Loryl MacDonald, U of T’s University Archivist, was honoured with two prestigious awards this conference season, recognizing her incredible contributions to the archival community, both at the provincial and federal levels. On May 13th, Loryl was awarded the Alexander Fraser Award by the Archives…
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The University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services is pleased to announce that the Ursula Martius Franklin fonds is now available to researchers. Dr. Franklin was the university’s first female professor of metallurgy and materials science and the first woman to receive the title of…
The University Archives is pleased that the papers of eminent Canadian paleoanthropologist, Davidson Black, are now available to researchers. Davidson Black (1884-1934) is best known for his work, beginning in 1927, in identifying Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) in conjunction with Dr. Wenhao…
The David Dunlap Observatory Scrapbook has been digitized by the Internet Archive and is now available online at https://archive.org/details/ddobook00astr The 200-page book, which was presented to David Moffat Dunlap by his…
The University of Toronto Archives is pleased to announce our recent acquisition of over 400 nineteenth century stereographs, which were collected by Sir Daniel Wilson, U of T’s president from 1880-1892. Harold Averill, Assistant University Archivist, explains the context of the collection below.…
Congratulations to Barbara Edwards, our Reference Specialist, who received her Masters of Information Studies (MISt) from the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, on 12 June 2014. Barb has worked at the U of T Archives since 1990 and pursued her studies while continuing to work with us…
Harold Averill, the Associate University Archivist, won an award, an “IPPY” from the Independent Publisher Book Awards for his work on Recollections of a Neighbourhood: Huron-Sussex from UTS to Stop Spadina (Words Indeed Publishing). The book received a silver medal (second prize, tie) for Canada–…
Harold Averill recently received the J. J. Talman Award from the Archives Association of Ontario. The AAO’s most prestigious award is given to individuals “who have demonstrated an outstanding level of imagination and innovation in contributions to the profession, their institutions, or the…