Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

Toronto Small Press Group : Fall Book Fair, 30 October 1993

Poster of Grey Owl's talk "Back to my beaver people", Massey Hall, 26 March [1938]

Notes taken by George L. Parker, c. 1966-67 from original documents at McClelland & Stewart, re L.M. Montgomery

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

Manley, Morris and Kenneth McInnis, Sheet music, 1915

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

[field_source-formatted], From: Kleiner, Emil To: Raczynska, Olga in Lakliczyn near Tarnow, Poland - Groß-Rosen 15 July 1944 (date of postmark)

envelope, From: K. Kloss in Kremsier (Bohemia and Moravia) To: Kloss, Milan - Buchenwald 21 January 1945

letter, From: Stejskal, Frantisek To: Stejskalova, Emilie in Brno, Poland. - Mauthausen 13 September 1942

letter, From: Bak, Stefan To: To his mother Orlowski, Judwike in Bromberg (country ?) - Gusen August 1944

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

C. Julii Caesaris commentarii de bello gallico / with notes by George Long.

Was justice done? : the Rosenberg-Sobell case

These eventful years : the twentieth century in the making, as told by many of its makers; being the dramatic story of all that has happened throughout the world during the most momentous period in all history

Poems of Alexander Pope / selected and edited by Douglas Grant.

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.