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Major collection by founding member of Caribana foregrounds the history and importance of the Toronto Caribbean Carnival

Posted on August 1, 2023

As Toronto prepares to launch the annual Caribbean Carnival that began more than 60 years ago to celebrate Black emancipation from slavery, York University Libraries celebrates its role in preserving and sharing the historic origins of the festival. The archives of Kenneth Shah, a founding organizer of the event originally known as Caribana, capture the […]

YFile: A project in preservation: archiving digital documents, articles and images

Posted on September 9, 2022

An important aspect of YFile‘s 20th anniversary is preserving its archived content for future generations at York University. What does the process involve when considering a digital publication with such a lengthy history? What should University community members consider when thinking of archiving their digital records? To find out, YFile turned to the archivists at the University’s Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections Department of the York University Libraries (YUL).

YFile: York University Archivist Katrina Cohen-Palacios awarded the 2021 AAO Emerging Leader Award

Posted on June 3, 2021

Archivist Katrina Cohen-Palacios of the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections at York University has been awarded the 2021 Emerging Leader Award by the Archives Association of Ontario (AAO). The award was presented to Cohen-Palacios at the AAO’s annual general meeting, which took place virtually on May 14. Cohen-Palacios joined York University’s Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collection in 2017 […]

Canada’s leading black theatre company archives its materials at York

Posted on February 7, 2014

Feb. 7, 2013 - One of the first things Melanie Hague did after Obsidian Theatre Company hired her in 2011 was pack the posters, programs, photos, stage managers’ books and grant records into boxes and donate them to York’s Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections. Hague had just graduated with a master’s of fine arts […]

Digital projects & outreach archivist, Anna St.Onge, quoted in the Ottawa Citizen

Posted on July 9, 2012

July 7, 2012 - Excerpt courtesy of the Ottawa Citizen, "The memory-keeper's dilemma" Anna St. Onge, York University’s Archivist in charge of digital projects and outreach, says librarians and archivists are acutely aware of the challenges — and the opportunities — the Internet presents to their respective fields. However, St. Onge cautions that Caron […]

Maps dating back to 16th century donated to York

Posted on July 5, 2012

July 5, 2012 Courtesy of YFile Maps have a fascination that brings people together in a common admiration of their technical and artistic quality, and for the information that can be revealed by them through careful analysis, says geography Professor Emeritus William Found, a Fellow of York’s Centre for Research on Latin America & the […]

Archives the new home for memoir on race relations

Posted on June 6, 2012

June 4, 2012 - When asked about his overarching goal for writing his autobiography, A Struggle to Walk with Dignity – The True Story of a Jamaican- born Canadian, Gerald A. Archambeau responds, “To inspire youth to never give up on the goodness of human beings regardless of race.” With this aspiration in mind Archambeau […]

18th century Bible acquired by Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections

Posted on June 6, 2012

May 22, 2012 - Two hundred years after its printing a copy of John Baskerville’s folio edition of the Holy Bible – one of only 1,250 printed in Cambridge, England in 1763 – made its way to Canada. That same rare Bible was transferred by Richard Tottenham to York University Libraries’ (YUL) Clara Thomas […]

Finnish-Canadian “memories” donated to Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections

Posted on June 6, 2012

May 10, 2012 York University professor Varpu Lindström is known as a “memory keeper” in Finnish-Canadian communities. What’s extraordinary about the “memories” that Lindström keeps is that they aren’t just hers – they are reminiscences of many Finns who immigrated to Canada in the 1880s to early 1900s as a result of economic depression and […]