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Miriam Waddington fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1927-2001.

Reference:

R4777-0-2-E, MG31-D54

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Art, Sound recordings, Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102910

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Miriam Waddington fonds
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Fonds includes:

37 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1927-2001.

Place of creation:

British Columbia

Extent:

15.625 m of textual records.
1120 photographs : 1112 b&w and col. prints; 8 contact sheets.
3 prints : lino.
2 drawings and other graphic material : pencil, charcoal.
8 audio reels .
1 medal : silver.
2 wooden print blocks.
43 audiocassettes.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, Yiddish

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Miriam Waddington fonds [multiple media]

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Fonds comprises eighteen series which document the literary, academic and personal activities of the poet and educator. The series are as follows: General Correspondence Files; Nominal Correspondence Files; Alphabetic Correspondence Files; Professional Correspondence files; Personal Correspondence Files; Family Correspondence Files; General Manuscripts Files; Prose Manuscripts Files; Poetry Manuscripts Files; Critical Works and Editions; Translations; Subject Files; Notebooks, Journals and Notes; Teaching Material; Personal Material; Recordings of interviews, appearances and adaptations; Professional Memorabilia and Printed Material.

Fonds also contains photographic material depicting a view near Severn Falls, Ontario; activities of the poet Miriam Waddington, particularly at attendance at writer's conferences, as well as photographs of her friends; Miriam Waddington's participation at a retreat for artists and writers, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1972; Waddington at the international writer's conferences in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, 1977-1978; formal and informal portraits of Miriam Waddington; Miriam Waddington and Beryl Donovan in Cuba; Waddington at the Peterborough Poetry Festival, Peterborough, Ontario, 1990; activities and portraits of Miriam Waddington, her family, and friends that were published in the National Film Borad's book Call Them Canadians, 1968.

Fonds also contains prints consist of a greeting card; two lino prints of London by Miriam Waddington. Drawings are a charcoal depiction of Miriam Waddington by Deny and a self-portrait pencil drawing of Waddington with a smaller profile portrait on verso.

Fonds also includes sound recordings of readings by Miriam Waddington of her poetry [ca. 1950-1958].

Fonds also includes one watercolour greeting card.

Final accession of the fonds is comprised of professional correspondence; notes and notebooks (including diaries, notes on poetry, notes for readings, notes on translation, notes on various writers, jury notes, and notes for a novel); manuscripts and typescripts of reviews, essays, poems-in-progress, short stories, reviews and criticism, translations, lectures, speeches; subject files (including conference files) and teaching notes; awards and honours; reviews and essays on her work by others; travel memorabilia, c.v.'s and posters; and files concerning musical adaptations of Waddington's work. Also includes informal family and professional photographs as well as recordings of readings and interviews.

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Waddington, Miriam, 1917-2004

Biography/Administrative history:

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Waddington, Miriam, 1917-2004 : Miriam Waddington, poet, critic, essayist, educator and translator, was born in Winnipeg in 1917, of Russian-Jewish parents. She attended a secular Yiddish school there before moving with her family to Ottawa where she attended high school. She went on to study at the University of Toronto, receiving her BA in 1939 and a diploma in Social Work in 1942. She continued her studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied under Virginia Robinson and Jessie Taft, and received her MSW in 1949. From 1945 to 1960 she worked for various social agencies in Montreal and taught at McGill University. Waddington and her husband divorced in the early 1960's. She taught English at York University from 1964 to 1986.

In Montreal, she became associated with the First Statement group of poets, including A.M. Klein and Irving Layton. She and her husband, writer and journalist Patrick Waddington, also published with Preview, the group including P.K. Page and F.R. Scott. Waddington's first book of poetry, Green World, was published in 1945, and she later published another twelve collections, including Oxford University Press's Collected Poems. She has also published short stories and was the author of a critical study of A.M. Klein. She published dozens of critical articles and reviews and numerous translations of both prose and poetry from Yiddish. Many of Waddington's poems have been set to music by Canadian and American composers and her work has been translated into Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Romanian, German, Bulgarian, Yiddish, Italian and Chinese.

Waddington's book Driving Home won the J.I. Segal Award in 1972 and she was twice the recipient of Senior Writing Fellowships from the Canada Council. She received honorary degrees from Lakehead University 1975, and York University 1985.
She received the J.I. Segal Award in 1972 for her collection Driving Home. She delivered the E.J. Pratt memorial lecture in St. John's in 1974 and received numerous honourary degrees. Her poem "Jacques Cartier in Toronto" is featured on the back of the Canadian $100 bill (released in 2004). Waddington was made a lifetime member of the League of Canadian Poets.

Miriam Waddington died in 2004.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a file list of the material in vols. 1-96. MSS1415 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000222.pdf

Sound recordings: (Paper) See AV Collection files for item level descriptions.

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General note:

An oversize cover of "The Visitants", 1981, was placed in horizontal storage. Volume 55 also contains oversize galleys of Collected Poems (1986).
Subject heading:

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Women poets, Canadian, 1927-1985 The Second Silence, 1955

Poetry, Canadian, 1927-1985 The Season's Loners, 1958

Miriam Waddington - Diaries, 1930-1931 The Glass Trumpet, 1966

Miriam Waddington - Biography, 1930-1985 Canadian Poetry for Young Readers, 1967

Miriam Waddington - Finance, Personal, 1930-1985 Call Them Canadians, 1968

Radio scripts, 1930-1984 Say Yes, 1969

Miriam Waddington - Manuscripts, 1930-1984 Driving Home, 1972

Universities and Colleges - Canada - Teachers, 1945-1986 Mister Never, 1978

McGill University - Faculty, 1945-1960 The Visitants, 1981

York University - Faculty, 1964-1986 A.M. Klein, 1970

Authors, Canadian - Correspondence, 1934-1992 John Sutherland: Essays, Controversies and Poems, 1972

Women, Jewish - Canada The Collected Poems of A.M. Klein, 1974

Patrick Waddington, 1930-1985

Ruth Panofsky, 1930-1985

Collected Poemss, 1986

The Last Landscape,1992

Appartment Seven: Essays New and Selected, 1989

Canadian Jewish Short Stories, 1990
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1973-05-30)
118-020155-8
119-020093-7
119-080162-0
120-020157-4
1977-0096 MISA
1977-047 PIC
1977-161 NPC
1990/0399
1991-271 DAP
1991/0331
1992-367 DAP
1992/0145
1994-297 DAP
2009-00100-1
91-235
91-374
94-043
MG31-D54

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-D54
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000628.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Finding aid box [FA 1415] 113

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [WADDINGTON, MIRIAM 1992-367] 5691

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [WADDINGTON, MIRIAM 1994-297] TCS 00886

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Box [1977-047]

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

A286-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 3

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

Box [1991-271]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A301-03 Item no. assigned by LAC 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Object

[Consultation99 Closed pending processing]

Terms of use:

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Photographs (accession no. 1994-297, 1991-271, 1977-161): No reproduction without written permission of Miriam Waddington. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.
Photographs (accession no. 1992-367): No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright expired. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Print (accession no. 1991-271): No copying during the lifetime of Miriam Waddington without her permission. Copyright unknown. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Prints (accession no. 1977-047): not to be copied without the permission of Miriam Waddington. Copyright: Miriam Waddington. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Drawing (accession no. 1992-367): No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright expired. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Drawing (accession no. 1977-047): Not to be copied without the permission of Miriam Waddington. Copyright: Miriam Waddington. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Watercolour: No copying without the permission of Miriam Waddington during her lifetime. Copyright unknown. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Sound recordings: Use or reproduction in any form requires the written permission of Miriam Waddington.

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