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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  • Contains a set of three documents: two hand-drawn certificates, and one typewritten cover letter, dated 20 & 27 January 1923 in Krasnoiarsk, Siberia that were given to Stanislava Eduardovna Dranishnikova on the occasion of her 20th anniversary as an actress.

    Papers, 1923. 1 box. 

  • Business and family correspondence and scrapbooks.

    Papers, 1839-1923. 2 boxes.

  • Personal documents (1909-1978) pertaining to Samuel Bamber of Stockport, Chesire, United Kingdom, and William Brown, also of Stockport, a member of the International Brigade (London) who went to fight in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

    Papers, 1909-1978. 1 box.

  • Correspondence, articles, proofs of The Printer of the Jesuit Relations (by L.B. Duff) and visitors' book at Cooneen Cross.

    Papers, 1932-1953. 1 box.

  • Notes, sketches and correspondence about his book bindings, and collection of correspondence and manuscripts by English authors in his book collection.

    Papers, 1882-1943. 8 items and boxes.

  • Collection also includes printed invitations and tickets for various state functions.

    Official directories of the Coronation Durbars of 1903 and 1911. 1 box.