Mowat, Farley
Farley Mowat fonds.
Seventeenth accrual. – 1950-2011; predominant 1987-2010 –
1.05 m of textual records, moving images and graphic material. –
1 DVD optic disc, and 8 photographs.
This fonds is arranged into 5 series:
Series 1: Manuscripts
Series 2: Correspondence with children
Series 3: Correspondence regarding permissions
Series 4: Correspondence
Series 5: Miscellaneous
Series 1
Manuscripts. – 1979-2010. – 23 cm of textual records.
– Title based on content of series.
Box 346
F.1 [“Mankind’s prospects”], statement, ts.
1 page, written on Mowat’s 70th birthday but dated 12 July 1991.
F.2 “How to Run a Newspaper”, ts. 4 pp., 3 March 1999.
F.3 Columns for Port Hope’s Town Crier. “Unnatural
History” consisting of poems (“Newfoundland Jokes”, “Requiem
for Mexican Jumping Bean”, “Gourmet’s Lament”, “Phelbitis”,
and “Black is Beautiful), ts. 4 pp., 22 April 1999. “Ts. beginning
“I had a chat the other day with Chally….”, 2 pp., 25
June 1999.
F.4 2 poems, tss. entitled “Ticked Off” and “Nothing
Straight about Them”, 2 pp., [200?].
F.5 And No Bird Sang. Corrected third draft, originally
1979, but Mowat states: “spare chapter copies No Birds Sang
Deletions Mar/08”. Mainly carbon ts.; chapter VII is ts., except
for pp. 1-2 (photocopies). Chapter III, 28 pp. Chapter IV, 22 pp. Chapter
V, 22 pp. Chapter VI, 29 pp. Chapter VII, 28 pp.
F.6 Various annotated tss., several pages being ms. Mowat states:
“Charity give-away pages (frame for fundraising)”. [114] pp.
F.7 Notes to Otherwise. Annotated ts., [25 pp. with writing
on some versos], 5 February 2005-1 September 2006.
F.8 Otherwise. Early draft. Annotated ts. entitled “Out
of the Box” (“A Last Hurrah” crossed out). Chapters 1
to 11. 1-75, 1-4, 76-243 pp. Prior to 2008.
F.9 Otherwise. Penultimate draft. Annotated ts. November
2007. 397 pp.
Box 347
F.1 “Boat-Roofed House” and “Farley’s
Beacon”; annotated tss. 4 pp., the former apparently written for
Dry Stone Wall Festival, 18 October 2006.
F.2 “The Battle of the Itch”, ms. notes of Mowat’s
itching problem from 1992 to 2006, when he discovered that peanuts were
the cause of his itching.
F.3 Bay of Spirits: A Love Story, ts., pp. 234b-e, 2007.
F.4 Foreword to Ian Montaignes’s Port Hope: A History,
annotated ts., 2 pp., 2007.
F.5 “Vercors”. Annotated ts., pp. 14-37. Story re-used
2009, deleted from Eastern Passage.
F.6 Eastern Passage. Semi-final draft. Approximately [266]
pp., each chapter or section paginated separately. February/March 2010.
F.7 Eastern Passage. Final draft. Approximately [263] pp.,
each chapter or section paginated separately. 2010.
Series 2
Correspondence with children. – 1992-2010. – 27 cm of
textual records and moving images. – Title based on content of
series.
Box 347 continued
F.8-20 Includes letters written by children with Mowat’s replies
from: Bayview Heights Public School, Pickering, ON; Beatrice Strong,
Public School, Port Hope, ON; Blessed Sacrament School, Vancouver, BC;
Boston Public School, Waterford, ON; Bow Valley College, Calgary, AB;
Bruce Vento Elementary, St. Paul, MN; Corning Elementary School, Corning,
IA; Credo Christian School, Langley, BC; Daniel Woodward School, Richmond,
BC; Dundonald Elementary School, Saskatoon, SK; Emerald Elementary School,
Broomfield, CO; Emma Wilson Elementary, Chico, CA.
Box 348
F.1-37 Farley Mowat Public School, Ottawa, ON; First Ave, Ottawa,
ON; Fleetwood School, Lethbridge, AB; General Wolfe School, Winnipeg,
MB; Hanover Countryside School, Streamwood, IL; Harver C. Fenner Elementary
School, Falconer, NY; Holy Family School, Woodstock, ON; Houston Christian
School, Houston, BC; Hudson High School, Hudson, QC; Ivanhoe Elementary,
Ivanhoe, MN; Jack Hulland Elementary School, Whitehorse, YK; John MacNeil
School, Dartmouth, NS; Juaniata Gap Elementary School, Altoona, PA;
Keatsway Public School, Waterloo, ON; Langley Meadow’s Elementary,
Langley, BC; Muriel Martin, St. Albert, AB; New Ross Consolidated, New
Ross, NS; North School, Villa Park, IL; North Park School, Saskatoon,
SK; Norway Public School, Toronto, ON; Norwich Public School, Norwich,
ON; Oakville, School, Oakville, ON; Palgrave Public School, Caledon,
ON; The Park School, New York, NY; Parkdale School, Edmonton, AB; Ripley-Huron
Central School, Ripley, ON; Roseneath Public School, Roseneath, ON;
Sackville Heights Elementary, Lr. Sackville, NS; St. Christopher School,
Mississauga, ON; St. Louis School, Keewatin, ON; St. Marguerite School,
Saskatoon, SK; St. Patrick School, Victoria, BC; Shuswap Christian School,
Salmon Arm, BC; Springbank Middle School, Calgary, AB. DVD is in F.1.
Box 349
F.1-8 Swansea Public School, Toronto, ON; Terraview-Willowfield Public
School, Scarborough, ON; Various children writing individual letters;
Westminster School; White Brook Middle School, Easthampton, MA; Windrem
Elementary School
Series 3
Correspondence regarding permissions. – 1986-2007. – 10
cm of textual records. – Title based on content of series.
Box 349
F.9-16 Files organized chronologically, containing correspondence with
Mowat’s publishers and Mary Elliot, Mowat’s secretary, primarily
about reprinting excerpts of his work. See also the Correspondence series
under the names of Mowat’s publishers (Key Porter Books, McClelland
& Stewart, etc.).
Series 4
Correspondence. – 1986-2011. – 40 cm of textual records and
graphic material. – Title based on content of series.
Only a selection of correspondents has been noted, the list is not exhaustive.
Box 350
F.1 A – Raymond Asselin
F.2 B – Frédéric Back, Soren Bondrup-Nielsen,
F.3 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
F.4 Canadian Canoe Museum
F.5 Clearwater Media Inc.
F.6 C – Silver Donald Cameron, Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives
F.7 D – Donald Davis, Murray Dobbin
F.8 E – Earthroots, EJLB Foundation
F.9 Mary Elliot
F.10 F – Doug Fales
F.11 G – Green Party of Canada
F.12 H – Harbor Sweets, Betty Howatt
F.13 Heuer. Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison – Finding Farley.
Including correspondence from their trip [featured in the documentary]
and with the NFB.
F.14 I-J – John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., Judy
F.15 K – Joan Kean-Howie, Richard Ketcheson, Key Porter Books
Box 351
F.1 L – Little, Brown
F.2 M – Elizabeth May
F.3 Mac/Mc – Helen McIlveenac/Mc – Helen McIlveen
F.4 McClelland & Stewart
F.5 Farley Mowat Limited
F.6 Mowat Environmental Institute
F.7 Mowat – letters from Farley Mowat’s children, relatives,
etc.
F.8 N – Nova Scotia Nature Trust, National Marine Conservation
Area
F.9 O-P – Steve O’Brien, Helene Porcher, H. Alexander
Porter, Al Purdy; photographs
F.10 R – Douglas Reid, Cindy Rejwan, Robert Rutherford
F.11 S – John Shaw-Rimmington, Shawcross
Box 352
F.1 Sea Shepherd
F.2 T
F.3 U
F.4 V – Horst Vollman, Joe Volpe
F.5 W – Writers Guild of Canada, Writers’ Union of Canada
F.6 Y-Z – Michael Yale,
F.7 Unknown; photographs
Series 5
Miscellaneous. – 1950-2011. – 5 cm of textual records.
– Title based on contents of series.
Box 352
F.8 Map of Armed Service Exhibition. 1950. Annotated.
F.9 Draft proposal to Province of Ontario for Mowat Museum. 1986.
Annotated.
F.10 Page from “The Two-In-One” by Rod Michalko. 1998.
F.11 Paper work for trips to Australia and New Zealand. 1986-2001.
F.12 Clippings for ‘Bay of Spirits’. 1980-2009.
F.13 List of Publications. 2008.
F.14 “Fourteen Generations in North America” compiled
by John H. R. Thomson and loose pages. Two editions. 1965-1993. Note:
These were removed from their respective duo-tang folders as well as
the loose papers that had been tucked in with them.
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