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Archives 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 1945, 1946, 1965 and 1970 documenting the frantic tax season in the city of Toronto.
 
 
 
 
 
Here are tax form filers [...]

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Archives Awareness Week 2013

To celebrate Archives Awareness Week, held this year from April 8th to 14th, we're pulling together some posts demonstrating how archival records can document the experience of individuals, families and communities; reveal forgotten stories; and teach us something about our past, present and future.
York University students and faculty are lucky to have two archival institutions [...]

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The artist's way: Archives acquires 700 books from Granary Artists' Books Collection

Originally published in yFile: York University’s News.
An extensive collection of nearly 700 artists’ books is now a part of the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections. York University Libraries’ acquisition of the Granary Artists’ Books Collection from Granary Books in New York City means that many of these works made or conceived by artists – some of [...]

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International 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 included activists, community organizers, philosophers and politicians like Jean Augustine, Grace Lonergan Lorch, and Marilou McPhedran, Mary Wollstonecraft and Margaret (Dillon) Norquay available here.
Faculty, [...]

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Sad 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, shallow cads, and general romantic ne'er do wells.
If you're looking for something more romantic for Valentine's Day browsing, do not proceed with this [...]

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National 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 l'École Polytechnique de Montréal.
As well as commemorating the 14 young women whose lives ended in an act of gender-based violence, December [...]

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