Canadian Drama Courses in Canada

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I contacted Tedde Moore, Mavor's daughter, to see if she had any materials regarding the Canadian Theatre Centre (referenced in Ms Fitsimmons Frey's excerpt re Emrys Jones). She informs me the best bet is to look in  Mavor's Archives at York ..also I think Don Rubin has mentioned anyone interested in Mavor might want to look here?

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David Ferry
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> On Feb 24, 2016, at 8:58 AM, Heather Fitzsimmons Frey <heatherff at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Hello Moira and All!
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> Thanks for this interesting discussion.  I happened to be at Robart's yesterday and picked up a copy of a book called Canadian School Plays (1948), edited by Emrys Maldwyn Jones, Professor of Drama, University of Saskatchewan.  It includes scripts by such playwriting powerhouses as Elsie Park Gowan and Gwen Pharis Ringwood.  In light of this discussion, I googled Jones this morning.  Apparently he has a 1946 book called The University's Duty Towards Canadian Drama.  I haven't seen it, but I wonder if Jones taught the first courses in Canadian Drama?  I also found this bio at the University of Saskatchewan site:
> Biography:
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> Emrys Maldwyn Jones was born in Dowlais, Wales on 14 September 1905. His early education was in Edmonton, Alberta, including a B.A from the University of Alberta in 1931.
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> In the summer of 1928 Jones took a train north from Edmonton to the terminus at Waterways where he boarded a boat that would eventually take him north to the Mackenzie River Delta.
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> From 1931 to 1939, he taught high school in Edmonton. He returned to the University of Alberta in 1939 where he combined employment as a drama instructor with his graduate studies. He earned his MA in 1943 and spent the next two years studying at Cornell and Columbia universities on a Rockefeller Fellowship.
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> In 1945 Emrys Jones joined the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan as Professor and Head Department of Drama. He was the first full professor of drama to be appointed at a Commonwealth university. During his career Jones educated hundreds of students, directed dozens of plays, and advanced the dramatic arts on the national stage by founding the Canadian Theatre Centre in 1956. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (London) in 1971 and named Professor Emeritus of Drama in 1973. 
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> Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, PhD
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> Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto
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> NEW BOOK: Ignite: Illuminating Theatre for Young People (edited by Heather Fitzsimmons Frey) http://www.playwrightscanada.com/index.php/ignite-illuminating-theatre-for-young-people.html
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