The Walter Seymour Allward papers contain 1 metre of textual records, plus architectural drawings. The main focus of the papers in both media is the Vimy Ridge Memorial, near Arras, France erected to World War I 'missing' Canadians by the Canadian Battlefields Memorial Commission 1922-36, with Walter Allward as architect and sculptor. This imposing monument was the major work in Allward's career but he created several other monuments in Canada before, and after, World War I e.g. Peterborough, Ottawa, Brantford.
The fonds consists of correspondence with academic colleagues and publishing companies, files of writings (rough, draft and published), field notes, notebooks and legal records relating to the Canada Thermos trademark case.
Collection of various family papers from the Wardrope and Dyde family. Includes 3 type family "reminiscences" only two of which are dated (1903, 1924). Material includes information about arriving in Canada, family relationships and moves between cities and towns. One, dated 1903, is from Rev. S. Dyde.-Certificate of Division Registrar Respecting Registration of Birth for Dorothy Frances Dyde born December 22nd, 1905-Marriage certificate for W. Hobart Dyde & Frances Anna Fenwick dated October 5th, 1891-Letter from Shirley C. Spragge to Miss Dorothy Dyde thanking her gift of the genealogy of the Dyde family
Relates to amending the rate of pension granted to men of the West India Regiment and the local companies of the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers in the West Indies.
Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry Charles Keith, 5th Marquis Lansdowne
Photocopies of Christmas cards sent by Watson and Hope Kirkconnell each year, designed with personal photographs and poems by Dr. Kirkconnell. The last one, 1977, was signed by Hope Kirkconnell but had a poem by her husband.
Fonds consists of manuscripts, research notes and correspondence relating to Grady's writing, translation and editorial work. Includes correspondence with Canadian authors, including correspondence relating to the compilation of "Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories," translation notes and manuscripts for books by Antonine Maillet, Daniel Poliquin and Francine D'Amour, and research notes and manuscripts for his own works, "Quiet Limit of the World," "Vulture," "Bone Museum," "The Dinosaur Project," Chasing the Chinook," "Toronto the Wild," "Tree" and "Bringing Back the Dodo." This fonds contains the following series: Correspondence (1973-1999), Translations (1987-1993), Articles and Features (1961-2001), Anthologies (1975-1995) and Projects (1975-2006).
