First university-level Canadian Literature and Canadian Drama courses in Canada

[Alan Filewod]

Having looked at the archival traces and the pages of the OAC Review, my conclusion is that there was no drama component in that course. The first actual full course in Canadian Literature , taught by the same Physics professor who had introduced the subject at Mac Inst was in 1910, at the Ontario Agricultural College, with which the Mac Institute was affiliated. Wilfrid Campbell was on the syllabus and visited the campus, so perhaps students were subjected to a reading of his execrably freakish verse tragedy Mordred (but more likely they were bombarded with his white-supremacist poetry). 

cheers 
Alan 
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From: "Kathryn Harvey" <kaharvey at UOGUELPH.CA> 
To: CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA 
Sent: Monday, 22 February, 2016 4:07:25 PM 
Subject: Re: First university-level Canadian Literature and Canadian Drama courses in Canada 

Hi Moira, all, 

The Macdonald Institute, which was one of the three founding colleges of the University of Guelph, began teaching Canadian Literature in its English Literature course offerings in 1907. Margery Fee's article called "Canadian Literature and English Studies in the Canadian University" ( Essays in Canadian Writing 1992/93 Issue 48) provides a good account of the subject's evolution. 

I haven't been able--in my admittedly cursory review--to discern whether there was any Canadian drama component... 

Cheers, 
Kathryn 

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On 20/02/2016 3:22 PM, Day, Moira wrote: 



Hi everyone,

I was wondering if someone could direct me to information on the following:

When the first Canadian Literature courses at the Graduate and Undergraduate level were taught at the University of Toronto.
When the first Canadian Drama courses at the Graduate and Undergraduate level were taught at the University of Toronto.

If different from above, where and when the first Canadian Literature and Canadian Drama courses were taught in Canada. 

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.

Any help on this would be much appreciated!

Moira 






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Alan Filewod 
Professor and Director, 
School of English and Theatre Studies 
University of Guelph 
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