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Stuart McLean fonds
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[1960s]-2016 (Creation)
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- McLean, Stuart, 1948-2017
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16 m of textual and graphic records, printed materials, realia, and 4 sound recordings
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Stuart McLean was a Canadian radio broadcaster and author, best known as the host of the CBC Radio program The Vinyl Café where he began in 1994. He was born in Montreal in 1948. He attended Lower Canada College in Montreal, and graduated from Sir George Williams University with a B.A. degree in 1971. McLean began his broadcasting career making radio documentaries for CBC Radio's Sunday Morning from 1978-1982. In 1979 he won an ACTRA award for Best Radio Documentary for his contribution to the program's coverage of the Jonestown massacre. From 1982-1994, McLean appeared on Monday mornings with Peter Gzowski on Morningside. McLean was a co-writer of a feature film titled, Looking for Miracles (Sullivan Films for Disney Studios, 1989). In 1994 he created the show The Vinyl Café. McLean retired as Professor Emeritus in 2004 from Ryerson University in Toronto where he was director of the broadcast division of the School of Journalism. Stuart McLean died in 2017.
McLean published in fiction and non-fiction. His first book, The Morningside World of Stuart McLean was published in 1989. He also wrote Welcome Home: Travels in Small Town Canada, and edited the collection When We Were Young. Welcome Home was chosen by the Canadian Authors’ Association as the best non-fiction book of 1993. He published a series of Vinyl Café books, the first of which is Stories from Vinyl Café in 1995. Since 1998 McLean has toured with the Vinyl Café to theatres across Canada and the United States. His awards include a B’Nai Brith Award for Human Rights in Broadcast Journalism. He is a three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. In 2011 McLean was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has been awarded Honourary Doctorates from several universities, including one from McMaster in 2014. McLean passed away on the 15th of February, 2017, at the age of 68.
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The fonds consists of manuscripts of books, scripts of radio and tour shows, movie scripts, diaries, notebooks of research, photographs, memorabilia and ephemera.
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The fonds (18-2016) was acquired in May 2016 from Stuart McLean.
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- Correspondence (boxes 1-25)
- Manuscripts of published books (boxes 26-42)
- Morningside radio show, manuscripts, notebooks and research (boxes 43-52)
- Vinyl Cafe studio and tour shows: scripts, animation, business, research and other files (boxes 53-82)
- Movie scripts, writing proposals and unpublished writing (boxes 83-87)
- Events, speeches and conferences (boxes 88-89)
- Personal ephemera (boxes 90-92)
- Professional ephemera (boxes 92-96, 100)
- Photographs (boxes 97, 100)
- Printed material: biographical and reviews (boxes 98-99)
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R. Barrett, 2016.