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Photo of Leacock

Item is a printed reproduction of an earlier photo of Leacock. Date and location of the original is unknown.

Diana Patterson fonds

  • CA MRUASC F0028
  • Fonds
  • 1986-2024

Fonds reflects Patterson's career as a professor in both the Department of English and the Centre for Communications Studies at Mount Royal University, and as a chronicler of the University's history. Fonds contains course outlines, programs for Conservatory and theatre performances, research on the history of the Conservatory and theatre, presentation notes and photos, meeting minutes, and correspondence.

Diana Patterson

Writing and publications

Series illustrates Hunter's work as an novelist, poet, and writer of short stories. Series contains one subseries of Hunter's books, and also consists of short stories, poems, manuscript drafts, notes, editorial feedback, newspaper clippings, media articles, correspondence, reviews, interviews, contracts, event posters, diaries, photographs, and newsletters.

Bennie Ehnisz contextual information

  • CA MRUASC F0062-0265-11
  • File
  • Copied 2023 (originally created [194-], 2002, and 2011)
  • Part of Bennie Ehnisz fonds

File contains contextual information to accompany the Bennie Ehnisz fonds. File consists of reproductions of newspaper clippings reporting Ehnisz's death, photocopied photos of Ehnisz's military service-related possessions and his burial service, and war memorial web content. File contents were compiled by Kirk Ehnisz, Bennie Ehnisz's nephew.

Bruce Hunter fonds

  • CA MRUASC F0046
  • Fonds
  • 1950, 1960-2023

Fonds documents Hunter's career as a novelist, poet, and writer of short stories. Fonds consists of correspondence, books, poems, short stories, manuscript drafts, research notes, contracts and agreements, posters, articles, reviews, interviews, photographs, and diaries. Fonds is arranged into 4 series: letters; writing and publications; family history; and articles and reviews.

Bruce Hunter

Galestro

File contains Hunter's published book of poetry, Galestro, a press release, and a review.

Bruce Hunter: a Life in Poetry

Item is a book of new and selected works of Hunter's poetry. Book is designed to be a tour through Hunter's life via his poetry. Each poem is printed in English and Italian.

Western Canadiana collection

  • CA MRUASC C0014
  • Collection
  • 1812-2020, predominant 1870-1970

Collection primarily consists of published books and periodicals as well as souvenir photographs, postcards, offprints, and maps relating to the early history and exploration of western Canada.

Programs

File consists of programs for symposia presented by The Enlightenment Group at MRU.

Posters

File consists of posters for symposia and other events held by the Enlightenment Group and the Department of English, Languages, & Cultures.

Antoine Eche fonds

  • CA MRUASC F0057
  • Fonds
  • 2012-2020

Fonds consists of programs and posters for symposiums and lectures held at Mount Royal University presented by the Department of English, Languages & Cultures and the Enlightenment Group, an interdisciplinary group of MRU faculty with scholarly interests in the eighteenth century.

Antoine Eche

Theatre programs

This series contains performance programs documenting local Albertan productions of which Grant Paterson attended or was involved with in some capacity.

Grant Paterson fonds

  • CA MRUASC F0043
  • Fonds
  • 1962-2020

Fonds reflects Paterson's career as a teacher of speech arts and drama at Mount Royal University and independently, as well as his work as a performer, director, and adjudicator. The fonds is arranged into five series: adjudication, teaching, performances, education, and local speech and music festivals. Fonds consists of performance and festival programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, audio and video recordings, correspondence, cards, scripts, brochures, tickets, and schedules.

Grant Paterson

Country Music Country

Item is a collection of linked short stories about working class Canadians. Item was published by IslandCatEditions.

Blaine Canadian sports history collection

  • CA MRUASC C0011
  • Collection
  • 1906-2019

Collection documents the history of professional, amateur, and varsity/collegiate sport in Canada, particularly hockey, football, baseball, golf, and rodeo. The collection illustrates the development of these sports in the 20th and early 21st centuries (the period from the 1940s to the 1990s is particularly well-documented), and focuses on Canadian leagues as well as international leagues in which Canadian teams participated. Most of the collection relates to Canadian teams and athletes (although American teams are also well-represented), with a particular focus on Alberta and Western Canada.

The collection largely consists of publications, ephemera, and promotional objects including: game and tournament programs, photographs, magazines, media guides, yearbooks, schedules, calendars, trading cards, game tickets, pins and buttons, pennants, patches, and decals.

The collection is arranged into 5 series by sport: hockey, football, baseball, golf, and rodeo (devoted to the Calgary Stampede). The collection was meticulously organized and documented by the donor Bob Blaine, with most of the collection housed in binders that are arranged by level of competition (professional, amateur, varsity/collegiate), league, date range, and type of material. The contents of each binder are further arranged, typically by material type and date, and many items are accompanied by detailed supplementary contextual information provided by Blaine.

Leona Paterson scholarship

File documents the establishment and maintenance of the Dr. Leona Paterson Memorial Scholarship in Speech Arts. File contains correspondence, endowment reports, terms of agreement, a scholarship summary, card, and an impact report.

Hockey

Series documents Canadian hockey at the professional and amateur (junior, intermediate, and senior) levels. Series relates to Canadian leagues (especially those in Western Canada) and international leagues in which Canadian teams took part. Series consists of programs, yearbooks, media guides, tickets, magazines (including Blueline Hockey Monthly, Hockey Pictorial, and National Hockey Annual), photographs, schedules, trading cards, calendars, as well as promotional objects including patches and decals.

Documented professional leagues include: the National Hockey Association (from 1909 to 1917), Pacific Coast Hockey Association (1911-1924), Western Canada Hockey League (1921-1933), Western Hockey League (1925-1926, 1948-1974), Prairie Hockey League (1926-1928, 1971-1972), Canadian-American Hockey League (1926-1936), Canadian Professional Hockey League (1926-1930), American Hockey Association (1926-1942), Pacific Coast Hockey League (1928-1931), International American Hockey League (1929-1936), North West Hockey League (1933-1936), Pacific Coast Hockey League (1936-1941), International Hockey League (1945-1951), United States Hockey League (1945-1951), Quebec Hockey League (1953-1959), Eastern Professional Hockey League (1959-1963), World Hockey Association (1972-1979), National Hockey League (1917-2017, including Stanley Cup finals and all-star games), and the Super Series (1975-1992).

Senior and intermediate amateur leagues include: the West Kootenay Hockey League (1922-1946), Ottawa City Senior Hockey League (1923-1945), Montreal Senior Group Hockey League (1927-1937), Northern Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League (1927-1938), Southern Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League (1927-1938), Edmonton District Senior Hockey Association (1928-1936), Southern Alberta Senior Hockey League (1928-1936), Alberta Senior Six Hockey League (1936-1938), Quebec Senior Hockey League (1937-1953), Alberta Senior Hockey League (1938-1941, 1965-1971), Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League (1938-1942), Manitoba Services Hockey League (1939-1945), Halifax Senior Hockey League (1940-1946), Alberta-British Columbia Hockey League (1941-1942), Pacific Coast Hockey League (1941-1948), Western Canada Intermediate (1941-1947), Lower Mainland Senior Hockey League (1942-1943), Vancouver Island Hockey League (1942-1943), Alberta Services Hockey League (1942-1945), Southern Alberta's Inter-station Hockey League (1943-1944), Northern Alberta Inter-service Hockey League (1944-1945), Camp Borden Hockey League (1944-1945), Okanagan Mainline Amateur Hockey League (1945-1951), Western Canada Senior Hockey League (1945-1951, 1965-1968), Big Six Hockey League (1945-1960), Maritime Amateur Hockey League (1946-1950), Cape Breton Senior Hockey League (1946-1951), Western International Hockey League (1946-1988), Maritime Major Hockey League (1950-1954), Okanagan Senior Amateur Hockey League (1951-1970), Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League (1951-1971), Central Alberta Intermediate Hockey League (1952-1965), Alberta-Montana Hockey League (1953-1955), and the Alberta Senior Hockey Exhibition (1964-1965). Documented senior amateur tournaments include: the Allan Cup (1908-1999), World Amateur Hockey Championships (1920-1976), and the Alexander Trophy (1951-1954).

Junior leagues include: the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (1936-1966), Manitoba Junior Hockey League (1940-1960), Edmonton City Junior Hockey League (1945-1950), Southern Alberta Junior A Hockey League (1946-1948), Western Junior Hockey League (1948-1956), Alberta Junior Hockey League (1964-2010), Canadian Major Junior Hockey League (1966-1967), Western Canada Junior Hockey League (1967-1968), Western Canada Hockey League (1968-1978). The Canadian Olympic team is also documented for the years 1968-1988.

Professional

Subseries documents men's professional level ice hockey leagues and teams in Canada and the United States. Subseries documents league and exhibition games, playoff games, and hockey tournaments and special events such as the Canada Cup, Stanley Cup, and Soviet Super Series. Subseries contains programs, photographs, tickets, cards, schedules, guides, magazines, stickers, and other promotional materials.

Subsereis consists of three subsubseries: SSS1-National Hockey League, SSS2-World Hockey Association, and SSS3-Western Canada Hockey League. In addition, it contains records relating to the following other leagues: American Hockey Association, American Hockey League, Canadian Professional Hockey League, Canadian-American Hockey League, Eastern Professional Hockey League, International American Hockey League, International Hockey League, National Hockey Association, North West Hockey League, Pacific Coast Hockey Association, Pacific Coast Hockey League, Prairie Hockey League, Quebec Hockey League, and the United States Hockey League.

Leona Paterson fonds

  • CA MRUASC F0038
  • Fonds
  • 1896-[201-], predominantly 1940-1998

Fonds documents Paterson's career as a teacher of speech and drama at Mount Royal College, her adjudication work at festivals across Canada, her involvement with Knox United Church, and her work as director of the Mount Royal College Conservatory.

The fonds contains: scrapbooks, daily date books, speech arts theory exams, scripts, travel diaries, programs for speech and drama festivals, photographs of Mount Royal faculty and Paterson's friends and family, Knox United Church records, speeches, toasts, poems and scripts collected by Theresa M. Siegel, audio reels of performances, interviews with Leona Paterson, and original poetry by her husband Harold "Pat" Paterson. The fonds is arranged into the following series: scrapbooks, professional activities, teaching, Harold Paterson, Theresa M. Siegel, personal records, and audiovisual materials.

Leona Paterson

Mount Royal Faculty Association fonds

  • CA MRUASC F0022
  • Fonds
  • 1966-2019

Fonds documents the functions and activities of the Mount Royal Faculty Association, including collective bargaining, advocacy, and providing professional development opportunities and other services to its members. Fonds is divided into four series: collective bargaining, university/college administrative and reference documents, professional development, and social events. Fonds contains collective agreements, negotiation working files, photographs, reports, correspondence, minutes, newsletters, handbooks and guides, bylaws, and financial statements.

Mount Royal Faculty Association

Collective bargaining

Series documents the collective bargaining and negotiation process between the MRFA and the Board of Governors of Mount Royal University. Series illustrates the work of the MRFA and its committees related to developing negotiation positions, engaging with membership, and representing the Association's interests during negotiations. Series contains one subseries containing draft and finalized collective agreements. Series also contains statements of negotiation interests, draft article amendments, agendas, meeting notes, correspondence, memoranda, tables summarizing faculty workloads, salary statistics and comparisons with other institutions, grid adjustment calculations, surveys and survey result summaries, budget and revenue figures, consumer price index figures, negotiation updates, and draft proposals.

Box contents lists

File consists of itemized lists of box and file contents provided by Paterson when he donated his fonds. Lists contain notes that may provide additional context or explanation of the significance of some records.

MRU programs

Contains programs and tickets for performing arts productions put on by Mount Royal University (College).

National Hockey League

Subsubseries contains records relating to the National Hockey League (NHL) and its membership teams. The National Hockey League is a men's professional level hockey league that was established in 1917. The league currently consists of thirty one teams from Canada and the United States. Subsubseries contains gameday programs from current and defunct league teams as well as programs from special events such as All Star games, Stanley Cup playoffs, and the Soviets vs. NHL Super Series. Subsubseries also contains tickets, schedules, calendars, press guides, yearbooks, photographs, collector cards, hockey publications, and other promotional products.

Country Music Country

File illustrates the promotion of Hunter's book Country Music Country. File contains a poster for a book launch and a recording of the broadcast of the CBC radio show Between the Covers.

2018

File documents Paterson's work as a speech and drama instructor. File contains performance programs, cards, tickets, draft scripts, a list of speech arts events, list of conservatory students, schedule of classes, speech festival schedule, poem, letter, and a budget for a film project.

Mount Royal honor roll

Item is a list of the names of Mount Royal honor roll students in two binders. The first binder contains the names of Mount Royal College honor roll students from 1980-2009, and the second contains those of Mount Royal University honor roll students from 2010-2018.

Baseball

Series documents Canadian professional and senior amateur baseball, including Canadian leagues (especially those in Western Canada) and international leagues in which Canadian teams participated. Series consists of: programs, brochures, tickets, magazines, yearbooks, photographs, scorecards, trading cards, postcards, and schedules, as well as promotional objects including buttons, patches, decals, and pennants.

Documented professional leagues include: Major League Baseball (1908-2009), the Pacific Coast Baseball League (1950-2002), Western International Baseball League (1946-1954), Northern Baseball League (1946-2010), International Baseball League (1946-1999), and the Pioneer Baseball League (1977-1984).

Documented senior amateur leagues include: the Alberta Big Four Inter City Baseball League (1947-1950), Western Canada Baseball League (1955-1964), Southern Alberta Baseball League (1958-1959), Canadian American Baseball League (1959), and the Alberta Major Baseball League (1967-1975).

Bibliography

File contains lists of publications that published Hunter's work, letters of reference, articles, a press release, and an event notice.

Douglass Smith Kirkwood fonds

  • CA MRUASC F0032
  • Fonds
  • 1942, 2018

Fonds illustrates the military service of Douglass Smith Kirkwood, a former student of Mount Royal College, in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. Fonds contains a university diploma, photocopies of military paperwork, and research about Kirkwood's military service.

Douglass Smith Kirkwood

Mount Royal University Library fonds

  • CA MRUASC F0052
  • Fonds
  • 1985-2018

This fonds documents public events hosted by the Mount Royal University library, library staff social events, educational displays, and a library renovation project.

Warrant officer II class Douglass S. Kirkwood

File contains reproductions of photographs, a newspaper obituary, the crash investigation report, presumption of death certificate, pages from an air force service book, correspondence to Kirkwood's parents, air force attestation records, and a navigator's training report. The file also contains background information on Kirkwood and his family compiled by Wolf Hooppaw.

Library events

This file contains promotional flyers for public events held at the Mount Royal University Library, including: Walking with Our Sisters, and Teaching Strides: Learning to Teach is an Act of Letting Go.

Capt. D.G. Purdy - medals

  • CA MRUASC F0031-0040-08
  • File
  • Copied 2018 (originally created 1940-1950)
  • Part of Purdy Family fonds

File contains photographs and descriptions of the service medals awarded to Douglas Gordon Purdy, as well as reproductions of Purdy's army enlistment and medal records.

Captain Douglas G. Purdy

  • CA MRUASC F0031-0040-09
  • File
  • Copied 2018 (originally created 1924, 1940-1941)
  • Part of Purdy Family fonds

File contains photographs and descriptions of the service medals awarded to Gordon Purdy and his son, Douglas Gordon Purdy, as well as reproductions of Douglas Purdy's army enlistment records and photographs of Purdy and Kirkwood family members.

Adjudication

Series documents Paterson's work as an adjudicator for various Canadian music, speech, and performing arts festivals. Series consists of festival programs, correspondence, schedules, regulations, and poetry selections.

Teaching

Series document's Paterson's work as a speech arts and drama instructor and adjudicator, and also documents Paterson's appointment as Coordinator of Speech Arts at Mount Royal College. Series consists of programs, newspaper articles, correspondence, schedules, photographs, audio and video recordings, lists of students, cards, scripts, tickets, course outlines, invitations, and brochures.

Rodeo

Series documents rodeo competition at the Calgary Stampede and its promotion. Series consists of: programs, guides, brochures, branded stationary, as well as promotional objects including pins, patches, buttons, tokens, and decals.

Letters

Series consists of Hunter's personal and professional correspondence and contains letters, postcards, and greeting cards from friends, family members, fellow authors and poets, and publishers. Series also contains some poems, short stories, royalty and title-earning summaries, newspaper articles, obituaries, forms, student essays, contracts and agreements, and event notices and posters.

Professional

Subsubseries contains records relating to North American professional football leagues and their membership teams. The majority of these leagues are Canadian. Subseries also contains records relating to special events such as exhibition games, league playoffs, Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, and Grey Cup finals. Subseries contains records from the following leagues: Ontario Rugby Football Union, Inter-provincial Rugby Football Union, Western Inter-provincial Football Union, Canadian Football League, American Football League, National Football League, United States Football League, World Football League, and World League of American Football.

Mount Royal University publication collection

  • CA MRUASC C0008
  • Collection
  • 1911-2018

Collection contains publications published by Mount Royal University and its departments, faculty, staff, and students. Collections consists of academic calendars, and student and department yearbooks.

Book of remembrance

Item is a reproduction of two pages from the Second World War Book of Remembrance. The first page is a dedication to all of the fallen soldiers and the second page is a list of names which includes Kirkwood.

Football

Series documents Canadian football at the professional, senior amateur, junior amateur, and varsity/collegiate levels. Series relates to Canadian leagues (especially those in Western Canada) as well as international leagues in which Canadian teams played. Series consists of programs, brochures, tickets, magazines, yearbooks, schedules, media guides, trading cards, and photographs, as well as promotional objects including decals and patches.

Documented professional leagues include: the Canadian Football League (1960-2018, including Grey Cup finals and all-star games), Ontario Rugby Football Union (1940-1960), Inter-provincial Rugby Football Union (1945-1959), Western Inter-provincial Rugby Football Union (1945-1959), Ontario Rugby Football Union (1945-1960), American Football League (1960-1969), National Football League (1933-1999), United States Football League (1983-1987), World Football League (1974-1975), and World League of American Football (1990-1992).

Senior amateur leagues include: the Ontario Rugby Football Union (1906-1915), Inter-provincial Rugby Football Union (1907-1940), Alberta Rugby Union (1919-1936), Ontario Rugby Football Union (1919-1939, Manitoba Rugby Football Union (1930-1935), Western Inter-provincial Football Union (1936-1941), Eastern Canada Armed Services Football (1941-1944), and Western Canada Armed Services Football (1942-1944).

Junior and varsity/collegiate leagues include the Calgary High School Football League (1912-1999), Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union (1919-1966), Canadian Junior Football Final (1925-1999), Western Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union (1927-1948), Saskatchewan Junior Football Union (1946-1952), Alberta Junior Football League (1950-1975), Manitoba-Saskatchewan Junior Football League (1953-1975), Prairie Junior Football Conference (1976-1999), Western Canada Intercollegiate Athletic Union (1959-1966), and NCAA Football (1950-1999).

Margy MacMillan fonds

  • CA MRUASC F0005
  • Fonds
  • 1981-2017, predominant 1990-2017

Fonds reflects MacMillan's career as a professor and librarian at Mount Royal University. The fonds is arranged into three series which document her teaching, scholarship, and service activities. Other records in the fonds reflect MacMillan's other academic activities and research interests, and include annual reports, a promotion dossier, news clippings, and video recordings.

Margy MacMillan

Teaching materials

File contains teaching notes and an instructional video which is hosted by MacMillan where she will "take you through your research process" from developing a topic, finding research materials, and advise on researching the "Web".

Le masque et l'auteur

Item is a poster for a roundtable with Jean-Jacques Tatin-Gourier about anonymity and pseudonyms in French literature and arts.

Banff Centre programs

File contains programs and documents covering the Banff Festival of the Arts put on by the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity from 1992-1997 and 2004, as well as a correspondence documenting a private donation by Grant Paterson and Marla Libke to the Bruce McKinnon Memorial Endowment.

U of C programs

File contains programs for various performing fine arts productions put on by the University of Calgary.

Embossed memento

Item is a commemorative paperboard plaque given to Shepstone to celebrate the opening of the Riddell Library and Learning Centre and the contribution of the Riddell family.

Elliott family history

Item is a summary of the ancestry of William Elliott and Robina Woods of Paisley, Scotland and Olds, Alberta. Item includes family histories of the Elliott, Woods, Kean, and Milligan families.

Alumni

Series documents the activities nursing alumni associations and the planning special events. Series contains photographs, correspondence, membership lists, financial records, event invitations and responses, and administrative records.

Writer in residence Calgary Public Library

File documents Hunter's time as the Calgary Public Library Writer in Residence. File contains letters of reference, writing event and workshop proposals, an application for the writer in residence program, table host directory, contract, poster, editing tips, news release, and an event advertisement. File also contains the following proof short stories for an anthology: "Imagining Mothers," "Towards a Definition of Pornography," and "Death of the Black Cat."

Carol Shepstone fonds

  • CA MRUASC F0010
  • Fonds
  • 1992-2017, predominant 2000-2017

Fonds illustrates the planning and design of the Riddell Library and Learning Centre, which was led by Shepstone as University Librarian. The fonds consists of three series which documents furniture planning, architectural, and electrical drawings, new library planning, and administration for the Riddell Library and Learning Centre and the Mount Royal College Library. Other records document architecture firm's planning for the RLLC and Mount Royal College planning. The fonds also contains publications, memorabilia, and artwork.

Carol Shepstone

Publications about teaching

File contains journals and journal articles, correspondence, manuscript reviews, and a publication agreement with manuscript checklist.

2017

File documents Paterson's work as a speech and drama instructor. File contains cards, newspaper clippings, performance programs, scripts, class schedules, a ticket, invitation, list of conservatory students, teaching schedule, and a list of festival participants.

Reproductions for display

File contains two prints of charcoal drawings. One print is titled "Old Mount Royal College," and the other is titled "Mewata Armories" and is by Dick van den Hoogan.

Academic calendars

Series contains Mount Royal College and Mount Royal University academic calendars, including calendars for specific departments and special programs, as well as calendar supplements. Calendars contain program descriptions and requirements, registration procedures, information about faculty and campus resource centers, and general information about the college/university, campus, and residences.

Teaching

The series documents a wide range of MacMillan's teaching activities relating to her roles as an educator and librarian. The series consists of teaching notes, assignments, project proposals, presentations, statements of projected learning outcomes, and a training video on researching for academic papers.

Scholarship

Series documents MacMillan's research and publications in the fields of information literacy and the scholarship of teaching and learning. The series also documents her research collaborations with colleagues, and her conference presentations. The files in this series generally contain journal articles, correspondence, research application and consent forms, surveys with responses, presentation notes, and conference programs.

Margy's e-archive

File consists of a USB flash drive containing digital records in various formats relating to MacMillan’s scholarship, service, and teaching. File also contains: copies of the MRU Library and Margy’s personal websites in HTML, photos and biographies of Margy, faculty annual reports, curricula vitae, promotion dossiers, workload applications, skit scripts, and other records.

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