Archives & Special Collections

Letters Home : a selection of wartime correspondence from the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections

In honour of Remembrance Day, the archives has installed a new online exhibit. Letters home is based on a previous physical exhibit installed in Scott Library in 2009. The current exhibit features a selection of correspondence and photographs exchanged between soldiers and their families during the First and Second World Wars.
The exhibit features letters from [...]

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Additions to YorkSpace : CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) photographs

Staff from the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections have added new historical photographs of the Canadian National Exhibition.
Photographed by staff of the Toronto Telegram, this selection of about 100 images document activities, performances and attendants of the annual fair founded in 1897 as a showcase for developments in manufacturing, agriculture, industry and the arts.
A [...]

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Favourite fonds : Celebrating Margaret Laurence's birthday

This week's favourite fonds is the Margaret Laurence fonds,  in celebration of what would have been the writer's eighty-fourth birthday.  Born 18 July 1926 in Neepawa Manitoba, Laurence is perhaps best know for her novels, The Diviners and The Stone Angel.
The Margaret Laurence fonds consists of the manuscripts, research notes, short story drafts, children's stories, [...]

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Mariposa Digitization Project featured on CBC's Metro Morning

Bright and early this morning, the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections' latest online exhibit was featured on CBC's Metro Morning.  Host Matt Galloway interviewed the founder of the Mariposa Folk Festival and promoted our online exhibit of historical programs, images and sound recordings.
Monday 5 July 2010 is the official launch of the online exhibit [...]

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Archives Awareness Week

To celebrate Archives Awareness Week, held the first week of April, the archives has installed a small exhibit outlining the values and uses of archives and highlighting a recent news item featuring a former York University Master's student, Julia Gaffield.  Earlier this year, Gaffield, now a PhD student at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, [...]

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