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Elinor Barr fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 199
  • Fonds
  • 1870-2015

The fonds is divided into 18 series. They include: Celebrations, religion, memoirs & family stories, societies, literature, Swedish authors, correspondence, places, profiles, immigration/emigration, women, business, education, research material, photo collection including 7 VHS cassettes, 14 CDS with photos & 3 oversize photos, Electronic Records including 13 CDS & 9 floppy discs, Tape Collection including 7 audio cassettes.

Barr, Elinor

Kenneth J. Batcheldor fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 378
  • Fonds
  • 1968-2011

The fonds was created by the donor himself. His donated material was divided into different fonds and collections in accordance with specifications he himself provided. This particular fonds consists primarily of a typeset of Batcheldor’s “Macro-PK in Group Sittings: Theoretical and Practical Aspects”, as well as a brief biographical description created by Walter Meyer zu Erpen, the donator, and a DVD containing a digitized version of the typeset.

Batcheldor, Kenneth J.

The Indian and Métis Friendship Centre fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 395
  • Fonds
  • 1951-2010

The fonds consist of 6 boxes of textual records that have been divided into the following series: programs, IMFC events, IMFC correspondence, IMFC Board of Directors, IMFC meetings, and IMFC publications. The fonds also consists of 3 boxes of photographs and 1 box of electronic records. The content of the textual records portray a number of donations and requests, significant correspondence from programs, Annual General Meetings, and events such as the Lighthouse project, Healthy baby, annual pow-wows, wall of honour and a brief history of the centre itself.

The Indian and Métis Friendship Centre

Canadian Association of Law Libraries fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 337
  • Fonds
  • 1961-2015

The fonds includes materials compiled by the Canadian Association of Law Libraries. C.A.L.L. materials include executive correspondence, committee and Special Interest Group (S.I.G.) documentation, publications, oral histories and initiative projects. The majority of materials concern the administrative duties of the Executive Board. In addition to textual materials the fonds includes 21 photographs, 61 audio cassettes, 11 reel to reel audio tapes, 2 5 ¼” floppy discs, 26 3 ½” floppy discs, 3 compact discs and 2 microfilm reels.

Canadian Association of Law Libraries

Anne Smigel fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 340
  • Fonds
  • 1950 - 2005

The fonds consists of biographical information, correspndence and documents from her involvement with various organizations including Altrusa Club of Winnipeg and Altrusa International, Inc., Alpha Omega Alumnae, and the Council of Women of Winnipeg.

Smigel, Anne

Borys Shkandrij fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 485
  • Fonds
  • 1941 - 1997

The collection contains several volumes of Borys Shkandrij’s poetry (published under the pseudonym Bohdan Bora); anthologies in which his poetry has been published; and clippings of his poetry, as well as reviews of that poetry, published in newspapers and journals. It also contains unpublished poetry; manuscripts of talks and articles on literature and politics, on teaching, and on language; several note books; documents concerning the Association of Ukrainian writers in Great Britain (Tovarystvo ukrains’kykh literatoriv u Velykii Brytanii), and copies of over twenty articles/pamphlets authored by various Ukrainian writers between 1935 and 1990. Several documents of biographical interest, as well as selections from Borys Shkandrij’s correspondence, in particular letters from his son Myroslav Shkandrij, professor of Ukrainian and Russian literature at the University of Manitoba, are also included.

Shkandrij, Borys

O'Hare Family fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 393
  • Fonds
  • 1881-2013

The collection consists of textual records including share certificates from the Thistle Curling Club and certificates from the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Manitoba as well as photographs of various members of the O’Hare family. Some of the more notable items include a tintype photograph of Peter O’Hare and a small leather pouch that John O’Hare used to hold gold nuggets during the Yukon Gold Rush.

O'Hare Family

Hiebert, Brown Family fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 386
  • Fonds
  • 1868 - 2007

The Hiebert, Brown Family fonds represents stories, experiences and contributions of three generations of a Mennonite-Northumberland family painting a vivid picture of life in Winnipeg, Manitoba in the first half of the 20th century. The fonds consists of biographical information on all members of the Hiebert, Brown family, their correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Also included are Paul Hiebert's audio-recordings and a manuscript, "Willows Revisited" (1970); Wallace Brown's recollection of the Winnipeg General Strike (June 21, 1919); Catherine Brown's genealogical research material into the Hiebert-Brown family's roots; and material pertaining to Catherine Brown's cousin, Erdman Penner, a cartoonist for the Walt Disney Company from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Hiebert, Brown Family

Winnipeg Spiritualist Church fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 425
  • Fonds
  • 1952-2011

The fonds consists of 8 series: vital documents, annual reports and minutes, financial reports, bulletins and church information, correspondence, subject files and references, photographs, and artifacts. Included in these series are the Church's constitution, materials used by the directors and members of the congregation during services or other functions, official minutes and financial reports, correspondence revealing the relations between members and directors of the Church, membership and healing lists, and photographs.

Winnipeg Spiritualist Church

Survival Research Newsletters and Periodicals Collection

  • CA UMASC MSS 374
  • Collection
  • 1986-2015

This collection was arranged in part by the transferring agent in accordance with specifications he provided. This collection consists of 218 newsletters, journals and other publications created by Spiritualist churches and organizations between the 1980s and 2011 which have been collected by the Survival Research Institute of Canada. The collection takes up 0.26 linear metres of shelf space and is fully textual. The items and folders were organized by the transfering agent and are divided by publication. Publications and papers bound together by staples, archival clips or other means were done so by the transfering agent and thus are treated as a single record, even those which contain what could be considered more than one document. The second accession (A15-139) consisted of less than 12 issues which were interfiled with the previous accession.

Survival Research Institute of Canada

Skapti Arason fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS SC 154
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900]

The fonds consists of a copy of a memoir by Skapti Arason, one of the first Icelandic settlers to Manitoba. The seven-page memoir tells of Skapti's immigration to Canada, his subsequent travels to Manitoba, the settling of the Icelandic community on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg and the founding of the town of Glenboro. It is believed that this memoir has been translated, as the Icelandic version of the same memoir can be found in the Icelandic Department of the University of Manitoba. It is not known who translated the memoir.

Arason, Skapti

Albert Batten fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 379
  • Fonds
  • 1930-2010

The fonds was arranged in part by the transferring agent according to specifications he provided. This particular fonds consists of 18 items including photos of East Hamilton Spiritualist Church members, church death/burial register, biographical research conducted by the donor, Walter Meyer zu Erpen, and a CD containing digitized versions of some of the records.

Batten, Albert

Harold E. Batters fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS SC 146
  • Fonds
  • 1939-1960

The fonds consists of miscellaneous documents pertaining to Harold E. Batters' agricultural transactions, including an expense account book (1959) and an automobile renewal certificate (1960). The photograph collection contains depictions of pioneer farming scenes.

Batters, Harold E.

M. Charles Cohen fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 78
  • Fonds
  • 1898-1986, predominant 1950-1986

The fonds consists primarily of drafts of numerous radio plays and television screen plays written by Cohen. The collection also contains significant correspondence (personal and business), reviews, and related material over a period of thirty years. Two scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings on the life and career of Cohen, as well as production photographs are also included.

Cohen, Maxwell Charles

John Yuzyk fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 390
  • Fonds
  • 1913 - 2003

The fonds consists of John Yuzyk's biographical information and Ukrainian Canadian Veterans' Association's minutes of meetings, financial statements and other material.

Yuzyk, John

James Nickels fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 524
  • Fonds
  • 1988-2017

Fonds consists of records interviews with Jim Nickels where he talks about Thomas Glendenning Hamilton, and Clinical Psychology. A recording of a conference on T.G. Hamilton is also included.

Nickels, James

Dennis Cooley fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss 305
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1960]-2008

The fonds consists of published and unpublished manuscripts of poetry, essays, book reviews, interviews, and articles. The fonds includes Dennis Cooley's CV's, awards, correspondence, conferences, and courses taught at the University of Manitoba. There are also minutes, reports and cultural events of the Manitoba Writer's Guild, Turnstone Press, and many journals from Dennis Cooley's professional travels.

Cooley, Dennis

John Crabb collection

  • CA UMASC MSS 488
  • Collection
  • 1884-2016

The fonds consists of records collected or created by John Crabb in his role as an art collector. The bulk of the records relate to the works of Walter Joseph Phillips. Records include copyright permissions, Christmas cards, publications, biographical information on Walter J. Phillips, photographs, newspaper clippings, reproductions, correspondence, including copies of Phillips’ personal correspondence, as well as promotional materials related to auctions and exhibits.

Robert Beamish fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 147
  • Fonds
  • 1875-2001; predominant 1940-2000

The fonds consists of nine series. Where possible, the material is arranged chronologically. The first series is comprised of biographical information, including curriculum vitae, information from Who's Who and scrapbooks. The second series contains Beamish's personal and professional correspondence. Series three pertains to Beamish's academic and professional career. It includes correspondence regarding Beamish's research at the Health Sciences Centre and St. Boniface Hospital, as well as material from his time as a Vice-President at Great West Life Assurance Co. The fourth series deals with Beamish's publications and includes articles, book chapters and speeches. The fifth series pertains to Beamish's work as an editor with Cardiovascular News, Canadian Journal of Cardiology and Rhythmology. The sixth series contains programs and abstracts from several conferences that Beamish attended. Series seven contains board minutes and correspondence from various organizations. The largest series, the eighth, contains medical research and articles by others. The ninth series includes topics of personal interest to Beamish such as psychic research. MSS SC 19 consists of research papers, articles, and talks given by Robert Beamish from 1940 to 1978.

Beamish, Robert E.

Janet Beaton fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 413
  • Fonds
  • 1904 - 1995

The fonds consists of records pertaining to the Canada/China nursing project, research material on the China mission, and conference papers and publications.

Beaton, Janet

Angela E. Davis fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss 138, PC 144
  • Fonds
  • 1945-1994, predominant 1989-1994

The fonds consists of three series covering Davis' professional life. The first series is Correspondence. This includes correspondence with colleagues and publishers regarding research and publication. The correspondence spans the years 1983 to 1994, with the predominant years being 1992 to 1994.

The second series covers Davis' Literary Career. The series is broken down into the subseries of research and publications. There is research on several of Davis' projects, including Sir Frank Brangwyn; photoengraving and Frederick Brigden; Simcoe County; Manitoba Artists; and Mary Riter Hamilton. The publications subseries is divided onto to sections, articles and typescripts. IN the articles section there are some reviews Davis wrote as well as articles on the following subjects: prairie women as seen through The Grain Growers Guide 1908-1928; women and technology on the prairies 1910-1940; Mary Barrett Speechly; landscape in Canadian popular illustration before 1920; and the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop. Under typescripts there is a copy of "And So The Lights Came On": Women and History in Manitoba, which was edited by Davis, as well as copies of photographs used in the publication. There is a bound copy and an unbound copy of "Country Homemakers": a selection of letters and editorials from the woman's page of The Grain Growers Guide 1908-1928 Part I: The Home and the Farm, as well as an unbound copy of Part II: Outside the Home. These were published in 1989.

The final series encompasses Davis' academic career. There is a report card from King's College Hospital in 1945, as well as a 1948 graduation certificate and a testimonial from 1951. There is also literature dealing with both The Lady Eleanor Holles School and King's College Hospital from the 1960s and the 1990s. There are graduation programs and invitations from the University of Winnipeg from 1975 to 1977. As well, there are two University of Winnipeg journals from 1977 and 1979. This series also includes Davis' graduate school essays from both the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba from 1975 to 1981. Finally there is an official transcript from the University of Manitoba from 1988.

There is also a photograph collection (PC 144) which contains 74 slides dealing with Davis' research and teaching of art history. The slides contain examples of art from the 18th to the 20th centuries, with an emphasis on the years 1850 to 1890.

Davis, Angela E.

Josiah Jones Bell fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 157
  • Fonds
  • [187-?]-[1931?]

The fonds consists of material pertaining to Bell's activities in the Wolseley Expedition. It documents the Expedition's journey to the Red River Settlement, its return to Thunder Bay, and its work in exploring and laying telegraph lines in the west from 1875 to 1876. In addition to the 1.49 m of textual records the fonds includes 27 photographs, 37 lantern slides and 3 maps (including one plan). The articles and lantern slides relate to a presentation Bell gave in later years on the history of these events.

Bell, J. Jones (Josiah Jones)

Mary Lile Benham fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 115
  • Fonds
  • 1929-1990

The fonds consists of typescripts of most of Mary Benham's unpublished works. Many of the manuscripts are accompanied by research notes and correspondence. Also included are sketches, plays, agreements, presentations, poems, a scrapbook, published articles, news clippings, and memorabilia. The photograph collection consists of 17 photographs, 2 slides, and 2 negatives.

Benham, Mary Lile

Frank & Christina Dickie fonds

  • 1917 - 1976

The fonds consist of seven diaries kept by Frank Dickie (1917-1966), three diaries kept by Christina Dickie (1963, 1967-1976, sporadic) and one wedding photograph of the couple. The diaries chronicle daily weather conditions, farming chores and local social activities. In addition, farm income, expenditures, labour wages and benefits were noted.

Dickie, Frank

Stanley Wegler fonds

  • Fonds
  • ca. 1950s

3 felt UM crests, 1 UM pennant, 3 crest patches. 2 photocopied sheets describing items.

John W. Dafoe fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 003
  • Fonds
  • 1896-1944

The fonds consists of Dafoe's personal and political records, including diaries, correspondence, speeches, editorials, articles, memoranda, reports and news clippings. Included are two unpublished diaries: one written in 1919 while Dafoe attended the Paris Peace Conference, and the other written in 1923 while at the Imperial Conference. Correspondence ranges from 1896 to 1944 and is most complete in the years immediately after the First World War. Dafoe had many correspondents all over the world, most of whom dealt with public affairs, economic and political issues, and international activities. Included in the fonds are sixty-six speeches, mostly of a political nature, and which range in date from 1911 to 1943. There is also a collection of his writings, including his Manitoba Free Press editorials from July to October of 1917, and 25 reports and research compilations on a variety of subjects. Newspaper clippings include reviews of his books and articles. Other miscellaneous material includes the Dafoe family tree, memorials written by friends and peers, and a semi-biographical sketch of Dafoe's early years written by his sister, Mrs E. Emerson. Archives & Special Collections also houses an ancillary collection, in microform format (MF 15), of his printed Manitoba Free Press editorials from 1928 to 1944.

Dafoe, John Wesley

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