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Dayal Kaur Khalsa fonds [textual record, graphic material, sound recording]

Hierarchical level:

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Date:

1945-[1992] predominently 1974-1989.

Reference:

2008-00718-9

BAN no.:

2008-00718-9

Type of material:

Art, Photographs, Sound recordings, Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3830844

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Record information – Details

Date(s):

1945-[1992] predominently 1974-1989.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

49 cm of textual documents.
ca. 1300 photographs.
142 collages.
50 drawings.
23 paintings.
15 watercolours.
6 audio cassettes.

Language of material:

English

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This accession to contains biographical information and material related to unpublished works of children literature by Dayal Kaur Khalsa. Documents consist mainly of drafts, manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, drawings, collages, photos and other material related to unpublished children books. It contains drawings made for early unpublished books, [Billy the Kid], [Comboy and horses], Laura: the Cat with the World in her Eyes. There are manuscripts, tapuscripts and ideas for projects, including: Serv, The Girl Who Didn't Want New Houses, May and Her Mother, Snow Cat, A City Child's Lullaby, Did You Think We Were Lost, Green Cat, Country Poems for Country Babies.

The accrual also contains biographical material, notably an audio cassette of Dayal Kaur Khalsa reading Gentle Breeze. The photographs document Dayal Kaur Khalsa's life, but most are subject series used by her as part of her creative approach to illustration and writing. Most documents were created or accumulated by Dayal Kaur Khalsa but there are two slides album of her artwork and 3 audio cassettes containing a dicussion about her legacy that were created by Brian Grison.

The documents were received by Library and Archives Canada in 2004.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1989-20 LMS
1991-14 LMS
1992-15 LMS
LMS-0163
R11759-0-1-E
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