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Thomas McIlwraith Fonds
Fonds is comprised a catalogue of birds mounted under glass in the collection of T.L. McIlwraith (1891) catalogue of Thomas McIlwraith's collection of birds (1936), correspondence between T.F. McIlwraith and Jim Darroch re conflict within the Tornto Field Naturalists' Club in 1957, and a letter from L.L Snyder to T.F. McIlwraith re his grandfather's collection of birds.
Looking for Old Ontario
The slogan on Ontario's licence plates, 'Yours to Discover,' was designed to promote travel opportunities within the province. Every year, thousands of tourists drive along country roads, past farmyards and through hamlets, en route to popular vacation spots. In Looking for Old Ontario, Thomas McIlwraith shows that many destinations are closer at hand than one might imagine, and invites travellers to rediscover familiar countryside landmarks by 'reading' them as chapters in a rich historical narrative. Surveyors long ago scored Ontario's land, and generations have since inscribed it with residences, businesses, and institutions. This book, the result of thirty years of field work and archiva...
Writing the Empire
Crossing time and oceans, this fascinating history of the McIlwraiths tracks the family's imperial identities across the generations to tell a story of anthropology and empire.
Beardmore
In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said he had found on his mining claim east of Lake Nipigon. The relics remained on display for two decades, challenging understandings of when and where Europeans first reached the Americas. In 1956 the discovery was exposed as an unquestionable hoax, tarnishing the reputation of the museum director, Charles Trick Currelly, who had acquired the relics and insisted on their authenticity. Drawing on an array of archival sources, Douglas Hunter reconstructs the notorious hoax and its many players. Bea...
Other Selves
The most recent installment of the Reappraisals series, which examines the range of meanings associated with animals in the Canadian literary imagination.
The Travellers
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Bulletin
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Quest and Response
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