Tag Archives: policy

CBC's 75th Anniversary : 75 tweets of 75 archival fonds

6 November 2011Archives & Special Collections, institutions and organizations, News, Personal papersanniversary, broadcasting, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC, distance education, history, journalists, Knowlton Nash, legislation, nationalism, policy, producer, radio, radio lecture, script, Take 30, television, The Fifth Estate, Twitter, World War IIAnna St.Onge

On November 2, 2011, I decided to try to find 75 archival fonds in the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections that had some connection to the CBC. I was inspired by the ongoing efforts of the team researching and promoting the anniversary (@cbc75) and staff at the CBC Archives (@cbc_archives) and the University of [...]

Election Propaganda of Yore

28 April 2011Ephemera, News, Rare Books1896, digitization, election, federal election, international relations, Internet Archive, Ontario, pamphlets, policy, political cartoon, political poem, politics, propaganda, provincial ridings, satire, scandal, tariffs, taxes, vote, votersAnna St.Onge

Inspired by a twitter post by the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) we've pulled a few historical pieces of election propaganda from federal and provincial elections of the nineteenth century.
All of these items have been digitized by the Internet Archive and be found by browsing through our holdings here: http://bit.ly/lYPpqH.
These pamphlets are part of the [...]