Black History Month featured fonds: Jean Augustine
Jean Augustine was the first female Member of Parliament of African descent to be elected to Parliament. As MP for Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Augustine sponsored the bill that officially recognized Black...
View ArticleBlack History Month featured fonds: Lee and Grace Lorch
Lee Lorch is a mathematician, social activist and a retired member of York University’s faculty. From 1942-1943, Lorch worked as a mathematician for the US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics....
View ArticleArchives Awareness Week : 2 – 8 April 2012
To celebrate Archives Awareness Week, held the first week of April, we’re compiling a idiosyncratic and completely biased list of interesting news stories involving archives, historical documents or...
View ArticleCanadian Council of Archives: vital for archives to survive and thrive
Last Monday, April 30, 2012 at 11:00am, administrative staff at Library Archives Canada announced that the National Archival Development Program (NADP) and the Canadian Council of Archives (CCA) were...
View ArticleThe Toronto Telegram photograph archives: preserved with the assistance of...
The National Archival Development Program (or NADP ) is administered by the Canadian Council of Archives and it – and it’s previous incarnations- have been vital in the completion of a number of...
View ArticleNational Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. Established in 1991 by Parliament, this day marks the anniversary of the murders in 1989 of 14 women at...
View ArticleSad songs say so much : love lost, betrayed and prevented
As a companion post to our teeth-achingly sweet post about Valentine’s Day from 2012, here are a selection of songs from the John Arpin Sheet Music Collection featuring scorned lovers, sad sops,...
View ArticleBlack History Month featured fonds: Gerald A. Archambeau
One of most recent donations from the community is a small cache of documents relating to the life and family genealogy of Gerald A. Archambeau. Gerald A. Archambeau is a Canadian citizen (b.1933) who...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day 2013
To celebrate International Women’s Day, here is a selection of items celebrating the political and social activism of women. You can also see a selection of material we highlighted in 2011 which...
View ArticleArchives Awareness Week: Tax Season!
It may the the tail end of Archives Awareness Week, but it is also the start of tax season! Here are a number of photographic prints from the Toronto Telegram which were used in feature articles from...
View ArticleClara Eileen McCandless Thomas (1919-2013)
Dr. Clara Thomas, longtime friend, supporter and ally of York University Libraries Archives & Special Collections passed away peacefully on 26 September 2013. Clara McCandless Thomas, educator and...
View ArticleRemembrance Day exhibit
In honour of Remembrance Day, the archives has installed an exhibit of letters written by servicemen and women during the First and Second World Wars. A complement to the online exhibit Letters Home,...
View ArticleArchives Awareness Week : a week in the life of the archives
One of the most reliable aspects of working in a university archives is that no two days are the same. Every day one can expect surprises, an unexpected challenge or a serendipitous connection that...
View ArticlePassing of Lois Lilienstein (1936-2015)
Guest post by Stacy Allison-Cassin, W.P. Scott Chair in E-Librarianship It was with great sadness I heard of the passing of Lois Lilienstein yesterday. Like so many Canadian children growing up in the...
View ArticleGoing for Gold: The records of Arnold Hoffman
Post by Christopher Long, Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections Co-Op Student Arnold Hoffman was a geologist, prospector, and New York stockholder who became associated with gold mining in...
View ArticleOut of the Box : Winter 2017 : Helen Lucas & Yorkville Folk Music Scene
The Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections (CTASC) escape the reading room and reach out to the wider public through the work of its researchers and partnerships. Over the winter semester,...
View ArticleOut of the Box : Summer 2017 : Mariposa Folk Festival, Joyce Wieland &...
The Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections (CTASC) escape the reading room and reach out to the wider public through the work of its researchers and partnerships. Over the summer, archival...
View ArticleCelebrating Jean Augustine, Education, Community & Diaspora
On Sunday, 9 September 2017, Hundreds of guests came to celebrate Augustine’s eight decades of accomplishments (many of which are recorded in her fonds!). During her birthday speech, Jean Augustine...
View ArticleWorld Ballet Day : Behind-the-scenes photographs of the National Ballet of...
Lawson documented 25 years of CBC production With World Ballet Day falling on a Thursday, it’s the perfect opportunity to highlight “Throwback Thursday” photographs of the National Ballet of Canada....
View ArticleCelebrating Black History Month - Archie Alleyne
Written by Brian Omran, Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections practicum student The Clara Thomas Archives holds a number of fonds that document the lives of Black Canadians. This year for Black...
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