Earlier this summer, one of the Scott Library's staff found a number of items that were not part of the libraries collections, or indeed, any branches'. One can only surmise that this was a anonymous donation: and what a donation!
The package included two bound collections of colour plates of late 19thC fashion models, most culled [...]
You may have noticed that we've updated our blog template to something a bit cleaner and dynamic for the upcoming academic year.
Stay tuned for a flurry of posts in the coming weeks regarding new acquisitions, mysterious donors and serendipitous discoveries in the archives!
We will also be migrating our thematic guides over to the new subject [...]
The festival formerly known as Caribana has been hosting events since June 14th but will culminate in the annual parade this holiday weekend. Now known as the Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival Toronto (SCCT), here are some photographs of the earliest carnival parades in Toronto, taken by staff photographers at the Toronto Telegram.
Historical photographs from the Toronto [...]
Photograph of Margaret Laurence (left, then Peggy Wemyss) with Helen Warkentin and other students from Union College in Winnipeg, 1944. Image no. ASC02020.
Born July 18, 1926 in Neepawa Manitoba, Laurence is perhaps best know for her novels,The Diviners and The Stone Angel. To celebrate what would be Laurence's eighty-fifth birthday, the archives are highlighting a collection [...]
This weekend marks the annual return of folk music enthusiasts (not a few of them York alumni) to the town of Orillia for the Mariposa Folk Festival. To mark the fifty years that the festival has been running, York University Libraries, which holds the festival records, has curated a new exhibit of historical photographs, [...]
The Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections are very pleased to announce that the papers of veteran journalist, broadcaster and pundit Knowlton Nash are now open and available to researchers.
Knowlton Nash’s gift of his journalism records and related publications provides extensive and comprehensive documentation on the career of perhaps the most influential Canadian journalist during [...]
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