Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

The Fall 2000 Toronto Smallpress Book Fair : Trinity St-Paul's, 4 November 2000
Memo from Hugh Kane (Macmillan Canada) to Donald Sutherland et al. (Macmillan Canada), 12 March 1971, re Davies's Fifth Business
Fall & Winter 2000-2001 / Key Porter Books
Letter from Maynard Gertler (Harvest House) to Anne Hébert, 9 December 1971

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

Weston, R. P. and Lee, Bert, Sheet music, 1917
Rogers, Hubert, Poster, 1943
Lisle, John, Postcard, 4 April 1943
U.S. Government Printing Office, Poster, 1942

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: Jerzyk, Lesio, Meryska (Last name unknown) To: Urbanski, Mieryslaw - Auschwitz 19 January 1944
lettercard, From: Megoeuil, M To: Madame Megoeuil, M.H. - [field_prison_camp-formatted] Jan. 01 1945
letter, From: Plaska, Maks To: Mr. Hamburger, Bert in Chicago, U.S.A. - Gusen 25 May 1945
lettercard, From: Madame Bernu, Auguste (his wife) To: Bernu, Auguste - [field_prison_camp-formatted] Sep. 14 1943

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

Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman.
Demosthenis orationes / ex recensione Guilielmi Dindorfii.
Report on the Contagious Diseases Act to the civil population [and pamphlets by various authors / compiled by John Russell Amberley]
The theory of international trade : with some of its applications to economic policy / by C.F. Bastable.

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.