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Albert Mansbridge collection

  • RC0236
  • Collection
  • 1928-1952

The collection consists mainly of Mansbridge's letters to Leonard Clark. There are also a few manuscripts concerning Mansbridge, Christmas cards, invitations, and announcements relating to Mansbridge, photographs of Mansbridge, and some pamphlets by Mansbridge. This collection was assembled by his friend Leonard Clark. Clark, an educator, author, editor and poet was born on 1 August 1905 in St. Peter Port, Guernsey. He was made inspector of schools with the Ministry of Education in 1936. He died in London in 1981.

Mansbridge, Albert

Anderson affair at Sir George Williams University collection

  • RC0641
  • Collection
  • 1968-1969

The Anderson affair concerns charges of racism against black students by a white faculty member, Professor Anderson. The collection consists of printed materials, including statements, chronicle of events, newspaper articles, posters, and transcripts of the interviews contained on the audio cassettes.

Campaign against Bill 63 collection

  • RC0639
  • Collection
  • 1969

Bill 63, which was designed to guarantee the language rights of the English minority in Quebec, sparked a tide of nationalist agitation. The collection consists of newspapers, press and other statements.

Canadian politics collection

  • RC0814
  • Collection
  • 1874-1989

There have been five accruals. The collection consists of items related to Canadian politics. It includes correspondence, posters, photographs, campaign literature, a newspaper, and cartoon drawings by Duncan Macpherson.

Canadian student social and political organizations collection

  • RC0217
  • Collection
  • [ca.1968]-[1977]

The collection consists of printed materials issued by a large number of organizations, mainly student groups, although organized labour and women's groups are also represented in the collection. There is only a small amount of material for each organization, usually one file. The collection is supplemented by an uncatalogued pamphlet collection which also includes some international pamphlets. There are also a small number of button badges and some posters. Note: student organizations at McMaster University are part of the McMaster University fonds.

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation collection

  • RC0215
  • Collection
  • 1933-1955

The fonds includes records from the founding of the party to its succession by the New Democratic Party.

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) collection

  • RC0816
  • Collection
  • 1978-1983

The content of the posters concerns: Pierre Elliot Trudeau depicted as a lackey; Hardial Bains in Conversation with the President of the East indian Defence Committee in 1978; a ten year anniversary march of the CPC (M-L) in 1980; the first Congress/Communist Youth Union of Canada meeting in 1983.

Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)

Communist pamphlets collection

  • RC0213
  • Collection
  • 1901-1969

This collection contains uncatalogued pamphlets pertaining to communism, socialism, and class struggle. The pamphlets are global in scope, although they are all in English unless otherwise noted. The bulk of the collection originates from China and Soviet Russia during the post-WWII period, although Cuba and Britain are strongly represented as well. These materials include a selection of translated speeches from Mao Zedong, as well as Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, and other prominent Soviet policy-makers from the era. Also included within the collection are Cuban communist pamphlets from the late 1950s. These documents are comprised of anti-American tracts, pro-revolutionary materials, and a small number of Fidel Castro’s speeches. Some of the Cuban material is only available in French. In addition, there is a small selection of pamphlets published in Britain during the late 1930s and early 1940s concerning class struggle and working conditions for labourers, as well as numerous pamphlets exploring Argentina’s May Revolution of 1810 against Spain. The rest of the collection is composed of miscellaneous pamphlets and publications relating to communism, Marxism or Leninism, civil rights and women's rights.

Confédération des syndicats nationaux collection

  • RC0259
  • Collection
  • 1968-1971

The collection consists of printed materials such as reports, briefs, and discussion papers as well as bulletins and newspapers.

Confédération des syndicats nationaux

Front d'action politique collection

  • RC0628
  • Collection
  • 1969-1971

The collection consists of printed materials including bulletins, newspapers, pamphlets, and election brochures. Some materials from organizations affiliated with FRAP, Comité d'action politique Maisonneuve and Comité d'action politique St. Jacques, are also included.

Front de libération du Québec (FLQ)

  • RC0260
  • Collection
  • 1968-1971

Front de libération du Québec collection consists of leaflets, a manifesto, and published material by others about the FLQ. The audio cassettes contain speeches and discussions. There are also printed materials issued by Comité d'aide groupe "Vaillières-Gagnon", containing background material on FLQ principals, their statements and trials: Charles Gagnon, Pierre-Paul Geoffroy, Robert Lévesque, and Pierre Vallières.

Front de libération du Québec (FLQ)

Front de libération populaire collection

  • RC0257
  • Collection
  • 1968-1971

Front de libération du Québec collection consists of leaflets, a manifesto, and published material by others about the FLQ. The audio cassettes contain speeches and discussions. There are also printed materials issued by Comité d'aide groupe "Vaillières-Gagnon", containing background material on FLQ principals, their statements and trials: Charles Gagnon, Pierre-Paul Geoffroy, Robert Lévesque, and Pierre Vallières.

Hamilton (Ont.) social and political organizations collection

  • RC0822
  • Collection
  • 1968-1972

This collection consists of printed materials, including notices of meetings and information, issued by the following organizations:
Hamilton and District Co-ordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam
Hamilton Anti-war Committee
Hamilton Committee for Independent Canadian Unions
Hamilton Committee to Defend Civil Liberties
Hamilton Communist Club
Hamilton District Women's Liberation Movement
Hamilton Labour Committee for Jobs
Hamilton People's Movement
Hamilton Vietnam Mobilization Committee
Hamilton Women's Liberation Group
Hamilton Young Socialists

Interviews with former members of the Communist Party of Canada

  • RC0908
  • Collection
  • 1984-1987

Collection consists of recordings made by Ruth Ann Borchiver in which she interviewed former members of the Canadian Communist movement, living in Toronto, for her doctoral thesis in applied psychology at the University of Toronto. The first interviews were conducted in 1984 and 1985 and the second interviews were mostly conducted in 1986 and 1987.
Borchiver asked participants about the events that led to their adoption of Communism; their reaction to perceived inconsistencies in Communist politics; their response to Khrushchev’s 1956 “Secret Speech” and other revelations about Stalinist rule; and their responses to significant events in Soviet history, including the Moscow trials of the 1930s, the Soviet non-aggression pact with Germany (commonly known as the Hitler-Stalin Pact), and Soviet interference in Yugoslavia.

Borchiver’s analysis centred on three themes: the conditions which led to the participants’ “conversion” to Communism, the conditions which led to the disconfirmation of their beliefs, and the conditions of proselytizing behaviour following their disconfirmation. The result is a description of ideological change from a millenarian outlook for achieving change through revolution to a tempered belief in incremental social change. Her methodology is socio-historical biography, using semi-structured interviews.

The first interview questions followed, but were not limited to, the following topics: early experiences of socialist ideation, feelings of achievement in the movement, reactions to revelations of the mid-1950s including Nikita Khrushchev’s Secret Speech (1956), and their current beliefs regarding socialist ideas. The second interview focused on the following topics: Trotskyism, the Moscow Trials, Social Democracy, the German-Soviet Pact, and Soviet interference in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.

The study was conducted on twelve people who were active in the Canadian communist movement prior to 1960, commonly referred to as the “Old Left.” Respondents included three women and nine men, who ranged in age from 65 to 83 years old and joined the Communist Party of Canada between 1923 and 1935. One participant was expelled from the Party in 1949, nine defected in 1957, and two left in 1960. Six participants were in the full-time employ of the Party for most of their careers, and six were leading Party activists. Six were European immigrants and six were born in Canada of immigrant parents. The thirteenth interviewee, who is not included in the final dissertation, was interviewed in hospital but not recorded.

Borchiver, Ruth Ann

Labor-Progressive Party

  • RC0354
  • Collection
  • 1944-2001

There have been two accruals. The first accrual consists almost entirely of printed materials and ephemera. There is one file folder of typescripts and holograph notes. Included in the collection are the 1946 and 1949 constitutions, pamphlets, programs, election materials for Tim Buck and others, conference reports, and correspondence course outlines. Some of the material was issued by the Toronto and Yorks Committee of the party, others by the Ontario Committee. The majority of the collection consists of printed materials and periodicals from a variety of other organizations, in Canada and abroad. There is one signed petition to the Mayor and Council of the City of Toronto which was organized by the Toronto Councils of Unemployed. The second accrual (17-2001) consists of a cigarette once belonging to Tito, correspondence, a speech, Tim Buck programs, and printed autographed materials concerning Paul Robeson.

Labor-Progressive Party

League for Socialist Action : Revolutionary Workers League : Communist League of Canada and Associated Organizations collection

  • RC0042
  • Collection
  • 1961-2004

The collection consists mainly of mimeographed and printed materials. There is a very small amount of correspondence. The collection has been supplemented by serials which have been catalogued for Research Collections.

League for Socialist Action : Revolutionary Workers League : Communist League of Canada and Associated Organizations collection

Liam O'Flaherty collection

  • RC0746
  • Collection
  • [192-]-[1927]

The collection consists of the manuscript of The Informer as well as five letters. The manuscript is contained in five school-exercise books; there is also a typescript of chapters 1-3, with numerous holograph corrections, 27 pages. There are four letter from Arthur Rogers to Walter Hill, 1926-1927 and one letter from O'Flaherty to Arthur Rogers, 1927.

O'Flaherty, Liam

Lorne Brown Central America Solidarity Activists collection

  • RC0057
  • Collection
  • 1986-1990

The collection consists of interviews contained on audio cassettes along with transcripts of many of the interviews. Most of the interviews are in English but some are in French.

Brown, Lorne (Lorne A.)

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