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Hibakusha collection
IMC-031 · File · 1982
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File consists of letters, pamphlets, testimonies and petitions pertaining to 80 Hibakusha who wanted to make a presentation to the U.N. in June 1982 opposing the proliferation of nuclear weapons but were denied entry to the United States. "Hibakusha" are victims of the atomic bombs which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945.

IMC-040 · File
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File consists of photographs of Camp Franklin on Georgian Bay. Also includes a New Testament given to Stanton while at Camp Camperdown, 1922. Stanton was at that time a 17 year old student at Havergal College in Toronto. The names of staff at Camperdown are signed in the front of the bible. The camp director was most likely Millicent Payne.

IMC-045 · File · 1834-1882
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File consists of the following letters:

  • "David Hooey of Port Hope to Robert Kelly of Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland: 26 April 1834, 6 March 1835, 24 January 1839 (3 letters - transcripts only).
  • Rainy Armstrong to brother of Grass [Gross], County Cavan: 12 April 1852 (photocopy of original plus transcript)
  • Robert Maxwell to his brother: 26 December 1878 (transcript only).
  • Henry Maxwell of Oshawa to his brother, Patrick Maxwell: 14 December 1881 (transcript only).
  • Robert Maxwell (b. 1806) to his brother Henry Maxwell: 7 July 1882 (transcript only).
  • Photocopies of the postmark and postal markings for miscellaneous letters (period 1841 to 1850)."
IMC-046 · File · 1901
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

This paper is comprised of the family reminiscences of Susan Greeley, focusing on stories of the settlement of the Rogers family in New Hampshire in the mid-1700s and later immigration to Canada. The concluding paragraph reads as follows: "The foregoing has been written by me and is a statement of facts within my recollection and from what my mother has told me, she having been a member of the first party of U.E. Loyalists that settled on the Bay of Quintie in June 1784. Dated at Haldimand this 27th day of Decr. 1901. [Signed] Susan B. Greeley."

IMC-047 · File · 2003
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

Items in this small collection include illuminated poems by Richard Outram; many signed and illuminated single poems; a special edition of Canadian Notes & Queries (2003) dedicated to Barbara Howard; a memorial card of the service held in memory of Richard Outram and Barbara Howard at the Arts and Letters Club, April, 2005.

IMC-057 · File · 1941
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

A reproduction (34 cm x 121 cm) of an original two-piece mural painted in 1941 by artist Frederick Hagan (1918-2003). The mural depicts various camp activities; reproductions were made in recognition of the camp's 100th anniversary celebrated in 2010.

IMC-061 · File · 2000-2011
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

"Included is a CD with various documents relating to the Project:

  • a draft of a chapter by Alsford published in Tom Symons: A Canadian Life, 2011;
  • Meta Incognita Project Steering Committee minutes after 2000;
  • plus several other Project documents

Also included is a copy of ""Recommendations for a Management Plan for Kodlunarn Island and Related Historical Sites in Outer Frobisher Bay"", 2000."

Margaret Laurence letters
IMC-062 · File · 1983-1986
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File consists of letters addressed to Kim and Kate Krenz of Lakefield, Ontario. Also, several newspaper clippings, many of which are obituaries published at the time of Laurence's death in January 1987.