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- 1952 - 2019 (Creation)
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39 cm of textual materials
2 photoprints
17x 3.5-inch diskettes
23x 5.25-inch diskettes
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Biographical history
Ray Smith, born James Raymond Smith, (1941 - 2019) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer. He was born on 12 December 1941 in Cape Breton (Inverness, Nova Scotia) and educated at Dalhousie University, Halifax (B.A. 1963), and at Concordia University, Montreal (M.A. 1985). He worked as an instructor in English at Dawson College, Montreal, until his retirement in 2007. In the early 1970s he joined with authors Clark Blaise, Raymond Fraser, Hugh Hood, and John Metcalf to form the celebrated Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group.
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Accession 2025.59 from the John Metcalf Fonds contained these three boxes of materials inherited from the estate of Canadian author Ray Smith.
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Consists of materials related to the writing and professional activities of Montreal Storyteller Ray Smith.
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No accruals are expected.
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Fonds is arranged into the following Series:
- Correspondence
- Manuscripts
- Published Works
- Works About the Author
- Professional Activities
- Business Activities
- Research and Travel
- Smith Family
- Photographs
- Digital Records
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Archivist's note
Arranged and described Feb. 2026 (CLC).