Series consists of Howard Engel's files for his work with CBC. Included is material on CBC's Project/Venture series, Sunday Supplement, Arts in Review, Anthology, Panning for Gold, In Other Words, Focus Canada/Canadian School Broadcasts, Booktime, Play it Again, and the CBC Literary Competition.
The material in the files includes notes, scripts, schedules, production material, budgets and other financial records, reference and research material, clippings and correspondence.
Among the correspondents are many Canadian writers and other prominent figures. Included, among others, are the following: P.G. Wodehouse 1966 (see Project/Venture files); Tony Aspler n.d., Kahn -Tineta Horn, Joan Irwin 1968, Dorothy Livesay 1968, 1971, Austin Clarke 1969-1970, Douglas Fetherling 1970, David Watmough 1974 (Sunday Supplement files); Leo Simpson 1971 (Arts in Review); Charles Ritchie 1978 (Literary Competition/Winning Words); Joan Finnigan, Jock Carroll 1981, Bob Bossin 1982 (Focus Canada/Canadian School Broadcasts); Norman Levine 1983, Michael Ondaatje 1984 (Booktime); Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster [1984] (Play it Again).
Among the Anthology correspondence files are nominal files on the following: Mark Abley, Bert Almon, Don Bailey, Douglas Barbour, Henry Beissel, Roo Borson, George Bowering, Barry Callaghan, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Doug Fetherling, Joan Finnegan, R.A.D. Ford, Cathy Ford, Gary Geddes, Terrence Heath, David Helwig, Greg Hollingshead, Frances Itani, Maria Jacobs, Beth Jankola, Tom Marshall, Eugene McNamara, John Metcalf, Susan Musgrave, Ted Plantos, Janis Rapoport, Stephen Scobie, Gerry Shikatani, Leo Simpson, Robin Skelton, Sam Solecki, Audrey Thomas, Sean Virgo, Miriam Waddington, Ann Wall, Tom Wayman, Helen Weinzweig, Rudy Wiebe, George Woodcock, Rachel Wyatt, among others.
The miscellaneous correspondence files in the Anthology files include correspondence from the following: Sandra Birdsell, Greg Cook, Cyril Dabydeen, Mary di Michele, David Day, Barry Dempster, David Donnell, Gwladys Downes, Mary McAlpine (Dobbs), Mona Fertig, Dorothy Farmiloe, Judith Fitzgerald, Gail Fox, Northrop Frye, Ray Filip, Katherine Govier, Greg Gatenby, Len Gasparini, Shirley Gibson, Leona Gom, David Godfrey, Marty Gervais, Joan Haggerty, Elizabeth Hay, Gladys Hindmarch, Harold Horwood, Tim Inkster, Percy Janes, Naim Kattan, Diane Keating, Robert Kroetsch, Dorothy Livesay, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Alistair McLeod, Ken Mitchell, Florence McNeil, Sean O Huigin, H.R. Percy, Joseph Schull, Ray Smith, David Solway, Raymond Souster, David Lewis Stein, Fraser Sutherland, Susan Swan, Lorraine Vernon, David Watmough, Phyllis Webb and Dale Zieroth, among others.
Among the correspondents found in other Anthology files are the following: Gerry Shikatani (see Uprooted n.d. file); Kildare Dobbs, John Reeves (Finnegan's Wake 1971-1972); Jenni Couzyn, Louis Dudek, Cyril Dabydeen, Greg Gatenby, David Helwig, Greg Hollingshead, Harold Horwood, Marvyne Jenoff, Dorothy Livesay, David Solway, Rudy Wiebe, Edna Alford, Don Bailey, Genevieve Bartole, Sandra Birdsell, Marilyn Bowering, Pauline Carey, Ann Charney (Rejects 1973-1978); Robert Zend (1974-1976); Mark Abley, Janette Turner Hospital, Fraser Sutherland, H.R. Percy (Biographies for Schedules 1974-1980); Al Purdy, Tom Marshall, Tony Aspler (Correspondence 1975-1978); Greg Hollingshead, Lionel Kearns, M.T. Kelly, Kim Maltman, Eugene McNamara, Rachel Wyatt, Cyril Dabydeen, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Cathy Ford (Rejects 1975-1978); Terrence Heath (1976-1978); Mary di Michele (Resumés 1977-1978); John Reeves (Coming Through Slaughter 1977-1979); Hubert Evans (1977-1980); Henry Beissel (Walter Bauer 1979-1980); Gwendolyn MacEwen (Intrinsic 1980).
Throughout the files is correspondence with Robert Weaver.
