Category Archives: Archives & Special Collections

Archives Awareness Week: Tax Season!

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Anna St.Onge

It may the the tail end of Archives Awareness Week, but it is also the start of tax season!
Here are a number of photographic prints from the Toronto Telegram which were used in feature articles from 1945, 1946, 1965 and … Continue reading →

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International Women’s Day 2013

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Anna St.Onge

To celebrate International Women’s Day, here is a selection of items celebrating the political and social activism of women.
You can also see a selection of material we highlighted in 2011 which included activists, community organizers, philosophers and politicians like Jean … Continue reading →

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Black History Month featured fonds: Gerald A. Archambeau

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Anna St.Onge

One of most recent donations from the community is a small cache of documents relating to the life and family genealogy of Gerald A. Archambeau.
Gerald A. Archambeau is a Canadian citizen (b.1933) who emigrated from Jamaica to Montreal in 1947. … Continue reading →

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Sad songs say so much : love lost, betrayed and prevented

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Anna St.Onge

As a companion post to our teeth-achingly sweet post about Valentine’s Day from 2012, here are a selection of songs from the John Arpin Sheet Music Collection featuring scorned lovers, sad sops, shallow cads, and general romantic ne’er do wells.
If … Continue reading →

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