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Katherine Govier fonds.
CA ACU SPC F0128 · Fonds · 1973-2023

Fonds consist of correspondence; notebooks; manuscripts of novels, short stories, articles, radio and television scripts, stage play, speeches, book reviews, travel anthologies and miscellaneous manuscript material; proposals for various projects; material relating to Writers in Electronic Residence and Writers' Development Trust ; published works; works on K. Govier; and university and teaching related material, promotional material, financial and legal documents, research documents, and conference material.

Also includes records relating to The Shoe Project, an organization initiated by Govier that held workshops on writing and performances for immigrant women to describe their experiences.

Govier, Katherine
CA ACU SPC F0137 · Fonds · 1914-2008, 2023

Fonds consists of research material relating to book The merchants of Venus: inside Harlequin and the empire of romance including Harlequin promotional material, photographs, interviews with various Harlequin executives and writers, articles on romance by other authors, notes and material relating to 1995 Romantic Times convention and issues of Pandora's Box, the newsletter of the Published Authors Network of Romance Writers of America (Acc 705/01.11). Also consists of 15 chapters of an unfinished manuscript "Heart Quake."

Acc 788/05.9 consists of correspondence, research material and manuscripts relating to other books by P. Grescoe and P. and A. Grescoe including Flesh wound, Blood vessel, Alaska: the cruise lover's guide, The book of letters, The book of war letters, Flight path, The mavericks and Secret riches. Includes copies of the published books.

Acc 835/07.25 consists of material, mainly correspondence, relating to P. and A. Grescoe's The book of love letters; Canadian kinship, friendship, and romance (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2005).

Acc 863/09.7 primarily consists of material relating to books P. Grescoe wrote with Richard F. Haskayne: Northern tigers: building ethical Canadian corporate champions: a memoir and a manifesto (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2007); Wayne Skene: Wheels: the legacy of Lloyd Cooper and his Calgary roller rink (Bowen Island: Tribute Books, 2007); Sean Rossiter: Safe and sound: the story of The Justice Institute of British Columbia (Bowen Island: Tribute Books, 2008); and Harley Hotchkiss: A life in the hockey rink, oil patch and community (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2009).

Grescoe, Paul
Ken Rivard fonds.
CA ACU SPC F0148 · Fonds · 1936-2022

Fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts of poems, short stories and young adult fiction, published works and audio-visual material.

Rivard, Ken
John Reid fonds
CA ACU SPC F0127 · Fonds · 1981-2021

Fonds consists of materials relating to courses John Reid instructed and his role in founding and directing the Jazz Is Society of Alberta, radio scripts for CJAY 92FM jazz program Jazz Space (April 3, 1981 - March 8, 1987) and Jazz Spectrum (March 15, 1987 - September 1, 1991), and ten notebooks with notes on jazz recording albums considered for review in J. Reid's column in Calgary Sun newspaper.

Reid, John Charles
Lise Melhorn-Boe fonds
CA ACU SPC F0245 · Fonds · 1964-2021

Fonds consists of scrapbooks, ephemera, design materials and dummies for early work and artist's books, journals, correspondence, catalogues, sales books.

Melhorn-Boe, Lise
Genni Gunn fonds.
CA ACU SPC F0153 · Fonds · 1978-2020

Fonds consists of correspondence; manuscripts of novels, poems, poetry collections, short stories, screenplays, opera libretto, music scores, translations, speeches, essays and proposal for an unwritten biography; material relating to conferences, writers festivals and workshops; works about G. Gunn and published works.
An accrual received in 2016 (Acc 2016.016) with a date range of 1983-2014, includes the complete drafts of novel Solitaria (boxes 1-5), and some drafts of other works including Tracing Iris, several short stories, Tracing Iris film script, reviews, correspondence with writers and editors, including Carolyn Swayze, correspondence with translators for Tracing Iris and Solitaria into other languages including Italian and Dutch, interviews given in magazines, records of workshops and conferences attended and papers given, records on awards adjudications, reading lists and reference materials.

Gunn, Genni
Kenneth McGoogan fonds.
CA ACU SPC F0124 · Fonds · 1974-2019

Fonds consists of correspondence including subject files; notebooks, daytimers and contact books; manuscripts of novels, screenplays, biographies, short stories, articles, columns, book reviews, essays, and speeches; published works; editing work; scrapbooks of articles and reviews clipped from the Calgary Herald; teaching files; material relating to conferences, writers' festivals and workshops; material relating to songwriting; miscellaneous personal records and material about K. McGoogan; and works by others. Fonds also includes sound recordings and original songs written by K. McGoogan, other music, interviews and readings; videocassettes of personal appearances; and photographs.

McGoogan, Kenneth
Gerard I. Kenney fonds
CA ACU SPC F0221 · Fonds · 1968-2019

Fonds consists of the records Gerald I Kenney created during his research for the books 'Arctic Smoke and Mirrors' (2003) boxes 1-5, Dangerous Passage (2004), box 6, and ships of Wood. Men of Iron' (2005), box 7. Records include copies of archival documenst, copies and original photographic prints related used in the books, correspondence including with the Pierre Burton and the Royal commission on RCAP in the 1993-1994, and with fellow researchers and stakeholders, three VHS tapes, two of which are interviews with Kenney, and 22 audio cassette tapes with interviews Kenny conducted himself with witnesses of the Inuit resettlement program for his book 'Arctic Smoke and Mirrors'. The VHS tapes and computer diskettes are recordings of 1993 RCAP public hearings and CBC programs on the subject. Some research materials, consisting of copies of archival materials Kenney obtained from archival repositories and private sources, was retained by the archivist because they may be difficult to acquire.

Kenney, Gerard I.
Brian Brennan fonds
CA ACU SPC F0216 · Fonds · 1968-2019

The fonds consists of drafts and completed manuscripts and research materials including recorded interviews for Brennan's published books. Features drafts of his magazine stories and research notes; as well as copies and clippings and research materials for his works as journalist.

Brennan, Brian Anthony