Documents, correspondence, drawings and photographs, commonplace books.
Archival Collections Finding Aids
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library holds over 750 archival collections (more than 4,500 metres). The archives consist primarily of Canadian literary, historical, and personal papers from individuals and organizations, dating from the 19th to the 21st centuries. 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; as well as drafts, research notes, and correspondence of Canadian authors such as Margaret Atwood, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Leonard Cohen, Mazo de la Roche, and Josef Skvorecky. 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.
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Papers, 1750-1850. 1 box.
Manuscript and typescript poems in chapbooks.
Papers, 1939-51. 1 box.
Drafts of published and unpublished poems, lyrics, short stories and novels, and correspondence.
Papers, 1964-2010. 121 boxes.
Consists of 34 promissory freight notes for merchandise and peltries shipped aboard the King’s Armed Vessels between British Garrisons on Lake Ontario, Lake Erie and Lake Huron (1778-1787). Also contains 12 manuscript documents on the hardships experienced by fur traders and merchants in their attempts to conduct business in the Great Lakes region (1783-1793); these primarily illustrate the experiences of Philippe-Francois de Rastel de Rocheblave, James Ellice and Toussaint Pothier.
Papers, 1788-1792. 3 boxes.
Drafts of stories, plays, poems, articles, page proofs, audio tapes of readings.
Papers, 1959-1967. 5 boxes.
Account of Atlantic crossing from Portsmouth to Quebec.
Diary, 1844. 1 box (1 volume).