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Charles Hibbert Millard collection

  • RC0382
  • Collectie
  • 1920-1977

Collection consists of photographs of and by Millard. Some of his photographs are of labour marches and strikes. The information in his biographical sketch comes from a recorded interview that William Ready did with him in August 1975. An incomplete transcript of the interview has been typed. The letter from Millard to Harry Waisglass of the Faculty of Business at McMaster contains information about the 1946 Stelco strike in Hamilton, Ontario. It was written on 11 March 1975.

Millard, Charles Hibbert

Colin McMichael collection

  • RC0539
  • Collectie
  • 1849-1898

There have been two accruals. The first accrual consists of prints pertaining to Canada from a variety of nineteenth-century journals. Subjects include the railway, visits of the royal family, sports, ship building, the search for Franklin, Niagara Falls, and various communities and cities. The second accrual consists of photocopies of two photograph albums containing pictures of McMichael uncles and aunts. There is also one photograph of McMichael uncles. The photograph is a reproduction done in 1995 from a nineteenth century photograph. There is a list identifying the uncles.

McMichael, Colin

Plates for the appendix to the Third Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons upon the Improvement of the Port of London

  • RC0903
  • Collectie
  • 1800

The twenty-one plates were issued unbound and accompanied by a listing of the plates. This listing divides the plates to match the reports they accompanied:
Appendix to Mr. Mylne’s Report (Plate I)
Mr. Dodd’s Designs (Plate II-VII)
Mr. Wilson’s Design (Plate VIII)
Messers Telford and Douglass’s Designs (Plate IX-XII)
Mr. Dance’s Designs (Plate XIII-XIX)
Mr. Jessop’s Section of the River Thames (Plate XX)
Copy of Sir Christopher Wren’s plans after 1666 (Plate XXI)

Morris Norman general collection

  • RC0286
  • Collectie
  • 1833-[1979]

Most of the materials collected by Morris Norman have been placed in subject collections or have been catalogued. The remaining material has been placed in this general collection. It includes materials relating to politics, government, legal matters and business. There are also photographs. The materials originate from Canada, the United States and Britain and rarely from other countries. There have been three accruals. The third accrual contains “The Globe Special Train (Passing Dundas)”, Toronto Lithographing Co.

Pacifist Pamphlets collection

  • RC0145
  • Collectie
  • 1900-1994

This collection of pacifist pamphlets also contains some correspondence (carbon typescripts), mimeographed agendas and minutes, newsletters, books and other materials. The majority of the materials are British. There are also some American, Dutch, and Canadian items. Publications by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Society of Friends form the two largest groupings in the collection.

W. H. R. Rivers collection

  • RC0523
  • Collectie
  • 1973-1919

The collection consists of letters and cards. There are letters from: C. L. Dodgson (1832-1898), mathematician and author, also known as Lewis Carroll, 1873-74; Sir Francis Darwin (1848-1925), botantist and son of Charles Darwin; Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941), social anthropologist and author of The Golden Bough; Andrew Lang (1844-1912), scholar, folk-lorist, and author; Bernard Shaw (1856-1946), playwright; Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), novelist and playwright; and Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952), neurologist and Nobel laureate. The collection also contains a letter from Arnold Bennett to Ellery Sidgwick, the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, introducing W.H.R. Rivers to him; an autograph of H. G. Wells (1866-1946), author, and other documents, including two sketches, one in pencil and one in pen and ink. There is also a typescript titled "Memories of Lewis Carroll" by Katharine Rivers, a sister of W. H. R. Rivers. The typescript was published in Library Research News, 3, no. 4 (January 1976).

Rivers, W. H. R.

Christopher Powell collection

  • RC0516
  • Collectie
  • 1965-1982

The collection consists of taped interviews accompanied by typed interview transcripts, related correspondence, and relevant permissions forms consenting to participate in Powell’s research.

Powell, Christopher

Parti québécois collection

  • RC0258
  • Collectie
  • 1969-1971

The collection consists of printed materials such as programmes and resolutions concerning party meetings, the 1970 election, as well as bulletins. A pamphlet collection by leading party figures supplements the collection.

Parti québécois

Front d'action politique collection

  • RC0628
  • Collectie
  • 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.

Quebec social and political organizations collection

  • RC0262
  • Collectie
  • 1968-1971

The collection contains printed materials, such as bulletins, newspapers, press releases, and a few minutes, pertaining to the following organizations:

Centre de formation populaire
Comité ouvrier St. Henri (includes minutes)
Committee for a free Quebec
Emergency committee for the defence of political rights in Quebec
Ligue pour l'intégration scolaire
McGill socialist action committee (includes minutes)
Montreal council to aid war resisters
Mouvement de libération du taxi
Our generation
Parti communiste de Québec
Parti socialiste du Québec
Partisans du Québec libre
Patriotes québécois
Quebec solidarity committee
Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale
Syndicat des professeurs de l'université Montréal
Syndicat des fonctionnaires provincaux du Québec
Syndicat du sécondaire
Voix du Québec sur le Vietnam

There is also one file of newspapers clippings, labelled "Quebec situation", one file concerning Opération libération, one file of mimeographs from unidentified organizations and two pamphlets.

Frederick George Scott collection

  • RC0715
  • Collectie
  • 1925-1944

The collection consists of four poems (two copies of one) and one photograph. There are also 22 printed copies of Scott's published poems, many signed by the author, and his funeral order of service.

Scott, Frederick George

Toronto Typographical Union collection

  • RC0720
  • Collectie
  • 1981-1985

This collection consists of taped interviews, some with transcripts, of interviews done by Alan O'Connor notes, correspondence, and draft copy of his report "Real Live Type", 1985.

Toronto Typographical Union

Michael Tippett collection

  • RC0675
  • Collectie
  • 1947-1955

The collection consists of 31 letters to Edward Sackville-West (1901-1965), mainly concerning Tippett's opera The Midsummer Marriage. There is a great deal on the production itself, music problems, and his ideas for casting the roles. Tippett's other compositions are not neglected, and there are references to his Piano Concerto, Child Of Our Time, Variations on a theme of Corellie, and The Heart's Assurance. There is much comment on the general problems of composition.

Tippett, Michael

Jonathan Swift collection

  • RC0507
  • Collectie
  • 1960-?

The collection consists of memorabilia relating to Swift: copies of one of his letters, copies of notes on the Swift family made by Swift, brochures relating to the celebration of his Tercentenary in Dublin in 1967 and a scrapbook containing photographs of Swift and of people and places associated with him.

Swift, Jonathan

Token coinage collection

  • RC0829
  • Collectie
  • 1792-1794

Tokens such as these were issued in many places in England between 1787 and 1800 when the government failed to mint enough copper coinage for the conduct of business. One of the coins is a Samuel Johnson copper coin, the other is a Jack Lackington copper coin.

Pelham Webb collection

  • RC0682
  • Collectie
  • 1914

The fonds contains poem manuscripts and a single letter. The identity of Mrs. Russell, to whom the single letter in this collection was written and for whom the poems, addressed to "Lydia", were presumably composed, is unknown.

Webb, Arthur Pelham

Ernst Zundel collection

  • RC0254
  • Collectie
  • 1985

The collection consists of an incomplete set of the transcripts of the trial held in the District Court of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, beginning on 7 January 1985. The collection is supplemented by Did Six Million Really Die?, report of the Evidence in the Canadian "False News" Trial of Ernst Zundel, ed. Barbar Kulszka (Toronto, 1992).

Zündel, Ernst

World War, 1914-1918 poster collection

  • RC0830
  • Collectie
  • 1913-1921

The collection consists of posters issued by the following British organizations: Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London; Parliamentary War Savings Committee; National War Savings Committee; Joint Labour Recruiting Committee; Ministry of National Service; Navy; Imperial Maritime League; City of London; and Blue Cross fund. The collection also contains posters issued by the governments of Canada (includes Canadian Victory Bonds), France, United States and Germany. There are a large number of posters from Louvain, Belgium. There are also several posters issued by the German occupying forces in France and Belgium and the British occupying forces in Germany.

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