Archival Collections Finding Aids

Contains newspaper clippings and photographs related to Byrne Hope Sanders's career as a writer and businesswoman.

Drafts of writing; proofs; works published in periodicals and anthologies; correspondence; editorial work and other files. 

Correspondence, documents and other material related to the activities of Satin and the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme; Vietnam War resisters; the Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada.

Two volumes containing an unpublished manuscript by Miriam Saville titled: ‘I Wanted to Be a Nurse.’ Story details Saville’s life, including her diabetes diagnosis and treatment. Miriam Saville was a diabetic patient treated by Dr. Charles Best in the late 1920s/early 1930s when she was about thirteen years old, see mention of Dr. Best (“Dr. Charles”) on page 5 of both the holograph journal and typed version. 

Photographs of early Toronto, and its prominent citizens.

Correspondence, Christmas cards, drawings, original lino-cuts, printer and proofs, clippings.

Research materials, manuscripts and galleys for an unpublished book on 20th century Jewish artists in Europe. The research materials include correspondence with more than 120 Jewish artists, many of whom perished during World War II.

Production files for his theatrical productions in Toronto.

Correspondence, notebooks, unpublished novel.

Scrapbook of insurance underwriters’ reports and records, fire reports, original news clippings and photographs, and other miscellaneous material on various North American conflagrations, including the Toronto fire of 1904.

Professional and personal papers pertaining to the life and career of Shyam Selvadurai. These papers contain extensive material on the novels of Selvadurai.

Includes correspondence, minutes, reports, memoranda and other material related to the Board of Directors and Shareholders of McClelland and Stewart, 1984-1985.

Historical manuscripts relating to Australia, correspondence about book collection.

Includes early correspondence, travel, European horticultural materials, materials, photographic slides, and drafts of 150 Years of Canadian Beer Labels (2016).

Includes drafts and notes for books. Poem drafts, early essays, course work from York University and literary correspondence, 1980s-2000s. 

Note: This collection has been transferred to Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto.

Contains 13 photographs, of various Ukrainian-Canadian groups, events, and organizations from Ontario and Quebec.

Bound typescript of Shulman's The Pfeffenhauser Clock and collection of material relating to Julia Jarvis and her family.

Published works (including Woman in Bronze, Underground, and Dinner at the End of the World); unpublished manuscript materials; juvenilia; correspondence; CBC Radio comedy sketch scripts, and other materials.
Please note: All files pertaining to the Humber School for Writers were transferred to the Humber College Archives in 2022. 

This accession consists of textual and cartographic materials documenting the lives of several members of the Simcoe family in the United Kingdom and Canada. It covers the activities of John Graves Simcoe, Elizabeth Posthuma (Gwillim) Simcoe, their son Francis Gwillim Simcoe, and their eldest daughter, Eliza Simcoe. The fonds also contains material documenting the activities of various other members of their extended family and descendants.

Typescript and copies of typescript of a Novellae by rabbinic scholar Singer (1855-1930).

Drafts of writings, correspondence, biographical materials.

Includes correspondence relating to Bertrand Russell, as well as other personal correspondence. 

Drafts and clippings from her articles; correspondence and notes on authors whom she represented as a literary agent.