Correspondence, land deeds, architectural plans and other family documents.
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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Papers, 1797-1957. 9 boxes, 2 map folders.
Correspondence, reports, minutes concerning St. Lawrence Waterway project and an electric railway for Ontario.
Papers, 1920-1930. 4 boxes.
Part of the manuscript of Mitchell's last book, The Settlement of York.
Papers, [195-?]. 1 box.
Includes correspondence and other print material related to Hungarian-American playwright and novelist Ferenc Molnar (1878-1952) and his legal wife, the actress Lili Darvas (1902-1974), with some letters addressed to Kati Rekai (1921-2010).
Papers, 1947-1957. 1 box.
Collection of photos of Montreal and Montreal Tramways Company.
Photographs, 1904-[193-]. 2 boxes.
Correspondence, notes, family papers, annotated scripts, photographs, sketches for costumes and sets, scrapbooks, theatre programmes, clippings, tapes.
Papers, 1904-1979. 191 boxes and items.
Includes personal and professional correspondence; personal photographs; official documents; receipts and invoices; typescript drafts of books; newspaper articles, passports, and cultural and political pursuits of activist, Stanley Morisse.
Papers, 1897-1987. 6 boxes.
Personal and literary correspondence, notes, scrapbook.
Papers, 1917-1975. 6 boxes and items.
Correspondence and manuscripts.
Collection of Edmund Blunden papers, 1932-1978. 1 box (28 letters and cards).
Diaries, with photographs and postcards detailing his life in Ireland and England, and his travels in Canada, 1907-1908.
Papers, 1897-1908. 7 volumes in 3 boxes.
Literary papers, editorial notes, correspondence. Also includes interviews and correspondence with prominent Canadian authors, and manuscripts, and other editorial papers stemming from her work as an editor at Somerville House and as Editor-in-Chief of Descant.
Papers, 1988-2018. 633 boxes.
Note: This collection has been transferred to Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto.