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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I was just looking at the Mavor Moore
fonds in the Clara Thomas Archives and they are substantial. <br>
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<a title="Go to Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections."
href="http://www.library.yorku.ca/web/archives" class="home">Clara
Thomas Archives and Special Collections</a> <br>
Phone:</b> 416-736-5442 [Monday – Friday 10:00am – 4:30pm]<br>
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<b><b>Email:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:archives@yorku.ca">archives@yorku.ca</a><br>
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You may want to speak with an archivist named: Michael Moir<br>
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If I can look at these records for you, let me know. Kym <br>
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On 2016-02-21 10:41 AM, Alan Filewod wrote:<br>
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<div>Mavor Moore taught what may have been the first course in
Canadian Theatre History at York University in the early
1970s; I took it in 1973. </div>
<div>cheers</div>
<div>Alan</div>
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Knowles" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rknowles@UOGUELPH.CA"><rknowles@UOGUELPH.CA></a><br>
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<b>Sent: </b>Sunday, 21 February, 2016 10:06:58 AM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: First university-level Canadian
Literature and Canadian Drama courses in Canada<br>
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I think the first Graduate program specializing in Canadian
theatre and based in the Canadian theatre archives was
Guelph's MA, starting in Fall 1989. Its first graduates were
Mary Pat Mombourquette and Jennifer Preston in, I believe,
1990. <br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Ric<br>
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Professor of Theatre Studies<br>
University of Guelph<br>
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ph: 519-824-4120, x52931 (w)<br>
FAX: 519-824-0560<br>
email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rknowles@uoguelph.ca">rknowles@uoguelph.ca</a><br>
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From: "Ann" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:saddlemy@UVIC.CA"><saddlemy@UVIC.CA></a><br>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA">CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA</a><br>
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 6:58:32 PM<br>
Subject: Re: First university-level Canadian Literature and
Canadian Drama courses in Canada<br>
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Hi moira,<br>
Carlyle King offered a course on Canadian and American
literature at u of sask in the early 1950s when i was an
undergrad, but I do not recall any drama being included. In
1972 I offered a half course in Canadian theatre when I was
teaching at Vic college before the various English depts
amalgamated. I do not know when the first canadian literature
course was offered. The following year I offered a graduate
seminar at the Drama Centre. Mavor Moore offered a course at
York about the same time, because we collaborated on the first
conference, Canadian Theatre before the 60s, and invited Gwen
Pharis Ringwood and Gratien Gelinas to attend. That was the
beginning. It was not much later that the Connaught grant was
given us by the school of graduate studies to work on the
first calendar, Richard Plant being oneof the students working
with us. Heather McCallum joined the programme the following
year., seconded from the Toronto public library, where she was
building a fine collection. And about the same time, certainly
in my first years as director of the drama centre, Francess
Halpenny and I organized a gathering of potential members of
the association at a Learned Societies meeting. We were
astonished by how many filled the room, from Newfoundland to
Victoria and in between.<br>
That is the best of my memory, but there may be more details
in the drama centre chapter of the second volume of the
history of canadian theatre which Richard and I edited.<br>
My memory of how I taught the Ryga play is rather blurred, I
am afraid, though i know It was included as soon as possible.<br>
Best wishes, Ann<br>
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> On Feb 20, 2016, at 12:22 PM, Day, Moira
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:moira.day@USASK.CA"><moira.day@USASK.CA></a> wrote:<br>
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> Hi everyone,<br>
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> I was wondering if someone could direct me to information
on the following:<br>
> <br>
> When the first Canadian Literature courses at the
Graduate and Undergraduate level were taught at the University
of Toronto.<br>
> When the first Canadian Drama courses at the Graduate and
Undergraduate level were taught at the University of Toronto.<br>
> <br>
> If different from above, where and when the first
Canadian Literature and Canadian Drama courses were taught in
Canada. <br>
> <br>
> I'm not finding it hard to find material on when specific
drama programs were initiated in Canada - but discovering when
specific courses were introduced has been a bit more difficult
where I've not been able to get into archives to go through
old academic calendars.<br>
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> Any help on this would be much appreciated!<br>
> <br>
> Moira<br>
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<div><span name="x"></span>Alan Filewod<br>
Professor and Director,<br>
School of English and Theatre Studies<br>
University of Guelph<span name="x"></span><br>
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Dr. Kym Bird
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities
York University
Toronto, Canada</pre>
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