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File consists of Prof. John Wadland’s subject file on the Spicer Commission. This file contains newspaper clippings that discuss the crisis of politics in the government and the reflection of the government's institutions and practices, Canada’s yearning for leadership, the Canadian Citizens forum, and the rejection of the constituent assembly plea.

File consists of six photographs of Irwin Sperber.

Fonds consists of two boxes of materials related to the life of Spencer J. Harrison, artist and gay activist.

Fonds consists of two boxes of materials related to the life and times of Spencer J. Harrison, artist and gay activist.

Fonds consists of one box of materials related to the life and times of Spencer J. Harrison, artist and gay activist.

This fonds consists of 4 boxes of materials related to the life and works of Spencer J. Harrison.

File consists of photographs of Bill Spencely

Octavo. Original Printed Wrappers. (21.4 cm x 14.7 cm), Grey printed wraps, title-page reproduced in frame to front cover. 56 pp. + 11 publ. adverts (including rear cover), 1 map; Contemporary light pencil signature of A[lexander] Kirkwood [1823-1901] at head of upper cover. Kirkwood, farmer, author and civil servant, wrote many articles and treatises which eventually earned him a position with the Ontario Crown Lands Department where he became a senior officer. Kirkwood’s most significant work as a government promoter of agricultural expansion was an officially sanctioned book entitled The undeveloped lands in northern & western Ontario . . . (1878), written with his colleague Joseph J. Murphy. He is remembered largely for the prominent role he played in the establishment of Ontario’s first and most famous provincial park, Algonquin Park. (see DCB online article by Gerald Killan). Interior crisp and clean. Covers soiled, primarily to spine and edges, otherwise a very good, tight copy. Peel (3) 896. [2079]

First Edition. Octavo. Original Wraps. (21.3 cm x 14.7 cm), pp. 56, [8] adverts. + advert. to rear cover, original printed paper wrappers, sewn binding. Adverts include those from The Saskatchewan Express, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and Emigration information. Mild tanning around the edges, slight chipping at the spine head & tail, else very good plus copy in the original wrappers. Contents include: Canadian Pacific Railway; Beauty and fertility of the country; Comparison with the Western States; The Soil and its Agricultural capacities; Frosts; Inducements offered by our Prairie Lands to Settlers; Building, Timber, Fuel and Fencing; Information on Tree Culture; Coal and Peat; Mineral Resources; Farming; Utilizing the Buffalo; Fruit; Flax; Hemp; Bees; The Colony System of Emigrating; Outfit and Prices; Routes; Private Lands; Homestead and Tree Planting; among others. Peel (3) 896. [1729]

Series consists of more than 25 speeches and articles by G.C. Monture about Indigenous issues and mining. Many are undated. Includes speech notes on cards and full texts of talks. See file description for a list of some of the titles.

File consists of more than 25 speeches and articles by G.C. Monture. Many are undated and some are untitled. Topics include Mary (Molly) Brant, Six Nation, mining, Northern Development and Indian Affairs, settler representations of Indigenous peoples, Canadian identity,

Individual titles include the following:

• From Ore to Metal: Coal in Integrated Metallurgy / by G.C. Monture
• The Indians of the North / by G.C. Monture
• The Indians Speak to Canada: a series of broadcasts sponsored by The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in co-operation with the Indian Affairs Branch, Department of Mines and Resources, 1939. Includes "The Iroquois" by G.C. Monture
• Human Problems in the Canadian North: prepared for inclusion in the 1954-55 annual report of the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources
• The Plastic Igloo
• Enfranchisement
• Canada and the Commonwealth
• The Iroquois, 1937

Also includes some speeches by others:

• Critical Mineral Shortages, an address delivered at a plenary session of the United nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources / by H.L. Keenleyside, Deputy Minister of Mines and Resources and Commissioner of the Northwest Territories at Lake Success, August 18, 1949

Also includes an Indian Council Fire membership directory (undated).