Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

Klee Wyck / by Emily Carr ; with a foreword by Ira Dilworth
Fall 1976 / Peter Martin Associates
[Cashbook], 1 May 1879 - 31 December 1887
The Toronto Small Press Group : catalogue, Fall 1992

This site features nearly 100 case studies – short essays written by Canadian scholars – on topics relating to Canadian publishing. The case studies are augmented with letters, photographs, multimedia, and other materials from publishers’ and authors’ archives at McMaster University Library, Queen’s University Archives, and The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto).

Peace & War in the 20th Century

Ministry of Supply, Poster, [1939-1945]
Cooperative Committee on Japanese Canadians, Typescript, 8 June 1943
Molony, William O'Sullivan, Diary, 15 September 1914
Committee of 100, Leaflet, 29 October [1961]

This interactive, thematic website on Peace and War in the 20th Century has been designed to be informative, educational and engaging. Its major themes have been organized into the opposing paths of Waging Peace and Waging War. Within the themes, case studies provide context and insights. International conflicts are represented by the images and official records available in McMaster University Library’s archives. We invite you to explore Peace and War in the 20th Century.

World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection

letter, From: Bodzak, Edzislaw To: Bodzak, Jan in Tarnow (Poland) - Buchenwald 14 May 1944
letter, From: Hrsel, Emil To: Unknown - Buchenwald 6 June 1943
envelope, From: Elzanowski, Feliks To: Elzanowski, Josef in Wlochy (Poland). - Dachau unknown
postcard, From: Matern, Franz To: Matern, Anna (or Matern family) in Witkau per Kamien, West Prussia - Buchenwald 7 January 1940

World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection. The collection has correspondences available from these camps: Arbeitsdorf, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dondanen, Dora, Fallersleben, Floßenürg, Groß-Rosen, Gusen, Herzogenbusch, Janowska, Jungfernhof, Kaiserwalk, Kauen, Klooga, Kurtenhof, Lemberg, Lublin, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Mittelbau, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Niederhagen, Plaszow, Ravenbrück, Riga, Sachsenhausen, Salapils, Sangerhausen, Struthof, Stuttof, Torgau, Vaivara, Vught, Warschau, and Wewelsberg.

Digital Russell

Relation of Unitarian Christianity to the spirit of the age : two discourses, preached at the Annual Meeting of the Scottish Unitarian Association, held in Glasgow, on Sunday 18th November, 1866 [and pamphlets by various authors / compiled by John Russell
, , 1935;
The song of earth / Tefcros Anthias ; translated from modern Greek by Philip L. Nicolaides.
Principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation made by sea or overland to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compass of these 1600 years / by Richard Hakluyt ; with an introduction

McMaster University is home to the scholarly study of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, essayist, and renowned peace advocate. The Bertrand Russell Archives came to McMaster Library in 1968, where they are in the Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections. Russell's library is part of the Russell Archives, along with his correspondence, manuscripts, tapes, films, photographs, medals and permanently displayed writing desk.