correspondence, articles, photographs, certificates, etc. relating to Ernest Bartlett’s family and career with the Toronto Telegram.

Bartlett, E. H. (Ernest Henry), 1903-
Ernesto Vinci fonds
F0439 · Fonds · 1898-1999

The fonds mainly documents Ernesto Vinci's career as a singer and his activities as a voice teacher at the Halifax Ladies College and Conservatory of Music, the University of Toronto, and at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Records found from 1999 onwards are of the more personal variety and include personal and family correspondence between Vinci and his wife, and Vinci and his parents and parents-in-law, and other relatives during the 1930s as they tried to escape Germany. There is some correspondence regarding Vinci's efforts to sponsor his sister-in-law and niece after the Second World War.

Vinci, Ernesto, 1898-1983
Falek Zolf fonds
F0614 · Fonds · 1943-1999

Fonds consists of handwritten and typescript manuscripts for Falek Zolf's memoirs, handwritten notes for his memoirs, newspaper articles about Zolf and the Jewish literary community in Winnipeg, a report that quotes from his work in a review of the historical context associated with the Canada Post Corporation's Rural Conversion Program in Saskatchewan, a review of the Yiddish edition of Zolf's autobiography, "On foreign soil," and information regarding its publication in English.

Zolf, Falek, 1898-1961
F0181 · Fonds · 1918-2007

The fonds consists of board of directors agendas, minutes and reports; annual meeting agendas, minutes and reports; association correspondence; board of reference reports; federation treatises and reports; federation newsletters; theses related to the FWTAO; collective bargaining files, grievance and arbitration files; staff reports; affirmative action/employment equity files; legal documents; photographs, slides, film and video recordings, and audio recordings; memorabilia.

Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario
Felipe Gomes fonds
F0634 · Fonds · [ca. 2004]

Fonds consists of VHS videocassettes containing raw footage of interviews with Portuguese Canadians about the Portuguese-Canadian immigrant experience.

Felipe Gomes
Florence Philpott fonds
F0233 · Fonds · 1938-2002

The fonds consists of correspondence, curriculum vitae, ephemera, memoranda, newsletters, selected newspaper clippings, a photograph, and a scrapbook that Philpott selected and retained as mementos. She also collected her peers’ correspondence concerning their nomination of Philpott for the Order of Canada. Fonds also contains biographical information about Philpott included by Professor Ken Moffatt of York University. The fonds is arranged chronologically, an order imposed on the fonds by a graduate student working for Professor Moffatt.

Philpott, Florence, 1909-1992
Frances Dafoe fonds
F0613 · Fonds · [189-?]- 2007, predominant 1950-1993

Fonds consists of the research files and reference material used by Frances Dafoe in her capacity as a costume designer for theatre, television production, performances and figure skating competitions.

Dafoe, Frances
Frank Barrett fonds
F0221 · Fonds · 1895-2010

Fonds consists of records pertaining to Frank Barrett's work as a university professor and his research and writing in the field of geography. These records include undergraduate and graduate essays, published papers, drafts, presentations, grant files, research materials including reproductions of maps and atlases, photographs, audio cassettes, videocassettes, teaching files, course notes, correspondence, raw data and questionnaires from Barrett's housing studies, as well as Atkinson College Geography department newsletters. The fonds also includes correspondence, book proposals and prospectus, drafts, and reviewers' comments for Barrett's "Disease and Geography: The History of an Idea".

Barrett, Frank A., 1935-
Frank Morriss fonds
F0361 · Fonds · 1944-1971

The fonds consists of a typescript of an autobiography by Frank Morriss composed in 1971. In addition, there are notes for an article on the "Winnipeg Free Press", newspaper clippings of articles by Morriss in the "Free Press", and copies of magazines with articles by Morriss.

Morriss, Frank, 1906-
Frank Zingrone fonds
F0467 · Fonds · 1953-2008

Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Frank Zingrone pertaining to his university education, his work as a professor of communications at York University, and his activities as a writer and critic. These records include personal and professional correspondence, subject files and notes, memorabilia, conference materials, student papers, lecture and course materials, as well as article drafts and manuscripts for published and unpublished works including "Addiction to illusion" (unpublished), "The media symplex", "Strange attraction" (poetry) "Who was Marshall McLuhan?", "The invisible revolution", "Essential McLuhan" and "Traces" (poetry).

Zingrone, Frank
Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds
F0810 · Fonds · 1922-2001

Fonds consists of drawings, photographs, posters, and textual documents created by or for Fred and Glenn Moffatt in the course of their careers as industrial designers. The holdings include: Fred Moffatt’s artwork created for his courses at Central Technical School and the Ontario College of Art in Toronto between 1926 and 1933; graphic material and textual records used in the development of product literature, packaging, and advertising material for print media and point-of-purchase displays for various clients but especially for household electrical appliances manufactured by the Canadian General Electric Company Limited and Black & Decker Canada Incorporated, 1933 to 1998; and drawings that track the development of appliances, in particular electric kettles, from conceptual designs to the technical drawings required for manufacturing from the late 1930s to 2001. The fonds also includes award certificates, a small amount of correspondence regarding design projects, and information about F.E. Moffatt Limited.

Moffatt, Fred
Fred Matthews Young fonds
F0451 · Fonds · 1964-1978

The fonds consists of Fred Matthews Young's working files for his legislative responsibilities. The largest part of the fonds contains files related to transportation and especially highway traffic, which reflects Young's role on the Select Committee on Highway Traffic. The files are divided into subjects related to transportation (safety, lighting, re-sale of automobiles, automobile prices, alternatives to the automobile), and include reports of government agencies, briefs to the Select Committee and other committees, copies of bills, copies of Hansard (Ontario), advertisements, press releases and background material. In addition, there is material on several other issues before the Legislative Assembly including smoking, housing (including public housing), election expenses, reformatories, municipal affairs, and material relating to the Revenue Ministry, including material on land transfer taxes, provincial income taxes, the government estimates, securities law, the Corporations Act and related subjects. This material includes reports, submissions, statements of ministers and members, copies of speeches, Hansard, copies of bills and amendments and related material.

Young, Fred Matthews, b. 1907
F0404 · Fonds · 1956-1972

The fonds consists of Frederick F. Schindeler's records as a graduate student, an educator and during his term as Alderman in North York. The material includes minutes, agendas, correspondence, briefs, background material and related items from Borough Council and its committees (Art gallery, Negotiating, Traffic, Works, Conflicts of Interest, Development, Environmental Control, Adjustment), and from the Board of Control and the Library Board. There is material from several of the municipal departments (Building, Clerk's Office, Parks & Recreation, Personnel, Public Health, Public Works, Police), and material from government agencies, federal and provincial, active in the Borough (Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs-federal, Consumer Affairs and Workmen's Compensation Board-provincial). There is material dealing with housing, including by-laws and zoning regulations for North York and provincial legislation dealing with housing; material dealing with transportation policy and planning, including rapid transit, the proposed Spadina Expressway, transportation studies, and related subjects. There is correspondence with constituents and civil servants dealing with local problems, and correspondence from ratepayers and other local organizations. For his book, 'Responsible government in Ontario,' there are files relating to the methodology employed in the book, illustrations, notes, source materials and bibliography, and general publication files. Also included are personal graduate papers, research notes, correspondence, professorial notes and memorandums.

The material in Accession 1972-006 dealing with the North York Council is arranged alphabetically by subject heading (associations, committees, government agencies, transportation). The constituents' correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name while that from associations and organizations is organized separately and then arranged alphabetically.

Schindeler, Frederick Fernand
Gabriel Kolko fonds
F0339 · Fonds · 1935, 1943-1990

The fonds consists of Gabriel Kolko's research files, publication files and correspondence, and personal files. The research and publication files contain notes, drafts and research material related to the writing of "The limits of power, 1945-1954," co-authored with Joyce Kolko, "Anatomy of war : Vietnam, the United States, and the modern historical experience". It contains personal and professional correspondence including letters received from and, in many cases, copies of letters sent to Barrington Moore Jr., Renato Constantino, Paul Mattick, Peggy Duff, Maria Jolas, Stanford Ovshinsky, Saburo Kugai, Norman Thomas, Noam Chomsky, Herbert Marcuse and Ercich Jacoby, among others. It includes correspondence with publishers, drafts of essays and/or articles written by Kolko, reviews of his work and personal correspondence exchanged between Kolko and his wife, Joyce.

Kolko, Gabriel, 1932-2014
Gail Singer fonds
F0462 · Fonds · 1931, 1956-2003

Fonds consists of material that documents her personal and professional life with emphasis on her career as a writer and film maker. It includes correspondence and subject files, publicity files, research and writing files, production files and other material that documents her life and work on such films as True Confections, Wisecracks, Watching Movies and Abortion: Stories from North and South. It also includes day books, notebooks and diaries documenting daily events and appointments, drafts of articles written by Singer including material related to her story for Saturday Night on mercury poisoning and personal correspondence including greeting cards. There is also a considerable amount of audio-visual material creating during the making of her documentary films including interviews for her films Watching Movies, You Can't Beat a Woman and Wisecracks.

Singer, Gail
George G. Bell fonds
F0376 · Fonds · 1964-1992

Fonds consists of records documenting the career of George Bell as a university administrator and professor, founding director of CIIPS, and President of the CISS. Also includes minutes of meetings, correspondence, working papers, reports, and reference and research materials.

Bell, George G.
George James Rogers fonds
F0397 · Fonds · 1905-1967

The fonds consists of correspondence of George James Rogers, financial records, audio reels, films, and related visual materials used in presentations by the Canadian Economic Foundation (CEF), the American Economic Foundation (AEF) and American Free Enterprise Productions. There is also material relating to Rogers' public relations work with Canadian General Electric.

Rogers, George J., 1905-
George Stewart Henry fonds
F0324 · Fonds · 1928-1934

The fonds consists of George Stewart Henry's daily appointment books (1931-1934), an algebra exercise book, and his passport, issued in 1928.

Henry, George Stewart, 1871-1853
George Tatham fonds
F0423 · Fonds · 1897, 1899, 1929, 1941-1987, 2003

The fonds consists of notes, photocopies of research materials, course outlines and bibliographies for George Tatham's geography courses offered at York University and the University of Toronto in the fields of political, social and physical geography, as well as notes taken during his student years. In addition, there are glass slides used for teaching purposes. The fonds also includes three audio cassette tapes and typed transcripts of interviews conducted by John Hardy of the York University Archives with Tatham concerning the early years of York University. The interviews were conducted in 1975-1976.

Tatham, George, 1907-1987
George Thaniel fonds
F0778 · Fonds · [between 1964 and 1991]

Fonds consists of personal publications written by George Thaniel, including his curriculum vitae and the complete collection of The Amaranth journals. Fonds also consists of audio cassettes recordings used by Thaniel in the course of his work as professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Toronto.

Fonds further consists of photographic slides taken by Thaniel depicting various events and documenting his travels, as well as copies of correspondence sent to Thaniel by various Greek literary figures, professors in Modern Greek studies, and artists.

Thaniel, George
F0710 · Fonds · [ca. 1927]

Fonds consists of two leather-bound albums likely presented to Stephens after his resignation as president of the Saar Governing Commission.

Stephens, George Washington
George Williams Brown fonds
F0271 · Fonds · 1923-1946

The fonds consists of George Williams Brown’s correspondence, speeches, research material, and papers of the Montebello Conference.

Brown, George Williams, 1894-1963
Gerald Caplan fonds
F0218 · Fonds · 1982-2001

The fonds consists of records which document Caplan’s career as a public affairs commentator, consultant and social activist.

Caplan, Gerald L., 1938-
Gerald Gold fonds
F0312 · Fonds · 1912-1985

The fonds consists of raw material collected for the York-Timmins Project conducted by a team of researchers led by Gold in 1981 and represent some 8000 hours of field work. Other team members included James DiGiacomo, Kathy Pirie, Peter Vasiliadis, Tanya Basok, A. Stewart, Lawrence Lam, and Michael Korovikin.

Original interviews were recorded although many were done without recording, notes only being taken. The tapes were not kept in order to honour promises made to the interviewees, however, detailed transcripts and edited transcripts of all tapes and notes were made and these include consistent marking of pauses, inflection and mood. Individuals from the following cultural and ethnic groups were interviewed: "pioneers" of the Porcupine Camp (Timmins and South Porcupine area); organizers of the Workers Cooperative (Ukrainian, Finnish, and British settlers); French-Canadian settlers and parish leaders; English mine settlers (both mine workers and managers); Italian settlers and community leaders; Chinese settlers and community leaders; Jewish settlers and community leaders; miscellaneous others.

In addition, there are photocopies and typed excerpts of articles from the 'Porcupine advance,' [newspaper] dealing with ethnic relations in the region, 1912-1950, and photocopies and typescripts of articles and essays dealing with ethnic communities in Timmins. There is also a photocopy of a mine company payroll for the year 1941.

Gold, Gerald Louis, 1945-2016
Gerda Wekerle fonds
F0234 · Fonds · 1973-1974

The fonds consists of interviews, selected newspaper clippings pertaining to the Fine Arts Building and its architect, reports, and surveys documenting a controversial study by Dr. Wekerle and her students on their move into the new Fine Arts Building at York University in 1973-1974.

Wekerle, Gerda R.
Germain Rene Bazin fonds
F0263 · Fonds · 1970-1974

The fonds consists of Germain Bazin's correspondence with publishers (Abrams, J.P. Taillandier, 'Les nouvelles litteraires', Thames & Hudson), museums and art agencies and exhibitions (International Council of Museums, Theodore Gericault Exposition, Lengyel Project), and administrative matters relating to York University. There is also some personal correspondence, 1971-1974.

Bazin, Germain, 1901-1990
Giles Endicott fonds
F0562 · Fonds · 1961, 1963-1973

Fonds consists of Endicott's Waffle records and includes such items as correspondence pertaining to, and seeking support for, the position paper "For and Independent Socialist Canada," a chronological survey of documents dealing with the Waffle and public reaction as created by the Canadian Labour Congress, documents leading to the Waffle Manifesto, financial documents, supporting material, news clippings, resolutions, and so on.

Endicott, Giles
Gladys Forrester fonds
F0189 · Fonds · 1937-1998

The fonds consists of programmes, choreographic and production notes, clippings, photographs, newsletters, awards and certificates, financial documents and notebooks which document the career of Gladys Forrester in Canadian theatre and dance.

Forrester, Gladys
Goldfarb Consultants fonds
F0152 · Fonds · 1966-1992

The fonds consists of records pertaining to the activities of Goldfarb Consultants and include research reports, printouts, questionnaires and administrative files. They can be used in conjunction with each other: the responses in the questionnaires are analysed in the research reports; the printouts are the raw data results of the questionnaires; and the administrative files provide additional documentation related to a particular research topic. With a few exceptions the projects included in the fonds were undertaken for federal or provincial political parties or governments.

The fonds is organized into the following series:

Goldfarb Consultants
Gordon Hamilton Jack fonds
F0331 · Fonds · 1932-1946

The fonds consists of copies of 'Canadian student' (published by the Student Christian Movement), 'The student,' (Student League of Canada), 'Youth forum,' (Canadian Youth Congress), and 'The new commonwealth,' (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation), 1934-1936. In addition, there is material from the League for Social Reconstruction, including minutes of meetings of the National Executive (1936-1941), membership material, and reports from the National Convention (1936), as well as newspaper clippings and related material. For the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation there are minutes, campaign material, and newspaper clippings relating to the London (Ont.) Riding Association (1938-1946).

Jack, Gordon Hamilton, 1913-1978
Gordon Vogt fonds
F0468 · Fonds · 1951-1985

Fonds consists of correspondence with fellow Crosby collectors and enthusiasts, drafts of essays and articles concerning Crosby written by Vogt, scrapbooks dedicated to Crosby, lists of Crosby recordings, publicity photos and movie stills, magazines, newsletters and other material that documents Vogt's ongoing interest in Bing Crosby's music and work.

Vogt, Gordon, 1947-1985
G.R. Lowther fonds
F0174 · Fonds · [1983]

The fonds consists of handwritten notebooks relating to G.R. Lowther's research in archaeology and evolutionary theory.

Lowther, G.R.
Graham Reed fonds
F0390 · Fonds · 1948-1988

The fonds partially documents Granham Reed's research activities in psychology for the period of 1948-1988.

Reed, Graham
H. Ian Macdonald fonds
F0150 · Fonds · 1958-1995

Fonds consists of Hugh Ian Macdonald's Ontario government economist files, his speeches, correspondence, day books, York University Presidential files, Community service files, Ontario Advisory Committee on Confederation files, York International files, and his IDEA Corporation files.

Macdonald, Hugh Ian,1929-
H. Roy Merrens fonds
F0356 · Fonds · 1969-1999

The fonds consists of records accumulated by Roy Merrens as a result of his activities as a geographer, professor, and member of various associations, authorities, and boards. The records have been physically arranged by the creator by subject; the original order has been maintained. They include maps, correspondence, minutes and agenda of meetings, mailing lists, reports, drafts, notes, press releases, proposals, copies of legislation, affidavits, telegrams, statistical data tables, newspaper clippings, journal articles, photographs, slides and a postcard. Also included is a file containing articles and reports about the geography, landscape and architecture of York University.

Merrens, Roy
H. S. Harris fonds
F0320 · Fonds · 1947-1996

The fonds consists of records pertaining to Henry Silton Harris' activities as author and educator. It includes his manuscripts, correspondence, research and lecture notes, teaching files, and his graduate and undergraduate studies files.

Harris, H. S. (Henry Silton), 1926-.
Harry Boyle fonds
F0101 · Fonds · 1934-2005

Fonds consists of records created during Harry Boyle's career as a broadcaster, including: sound recordings of programmes, interviews, and speeches; transcripts of speeches (1968-1973) delivered while working for the CBC and the CRTC; personal and administrative files while chairman of the CRTC and during his tenure at the Banff School of Fine Arts. There are files related to the writing and publishing his books, and articles and stories published during his years as a journalist with the Toronto Telegram. Also included are items from Boyle's library about communications, broadcasting, and advertising. The records accessioned following his death in 2005 also include: files regarding Boyle's involvement with the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and the Leacock memorial dinner; articles by or about Boyle; scripts for the CBC's Farm Department and articles on Canadian agriculture; manuscripts for "Memories of a Catholic boyhood" and "Dreams stronger than death; correspondence and subject files for the Boyle family, his career as a writer and broadcaster, the work of leading Canadian personalities; honours and awards; research and writing on a wide variety of topics; and internal memoranda from the CBC.

Boyle, Harry J. (Harry Joseph), 1915-2005
Harry Knowles Girling fonds
F0311 · Fonds · 1960-1971

The fonds consists of Harry Knowles Girling's records pertaining to his activities at York University. It includes reports, minutes and related material from several University committees including the Interim Curriculum Committee, 1961, and the Senate Curriculum Committee, 1962, the Council of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and the English Department. In addition there is a copy proof of 'Five heroic plays,' (1960).

Girling, Harry Knowles
Harry Pollock fonds
F0381 · Fonds · 1852-1991, predominant 1950-1990

The fonds consists of records of Harry J. Pollock pertaining to his interest and involvement in theatre and to his research on James Joyce. The fonds includes correspondence and clippings, manuscripts, audio tapes, photographic materials, video cassettes, graphic and cartographic materials.

Pollock, Harry J., 1920-
Harry S. Crowe fonds
F0297 · Fonds · 1941-1979

The fonds consists of correspondence, typescripts, reports, publications, research materials, legal documents, course materials, student essays, and administrative material relating Harry S. Crowe activities at York University and Atkinson College, at the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers, with the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism and related subjects.

Crowe, Harry Sherman, 1922-1981
Harry W. Arthurs fonds
F0255 · Fonds · 1957-2016

Fonds consists of Arthurs' records pertaining to his activities including: administrative files for York University and Osgoode Hall Law School, 1961-2006; teaching files, ca. 1961-2009; speeches, 1985-2007; research and writing files, 1957-2008; community service files, 1962-1997; UAW Public Review Board case files, 1967-1977; arbitration case files, 1966-1984; and correspondence, 1958-2007 (predominant 1971-2007). Accession 2007-014 consists of documents for the Federal Labour Standards Review, including correspondence, annotated published and typescript reference material, briefs and notes from the hearings, research projects on labour standards, and drafts of the final report and recommendations. Accession 2009-010 contains records created while with Ontario's Expert Commission on Pensions, including research papers, agendas and submissions for public hearings, briefing notes, and working files.

Arthurs, Harry W., 1935-
Harvey Cashore fonds
F0640 · Fonds · [197-]-2010

Fonds consists of records documenting Harvey Cashore's work as a journalist, writer and television producer throughout three decades of covering the Airbus story, including work on four books and several documentaries for CBC's "The Fifth Estate," all of which formed a personal storyline documented in his 2010 book, "The Truth shows up," about his experiences investigating Airbus, Karlheinz Schreiber and Brian Mulroney. These records are primarily research files, which include correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, notes, transcripts, government documents, photographs and audio cassettes, as well as manuscripts for "The Truth shows up."

Cashore, Harvey
Hédi Bouraoui fonds
F0496 · Fonds · 1952-2011, predominant 1990-1996

Fonds consists of notes, edited manuscripts, and research materials related to various published and unpublished works by Hédi Bouraoui, including “La Tour CN,” “La Pharaone,” “Musocktail,” and “Bangkok Blues.” It includes personal and professional correspondence, as well as clippings about Bouraoui and reviews of his work. Also included are several sound and audiovisual recordings of poetry and novel recitals, conferences, and interviews.

Bouraoui, Hédi
Helen Lucas fonds
F0100 · Fonds · [1971]-1981

Fonds consists of Helen Lucas' correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, The Diary Series (1971-1978), and Relationship Drawings (1978-1981) (both of which include 246 charcoal drawings, 40 sketches, 34 drawings, 5 etchings, 47 lithographs, 3 framed serigraphs, 1 sketchbook, and 1 pastel on paper); preliminary drawings for Angelica (Toronto: Kakabeka Publishing Co.,1973) and Genesis; twelve original collage drawings for the book co-authored by Helen Lucas and Margaret Laurence entitled The Christmas Birthday Story (1981) complemented with letters from Laurence while they were collaborating on the book; original prints (1970s); a sketchbook (1971); and Drawing Dedicated to my Daughter. Lucas provides an accompanying narrative to many of the drawings, giving a context for the works and an account of their evolution between 1971 and 1979. The initial sketchbook pages are also included, portraying intimate personal images which she likens to 'finding the achievement of my own voice'.

Lucas, Helen
Henry Gilchrist family fonds
F0309 · Fonds · 1885-1969

The fonds consists of business receipts of Henry Gilchrist and family members, correspondence from Manitoba College, a genealogy of Henry McCuaig and Janet Calder (Gilchrist ancestors), photographs of Mrs. Henry Gilchrist and of Reverend James Archibald Hume Pue-Gilchrist, and related material.

Gilchrist, Henry (family)
Henry Leslie Rowntree fonds
F0399 · Fonds · 1968-1970

The fonds consists of Henry Leslie Rowntree's material related to the proposed expansion of Toronto International Airport (now Pearson International Airport) in 1968-1970. It consists of the official plan of Etobicoke, briefs to Parliament and to the Department of Transport from groups opposed to the expansion, Department of Transport press releases and policy studies on land use in areas adjacent to airports and related material.

Rowntree, Henry Leslie, 1914-
F0212 · Fonds · 1983-2000, predominant 1994-1997

The fonds consists of press releases, clippings, legal files including briefs and exhibits, reports, correspondence, reference materials, Board of Directors meeting minutes and documents, and copies of the society’s submission to the Krever Commission.

Hepatitis C Society of Canada
Herbert Hunt fonds
F0683 · Fonds · 1926-1970, predominant 1926-1938

Fonds consists of diaries, account books, crop records, photographs, publications and drafts written by Hunt, correspondence, contracts, receipts, government documents and publications, newspaper and magazine articles, maps, and ephemera. Hunt’s correspondence with various government officials and travel coordinators documents his enrollment in the Settlement Scheme, and the processes involved in migrating from England to Canada. Hunt’s participation in the scheme is further documented by his accumulation of government publications and legal documents, as well as the journals and receipts that pertained to his farming activities. Photographs and maps depict Hedgerows farm and its location. Newspaper and magazine clippings and other printed ephemera collected by Hunt, while in Saskatchewan and after his return to England, record his continued interest in the fates of his fellow settlers. Although Hunt published an essay recounting his experiences positively, his drafts speak of his ultimate discontent with the Settlement Scheme.

Hunt, Herbert William
Herman Arthur Voaden fonds
F0440 · Fonds · 1854-1991

Fonds consists of records pertaining to Herman Voaden's family life, education, teaching, play writing, directing and cultural lobbying activities. Also included are the private records of his wife, Violet Kilpatrick Voaden. Types of records include: correspondence, personal diaries, teaching notes, production notes, playbills, and photographs. Some material has been sorted and arranged according to subject by Anton Wagner, theatre historian and executor of Herman Voaden's literary estate.

The fonds is arranged in the following series:

Voaden, Herman Arthur, 1903-1991
Hersh Zeifman fonds
F0785 · Fonds · 1964-2019

The fonds consists of records pertaining to Hersh Zeifman’s research and teaching career in theatre arts at York University, now school of the arts, media, performance and design. The bulk of files contain lecture notes on specific plays, playwrights, and dramatic themes. Also included in the files are course outlines, assignments and other educational administrative records, research material such as newspaper and magazine clippings, playbills, and copies of articles written by Zeifman.

Hilary Armstrong fonds
F0583 · Fonds · 1970-1974

Fonds consists of records pertaining to the Waffle movement and includes clippings, campaign material, policy papers and research materials, minutes of the provincial executive and provincial council, some correspondence, Waffle newsletters and bulletins, educational material and bibliographies.

Armstrong, Hilary
Home Made Visible collection
F0723 · Collection · [195-], 1953-2008, 2019

Collection contains digital and analogue home movies submitted to and digitized by Home Made Visible, a nation-wide project by the Regent Park Film Festival. The project collected movies from visible minority families and Indigenous peoples in Canada. Footage consists of everyday life including children playing and family trips, and celebrations including birthdays and holidays.

Regent Park Film Festival
Howard Buchbinder fonds
F0455 · Fonds · 1964-2010, predominant 1968-1994

Fonds consists of records pertaining to Howard Buchbinder's activities at York University and his involvement with the Praxis Corporation. The fonds consists of research files, professorial files containing course material (1970-1990), YUFA files (1979-1994), Atkinson College files (1988-1989), correspondence, draft writing and published articles, legal documents and audiovisual materials.

Buchbinder, H. (Howard)
H.V. Nelles fonds
F0464 · Fonds · 1969-2001

The fonds consists of material created and/or accumulated by Nelles during the course of his career as a professor, scholar and writer and includes notes, drafts and correspondence related to a number of his books including "The Art of Nation Building", Social History Series of Canada, "The Politics of Development", "Private Property and Community Property", and "Southern Exposure"; material that documents his work on the Ontario Seismic Data Improvement Project, the Task Force on Resource Centres at York, the Ontario Council on University Affairs as well as his work on various editorial boards and research projects.

Nelles, H. V.
Ian Gentles fonds
F0106 · Fonds · 1960-2017

Fonds consists of records pertaining to Gentles’ roles as a professor of history at York University, as an active member of the Coalition for Life, and as Vice-President and Research Director of the deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research. These include files related to Gentles' teaching at Glendon College, York University and Tyndale University College, his research and publishing activities in the field of history, as well as records pertaining to his administrative activities at York. They also includes files related to Gentles’ research in bioethics—primarily on the subjects of abortion and assisted suicide—as well as records related to the administrative activities of the Coalition for Life and the deVeber Institute.

Gentles, Ian
Ilda Januário fonds
F0580 · Fonds · 1980-2008

Fonds consists of notes and interview transcripts of Ilda Januário, produced during her research on Portuguese women in Quebec; administrative documents from her work with the Comite Lar dos Idosos and the Portuguese-Canadian Coalition for Better Education and the Toronto Portuguese Parents Association (TPPA).

Januário, Ilda, 1950-
Inez Elliston fonds
F0622 · Fonds · 1969-2014

Fonds consists of research materials; committee records; community advocacy documentation and government policy correspondence; curriculum materials; surveys; reports; and other textual material related to the professional, volunteer, and community activities of Dr. Inez Elliston. Material relates to her professional interest in educational curriculum development, particularly in relation to multicultural policies developed at the federal and provincial levels, and how such policies were implemented in local school boards.

Elliston, Inez
F0508 · Fonds · 1959-2011, predominant 1983-1998

Fonds consists of administrative and organizational files pertaining to the activities of the International Commission for the Coordination of Solidarity Among Sugar Workers (ICCSASW), particularly with regard to national and regional seminars, international sugar workers conferences and solidarity campaigns. It also contains committee meeting minutes, financial records, fundraising files, correspondence with unions and other organizations, newsletters, photographs, videos, taped interviews and publications related to ICCSASW activities. The fonds also includes some items from the Sugar Workers and Industry Education Resource Library (SWIERL).

The International Commission for Coordination of Solidarity among Sugar Workers
J. Bascom St. John fonds
F0415 · Fonds · 1931-1979

The fonds consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, published material, reports, research files, and typescripts of J. Bascom St. John and documents his career as a civil servant and journalist.

St. John, J. Bascom (Joseph Bascom), 1906-1983
J. David Wood fonds
F0215 · Fonds · [195-?]-2000

The fonds mainly documents J. David Wood's activities as a student, research geographer/historian and instructor. Records consist of undergraduate course notes, research notes, correspondence, maps, and photographs relating to his 1958 M.A. thesis, "The Historical Geography of Dumfries Township, Upper Canada, 1816-1852", his 1962 Ph.D. thesis, "The Geography of the Nithsdale-Annandale Region, Dumfriesshire, 1813-1816" and other published articles. Also included are teaching notes from Edinburgh University, 1957-1961 and the University of Alberta, 1964-1965, and records concerning his consultancy work on the external review of the Undergraduate Environmental Studies Program at York University in 2000.

Wood, J. David (John David)
J. Roby Kidd collection
F0337 · Fonds · 1958-1961

The collection consists of photocopied correspondence, papers, agendas, minutes of the Organizing Committee of York University, and of the Provisional and regular Board of Governors of the same institution, 1958-1961.

Kidd, J.R. (James Robbins), 1915-1982
Jack Berke fonds
F0377 · Fonds · 1979-1988

The fonds consists of records pertaining to Jack Berke's involvement with the Community Chamber Orchestra of York University, from 1979 to 1988, as musician (bassoon player) and member of the Orchestra Board of Directors. The fonds includes concert programmes, concert schedules, contact sheets, some minutes of the Executive Committees, and newspaper clippings.

Berke, Jack
Jack Kane fonds
F0547 · Fonds · 1950-[200-], predominant 1953-1962

Fonds consists of correspondence, contracts, newspaper articles, and musical arrangements created or accumulated by Jack Kane between 1950 and his death in 1961, with some material added or reproduced in subsequent years. The letters focus on his relationship with his fans across Canada and in the United States, particularly during the late 1950s and early 1960s while Kane was appearing on television. The correspondence deals with the popular reaction to Kane's music (including differences in generational tastes between classical and jazz music) and the aspirations of amateur song writers, performers and often their parents seeking advice on getting into show business; much of it was answered in sometimes lengthy letters that include Kane's insights on composing and his decision to stay in Canada after achieving success in New York. One file contains promotional material and contracts with the CBC for "Music makers '58" and "Music '60"; the contracts list the musicians who played with Kane, such as Moe Kaufman, Ellis McClintock, Murray Ginsberg, and John and Joe Niosi. Photographs include promotional portraits and images of Kane with Steve Lawrence and Duke Ellington. This graphic material is considerably supplemented by a photocopied album of newspaper clippings that trace Kane's career on radio and television from 1950 to 1961, as well as national coverage of his death. Three audio discs capture two of Kane's original compositions in 1950 and 1951, as well as his first and last recordings with commercial labels. The bulk of the fonds consists of Kane's musical arrangements with manuscript annotations, arranged by the title of the score and usually attributed to the television show on which it was performed.

Kane, Jack, 1924-1961
F0099 · Fonds · [ca. 1954]-1990

Fonds consists of personal correspondence (1932-1990), project files (1926-1981), slides, photographs, films, videos, and publications by or about the Beveridges.

Beveridge, Margaret
James B. Milner fonds
F0357 · Fonds · 1909-1982, predominant 1939-1969

The fonds consists of articles, correspondence, records of bodies that James Bryce Milner was a member of, reports, and research material.

Milner, J.B. (James Bryce),1918-1969.
James J. Morrison fonds
F0360 · Fonds · [Photocopied 1973? (originally created 1916-1933)]

The fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda and notes, by James Morrison and others, concerning the activities of the UFO and the UFCC. There is also an unsigned biographical sketch of Morrison.

Morrison, James J., 1861-1936.
James Laxer fonds
F0166 · Fonds · [1959]-2013

The fonds consists of records created by James Laxer in his capacity as a student, writer, and activist. Fonds includes some of Laxer's high school debate speeches, MA and PhD research, professional correspondence, Waffle records, political reports, research notes, newspaper columns, book proposals, and drafts of articles and book manuscripts for both published and unpublished material including 'Leap of faith,' 'Decline of the superpowers,' 'The undeclared war : class conflict in the age of cyber capitalism,' 'Stalking the elephant : my discovery of America,' 'The border : between uneasy neighbours,' 'Red diaper baby : a memoir of childhood in the age of McCarthyism,' The Groundwork guides to 'empire','oil', and to 'democracy,' 'The Acadians : in search of a homeland,' 'Jamais Provence,' 'Mission of folly,' 'Beyond the bubble : imagining a new Canadian economy,' 'Tecumseh and Brock : the war of 1812,' 'A house divided : watching America's descent into civil conflict,' 'Playing for a continent,' and 'Paris days : in a time of crisis.' It also includes correspondence and draft scripts for his films, 'The CCF-NDP : building Jerusalem' and 'Reckoning,' printouts of his personal blog postings, and replies to his freedom of information requests to various security agencies.

Laxer, James, 1941-
James M. Gillies fonds
F0310 · Fonds · 1964-1971

The fonds consists James Gillies' records pertaining to his activities as educator, author and politician. It contains personal records.

Gillies, James M.
James Mavor fonds
F0351 · Fonds · 1908-1917

The fonds consists of correspondence of James Mavor with colleagues as well as press clippings relating to a Balkans Crisis in 1908.

Mavor, James
James Paton Isaac fonds
F0330 · Fonds · 1971

The fonds consists of a steel plate of James Paton Isaac, which was used for the front plate of 'Factors in the ruin of antiquity,' (1971).

Isaac, James Paton, 1895-1964
James Tenney fonds
F0428 · Fonds · 1946-2000, predominant 1956-2000

Fonds consists of material that documents Tenney's career as an composer, musician and academic and contains personal and professional correspondence with friends and colleagues including copies of letters received from such people as Carolee Schneeman, Steve Reich, Stan Brakhage and Lionel Nowak, among others, as well as correspondence with Bell Telephone Laboratories that documents his efforts in developing programs for computer sound-generation. It also contains records in the form of musical scores, computer outputs, programmes, clippings and sound recordings that document his musical output and material that documents Tenney's ongoing academic and professional interest in the fields of composition, music theory and electronic music, among others. There is also correspondence, photographs and other material that documents his relationship with his family and, in particular, his father.

Tenney, James
Janice Newton fonds
F0655 · Fonds · [197-]-2014

Fonds consists of records pertaining to research and administrative work performed by Janice Newton in her capacity as a PhD student and, later, faculty member in the Department of Political Science at York University. These records, which date from the 1970s until 2014, document research performed by Newton as she completed her 1987 doctoral dissertation and adapted this dissertation into a monograph in 1995, as well as her work as chief editor of the 2001 publication Voices in the Classroom. The records also document research and administrative tasks performed by Newton in her role as a contributing faculty member within the Department of Political Science at York University. Included in the fonds are research materials, correspondence, scrapbooks, administrative records, audio and video recordings, and photographic prints and negatives created or accumulated by Newton.

Newton, Janice, 1952-
Janice Tyrwhitt fonds
F0437 · Fonds · 1950-2013, predominant 1970-2004

The fonds consists of research notes and typescripts for Tyrwhitt's books "The mill," "Bartlett's Canada," "How the Depression hit the West," "The exodus of the Japanese," and "The sinking of the I'm alone"; typescripts, research and correspondence regarding for articles published in Maclean's, Reader's digest, Saturday night, The Star weekly, Canadian living, the Old farmer's almanac, and other magazines; typescripts, research, and correspondence for chapters published in "Alberta in the 20th century"; editorial appraisals for Pierre Berton's manuscripts; notes made as a researcher for "The Pierre Berton show"; reports on manuscripts for Macmillan's, McClelland and Stewart, Longman's, Oberon Press, and other Canadian book publishers; notes as an editor for the Royal Commission on the Status of Women; correspondence with writers (including Pierre Berton, Ernest Buckler, Mark Gayn, Robert Kroetsch, Yves Theriault, Adele Wiseman, Sean O'Faolain, George Ronald, and others), editors, and others.

Tyrwhitt, Janice,1928-
Jason Sherman fonds
F0191 · Fonds · 1970-2019

Fonds consists of manuscript and typescript copies of Jason Sherman's work, copies of scripts with revisions, clippings and reviews pertaining to the production of his plays and radio and television work, personal and business correspondence, subject files and other material pertaining to his career as a writer as well as the operational files of "What" magazine.

Sherman, Jason, 1962-
J.D. Keehn fonds
F0109 · Fonds · 1951-1995

Fonds consists of J.D. (Jack) Keehn’s published articles (1951-1990), speaking engagements (1951-1994), research files, professorial files, photographs and negatives for graphs used in publications, draft manuscripts for published and unpublished works, book reviews, essays, and press clippings.

Keehn, J.D., 1925-1995