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<div class="">Thanks for chiming in. At least two other sources mentioned McGill as having a fairly early course in CanLit. It sounds as if you had a uniquely enriching experience with both teachers and fellow-students alike.</div>
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<div class="">On Feb 24, 2016, at 5:26 PM, Gerda Grice <<a href="mailto:ggrice@SYMPATICO.CA" class="">ggrice@SYMPATICO.CA</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">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
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Theatre Research [<a href="mailto:CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA" class="">mailto:CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Kym Bird<br class="">
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I was just looking at the Mavor Moore fonds in the Clara Thomas Archives and they are substantial. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
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You may want to speak with an archivist named: Michael Moir<br class="">
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On 2016-02-21 10:41 AM, Alan Filewod wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<b class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Ric Knowles"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:rknowles@UOGUELPH.CA" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><rknowles@UOGUELPH.CA></a><br class="">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">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
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Hi moira,<br class="">
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 class="">
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 class="">
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 class="">
Best wishes, Ann<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">> On Feb 20, 2016, at 12:22 PM, Day, Moira<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:moira.day@USASK.CA" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><moira.day@USASK.CA></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class="">
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> When the first Canadian Drama courses at the Graduate and Undergraduate level were taught at the University of Toronto.<br class="">
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> If different from above, where and when the first Canadian Literature and Canadian Drama courses were taught in Canada.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
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> 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
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