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Round games, Engravings, and Sammelbands - May 2022 Highlights

13 June 2022News, Rare Books, Special Collectionscolouring, engraving, games, Rare Books, sammelbandsTaylor

Round Games for All Parties : a Collection of the Greatest Variety of Family Amusements for Fireside or Pic-Nic : Consisting of Games of Action, Games Simply Taxing the Attention, Games of Memory, Catch Games Depending on the Assistance of an Accomplice or Secret Knowledge for the Purpose of Mystification, Games Requiring the Exercise of Fancy, Intelligence, [...]

Petitions, Pirates, and Pirated Copies - April 2022 Highlights

9 May 2022News, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special CollectionsCruikshank, fans, First Baptist Church, petitions, Pirated copies, Rare Books, Salinger, Sir Robert PeelTaylor

[D. W. Karn & Co. Advertising Fan]. London, Ont: London Printing & Litho. Co., 1896-1909.
Like some of the ASC items highlighted last month, this piece is ephemeral in nature, but it also has the distinction of being closer to an object than a book . Cataloguing standards allow for the cataloguing of non-book items such [...]

Hellenic Heritage Foundation donation will highlight experiences of Greek diaspora in Canada

22 September 2021News, yFiledigitization, funding, Greek, immigrationKatrina

The funding will expand the existing physical archive and establish a digital archive of images, documents, video and other assets that are related to Greek Canadian history.When Christopher Grafos entered the Graduate Program in History at York University, he encountered the same problem time and time again.“When I spoke to Greek Canadians about their immigration [...]

Archival holdings at CTASC related to Indigenous Peoples in Canada

23 April 2021Archives & Special Collections, Newsbipoc, Indigenous peoplesKatrina

Archival material related to Indigenous peoples and communities at the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections are located in several historic holdings. This post highlights a selection of fonds* which contain a significant portion of records with content related to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities.

First bulk upload to Wikimedia Commons a success thanks to emerging public historians

16 March 2021Archives & Special Collections, News, Special Collectionsarchival instruction, archival literacy, archival operations, mapsKatrina

On November 23, 2020, the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections contributed several digitized historical maps to Wikimedia Commons, an online repository of free images and other media. With these scans later embedded into Wikipedia articles, the maps are now viewed nearly 2.4 million times per year.
Students enrolled in visiting professor and course director Gilberto [...]

Home Made Visible shortlisted for Governor General's History Award

17 November 2020News, yFilebipoc, home moviesKatrina

The Home Made Visible project has been shortlisted for the Governor Generals History Award for Excellence in Community Programming. The Governor General’s History Awards are Canada’s top honours in the field of history and heritage. They celebrate the very best in Canadian achievements to ensure our national past has a vibrant presence in our society [...]