Series contains prescriptions for ailments, notes regarding waterproofing of various garments, research notes, sheets of poetry, religious documents including hymns and a book of saints, and a handwritten math textbook from Scotland, which covers addition, notations, subtraction, multiplication, division, reduction, the rule of three, the rule of five, and a practice section.
Series contains one leather wallet and a tin box, which held the wallet. The wallet previously held correspondence.
Series consists of 2 photographs of Christopher Fry. The first is an undated reproduction of a photograph by Tom L. Blau which appeared in the biography Christopher Fry by Derek Stanford, first published in 1954. The second is a black and white portrait of the playwright (photographer unknown).
Series contains records relating to interviews conducted during the writing of Peter Desbarats’s book René: A Canadian in Search of a Country. Material consists of interview transcripts, notes and audio cassettes of taped interviews. Interviews were conducted with Quebec and Canadian politicians, lawyers, journalists, professors, and editors.
Series contains records relating to the Peter Desbarats fonds. Material consists of a letter from René Lévesque to Desbarats with comments regarding Desbarats’ manuscript and a letter from Dick Brown of Canadian Magazine discussing certain topics and articles for the magazine regarding René Lévesque and his party.
The series provides information about Beatrice Bazar's work and community service with several organizations, including the United Nations Association in Canada, Committee for a Community of Democrates, and the Canadian Commission for Unesco. The series also documents Bazar's honors and awards for her volunteer work and service.
The series includes correspondence, invitation cards to diplomatic events and ceremonies, photographs, newspaper clippings, Bazar's curriculum vitae, and some documents pertaining to organizations Bazar was affiliated with.
The series provides information on the relations between S.G.W. and external associations.
The series provides information on the Principals' or Rectors' participation in seminars, conferences, receptions, installations, convocations, and special activities held on or off campus, and on events they participated in. The series includes lectures, speeches, correspondence, documents relating to the organization of internal conferences, notes, invitations, and citations. It contains photographs of the official opening of the Weisman Gallery and of convocations. The series is divided into the following sub-series:
I010/07A Conferences and seminars external
I010/07B Conferences and seminars internal
I010/07C Special activities.
The series provides information on various cooperative activities and exchanges between Sir George Williams and other organizations in Canada or other jurisdictions, including libary cooperation with McGill University, exchange programs with France, Ontario, the People's Republic of China, Costa Rica, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the United States, Venezuela, and the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth. The series contains correspondence and reports.
The series provides information on the operations of the University's departments and internal services and on their relations with the Rector's Office. The series is divided in two major subseries, as follows:
I010/18A Academic (Records are organized alphabetically by department within the faculty, school, college, research centre, or institute.)
I010/18B Administrative (Records are filed alphabetically by administrative unit.)
The series provides information on students. It includes personal records, a file on complaints, and recommendations for special cases regarding admission, cheating, and grades.
The series provides information on the organization of the University, and the various steps involved in its evolution: the Y.M.C.A. schools, Sir George Williams College, Sir George Williams University, and the 1974 merger with Loyola leading to Concordia University.
Material consists of handwritten and a typewritten drafts of the poem "Wagschal Exhibition” composed spontaneously by Irving Layton at the exhibit.
Material consists of CBC broadcasts and interviews with Layton and Layton giving a poetry reading at Sir George Williams University.
Material consists of correspondence between Francis and various individuals from whom she sought information about Layton for her biography, correspondence to the publisher McClelland and Stewart Limited, correspondence from Jonathan Williams at Jargon Press, correspondence concerning the content and structure of the biography, correspondence between Layton and Francis which includes postcards, and letters between Francis and Anna Pottier.
Material consists of chapters and several annotated drafts of Wynne Francis’ unfinished biography of Irving Layton, articles by David O’Rourke, Francis’ book proposal, translated introduction from the Italian edition of Selected Poems, and a draft of a poem.
Material consists of photocopied correspondence between Irving Layton and various individuals with Francis’ research notes attached or written on the copies. Also included are planning diagrams for Francis’ research, notes concering Layton’s political views, an annotated transcript of an interview between Irving Layton and Mervin Butovsky, and notes on various chapter drafts.
Series contains records relating to the Wynne Francis fonds. Material consists of teaching notes, course outlines, and book lists for the Irving Layton course at York University.
Material consists of general correspondence, cards, and letters between Irving Layton and Dorothy Rath.
Material consists of one bust of Irving Layton carved by Esther Wertheimer.
Consists of miscellaneous correspondence dating between 1896 and 1962.
Series contains 471 documents of all types dated between 1915 and 1954 organized into folders, probably by S.A. Rochlin. Documents include minutes, agendas, accounts, manuscripts, poems, leaflets, flyers, pamphlets, posters, newspaper clippings, manifestos, petitions, reports, speeches, constitutions, telegrams, press releases, applications, invitations, correspondence, and handbills. Documents concern the South African Labour Party, Workers’ International League, South African Labour Defence, Irish Republican Association of South Africa, South African Labour Defence, African National Congress, Communist Party of South Africa, African National Improvement Movement, Congress of the People, United Communist Party, United Communist Party of South Africa, South African Section of the Communist International, International Socialist League, Communist Propaganda Group, and Youth League of South Africa, among others.
Series contains microfilmed copies of pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, flyers, broadsides, manuscripts, press clippings and other miscellaneous documents in this collection.
The series provides historical information on the members of the Hingston Family.
The series contains notices of death, biographical sketches of Sir William, historical brochures, books, admission tickets, maps, newspapers clippings and two family trees. It also contains 133 photographs of family members, partly in a photo album.
This series holds private letters received and sometimes written by Vincent and Olga Diniacopoulos.
The document is a travel diary which relates travel memories from an unidentified person, from 1884 to 1901. They seem to be part of the French army deployed in Algeria. The diary is written in French and also contains various photographs, drawings and sketches.
This series presents letters written between 1825 and 1831. Their origin and creator remains unclear at the moment. For now, it is hard to state if those archives are linked to the Vincent and Olga Diniacopoulos fonds, but they were found in their documents.
The letters are written in French, as the author appears to live in Paris. They seem to address money and art transactions. The quality of the written language makes them sometimes hard to read. They are in a rough condition due to their age.
Consists of handwritten and photocopied poems including: “There Were No Signs,” “The Flaming Maple,” “New year’s Poem for Veneranda,” “Kali in the Suburbs,” “Thank You Veneranda,” “Veneranda Dancing,” “On Revisiting Montreal After An Absence of Five Weeks,” “August Strindberg,” “Carmen,” “Wagschal Exhibition,” “Whitehern,” “Manikins,” “Dionysians in a Bad Time,” and “Psychologists.”