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John Arpin Collection Launch and Celebration

3 October 2011Family papers, Newscelebration, donor recognition, jazz, John Arpin, music, ragtime, sheet musicAnna St.Onge

This Sunday afternoon the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections participated in a celebration marking the official launch of the John Arpin Archives and Sheet Music Collection and the naming of a practice room in the Music Department in Accolade East (Room 245 to be precise) after the late composer, collector and producer John Arpin.
Dr. [...]

Past Labour Day Parades

2 September 2011Archives & Special Collections, News, Photographs48th Highlanders, Adden, AFL-TLC Street Railway Employees Union, Albert Van, baton twirling, Bruce Reed, Canadian National Exhibition, CNE, Don Grant, Dufferin Gate, firefighters, Firefighters Local 113, Labour Day, Local 439, Local 95 of the International Association Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers, MacLean, majorettes, Operative Potters Local 231, parade, Plumbers' Union, Ray McFadden, Toronto and District Labour Council, Toronto Fire Fighters, Toronto Telegram, TTC maintenance, unionsAnna St.Onge

The Annual Labour Day Parade down at Toronto's CNE grounds has a long history. In anticipation of Labour Day this Monday September 5th, 2011, here are some images from the Toronto Telegram from parades from 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961 and 1963, as photographed by Telegram photographers Ray McFadden, Bruce Reed, Don Grant, Albert Van, [...]

New Acquisition : Courtesy of an Unknown Donor

1 September 2011Document of the Day, Mysteries, News, Recent acquisitions1899, advertisments, E.T. Corsets, fashion, Gerhard Mennen, Graham Dermatological Institute, Mennan's Toilet Powder, Mrs. Gervaise Graham, Nineteenth century, The Designer, The Standard Delineator, toiletries, Toronto, Victorian fashion, women's fashionAnna St.Onge

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 [...]

Some updates in design

29 August 2011Anna St.Onge

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 [...]

Caribana Festival Retrospective

29 July 2011Caribana, Caribbean Festival Toronto, mas, parades, processions, Toronto IslandsAnna St.Onge

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 [...]

Correspondence of Margaret Laurence (July 18, 1926 - January 5, 1987)

18 July 2011Archives & Special Collections, Family papers, News, Personal papersCameron family, Clara Thomas, correspondence, Ian Cameron, letters, Margaret Laurence, Sandy CameronAnna St.Onge

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 [...]