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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I was at McGill as an undergraduate between 1952 and 1955. While I was there, I was able to take two half courses in Canadian Literature. One half was the Canadian Novel taught by Hugh MacLennan and the other half was poetry taught by Louis Dudek. Another undergraduate there during the same period was Leonard Cohen. To the best of my remembrance, there were no offering in Canadian Dram at that time. I would definitely have taken one if there had been.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Gerda Grice<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> Canadian Theatre Research [mailto:CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kym Bird<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 24, 2016 4:19 PM<br><b>To:</b> CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: First university-level Canadian Literature and Canadian Drama courses in Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I was just looking at the Mavor Moore fonds in the Clara Thomas Archives and they are substantial. <br><br><b><a href="http://www.library.yorku.ca/web/archives" title="Go to Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections.">Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections</a> <br>Phone:</b> 416-736-5442 [Monday – Friday 10:00am – 4:30pm]<br><b>Email: <a href="mailto:archives@yorku.ca">archives@yorku.ca</a><br><br>You may want to speak with an archivist named: Michael Moir<br><br>If I can look at these records for you, let me know. Kym <br><br><br><br><br></b><br><br>On 2016-02-21 10:41 AM, Alan Filewod wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Alan<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center id=zwchr></span></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>From: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>"Ric Knowles" <a href="mailto:rknowles@UOGUELPH.CA"><rknowles@UOGUELPH.CA></a><br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA">CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA</a><br><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<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Ric<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Professor of Theatre Studies<br>University of Guelph<br>Guelph, Ontario, Canada<br>N1G 2W1<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>ph: 519-824-4120, x52931 (w)<br>FAX: 519-824-0560<br>email: <a href="mailto:rknowles@uoguelph.ca">rknowles@uoguelph.ca</a><br><a href="http://www.uoguelph.ca/sets/sets-ric-knowles">http://www.uoguelph.ca/sets/sets-ric-knowles</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Ann" <a href="mailto:saddlemy@UVIC.CA"><saddlemy@UVIC.CA></a><br>To: <a 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<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>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<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>> On Feb 20, 2016, at 12:22 PM, Day, Moira <a href="mailto:moira.day@USASK.CA"><moira.day@USASK.CA></a> wrote:<br>> <br>> Hi everyone,<br>> <br>> 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>> <br>> Any help on this would be much appreciated!<br>> <br>> Moira<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Alan Filewod<br>Professor and Director,<br>School of English and Theatre Studies<br>University of Guelph<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Dr. Kym Bird<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Department of Humanities<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>York University<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Toronto, Canada<o:p></o:p></pre></div></body></html>