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

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 [...]

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Mariposa: Fifty Years of Making Music Exhibit Launch

                                            
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, [...]

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Knowlton Nash papers now available

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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Barbara Godard Memorial 10 May 2011

                                     
Barbara Thompson Godard (1941-2010) was Professor of English, French, Social and Political Thought, and Women's Studies at York University, where she also held the Avi Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian Literature.
 
With a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.A. from l'Université de Montréal, Dr. Godard completed her doctorate at l'Université de Bordeaux [...]

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Mother's Day

In anticipation of Mother's Day, here's a picture from the Toronto Telegram of a group of women outside the Royal Ontario Museum for the Mother's Day Vigil for Peace by the NGO group Voice of Women (VOW).  Photographed by Toronto Telegram staff photographer B. Palmer (Peter) Ward on May 11, 1963.
The Canadian Voice of [...]

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International Day of Dance

In recognition of International Dance Day, here are a selection of our archival holdings from choreographers, dance companies, dance critics, dancers and organizations that have significant content related to dance.

F0172 Canadian Association for Professional Dance Organizations (CAPDO) fonds
F0199 Canadian Dance Festival fonds
F0285 Centre for Experimental Art & Communication fonds
F0198 Dance Umbrella Of Ontario fonds
F0142 Paul [...]

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