Terry Fallis fonds. First accrual.
Box 1
Childhood years (1959-1973)
Baby book
Photographs
Early story (Grade 1)
Grade 1 Report Card
Birth Registration
Letter from Grade 8 Math teacher re hang gliders (1973)
Photographs from test of hang glider (1973)
Borough of East York School News with photograph of hang glider (1973)
Public Speaking Runner-up Plaque Grade 8 (1973)
High school years (1973-1978)
Hovercraft designs
Hovercraft photographs
Receipts for hovercraft purchases (lumber, engine, welding, etc.)
McMaster University years (1978-1984)
Canadian Sport Parachuting Association log book (notes for four
jumps)
Student card
McMaster Students Union:
-Receipt for Presidential election entry fee
-Campaign materials (posters, leaflet, stickers, Silhouette clippings)
-Campaign scrapbook compiled by friend in Bates Residence (in box 5)
-The Presidential election tally sheets for the vote count
-Lyrics from song written/performed at 1984 Student Recognition Night
-Most of TF’s President Platform Silhouette’s columns,
hand written
-TF state of the union address from 1984
-Senate presentation when Orientation was restored to a full week
-Graduation photograph taken with future MSU Treasurer K. K. Chew (May
1983)
-McMaster Courier from April 1983: discussion with Faculty Association
President
-Soap Box Derby plaque (runner up) 1980
-Meritorious Contribution to Engineering plaques (1980-81, 1981-82)
-Photographs from backpacking trip to Europe summer of 1982
-Gavel for being Speaker of Student Representative Assembly (1982-83)
-Business cards as MSU President
-Canadian Hostelling Association membership card for Europe trip (1982)
-Letter to Jack Evans at McMaster supporting Alvin Lee’s reappointment
(Oct. 1984)
Boxes 2-3
Jean Chrétien Campaign, Parliament Hill, and Queen’s Park (1984-1988)
Chrétien campaign material
Photograph of Chrétien and TF at the first event TF “advanced”
(May 1983)
Thank you letter from Jean Chrétien
Thank you letter from Barbara Sullivan (Campaign manager and future
MPP)
Thanks you letter from Debra Davis (Trudeau’s staff and National
Chrétien team)
Leadership Convention credentials as Chrétien campaign staffer
Letter re joining Robert Nixon’s political staff as Legislative
Assistant, Queen’s Park
Partial listing of songs written up to 1985
Scribbled lyrics for a song about Nancy (his wife) (on back of next
song’s lyrics)
Scribbled lyrics for a song about his grandfather
Several short stories and pieces, unpublished (handwritten and typed)
Early neo-liberalism writings (1985)
Research and writing a paper on the future of the Liberal Party (Dec.
1986)
Research and writing a tax reform paper (April 1987)
Writing for the Honourable Jean Lapierre when he was Minister of State
for Youth, and Fitness and Amateur Sport (June-September 1984) including
speeches, policy analysis, and remarks written for the Prime Minister
Writing for the Honourable Jean Lapierre while in Opposition as the
Liberal critic for International Trade (includes speeches, questions
for Question Period, newsletter copy, etc.
Initial thinking/writing about the link between engineering and politics
(1985)
Writing for a series of talks TF gave during this period including:
Leadership address at a McMaster Leadership Conference (Oct. 1985)
Talk on Decision-Making at Ontario March of Dimes Conference (Nov. ‘85)
Talk on Free Trade at Camp Enterprise (April 1986)
Talk on Neo-liberalism at York University (May 1986)
Free trade talk to the Optimist’s Club of Toronto (October 1986)
Leadership talk at conference for Orangeville high schools (Sept. 1986)
Talk on Federal-Provincial finance for Caucus staff (November 1986)
Talk about Ontario’s finances and the role of the Treasurer (April
1987)
Public Affairs/Public Relations Consulting (1988-present)
Letter to Timothy Eaton Church re role of women in services (April
1988)
A leadership talk at McMaster for high school students (March 1989)
Berger & Associates (1994-5)
Boxes 4 and 5 (unless otherwise noted)
Writing
“Hindsight” submitted to Canadian Heritage Magazine
(June 1985, in box 2)
“Nathaniel Lewis was an evil man…” (mid-1980s, in
box 2)
“A Letter from Ottawa” (mid-1980s, in box 2)
Diary in a black notebook (18 January 1982 until 19 March 1983)
Diary which begins ten days after the fatal car accident of David, TF’s
brother (27 October 1986 until 9 January 1987)
“Ripples” and “Saturdays”, 2 short stories (late
1980s, early 1990s, in box 3)
Diary entry for 20 January 1986; notes for the plot of The Best Laid
Plans (2004?), in a black notebook but most pages blank
Two different proof copies of The Best Laid Plans with editorial
markings and comments by Douglas Gibson
“Remarks for the Leacock Medal Dinner” (7 June 2008, in box
3)
Marked proof copy of The High Road
The High Road, chapters 1-11, marked up by Gibson (2008?, in
box 3)
Signed copies of The Best Laid Plans (New York: Universe, 2007)
and The High Road (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010),
the latter with Carl Spadoni’s introductory remarks for TF’s
reading at McMaster University Library (29 September 2010) and a signed
poster about the reading
Plaques and objects (in box 5)
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