Robin Mathews fonds [multiple media]
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Robin Mathews fonds [multiple media]
Hierarchical level:FondsContext of this record:Fonds includes:13 lower level description(s)View lower level description(s) -
Finding aid Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid provides a file list of the papers received in 1986, volumes 1 to 46. The much smaller 1995, 2007, 2018, and 2023 accruals are not listed in the finding aid, but file level descriptions have been created for them in the online system. MSS1689 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/p000003174.pdfSound recordings and moving images: (Electronic) See MISACS for item level descriptions. (90: Open) -
Record information Robin Mathews fonds [multiple media]
Date:1947-2018.Reference:R4403-0-9-E, MG31-D190Type of material:Textual material, Photographs, Moving images, Sound recordings, Architectural and technical drawings, ArtFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:103495Date(s):1947-2018.Place of creation:CanadaExtent:9.23 m of textual records.
214 photographs : 145 b&w and 69 col.
9 audio reels (5 h, 34 min, 45 s).
9 audio cassettes (9 h, 9 min, 9 s).
2 video reels (1 h, 35 min).
113 audio files (334 MB, 4h, 2 min)
25 prints : posters.
2 technical drawings.
1 videocassette (2 h, 2 min).Language of material:EnglishScope and content:The fonds comprises textual records, photographs, posters, technical drawings, sound recordings, moving images which document the life and work of Robin Mathews as an author, academic, and activist. The fonds includes correspondence; manuscripts and audio recordings of his poetry, plays, fiction, and non-fiction writings; records relating to the movement for the Canadianization of universities in Canada; records of his involvement with the Great Canadian Theatre Company; the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures; the Waffle; the National Party of Canada; and various legal cases while he was at the University of Alberta. The Canadianization material includes a video recording of a panel discussion in which Mathews participated on the Americanization of the Canadian educational system.Provenance:Additional name(s):Biography/Administrative history:Mathews, Robin, 1931-2023 : Robin Daniel M. Mathews, university professor and political activist, was born in 1931 at Smithers, B.C., and received his education from the University of British Columbia, B.A. 1955, and Ohio State University, M.A. 1958. He first taught at Ohio State, as a teaching assistant and lecturer, then at U.B.C. and the University of Toronto, 1958-1961. He joined the University of Alberta's English department, 1961, where he was made an assistant professor before resigning in 1966. He was hired by Carleton University as an assistant professor of English literature, 1968, and taught there for the next eighteen years, becoming a full professor in 1976. In 1986, he took a leave of absence from Carleton to teach at Simon Fraser University.
Mathews began his career as an activist while at the University of Alberta. During Mathews' first year at Carleton he co-authored, with James Steele, the Carleton University Memorandum, which recommended quotas for Canadian professors at Canadian universities and which was followed in 1969 by their book, The struggle for Canadian universities. From then on Mathews was closely identified with the Canadianization movement, advocating the promotion of Canadians in prominent roles in Canadian universities and other institutions and the adoption of Canadian literature courses in Canadian universities and schools.
Mathews was involved in the founding of the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures, co-founded the Great Canadian Theatre Company, 1975, and was a co-founder of Steel Rail Publishing, 1976. He was a member of the Ontario Waffle, and its Ottawa branch, 1969-1973, and co-founded in 1978 the Canadian Voice for Independence, the National Party of Canada. He has written extensively on the subject of Canadian literature, is the author of the book of essays, Canadian literature: surrender or revolution, 1978, as well, he has written several collections of poetry, short stories and plays. Robin Mathews died 25 April 2023 in Vancouver, BC.Additional information:Custodial history:Received in 1986,1995, 2007, and 2018 from Robin Mathews. Additional material received in 2023 from Allen Seager.Arrangement note:Volumes 47 to 49 hold oversize material including posters that were removed from volumes 1 to 46 for separate storage. Vol. 50 holds new accessions of textual records from 2007, 2018, and 2023. Vols. 51-52 hold b&w photographs; vol. 53 holds colour photographs. Volume 55 (R4403) no longer exists.Subject heading:- Reaney, James
- Poets, British, [between 1953 and 1986]
- Robin Daniel M. Mathews - Biography
- Art Gallery of Ontario, 1972
- Committee for an Independent Canada, 1972
- Milton Acorn - Correspondence, [between 1947 and 1986]
- Marya Fiamengo - Correspondence, [between 1947 and 1986]
- Bob Harlow - Correspondence, [between 1947 and 1986]
- Doroth Livesay - Correspondence, [between 1947 and 1986]
- Hugh MacLennan - Correspondence, [between 1947 and 1986]
- Joe Plaskett - Correspondence, [between 1947 and 1986]
- Joyce Wayne - Correspondence, [between 1947 and 1986]
- Canadian literature - Study and teaching, 1947-1986
- Literature publishing - Canada, 1947-1986
- Socialism and art - Canada, n.d., 1947-1986
- This Magazine, 1969-1975
- Theatre - Canada, 1947-1986
- Universities and colleges - Canada, 1947-1986
- Literature - Periodicals, 19-
- Universities and colleges - Canada - Curricula, 1964-1986
- Nationalism and literature - Canada, [between 1956 and 1986]
- Nationalism - Canada, [between 1956 and 1986]
- Education - Canada, [between 1956 and 1986]
- Nationalism and education - Canada, [between 1956 and 1986]
- William Fruet, [between 1963 and 1982]
- Bernard Bedore, [between 1963 and 1982]
- Carol Bolt, [between 1963 and 1982]
- Great Canadian Theatre Company, 1963-1983
- Association for Canadian and Quebec Literature, [between 1971 and 1982]
- Canadian Literature Provisional Committee, 1972
- Canadian Textile and Chemical Union, n.d., 1964-1974
- Reshard Gool - Correspondence, [between 1974 and 1983]
- Ottawa Waffle, 1970-1974
- Ontario Waffle, 1969-1974
- The Waffle, 1969-1973
- Dramatists, Canadian, 1963-1982
- Drama, 1963-1982
- Steel Rail Publishing - Records and correspondence, 1975-1980
- University League for Social Reform, 1968-1969
- Canadian Association for University Teachers
- Canada Council, 1969-1972
- Law - Canada - Cases, 1964-1966
- Court records - Canada, 1964-1966
- Great Canadian Theatre Company - Records and correspondence, 1963-1983
- Radio scripts, [between 1947 and 1984]
- Political activists - Canada, [between 1959 and 1972]
- Hawrelak Affair, [between 1959 and 1972]
- Actions and defenses - Canada - Cases, [between 1959 and 1972]
- Davidson Dunton - Correspondence
- Ramsay Cook, [between 1968 and 1981]
- Gwen Matherson - Correspondence, [after 1968]
- Dennis Smith - Correspondence, [after 1968]
- Daniel Drache - Correspondence, [after 1968]
- Edge, n.d., 1964-1965
- Draft resisters - United States, 1968
- Theatre - Canada - Production and direction, 1963-1983
- Arthur Lower - Correspondence, [after 1968]
- Ottawa Artistic Wood Workers Strike, 1973
- Canada 20th century
- Canada 20e siècle
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