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The Writers' Union of Canada
Second accrual. -- 1974-1990 -- 7.1 m of textual records (boxes 92-114).
Some printed material from this accession, in particular runs of periodicals,
have been catalogued separately, and are located in Mills Research Collections
or Mills Periodicals. In certain cases when duplication occurred or when
the printed material was deemed unsuitable for research purposes, the
items were discarded. Archival documents pertaining to the working staff
at the Union's office were destroyed as confidential waste.
The accrual has been arranged into five series: Government and External
Organizations; Outgoing Chronological Correspondence; Annual General Meetings;
National Council; and Committees.
Series 1: Government and Other External Organizations. -- 1975-1988.
-- 2.7 m of textual records. -- Title based on content of series. (boxes
92-100).
Box 92
files 1-8 ACTRA (the Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists),
1977-88.
files 9-15 Alberta Culture, 1980-8.
files 16-8 Amnesty International, 1981-8.
file 19 Artists' Legal Aid Clinic, 1986-7.
file 20 Arts Scarborough, 1983.
files 21-7 Association of Canadian Publishers, 1980-8. File 27 has 2 letters
(30 September 1987 and November 1987) from Joe Clark to Pierre Berton
re funding of Canadian publishers at the Bologna Book Fair. See also box
93, file 5.
file 28 The Association of Canadian Studies in the United Sates, 1982.
file 29 Australia Council, 1983-4.
files 30-1 The Australian Society of Authors Limited, 1982-5.
files 32-6 The Authors Guild, Inc., 1980-8.
file 37 The Authors' Lending and Copyright Society Limited, 1983.
files 38-41 Awards, Literary, 1981-6. File 39 has the completed returns
of a survey concerning grants to English writers from Quebec.
Box 93
files 1-4 The Banff Centre, 1982-8.
file 5 Book Clubs, 1981 (minutes of meeting of the Association of Canadian
Publishers, 1 May 1981, re closing of the Reader's Club of Canada).
file 6 Book Critics Conference, 1983.
files 7-27 Book & Periodical Development Council, 1983-8. Files 7-9
deal with Freedom of Expression, file 10 Library Committee, file 11 Political
Committee, files 12-3 Promotion Committee, files 14-5 Statistics, files
16-7 Technology, file 18 Western HalfBack Programme.
Box 94
files 1-3 Book & Periodical Development Council, 1982-7. File 3 concerns
Rick Archbold's Author & Editor: A Working Guide (Toronto
Book & Periodical Development Council, 1983).
file 4 The Book Publishers' Professional Association, 1982-7.
file 5 Book Publishing & Public Policy Conference, 1980-1. Contains
photocopy of ts. by Margaret Atwood, ``The Writer in Canada Today." 13
April 1981.
file 6 Book Stores, 1980-3.
file 7 Books in Canada, 1983-4.
file 8 Books on Tape, 1981.
file 9 British Columbia Cultural Services Branch, 1982-3.
files 10-5 The Canada Council, announcements, 1982-7.
files 16-20 The Canada Council, correspondence, 1982-8
files 21-2 The Canada Council, Task Force, 1980-3.
file 23 The Canada Council, tours/readings, 1984-5.
file 24 Canada Government, announcements, 1987-8.
Box 95
files 1-4 Canada Government, correspondence, 1982-7. Contains letters
from Barbara McDougall, Sinclair Stevens, and other members of the government.
files 5-9 Canada Government, Department of Communications, 1982-7. Contains
letters from Francis Fox, Marcel Masse, Joe Clark, Flora MacDonald, and
other members of the government.
files 10-1 Canada Government, Department of External Affairs, 1982-4.
file 12 Canada Government, Federal Cultural Policy (Applebaum-Hébert
report), 1982-3.
file 13 Canada Government, Federal Task Force on Funding of the Arts in
Canada, 1986.
file 14 Canada Government, House of Commons, 1983-4. Contains letters
from Bob Rae and Richard Allen of the Ontario New Democratic Party.
files 15-6 Canada Government, miscellaneous, 1984-6.
file 17 Canada Government, Secretary of State, 1982-3.
file 18 Canadian Artists' Representation, 1982-7.
file 19 Canadian Association of University Teachers, 1984.
file 20 Canadian Authors Association, 1980-7.
file 21The Canadian Book Information Centre, 1979-88.
Box 96
file 1 Canadian Book Publishers' Council, 1980-7.
file 2 Canadian Booksellers Association, 1981-7.
file 3 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1979-88.Includes draft ts. By
Robert Bringhurst on the Caplan-Sauvageau Task Force on Broadcasting Policy.
files 4-10 Canadian Conference of the Arts, 1977-88.
files 11-4 Canadian Copyright Institute, 1982-6.
file 15 Canadian Film Certificate Office, capital cost allowance, 1980.
file 16 Canadian Library Association, 1981-7.
Box 97
file 1 Canadian Periodical Publishers' Association, 1984-7.
file 2 Canadian Science Writers' Association, 1985-8.
file 3 Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers,
1981-7.
file 4 Canadian Telebook Agency, 1981-3.
file 5 The Canadian Writers' Foundation Inc., 1984-5.
file 6 Centre for Investigative Journalism, 1986-7.
file 7 The Children's Book Centre, 1981-7.
file 8 Conférence des associations de créateurs et créatices
du Québec, 1982.
file 9 Council of the Canadian Writers Organizations, 1985.
file 10 Crime Writers of Canada, 1984-5.
file 11 Cross-Canada Writers' Workshop, 1981-6.
file 12 Distinguished Canadian Writer Award, 1985.
file 13 Edmonton Policy Paper on the Arts, 1983.
file 14 The Federation of British Columbia Writers, 1981-8.
file 15 Freedom of Information, 1977-82.
file 16 Freelance Editors' Association of Canada, 1986-8.
files 17-20 General Correspondence, 1984-8.
file 21 Guild of Canadian Playwrights, 1977-8.
file 22 Harbourfront, 1981-7.
file 23 International writers' correspondence, 1982-6. Contains a statement
addressed to the Canadian government (signed by Graeme Gibson, Margaret
Atwood, Marian Engel, and Eve Zaremba) about the refugee status of Victor
Manuel Regalado Brito.
file 24 Island Writer's Association, 1984-5.
file 25 International P.E.N., 1985-8.
file 26 The League of Canadian Poets, 1980-7.
file 27 Literary agents, American, 1977-81. Includes responses to questionnaire
about literary agents.
file 28 Literary agents, European, 1981-3.Includes responses to questionnaire
about literary agents.
Box 98
file 1 Literary Agents Task Force, 1981-3.
files 2-3 Literary Translator's Association, 1978-87.
files 4-6 Manitoba Arts Council, 1981-6. File 5 contains a report from
Research & Planning of Manitoba Culture, Recreation & Recreation
entitled "Avoiding the False Dialectic -- Culture Versus Commerce: A Report
on Manitoba Publishers of Culturally Significant Books and Periodicals
and Recommendations for Government Action" (1984).
file 7 Manitoba Writers' Guild Inc., 1983-7.
files 8-10 National Book Festival, 1981-5. Files 8 and 10 contain 8 audio
cassettes (Favourite Passages from Canadian Writers).
file 11 National Library of Canada, 1979-87.
file 12 National Magazine Awards, 1981-4
file 13 National Writers Union (USA), 1982-3. Contains an exchange between
Marvin E. Gettleman and Margaret Atwood about her comments at a conference
at the University of Kentucky in April 1982.
file 14 New Brunswick, Department of Historical and Cultural Resources,
1984-5.
file 15 Newfoundland & Labrador Arts Council, 1981-6.
file 16 Newspapers, 1981-2.
file 17 Nova Scotia, Department of Culture, Recreation and Fitness, 1983-4.
file 18 Nuclear Disarmament, 1982-5.
files 19-27 Ontario Arts Council, 1981-8.
Box 99
file 1 Ontario Library Association, 1982-8.
files 2-11 Ontario, Ministry of Culture and Recreation, 1978-87.
file 12 Ontario New Democratic Party, 1982.
file 13 Ottawa Independent Writers, 1984-5.
file 14 PACT (Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, 1986.
file 15 Pay TV Briefs, 1982-3.
file 16 The Periodical Writers Association of Canada, 1978-85. Contains
a submission to the Joint Senate Commons Committee on Regulations and
Other Statutory Instruments, 21 March 1978.
file 17 Playwrights Canada, 1980-2.
file 18 Playwrights Union of Canada, 1984-7.
file 19 Post Office complaints, 1986. Correspondence with Joan Givner.
file 20 Progressive Party of Canada, 1982-3. Contains an exchange of letters
between Joe Clark and Robin Skelton on the importance of the Canada Council
and the Applebaum-Hébert report.
files 21-2 Publishers, 1980-8. Contains correspondence and news clippings
pertaining to McClelland and Stewart.
file 23 Publishing in Canada Conference, 1975-6.
file 24 Publishing: Merging of Gage and Macmillan, 1980.
file 25 Pulp and Paper Industry, 1980.
file 26 Quill & Quire, 1983.
file 27-9 Saskatchewan Arts Board, 1981-7.
file 30-5 Saskatchewan Writers Guild, 1980-8.
file 36 Senior Writers, news clipping from the London Sunday Times,
14 April 1984.
file 37 Simon Fraser University, The Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing,
1986-8.
file 38 The Society of Authors, 1981-5.
Box 100
file 1 Statistics Canada, 1979-85.
file 2 TACT (The Arts Coalition of Toronto), 1988.
file 3 Toronto Arts Awards, 1986-8.
files 4-5 Toronto Arts Council, 1985-7.
file 6 Toronto Book Fair, 1986-9.
file 7Toronto Public Library, 1985-7.
files 8-11 Union des écrivains québécois, 1977-87.
file 12 U.S.A. Arts Organizations, 1980.
file 13 Wintario Proceeds, 1987-8.
files 14-5 Writers' Copyright Agency, 1982-4.
files 15-9 The Writers' Development Trust, 1978-88. Contains programme
for tribute to Gordon Sinclair on 15 October 1981 at the Royal York Hotel
in Toronto.
file 20 Writers' Federation of New Brunswick, 1982-3.
files 21-22 Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, 1981-8.
files 23-8 Writers' Guild of Alberta, 1981-8
file 29 The Writers' Guild of Great Britain, 1981-3.
file 30 Writers-in-Libraries, 1987-8.
file 31 Writers' Workshops and Retreats, 1982-3.
Series 2: Outgoing chronological correspondence. -- 1983-1988. -- 40
cm of textual records. -- Title based on content of series. (boxes 101-2).
Box 101
files 1-45 May 1983-March 1987 (files for August and September 1984 missing).
Box 102
files 1-15 April 1987-September 1988.
Series 3: Annual General Meetings (AGMs). -- 1983-1988. -- 20 cm of
textual records (box 102, files 16-32)
files 16-8 Annual General Meeting, 13-5 May1983. Includes notes of the
various sessions.
file 19 Annual General Meeting, 13-5 May 1983. Registration forms completed
by members who attended the AGM.
file 20 Annual General Meeting, 13-5 May 1983. Travel reimbursement forms
completed by members who attended the AGM.
file 21 Annual General Meeting, 4-6 May 1984.
files 22-3 Annual General Meeting, 10-2 May 1985. File 23 has agenda,
kits, and reports.
files 24-6 Annual General Meeting, 30May, 1 June 1986. File 25 is the
preliminary file (1984-5); file 26 consists of travel reimbursement forms
completed by members who attended the AGM.
file 27 Annual General Meeting, 30 May, 1 June 1986. Reading gala.
files 28-31 Annual General Meeting, 29-31 May 1987. File 28 has invitations,
file 29 members' motions, file 30 dealings with Queen's University Conference
Services, and file 31completed registration forms.
file 32 Annual General Meeting, 27-9 May 1988. Completed registration
forms.
Series 4: National Council. -- 1981-1988. -- 33 cm of textual records.
-- Title based on content of series. (box 103).
Box 103
files1-7 National Council, 1981-6. Contains minutes and reports. File
6 has information on the Payment for Public Use Symposium sponsored by
the Writers' Union and the Union des écrivains québécois
on 11 May 1985.
files 8-11 National Council, Atlantic region, 1985-8.
files 12-4 National Council, British Columbia/Yukon region, 1985-8.
files 15-23 National Council, Ontario region, 1980-8.
files 24-7 National Council, Ottawa/Quebec region, 1984-8.
files 28-31 National Council, Prairie/Northwest Territories/Yukon region,
1984-8.
file 32 National Executive, 1982-3.
Series 5: Committees. -- 1974-1990. -- 3.5 m of textual records. -- Title
based on content of series. (boxes 104-14).
Box 104
files 1-4 Agreement Committee, 1980-3. Contains sample contracts, correspondence
with publishers, survey summary sales of anthology, radio, and film rights,
and information on publishers' workshops.
files 5-8 Archives Committee, 1981-7. Contains questionnaires; photographs
of Mort Forer, Sydney Gordon, Ian MacNeill, and Carol Priamo; and Robin
Skelton's "Authors and Archives: A Short Guide".
file 9 Archives (sale of Writers' Union's archives to McMaster University),
1982-3. Includes photographs of members (Eugene Benson) and staff (Mary
Jacquest) of the Union signing the contract for the sale.
files 10-4 Book Committee, 1981-7. Contains minutes, questionnaire of
publisher-sponsored book promotion tours, and correspondence with Canadian
newspapers about book reviews of Canadian books.
file 15 Canada Council Task Force, 1983-4.
files 16-8 Canada Writes! Committee
(directory of members), 1980-2. See also box 106, files 20-4.
file 19 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Task Force, 1985.
file 20 Canadian Writing Newsbulletin,
editorial meetings, 1982.
file 21 Child Care at TWUC functions, 1986. Includes completed questionnaires
about availability of child care for members attending the annual general
meetings.
file 22 Committee Volunteers, 1986. Contains completed forms soliciting
volunteers for committees.
files 23-4 Computers, 1982-4. File 24 consists of articles by Michael
A. Gilbert.
file 25 Constitution referendum, 1983.
files 26-7 Contract advice, 1980-3.
files 28-9 Contract Committee, 1982-5.
Box 105
files 1-2 Contract Committee, 1985-7.
file 3 Contract Committee, anthologies, 1983-4.
file 4 Contract Committee, articles, 1983-4.
file 5 Contract Committee, minutes and miscellaneous correspondence, 1983-4.
file 6 Contract Committee, publishers' code of practice, 1983-4.
file 7 Contract Committee, correspondence, 1980
file 8 Contract correspondence, 1980-2.
file 9-11 Contract survey, 1980-4.
file 12 Contracts and guidelines, 1982.
file 13 Copyright Act, proposed revisions, 1981-2.
file 14 Copyright brief, 1978. Contains the Writers' Union response to
the working paper, A.A. Keyes and Brunet's Copyright in Canada: Proposals
for a Revision of the Law, and also the response made by Canadian
Copyright Institute.
files 15-21 Copyright Committee, 1980-8.
file 22 Copyright Committee, correspondence, 1981-2.
files 23-6 Copyright, illegal imports, remaindering, 1978-85.
files 27-9 Copyright information, 1982-7. File 29 concerns American copyright.
Box 106
file 1 Copyright legislation, 1979-80.
file 2 Copyright remedies, 1981. Draft response to the Canadian Copyright
Institute by the Canadian Booksellers Association, 1981.
files 3-8 Copyright, reprography, 1981-8.
files 9-18 Curriculum Committee, 1982-7. In particular, files 15-8 concern
survey undertaken to establish the Canadian content in literature courses
taught at Canadian universities.
file 19 Dental plan, 1986.
files 20-4 Directory Committee, 1981-90. See also box 104, files 16-8.
file 25 External Affairs Committee, Marguerite Anderson (trip to France),
1985.
file 26 External Affairs Committee, Marilyn Bowering and Robert Bringhurst
(trip to Australia and New Zealand), 1985.
file 27 External Affairs Committee, Louis Bird (trip to Holland), 1985.
Includes photographs.
file 28 External Affairs Committee, Jamie Brown (trip to Japan), 1982-3.
file 29 External Affairs Committee, Matt Cohen (trip to France), 1985.
Box 107
file 1 External Affairs Committee, Georges Ferenci (trip to Hungary),
1984-5.
file 2 External Affairs Committee, Timothy Findley (trip to Australia
and New Zealand), 1986.
file 3 External Affairs Committee, Joy Kogawa (trip to Israel, Great Britain),
1986-7.
file 4 External Affairs Committee, Norman Levine (trip to Europe), 1987.
file 5 External Affairs Committee, Roger McDonald (winner of the Canada-Australia
Literary Prize), 1981-3.
file 6 External Affairs Committee, Les A. Murray (winner of the Canada-Australia
Literary Prize), 1985. Includes photographs.
file 7 External Affairs Committee, Susan Musgrave and Robin Skelton (trip
to Ireland), 1983-4.
file 8 External Affairs Committee, Max Nord (tour of Canada), 1985.
file 9 External Affairs Committee, Barry Oakley (winner of the Canada-Australia
Literary Prize), 1983. Includes audio tape.
file 10 External Affairs Committee, Georges Szanto (trip to Germany),
1983. Includes Szanto's report.
file 11 External Affairs Committee, Audrey Thomas and Robert Bringhurst
(trip to Japan), 1983. Includes photograph of Thomas.
file 12 External Affairs Committee, Aritha van Herk (trip to Scandinavia),
1984-5. Includes photographs.
file 13 External Affairs Committee, Heidi von Born (tour of Canada), 1983.
file 14 External Affairs Committee, Rudy Wiebe, 1986-7.
file 15 External Affairs Committee, east coast tour (U.S.A.), 1983-5.
file 16 External Affairs Committee, east European tour, 1983.
file 17 External Affairs Committee, foreign tours and exchanges, 1985.
Includes completed forms by members wishing to travel outside of Canada.
file 18 External Affairs Committee, Mexican writers, 1983.
file 19 External Affairs Committee, Mexico-Canada exchange, 1982.
file 20 External Affairs Committee, U.S.A., 1986-7.
file 21 External Affairs Committee, west coast tour (U.S.A.), 1982-3.
file 22 External Affairs Committee, West Indies tour, 1983-4.
files 23-7 External Affairs Committee, 1981-5.
Box 108
files 1-3 External Affairs Committee, 1985-8.
files 4-5 External Affairs Committee, correspondence, 1981-5.
file 6 External Affairs Committee, Nobel Prize nomination, 1982. Forms
completed by members indicating their choices for nomination.
files 7-8 External Affairs Committee, tours, 1984-6. Forms completed by
members indicating their interest in travelling abroad.
file 9 External Affairs Committee, translation project, 1983-4.
files 10-2 Fundraising Committee, 1982-3. Contains publishing information
on limited editions published by the Grand Union Press Limited: Margaret
Atwood's Unearthing suite, Robert Kroetsch's Letters to Salonika,
and Jack Hodgins's Beginnings: samplings from a long apprenticeship:
novels which were imagined, written, re-written, submitted, rejected,
abandoned, and supplanted.File 12 contains 34 copies of the same
document addressed to subscribers of the series, signed by Margaret Atwood,
Robert Kroetsch, and David Young.
file 13 Grievance Committee, Ben Anderson, 1983-4.
file 14 Grievance Committee, Margret Andersen, 1983-4.
file 15 Grievance Committee, Doris Anderson, 1984-5.
file 16 Grievance Committee, Michael Bliss, 1983.
file 17 Grievance Committee, Roo Borson, 1986-7.
file 18 Grievance Committee, Kay Boyle, 1984-6.
file 19 Grievance Committee, Borealis Press, 1983.
file 20 Grievance Committee, Eileen J. Cade-Edwards, 1983-4.
file 21 Grievance Committee, Silver Donald Cameron, 1983-7.
file 22 Grievance Committee, Peter A. Charlebois, 1974-85.
file 23 Grievance Committee, Lois Darroch, 1986.
file 24 Grievance Committee, Malcolm Dean, 1982-3.
file 25 Grievance Committee, Alice Downie, 1982-3.
file 26 Grievance Committee, Dorothy Harley Eber, 1986-7.
file 27 Grievance Committee, Esther Fine, 1983.
file 28 Grievance Committee, Mary Beacock Fryer, 1984-8.
file 29 Grievance Committee, Joan Finnigan Mackenzie, 1985-7.
file 30 Grievance Committee, Ed Gould, 1984.
file 31 Grievance Committee, Katherine Govier, 1986.
file 32 Grievance Committee, Joan Haggerty, 1980-4.
file 33 Grievance Committee, Lyn Harrington, 1983.
file 34 Grievance Committee, Leo Heaps, 1982-6.
Box 109
file 1 Grievance Committee, Lee J. Hindle, 1983.
file 2 Grievance Committee, Simma Holt, 1986.
file 3 Grievance Committee, Jean Johnston, 1983.
file 4 Grievance Committee, Penny Kemp, 1985.
file 5 Grievance Committee, Philip Kreiner, 1984.
file 6 Grievance Committee, Hilary M. Lips, 1984-5.
file 7 Grievance Committee, Rota Herzberg Lister, 1983-4.
file 8 Grievance Committee, Barbara Novak, 1984.
file 9 Grievance Committee, Dorothy O'Connell, 1983-4.
file 10 Grievance Committee, George R. Pandi, 1984.
file 11 Grievance Committee, Veronica Ross, 1984-5.
file 12 Grievance Committee, Jeanne Scargall, 1983.
file 13 Grievance Committee, Jim Smith, 1983.
file 14 Grievance Committee, Donna Smyth, 1983.
file 15 Grievance Committee, Stand Magazine, 1983.
file 16 Grievance Committee, Gertrude Story, 1983-7.
file 17 Grievance Committee, Catherine M.V. Thuro, 1984-5.
file 18 Grievance Committee, Audrey Thomas, 1986.
file 19 Grievance Committee, Sheila V. White, 1982-3.
file 20 Grievance Committee, Moncrieff Williamson, 1984-5.
file 21 Grievance Committee, Shulamis Yelin, 1984-6. Includes letter from
George Grant, 5 December 1986.
files 22-30. Grievance Committee, 1980-7. Includes minutes and correspondence
from members and publishers. Selective list of grievances discussed:
file 22 Madeline Kronby, Philip Shackleton, Dorothy O'Connell, June Callwood
file 23 Howard Goldsmith, Mae Worth, Colin Browne, Ginny Ouellet, Peggy
O'Hara, Donald Law, Carol Gabouri Cooper, Clair Mackay, David Lewis Stein,
H.R. Percy, Priscilla Galloway.
file 24 Lois Simmie, Joan Finnigan MacKenzie.
file 25 Esther Fine, Leonard L. Knott, Ivan Prokopchuk.
file 27 Nellie M.. Nielson, Michael Bliss, Alice Boissonneau.
file 28 Adelaide Leitch, Jane E. Shen, Alison Pirot, John Goddard, Sheldon
O'Oconnell, Michael Bradley, Welwyn Wilton Katz, Carolyn Pogue Czarnecki,
Hilary Stewart.
file 29 Joy Kogawa, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Rhea Tregebov, Quadrant Editions,
Keith Harrison, Janet Grant, Trevor Ferguson, John Goddard, David Helwig,
Earle Birney, Miriam Packer.
file 30 Flo Whyard, Judy McGilwary, Lee Blackwell, Ian Smillie, Helen
Porter, Marlene Nourbese Philip, W.P. Kinsella, Mary M.. Gilbert-Skinner,
Patricia Smith, C. Dinno Minni, D.M. Clark, Dorothy Gray, M.E. Ten Eycke,
Mily Charon, Jan Hudson.
files 31-7 Ghostwriter Requests, 1980-8.
file 38 Guide for Committee Chairs, 1985.
files 39-42 Library Committee, 1981-3. File 42 pertain to a survey undertaken
by the Committee to determine the amount of Canadian content in Canadian
libraries.
Box 110
files 1-2 Library Committee, 1983-5.
files 3-4 Library and Information Task Force, 1980-2.
file 5 Manuscript Reading Request, 1982-3.
file 6 Media Kit Project, 1983-5.
file 7 Membership brochure, 1986-7. Includes photocopy of Robin Skelton's
draft of the brochure.
files 8-10 Membership by regions, 1985-7.
files 11-25 Membership Committee, 1981-8. Includes correspondence from
writers and among members of the committee, in particular Jane Rule, Robert
Collins, Fred Stenson, Paul O'Neill, Ian Wallace, Tom Marshall, David
Watmough, H.R. Percy, Carol Shields, Helen Porter. Some files are appeals
to ex-members or writers to join the Union (Pierre Berton).
file 26 Membership criteria, 1984-6.
files 27-8 Membership drive, 1986-8. Consists mainly of the same letter
from Rudy Wiebe to potential members.
Box 111
files 1-4 Membership dues, 1980-4.
files 5-14 Membership lists, 1974-88.
file 15 Membership Review Committee, 1984-5.
file 16 Multiple manuscript submissions, brief and survey of publishers,
1983.
files 17-24 Newsletter Committee, 1980-7.
file 18 Newsletter Committee, writers' guide to Canadian magazines, survey,
1984.
files 19 Newsletter mailing list, 1986-7.
files 20-3 Newsletters, material for the following issues: December 1987,
February 1988, March 1988, and May 1988.
file 24 Nominating Committee, 1981-8.
files 25-30 Pacific Regional Office, 1982-8.
Box 112
files 1-7 Political Committee (also called Political Action Committee,
1980-8. Files 3 and 6 consist of news clippings, file 5 relates to free
trade, and file 7 concerns "Don't Tax Reading".
files 8-9 Public Lending Right, 1986-7. See also file 6, box 103.
file 10 Public sales, 1984.
file 11 Reading and Fees Committee, 1986-7. Includes completed questionnaires.
files 12-20 Rights and Freedoms Committee, 1981-8. Includes blue binder
(1984-5) with headings: minutes, libel book, libel insurance, freedom
to read, book banning, C.C. amendments, censorship, correspondence, libel
survey, libel defence.
file 21 Rights and Freedoms Committee, Book & Periodical Development
Council, 1981.
Box 113
files 1-7 Rights and Freedoms Committee, Censorship, 1976-87. File 1 contains
photocopies of news clippings sent by Margaret Laurence to the Writers'
Union and a letter from Robertson Davies to the Peterborough Board of
Education, 19 May 1976, concerning Laurence's The Diviners. File
4 contains a copy of C*ns*rsh*P: stopping the book banners along
with other literature.
files 8-10 Rights and Freedoms Committee, Freedom of Expression, 1981-5.
files 11-13 Rights and Freedoms Committee, Legislation, 1978-88. File
11 concerns the Obscenity Bill (Bill card-51), file 12 the child pornography
law (Bill card-53), and file 13 anti-pornography legislation (Bill card-54).
file 14 Rights and Freedoms Committee, libel questionnaire, 1983-4.
files 15-6 Rights and Freedoms Committee, libel booklet, 1982-6. File
16 has correspondence between June Callwood and publishers and foundations
in an attempt to arrange publication of the booklet.
file 17 Rights and Freedoms Committee, libel insurance, 1983-4.
file 18 Schedule of fees questionnaire for publishers and literary agents,
1985-6.
file 19 Taxation, budget cuts, charitable status, 1978-80.
files 20-6 Tax Committee, 1980-8. File 21 contains a letter from Margaret
Atwood [1983?]. Other files have correspondence and reports from the chair
of the Committee, Michael Gilbert.
Box 114
files 1-2 Technology Committee, 1982-4.
file 3 Technology Task Force, 1982-3.
file 4 Technology Workshop, Canadian Literature Beyond the Borders, 1983.
file 5 Tours Committee, 1983-4.
file 6 Tours Committee, boycott of the National Book Festival Referendum,
1983.
file 7 Tours Committee, non-fiction writers, 1983.
file 8 Tours, readings, 1982.
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