Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

A complete price list of the publications & importations of the Canadian Macmillans, 1918

Statement by William Kirby Jr. titled "Literary Review of the Publication of William Kirby's 'Le Chien d'Or'", 1925

Paperbacks : January to April releases 1992 / McClelland & Stewart

Spring publications, 1927 / George H. Doran Company (Canada) Limited

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 Labour and National Service, Poster, [ca. 1942]

Balson, Frank E. (Lyrics) ; Gammond, J. Heward (Music), Sheet music, 1915

Canadian Expeditionary Force, Programme, September 1917

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: Wojciechowski, Johann To: Frau Dr. Lumila Halka à Elsenau - Dachau 4 September 1943

letter, From: Wojtaszewska, Elisabeth To: unknown - [field_prison_camp-formatted] 22 March 1941

[field_source-formatted], From: Wisniewski, Longin To: Wisniewski, Edmund in Litzmannstadt - Dachau 1st February 1942

[field_source-formatted], From: Pzotnik, Heinrich To: Pzotnick, Herr Linton in Litzmannstadt - Dachau 22 June 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

Diary of Samuel Pepys : M.A.F.R.S., Clerk of the Acts and secretary to the Admiralty / for the first time fully transcribed from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, by the Rev. Mynors Bright, M.A., late Fellow a

Lives of the noble Grecians & Romanes : compared together / by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarke of Chaeronea ; translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot ; and out of French into Englishe by Thomas North ; the illustra

Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead / edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp.

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.