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Red Barn Theatre fonds
CA F831 · Fonds · 1949-2010, predominantly 1976-2009

Fonds consists of records created and received by The Red Barn Theatre and the Lake Simcoe Arts Foundation relating to theatre productions, publicity and marketing, finances, administrative organization, theatre personnel, and building maintenance. Types of material include correspondence, photographs, posters, published and unpublished materials, audiovisual material, reading scripts, financial records, newspaper clippings, and set and costume designs and drawings.

Red Barn Theatre
Matthew Agar fonds
CA F833 · Fonds · 1913-1975

The Matthew Agar fonds contains newsletters, reports, publications, bulletins, correspondence, financial receipts, meeting minutes, and photographs relating to the Ontario Department of Agriculture, the Ontario Honey Producers Co-operative Limited, the Canadian Beekeepers’ Council, and the Ontario Beekeepers Association. Materials related to Matthew Agar’s time as a student at the Ontario Agricultural College in the 1930s, including examinations, notebooks, debate and event programs, and publications, are also included.

John Krizanc fonds
CA F834 · Fonds · 1950-2015

The John Krizanc fonds contains textual and photographic materials related to the life and career of playwright and screenwriter John Krizanc. The fonds contains scripts, script notes and edits, photographs, publicity files, newspaper and magazine clippings, financial records, technical drawings, memoirs, and personal papers relating to John Krizanc's life and work, including for theatre and film productions such as "Tamara," "Prague," "The Uterine Knights," "A Likely Story," "The Summit," "The Gist," "The Half of It," "Dieppe," and "H2o," among others.

Sweet family fonds
CA F835 · Fonds · 1881-2003

The Sweet family fonds contains 86 handwritten diaries written by Rosamond McKenney Sweet (1863-1962), her husband John Blake Sweet Jr. (1860-1956), her daughters Maud Sweet (1898-1969) and Melba Sweet (1900-2003), and her daughter-in-law Charlotte “Aleta” Dance Sweet (1892-1973), wife of Eugene Lewis Sweet (1892-1982). The diaries cover the period from 1881 to 2003. Various letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs are also included, as well as a copy of Jean Charlotte Sweet Bishop’s, The Sweetholm Story: Remembering an Ontario Farm Family (Oshawa: Drumlin Press, 2016).

Patricia Carroll Brown fonds
CA F836 · Fonds · 1949 - 2007

Fonds includes 12 scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings (reviews and opinion pieces), house programs, designs, photographs and correspondence (professional & personal) detailing Patricia Carroll Brown's lifetime involvement in Canadian theatre as an actor and director

Brown, Patricia Carroll
Nigel Tranter fonds
CA F837 · Fonds · 1985

The fonds contains Nigel Tranter’s typescript and manuscript research material related to his 1985 book, A Traveller’s Guide to the Scotland of Robert the Bruce. The fonds contains manuscript pages which consist of original writing on the burghs of Scotland, lists of the principal historical characters, possible photography subjects, and proposed locations to be described along with map references. The majority of the typescript text concerns towns and other places which were significant in the life and reign of Robert the Bruce. There are also descriptions of weaponry and armour, styles and titles, government, knighthood and chivalry and the contemporary church. A typed letter to Mr. C Kithly of York, in which Tranter gives answers to detailed historical queries in the "hope all this enables you to get ahead with the production", is also included.

Milton Dyment fonds
CA F84 · Fonds · 1907-1941

The collection contains handwritten diaries of Milton Dyment covering the period from 1907 to 1941. The first diary covers 1907 to 1931, and the second from 1936 to 1941. Dyment lived in Jerseyville (now within the City of Hamilton, Ontario) until 1913, when he moved to Guelph.

Dyment, Milton
James Drummond Burns letters
CA F840 · Fonds · 1849-1864

The fonds contains thirty autograph letters written by James Drummond Burns (1823-1864) to his friend, James Maclean of Edinburgh, between 1849 and 1864.

The first letter dated, March 1849, begins with a poetic description of the view of the island and the sea from his window and concludes with the news that he has fallen in love, but that the object of his affection is a woman who is dying. Other letters from this time period describe his concerns with the practical issues of money and sending wine to his correspondent and other friend. His health is improving in the climate, but he is never symptom free. He is clearly enchanted with the climate and his surroundings, which he describes with a genuinely poetic spirit. Burns writes about the Catholicism of the island and the background of the church’s bells, which are different in tone, he thinks, from the bells of Edinburgh's St. Giles. He observes processions, apparently of a semi-pagan nature in the teeth of a drought which has struck the island. He writes about his trip to Italy, Rome, Florence, Palermo, and Naples, and his impressions of the places he visits including a visit to the mummified remains of monks held in a Capuchin monastery in Sicily, which rather horrifies him; the Presbyterian sensibility finding the Catholic Mediterranean particularly hard during this episode. A lack of money is a constant theme, and we learn that he has placed his financial affairs in the hands of his correspondent. Returning from Italy to Madeira proves troublesome and finding no direct ship to Madeira he is forced to divert to Marseille (a city he dislikes intensely), Barcelona, and Gibraltar to Lisbon. He mentions seeing almonds and raisins which puts him in mind of his correspondent, who appears to be an importer of these items. He speaks enigmatically of ‘experiences’ during his time on Madeira, which have been largely good and we have the impression his stay there has been generally good for his health, though at one point he mentions having nightmares. Various of their mutual friends are mentioned including a Mr. ‘Cuppies’ [likely George Cuppies (1822-1891), a prolific author and contributor to magazines including Blackwoods. On the whole he approves of Cuppies and recognizes his talent but decries his use of profane language, since Cuppies seems to have written about the maritime life].

The second batch of letters are from Brighton and Hampstead after Burns’ return from Madeira. Again, money issues are prominent and his obligation to Maclean are strongly felt. Much of his financial difficulties appear to be regarding paying for his brother Robert’s medical education. He writes that he is prepared to give McLean the proceeds of a publication which is coming out. For a previous work, ‘Heavenly Jerusalem’, he was paid 15 guineas, and he expects more for this one. Although much of what he writes concerns money, he moves between anxiety and good humour when writing about the subject. Clearly, he admires his correspondent’s business acumen, likening him to a 'Rosicrucian alchemist' and referring to himself as a 'neophyte' disciple causing mayhem in his mentor's laboratory. A few letters are from St. Helier, where he is visiting friends. He has decided to take up the position in Hampstead, which gives him a salary of £200 compared to the salary at Brighton of £300, “but the work would have killed me”. Writing about the Crystal Palace, he considers it a 'tumour' emanating from the 'pride of the 19th century'. Although a lack of money remains the predominant theme of these letters, Burns writes with wit and humour most of the time, and his friendship with his correspondent is clearly a warm one. There is occasional mention of his writing, lyrics being set to music, and dealings with publishers, but he is a man beset by debt, trying to help his younger brother through university and constantly mired in financial difficulties. He apologizes to Maclean all the time for bringing the subject up, but he is never, it seems, clear of the debts into which he has fallen. Throughout the letters, it is evident that Burns can write well, charmingly with an unaffected vividness, and often very amusingly. “It is warmer in Sussex at Christmas than in Scotland in midsummer,” he writes in one letter.

Burns, James Drummond
Albert Edward Grant fonds
CA F841 · Fonds · ca.1973-1980

The fonds contains a 576 page manuscript of a memoir written by Albert Edward Grant (1907-1982). The memoir describes Albert's boyhood on a Canadian farm near Cornwall, Ontario during the First World War. An index, preface, and biographical information is also included.

Grant, Albert Edward