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Archival description
CA ACU SPC C0001 · Collection · 1874-1903

Collection consists of one album containing 529 autographs from leading 19th century figures, chiefly British, roughly separated into the sections of political figures, musicians, literary figures, visual artists, religious figures, performing artists, legal professionals, medical professionals, scientists, and philanthropists. List of contents at end of album.

Hetherington, Howard
CA ACU SPC C0003 · Collection · 19--?-1978

Collection consists of reproductions of paintings, drawings, etchings and photographs of celebrated 14th to 20th century European and North American authors. Items mounted on mattes and identified with authors' names. Pictures occasionally contain information about the original work of art from which the reproduction was made. Includes several pictures of some authors and holograph notes by unidentified author, commenting on the pictures.

Castell, William Rentoul
CA ACU SPC C0004 · Collection · 1963-2006

MsC 226 consists of minutes of the first to eighty-third meetings of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963 September 4 - 1971 February 27); Research Bulletin, a compilation of research projects and contracts to be carried out to provide background information for the Royal Commission; A preliminary report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism; Press reaction to the preliminary report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism; and several miscellaneous reports and a letter relating to the Commission. Items distributed to Commissioners, among them Commissioner Gertrude Laing, Calgary, Alberta. MsC 333 consists of 3 recorded interviews of G. Laing by Dr. Marion McKenna, November 1, 1978, April 8, 1997 and April 23, 1997; transcript of April 8, 1997 interview; photocopy of a photograph of G. Laing; and Tribute column by Nancy Millar published in the Calgary Herald, January 12, 2006. Filed with MsC 226 (Box 2).

Laing, Gertrude Mary
CA ACU SPC C0005 · Collection · 19--?-1976

File consists of manuscripts of two works tracing the history of Mennonites in Russia and their emigration to North America; and two booklets about Mennonites. Item 1 titled Vor 40 Jahren in Ruszland (136 p.). Item 2, untitled, explores the history of Russian Mennonites, ca. 1870-1950; item includes table of contents and twenty chapters (ca. 1080 p.); first chapter titled Aus der Volkischen Vorgeschichte der ruszlandischen Mennoniten. Items 3 and 4 titled respectively Eichenfeld-Dubowka by Heinrich Toews and Aus Schwerer Zeit by Jakob F. Isaak; both booklets undated.

Hildebrand, Jakob J.
Linda Sandler collection.
CA ACU SPC C0009 · Collection · 1975-1976

Fonds consists of correspondence with George Bowering, Margaret Atwood and other Canadian authors, chiefly relating to the special Margaret Atwood issue published by Malahat Review (no. 41, January 1977) and edited by L. Sandler; preliminary work, sound recordings, transcripts and several drafts of L. Sandler's Interview with Margaret Atwood, published in the special issue; drafts of the table of contents and preface written by L. Sandler; and draft of Tom Marshall's essay Atwood under and above water, also published in the special issue.

Sandler, Linda
CA ACU SPC C0013 · Collection · [ca. 194-]-2003

Collection consists of research material relating to K.M. Snow's Maxwell Bates : biography of an artist (Calgary : University of Calgary Press, 1993) including correspondence, interviews, photographs, sound recordings, works by and relating to Maxwell Bates as well as drafts and galley proofs of biography.

Snow, Kathleen M.
CA ACU SPC C0014 · Collection · 1920-2000

Collection consists of works by Illingworth Kerr such as manuscripts of Kerr's autobiography "Paint and circumstance" including research material, Christmas cards, and articles and illustrations; works about Kerr as well as by others; exhibition catalogues and brochures relating to Kerr other artists including R.F.M. McInnis, Kathryn Youngs, Louis de Niverville, Jack Shadbolt and Ken Christopher; photographs and slides of Kerr's art and landscapes, animals, etc. used as studies for his paintings, Kerr family photographs, and photographic material of others' art.

Snyder, Gordon
Alan R. Ness fonds.
CA ACU SPC C0017 · Collection · 1977-1988

Collection consists of typescript and holograph manuscripts of mathematical calculations, proofs, notes, diagrams and diary entries; and coloured slides of tiling diagrams of geometric shapes in various combinations and sequences. Mathematical subjects include hexagonal tiling and prime numbers. Titles on binders containing manuscripts include Tile, Twinlock, N-rep presentations, Hex, Penrose pair, N roots, Re-ordering of O-branch sets and Pythagorean (Hex) numbers play.

Ness, Alan R.
CA ACU SPC C0018 · Collection · 1927-2000

Collection primarily consists of research material relating to C.W. Fullerton's 1985 University of Calgary doctoral dissertation George Stewart, Jr.: nineteenth century man of letters including correspondence, works by and about George Stewart, Jr., photographs, and notes. Also includes research materials for papers on Matthew Arnold and other miscellaneous items of academic interest.

Fullerton, Carol W.
CA ACU SPC C0019 · Collection · 1935-2009

Fonds consists of Leon Bankoff's collection of material relating to a geometric figure, the 'arbelos'. Includes correspondence, primarily with other mathematicians including Clayton W. Dodge, Howard Eves, Leo Sauvé, and Charles W. Trigg; manuscripts including notebooks; published works; works by others; and material by and about M. Victor Thébault.

Dodge, Clayton Willard