Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Joseph Wearing fonds. 2015 additions
General material designation
- Textual record
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title based on the creator of the fonds.
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Reference code
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
-
ca. 1940-1996 (Creation)
- Creator
- Wearing, Joseph
Physical description area
Physical description
1.2 m of textual records
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Joseph Wearing is Professor Emeritus at Trent University, having been a member of the Department of Political Studies for three decades and, for a time, serving as Chair of the Department. He is a graduate of the universities of Western Ontario, Toronto and Oxford (D.Phil.) and is the author of books and articles on Canadian political parties. His books include The L-Shaped Party: The Liberal Party of Canada, 1958-1980; Strained Relations: Canadian Parties and Voters; and The Ballot and its Message: Voting in Canada (edited collection of articles on Canadian voting behaviour). He also wrote a book about his father, Lumberjack in the Court House: The Remarkable Career of Judge Joseph Wearing and helped to produce “:30 Second Democracy: A Documentary on Political Television Advertising.” A more recent research interest is the role of party discipline in the Canadian House of Commons. Apart from his academic activities, Professor Wearing has also contributed to the musical life of Trent University and the City of Peterborough. He was the musical director of six Gilbert & Sullivan productions between 1969 and 1975 and performed in a seventh production. He conducted the Coventry Singers of Peterborough, 1967-1975, and was chair of Town & Gown Concerts that presented concerts by local performers as well as by prominent Canadian musicians including Lois Marshall, soprano, and Anton Kuerti, piano. He was also on the Board of Directors of the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra and held the position of president. As a pianist and member of the Master Class Players, Wearing performs regularly at community events in Toronto.
Custodial history
Fonds was in the custody of Professor Joseph Wearing before being donated to Trent University Archives in 2014.
Scope and content
Fonds consists of Professor Joseph Wearing's research materials, newspaper clippings, reports, and articles related to the Liberal Party of Canada, various Liberal Party conventions and conferences, the Peterborough Riding Liberal Association, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, government and Canadian federal cultural policy, Canadian federal elections of the 1960s and 1970s, and The Arts. Also included are miscellaneous notes and manuscripts, as well as materials related to the video “:30 Second Democracy” and Wearing’s book, The L-Shaped Party: the Liberal Party of Canada, 1958-1980. Included also in this fonds are programs, financial and administrative records, and minutes related to Peterborough Symphony Orchestra, 1970s-1980.
Notes area
Physical condition
Some documents in this fonds have a musty smell; there is no evidence, however, of mould. Masks are available upon request.
Immediate source of acquisition
Fonds acquired from Professor Joseph Wearing in 2014.
Arrangement
Folder headings have been maintained as received.
Language of material
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
Some of the research material is comprised of photocopies of articles and book chapters; this material is not to be reproduced or quoted directly without appropriate consent.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
Associated materials
Accruals
This fonds is an addition to 98-011.
General note
Box 1
Folder
- Liberal Party Convention, 1966
- Liberal Party / Death of Martin Luther King, 1968
- Liberal Party, 1968
- Liberal Party, 1968
- Harrison Liberal Conference, 1969
- Harrison Liberal Conference, 1969
Box 2
Folder
- Liberal Party Convention, 1970
- Liberal Party Convention, 1973
- Liberal Party Convention, 1973
- Liberal Party Convention, 1975
- Peterborough Poll 166, List of Voters, 1975
- Peterborough Poll 40, List of Voters, 1977
- Liberal Party Convention, 1978
- Liberal Party Convention, 1978
- Federal Election, Peterborough, 1978
- Federal Election, Peterborough, 1978
Loose in box: 7 notebooks with ballot counts, undated - Liberal Party Convention, 1984
- Liberal Party Convention, 1984
- Liberal Party Convention, Survey of Delegates, 1984
- Liberal Party Convention, Survey of Delegates, 1984
- National Liberal Federation: notes
- Federal Liberal Party: clippings and miscellaneous
- Peterborough Riding Liberal Association: some minutes, miscellaneous, 1975-1977
Box 3
Folder
- Party organizations abroad – paper by Wearing, 1984
- Politics – graduate studies
- Claxton, Tarte and Murphy research papers
- Research regarding article in Journal of Canadian Studies
- Wearing manuscript “The Liberal Party”
- Wearing manuscript – miscellaneous
- Arts funding and the Government, 1983-1984 (includes papers and research materials by Wearing)
- Arts funding and the Government, 1983-1984 (includes papers and research materials by Wearing)
- Arts and government, ca. 1977-1981
- Arts and government, ca. 1977-1981
- Visual Arts Museum, ca. 1980-1983
- Canadian Opera Company, ca. 1983
- Arts – Vancouver
- Canada – Theatre – General
- Canada – Music – General
- Canada – Opera – General
- Canada – Orchestras – General
- Canada – Performing Arts – General
- Arts – Edmonton
- Arts – Edmonton
- 1962 Federal Election
- 1963 Federal Election
- 1968 Federal Election
- 1972 Federal Election
- 1974 Federal Election
Box 4
Folder
- Political T.V. Adverts & “:30 Second Democracy” script, 1993-1996
- “:30 Second Democracy” transcripts
- re video on Political Advertising on Television “:30 Second Democracy”, 1991-1995
- Television advertising, 1986-1991
- Political Advertising on Television, 1988-1996
Box 5
Folder
- Peterborough Symphony Orchestra (PSO): budgets, 1978-1980
- PSO: bylaws, 1977
- PSO: concert committee, 1974-1977
- PSO: conductor, 1976-1978
- PSO: financial reports, 1976-1979
- PSO: funding and grants, 1975-1978
- PSO: John Falls and Peter Bartley, 1977-1978
- PSO: minutes, 1976-1979
- PSO: newspaper clippings, 1977-1979
- PSO: office, 1975-1979
- PSO: president, 1975-1978
- PSO: publications, 1975-1980
- PSO: Wintario, 1977-1979
- PSO: Youth Orchestra, 1976-1979
- PSO: miscellaneous, 1977-1980
- Progressive Conservatives: clippings, ca. 1970s-1980s
- Progressive Conservatives: constitutions and directors’ reports, 1956-1975; Report on the Montmorency Conference, 1967
- Progressive Conservative Party: papers, 1940s
- Progressive Conservative Party: papers, 1940s