Archival Collections Finding Aids
The Library houses over 750 manuscript collections covering a wide range of subject areas. Holdings range from a collection of about 40 third-century B.C. Egyptian papyri to papers of the co-discoverers of insulin: Banting, Best, Collip and Macleod; and finally to drafts, research notes, and correspondence of Canadian authors such as Margaret Atwood, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Leonard Cohen, Mazo de la Roche and Josef Skvorecky. The majority of our manuscript collections date from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries and pertain to Canadian historical, literary, artistic or scientific fields.
Collections of personal papers are listed by the surname of the creator or collector, e.g. Birney, Earle. Institutional records are listed under the name of the institution, e.g. Royal Canadian Institute.
Collection level records for many of the manuscript collections appear in the on-line catalogue, along with links to finding aids in pdf format.
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See: Ronald Peters Gift of the Lester Douglas Personal Archives of Earl Horter, Hans Foy, David Karfunkle and Barbara Shermund under R.
Consists of Katz's "Mementos" book of autographs of artists, poets, composers and others, as well as photographs of artists and writers, many of them signed.
Collection, 1929-2000. 16 boxes.
Papers pertaining to the Keemlé family of Delaware, Washington, and Toronto.
Papers, 1 box.
Correspondence with writers, mainly Canadian, as well as poetry, notes on Hugh Hood's 12-volume The New Age, books and pamphlets relating to the Powys Circle.
Papers, 1962-ongoing. 8 boxes.
Scrapbook on child immigration to Canada, materials on social work, typescript of Kelso's biography.
Papers, 1919-1935. 1 box and microfilm of scrapbook.
Drafts for published writings.
Papers, 1908-1934. 4 boxes.
Collection of manuscript and printed materials on radicalism in Canada, photographs.
Collection. 97 boxes and items.
Correspondence and accounts relating to Toronto theatres, playscripts, scrapbooks, photographs.
Papers, 1918-1959. 8 boxes.
Drafts for writings, correspondence, business records, printed appearances.
Papers, 1986-2012. 32 boxes and items.
Correspondence with James Bain on Kingsford's research into the history of Canada and early Canadian printing.
Papers, 1897-1895. 1 box.
Birthday books, photographs of pre-WWII Jewish family in Prague.
Papers, 1933-1995. 17 boxes.
This collection includes material relating to the bookplate collection of Beulah Gillet Knox (1895-1978), including correspondence, bookplates, illustrations, publications, and printing blocks.
Papers, 1835-1967. 2 boxes.
Printed material regarding Japanese Canadian immigrants after WWII.
Papers, 1987-1992. 2 books, 1 magazine.
Collection of 100 photographs of medicinal and economic plants, 1898.
Manuscript drafts of noted economist's academic papers and books, correspondence with other leading economists, scrapbooks.
Papers, 1958-2013. 72 boxes.
Includes extensive correspondence from writers, 1960s-2000s, to Arlene Lampert. Frequent correspondents include Bill Bissett, Susan Musgrave, Stephen Reid, Joe Rosenblatt, Jeni Couzyn, Rosemary Sullivan, Anne Michaels, Patrick Lane, Lorna Crozier, Alice Denham, P.K. Page, Earle Birney and Wailan Low, Phyllis Webb and others.
Papers, [1960s-2000s]. 14 boxes.
Research notes and drafts for published writings on silver, correspondence, photographs.
Papers, 1914-1981. 62 boxes and items.
Collection of Terry Shortt papers, including notes on his field sketches and trip to Madagascar. Shortt was an ornithological artist and author, and chief artist at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Papers, 1977-1978. 1 box.
Collection from the New York-based pharmaceutical firm, consisting of orders received from Canadian firms and individuals.
Records, 1850-1880. 1 box.
Typescripts of articles on insulin, nervous irritability and other medical subjects.
Papers, 1922-1950. 1 box.
Drafts of Lavell's A History of the Ontario Hospitals for the Insane and Feeble-Minded.
Papers, [193-?]. 2 boxes.
Research notes and manuscripts about American and English actors and theatrical companies that toured Canada, especially before 1939, correspondence and photographs.
Papers, ca 1870s-1988. 50 boxes and items.
Drafts of poems and workbooks .
Papers, 1973-1984. 1 box.
Correspondence between Stephen Leacock and Joseph Easton McDougall.
Papers, 1928-62. 1 box.
Minutes, membership records and correspondence; letters dealing with the Canadian forum while it operated under the auspices of the League.
Records, 1933-1940. 3 boxes.