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Clarence Barber fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 165
  • Fonds
  • 1953-1998

The fonds consists of economic papers and reports collected and written by Clarence Barber, Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba. Included are memoranda drafts of the final version of the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects of Canada (1984-85), several economics reports authored by others, and six of Barber's economic reports. The fonds also consists of correspondence, which includes the letters of prominent economists such as D.H. Robertson and John Kenneth Galbraith, as well as eight books.

Barber, Clarence L.

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)

Donald John Birse fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 052
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1969, predominant 1928-1969

The collection contains the files, reports, correspondence, printed maps and pamphlets gathered or created by Donald Birse during his career spanning the years 1928 to 1969. Of special interest are his diaries and work journals, mineral claims, company reports and approximately 150 photographs of various geological expeditions in northern Manitoba from 1924 to 1937.

Birse, Donald John

Ann E. Carson fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 106
  • Fonds
  • 1965-1985

The fonds contains an original music score, several unpublished stories, a play, and poetry. There are copies of her published work in Voxair.

Carson, Ann Elizabeth

Communist Party of Canada Collection

  • CA UMASC Mss 169, A.02-50
  • Collection
  • 1935-1996

The fonds consists of printed materials related to the Communist Party of Canada and the Labour Progressive Party. These include reports, pamphlets, briefs to royal commissions, convention materials, newspapers, election handouts, constitutions, and writings by such notables as William Kashtan and Leslie Morrison.

Communist Party of Canada

Keith H. Barker fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS 130
  • Fonds
  • 1952-1985

The fonds consists of farm account books which detailed household and farm receipts and expenditures and brief family history.

Barker, Keith H.

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences fonds

  • CA UMASC UA 21
  • Collection
  • 1908-1988

The fonds is divided into thirteen series as noted below. The textual records include correspondence, budgets, minutes, annual reports, research proposals and results, course syllabi, papers, exams, and publicity and press releases for the School of Agriculture, the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, and the Faculty's component department. The files of the Canadian International Development Association's work in Kenya and Zambia are also included. The photograph collection consists of over 2000 photographs, over 400 slides, and 16 packets of negatives that illustrate a number of activities involving the Manitoba Agricultural College and its predecessor, the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences. The tape collection consists of four audio reels that detail the following topics: Manitoba Agricultural College History – Extension; the birth of 4H in Canada; the first Home Economics Programs; the organization of Women's Institutes in Manitoba; Dr. L.H. Shebeski; "The Challenge of Agriculture"; Dr. Baldur Stefanson on "The Rapeseed Story"; an example of an Agricultural Diploma oral examination; and Glen Dyck Morden on the "Farm Business Planning Project."

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Correspondence with Whitmore

  • CA UMASC Dr. Kenneth Standing Fonds
  • Fonds
  • 1956-1959

Records consist of correspondence between Dr. Kenneth Standing and Dr. B.G. Whitmore, dating from 1956 to 1959, regarding the construction of the University's cyclotron. Construction of the cyclotron began 1959 and was completed in in October 1964. The original four sector, spiral-ridge cyclotron was designed primarily to accelerate H ions with a provision to accelerate D ions. The cyclotron originally operated with an internal ion source, which was subsequently replaced with an axial injection system in 1976. The cyclotron was decommissioned in the late 1980s.

There are 3 letters that do not directly relate to the cyclotron, but give some general background. They are dated: November 26, 1956; December 19, 1956; and December 30, 1956.

Dr. Kenneth Standing

Pamela Banting fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS SC 66
  • Fonds
  • 1985

The fonds consists of Pamela Banting's commentary, "The Daughter's Seduction" with excerpts from correspondence between Dorothy Livesay and her father, John Frederick Bligh Livesay. This was a Discovery Hour Series lecture given by Pamela Banting in 1985. Discovery Hour Series was a program run by University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections from 1982 to 1994.

Banting, Pamela

Evans, Jane

  • CA UMCMA Evans_J
  • File

The Jane Evans file contains the following material:

  1. Evans appointed one of 16 Medical Research Council Directors Bull 1 Dec 1994 (1p)
  2. Causes and early detection are focus of study on congenital handicaps (1p)
  3. Appointed Head Dept Biochem & Med Genetics Dean's Office 20 Nov 2000 (1p)
  4. YMCA-YWCA Woman of Distinction for Science Technology and the Environment notice 2001 (1p)
  5. "Late pregnancy complications targeted" WFP 14 Feb 2003 (1p)
  6. Chairperson report (J Evans) MHRC Annual Report 2003-2004 (2pp)
  7. Health Sciences Grad Student Assn awarded 2005 Mentorship Award to JE Man Med Fall/Winter 2005/2006 (1p)
  8. "Science combatting neural-tube defects-Babies live better lives" WFP 14 Apr 2007 (1p)
  9. Retirement notice, 21 Jan 2010 (1p)
  10. Appointed Prof Emeritus, 2010 Spring Convocation booklet 2010; Bull v44(4) 20 May 2010; correction Bull v44(5) 10 June 2010 (3pp)

First Annual Archives Symposium fonds

  • CA UMASC TC 20
  • Fonds
  • 1979

This fonds contains recordings of lectures on several of the Archives & Special Collections' most important fonds. Donors such as Lillian Allen, Nan Shipley, Craig Stewart, and Jack Murta discuss their own collections. Dr. Brian McKillop discusses Marshall Gauvin, Dr. Paul Hjartarson discusses Frederick Phillip Grove, and Dr. Walter Swayze discusses Dorothy Livesay.

Annual Archives Symposium

Edward J. Barton fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS SC 12
  • Fonds
  • 1915

The fonds consists of one handwritten letter, dated November 28, 1915, from Father Edward J. Barton to Dr. D.A. Stewart. Dr. David Alexander Stewart (1874-1932), a graduate of the University of Manitoba, was the founder and superintendent of Ninette Sanatorium for tuberculosis in Manitoba. The letter was intended to inform Dr. Stewart of the death of Father Superior Paul Benoit, Sr., the first parish priest of Notre Dame de Lourdes, and discussed the earlier death of Father Paul Benoit, Jr.

Barton, Edward J.

Graham Jackson fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 103 (A.87-07)
  • Fonds
  • 1980

The fonds consists of one unbound literary manuscript entitled Not Really By Chance written by Graham Jackson. The manuscript is the 24th of 30 copies and pertains to homosexuality.

Jackson, Graham

W. Royce Butler fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 26, Mss Sc 65 (A.78-42, A.80-20)
  • Fonds
  • 1978

MSS SC 26 contains a copy of Professor Butler's lecture "The Form of the Book and the Shape of the Mind", delivered in 1978 at the Winnipeg Centennial Library as part of the Manitoba Library Event, a press release and a calendar of events for Manitoba Library Event and Children's Book Festival in November 1978. MSS SC 65 consists of a photocopy of Loys Le Roy's pamphlet, "De la Vicissitude des Choses," and a bibliographic history of the first edition prepared by Butler.

Butler, Royce

William J. Cameron fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 15
  • Fonds
  • 1984

The fonds consists of a manuscript titled Popular Literature: The Publishing History of 'Acting Plays' 1710-1793 by William J. Cameron, and a program for The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Winnipeg October 12, 13, 14, 1984. Cameron presented his paper at a joint session of the CSECS and the Department of Archives & Special Collections, Elizabeth Dafoe Library, the University of Manitoba on 16 October.

Cameron, William J.

George Black fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS SC 050
  • Fonds
  • 1897

The fonds consists of a diary written by George Black, who describes his journey from Winnipeg by steamer up the Red River to bring relief to settlers distressed by the flood of April 22-28, 1897. It is a leather bound account book containing Black's penciled diary and a record of mail and supplies delivered.

Black, George

Hans Braun fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 117
  • Fonds
  • 1994

The fonds consists of a 15 page unpublished article titled "In Search of Security: Postwar Germany Between Reconstruction and Modernization." Braun's article focuses on the situation in Germany after the Second World War ended in 1945, its occupation by Allied Forces, the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic in 1949, and a notable anti-political trend in the 1950s.

Braun, Hans

Albert Breton fonds

  • CA UMASC MSS SC 112
  • Fonds
  • 1986

The fonds consists of a copy of a speech delivered by Albert Breton at the 1986 University of Manitoba convocation ceremonies titled "Quel libre - echange pour le Canada?". The speech is in French.

Breton, Albert

Seymour Hamilton fonds

  • CA UMASC Mss Sc 94 (A.85-10)
  • Fonds
  • 1984

The fonds consists of one copy of Seymour Hamilton's speech entitled "Electronic Publishing".

Hamilton, Seymour

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