Manuscripts for poems, essays, and translations, in English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish languages.
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, 1945-1991. 12 boxes.
Collection of research notes, interviews, manuscript drafts and other material relating to her first novel, Sulha; material documenting her work as a world musician; tapes, films, videos, drafts, notes and scripts relating to her work as an international documentary radio and film maker; correspondence with family and friends.
Papers, 1961-2014. 186 boxes and items (27 metres); 593 audio reels with 295 cassettes (14 metres).
Collection consists of approximately 6000 books, journals, and pamphlets that comprise the working library of Marshall McLuhan. The library reflects McLuhan's diverse personal and academic interests, from Catholicism to the environment, from communications theory to James Joyce.
The collection also includes the many notes, bookmarks, items of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other documents laid into the books by McLuhan. These have been removed, indexed, and housed separately, see: Marshall McLuhan Library Collection, added material list.
Bound volumes of archival reproductions, transcripts and other miscellaneous papers.
Papers, 1687-1950. 24 volumes.
Typed transcripts from printed texts, private papers notes, interviews, and photographs and post cards that give the social history of the Lake of Bays area.
Papers, [1868-1975?]. 3 boxes.
Notebooks, diaries, account books, memoranda books associated with Martin or his family.
Papers, 1858-1932. 14 items and boxes.
Transcript and translation of Le Roman de Rou.
Papers, 1890-1891. 1 box.
2 boxes and items.
Correspondence, including editorials for the Scottish Art Review, notes and drafts for articles and books, notebooks, scrapbooks, photographs. Microfilm of scrapbooks.
Papers, 1862-1925. 78 boxes and items.
Collection of anatomical drawings for his books and lectures.
Drawings, 1965-ongoing. 288+ drawings.
Contains manuscript drafts of books, material relating to chapbooks, notebooks, anthologies, newspaper and magazine articles, and material related to the Holiday Arts Mail Order School (H.A.M.S.).
Papers, 1995-2021. 33 boxes.
Correspondence from John Galsworthy, W.W. Jacobs, Blanch Patch, Helen Waddell, manuscript of Galsworthy's The Pigeon; photographs.
Collection of literary papers, 1909-1965. 1 box.
Manuscripts, research notes, correspondence related to her published and unpublished material.
Papers, 1963-2002. 7 boxes.
Administrative records from the antiquarian book store, Patrick McGahern Books in Ottawa, Ontario, also known as both The Book Boutique and Patrick and Liam McGahern Books. Also contains a collection of nineteenth and twentieth-century bookseller's catalogues.
Papers, 1888-2012. 50 boxes.
Includes correspondence from Mavis Gallant to Joan McInnes, 1970s-1990s. See also: Gallant, Mavis.
Papers, 1972-1999. 1 box.
Manuscript drafts for both published and unpublished material, editorial correspondence, reading and lecture notes.
Papers, 1954-2016. 65 boxes.
Contains manuscripts for McKone’s books: Moose Factory Indian Hospital, Eastern Arctic Medical and X-Ray Survey 1955, Dr. Barclay McKone - Life as a Medical Doctor since Graduation from U of T; and drafts and published versions of articles: A post sanatorium institution for rehabilitation in Tuberculosis (1946) and Rehabilitation of the Tuberculosis veteran western counties veterans' lodge, London, Ontario (1948).
Papers, 1946-1993. 1 box.
Notes, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and materials for both his fiction and non-fiction.
Papers, 1949-2016. 53 boxes.
Research and draft materials for the book The Laws of Media and related correspondence. See: Index to the Marshall McLuhan Library for list books and added material.
Papers, [196-]-1990. 34 boxes.
Notes and manuscript drafts for McMurrich's unpublished book, The History of Anatomy.
Papers, [192?-193?]. 8 boxes.
Photos, manuscript notes and ephemera relating to Gilbert and Sullivan, and especially to the tour of the D'Oyley Carte Company across Canada.
Papers, 1927-1942. 1 box.
Correspondence, reports, notes, diaries chiefly concerning western wheat marketing. Microfilm.
Papers, 1920's-1930's. 1 box.
Diaries, and 1953 Coronation memorabilia.
Collection of diaries and papers. 2 boxes.
Contains two photograph albums belonging to a German couple, Hermann and Emmi Meinhardt, which separately record their wartime experiences.
Photographs, 1939-1952, 2016-2019. 4 boxes.
Collection of Canadian historical documents, 1697-1949. 49 boxes and items.