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

[Kym Bird]

I was just looking at the Mavor Moore fonds in the Clara Thomas Archives 
and they are substantial.

*Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections 
<http://www.library.yorku.ca/web/archives>
Phone:* 416-736-5442 [Monday – Friday 10:00am – 4:30pm]
**Email:* archives at yorku.ca

You may want to speak with an archivist named: Michael Moir

If I can look at these records for you, let me know.  Kym




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On 2016-02-21 10:41 AM, Alan Filewod wrote:
> 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.
> cheers
> Alan
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: *"Ric Knowles" <rknowles at UOGUELPH.CA>
> *To: *CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA
> *Sent: *Sunday, 21 February, 2016 10:06:58 AM
> *Subject: *Re: First university-level Canadian Literature and Canadian 
> Drama courses in Canada
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ric
>
> Professor of Theatre Studies
> University of Guelph
> Guelph, Ontario, Canada
> N1G 2W1
>
> ph: 519-824-4120, x52931 (w)
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ann" <saddlemy at UVIC.CA>
> To: CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA
> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 6:58:32 PM
> Subject: Re: First university-level Canadian Literature and Canadian 
> Drama courses in Canada
>
> Hi moira,
>      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.
> 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.
> 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.
> Best wishes, Ann
>
> > On Feb 20, 2016, at 12:22 PM, Day, Moira <moira.day at USASK.CA> 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
>
>
>
> -- 
> Alan Filewod
> Professor and Director,
> School of English and Theatre Studies
> University of Guelph


-- 
Dr. Kym Bird
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities
York University
Toronto, Canada

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