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Fonds Description
Sinn, Hans
Hans Sinn fonds. First and Second
Accruals.
First accrual
Series 1
Sanity: Peace Oriented News and Comment. -- 1965-1967. -- 10.5
cm of textual records. – Title based on content of series.
The series contains letters received and copies of letters sent relating
to an article that appeared in the January 1967 edition of Sanity;
it announced a program to aid Americans avoiding the Vietnam draft, who
wished to find sanctuary in Canada. Due to the number of requests that
came into the Sanity office from prospective United States draftees, Hans
Sinn prepared the Fact Sheet on Immigration to Canada to be sent
out to interested parties.
Among the records in this series are several editions of Sanity:
June 1965, September 1965, February 1966 to May 1966, January 1967 to
February 1967, November 1967, and April 1967 to June 1967. There are various
international publications all dating from 1967: Liberation, New
Patriot, New Zeft Notes, The Peacemakers, WRL,
WIN, Zivil and newsclippings. All are strongly aligned with
the peace and anti-war efforts which grew with the increased United States
involvement in the Vietnam War.
Several mailing lists are encompassed within this series, including the
list of subscribers and institutions that receive the Sanity publication.
The publication Zivil (May 1967) published in Frankfurt, and some
newsclippings found in Series 1, are printed in the German language. The
abbreviation TINV stands for Training Institute for Nonviolence.
Box 1
Sanity: Peace Oriented News and Comment
F.1 Mailing lists of institutions
and individuals who received the Sanity publication
F.2 Correspondence with
prospective draftees wishing to come to Canada, 1966-1967
F.3 Immigration procedures
and the Fact Sheet on Immigration to Canada, 1967
F.4 Newsclippings on the
topic of the war resistance movement, 1967
F.5 International peace
related publications, 1967
F.6 International peace
related publications, 1967
F.7 International peace
related publications, 1967
F.8 Sanity: Peace Oriented
News and Comment, 1965-1967
F.9 Sanity: Peace Oriented
News and Comment, 1965-1967
Series 2
Training Institute for Nonviolence, Grindstone Island. -- 1963-1968. --
22.5 cm of textual records. -- 5 black and white photographic prints:
8.75 cm x 12.5 cm; 3 black and white photographic prints: 12.5 cm x 17.5
cm; 3 colour photographic prints: 8.75 cm x 12.5 cm; 1 exposure, black
and white negative.– Title based on content of series.
The series contains annually produced reports and summaries of the Training
Institute for Nonviolence which provide a year-by-year overview of the
institution’s activities, objectives and agendas. There are also
student evaluations of the training program and several notebooks containing
observations made by the participants.It includes the business correspondence
of both Hans Sinn and Murray Thomson. Letters received by Thomson, and
copies of letters sent by him, identify the participants, staff and consultants
who attended the summer sessions at Grindstone Island. There is also correspondence
relating to a proposed research project in non-military national defence
and correspondence relayed between Sinn and Thomson concerning potential
participants of the Training Institute for Nonviolence. Several letters
are in response to an article Sinn wrote for Peace News, describing
the exercise in civilian defence known as the “Grindstone Experiment
of 1965.”
There are also photographs, newsclippings
and circulars relating to the Training Institute for Nonviolence. Materials
gathered for the creation of a brochure contain a single black and white
negative of the former Kingsmill summer home.
Box 1
F.10 An overview of the Training
Institute for Nonviolence, Grindstone Island, 1963-1967
F.11 Reports and agendas, 1963
F.12 Murray Thomson’s correspondence
with applicants for the Training Institute of Nonviolence, 1963
F.13 Training Institute for Nonviolence,
program notes, 1963
F.14: Reports and Summaries, 1964
F.15 Murray Thomson’s correspondence
with applicants for the Training Institute of Nonviolence, 1964
F.16 Murray Thomson’s correspondence
with consultants and staff, 1964
F.17 Objectives and agenda, 1965
F.18 Murray Thomson’s correspondence
with potential resource leaders, 1965
F.19 Correspondence with participants
and leaders, 1965
F.20 Grindstone Experiment, 1965
Box 2
F.1 Grindstone Experiment, 1965
F.2 Correspondence addressed to Murray
Thomson requesting a copy of the report on the Grindstone Experiment or
information on the Grindstone Institute, 1965
F.3 Program notes, 1966
F.4 Training evaluations and participant
notes, 1966
F.5 Murray Thomson’s correspondence
with the planning committee for the Training Institute for Nonviolence
and with consultants in regard to a three year research project in non-military
national defence
F.6 Objectives and agenda, 1967
F.7 Murray Thomson’s correspondence
with applicants for the Training Institute for Nonviolence, 1967
F.8 Correspondence addressed to Murray
Thomson regarding applicants unable to attend the Training Institute for
Nonviolence and letters sent by Murray Thomson requesting payment of fees
and awarding scholarships, 1967
F.9 Participant evaluations, 1967
F.10 Draft proposal outlining activities
and daily events, 1968
F.11 Correspondence relayed between
Hans Sinn and Murray Thomson regarding preparations for the Training Institute
of Nonviolence. Copies of letters received by Hans Sinn; copies of letters
sent by Sinn regarding interest in filming a peace workshop and letters
concerning the content proposal for a promotional flyer, 1968
F.12 Photographs and newsclippings
F.13 Promotional flyer
F.14 Participant notebooks [196-?]
F.15 Participant notebooks [196-?]
Note: The September 1965 edition of Sanity, available in Series
1, includes a description of the 1965 session at the Training Institute
for Nonviolence; the article is centred on a discussion of the mock invasion
carried out during the exercise in nonviolent civilian defence.
Series 3
Grindstone Co-operative. -- 1976-1983. -- 11.75 cm of textual records.
– Title based on content of series.
This series is composed of the records of the Grindstone Co-operative
founded in May of 1976 as a non-profit co-operative educational organization
under the Co-operative Corporation Act of Ontario. A document reveals
that the co-operative later obtained charitable organization status. Among
the records are financial statements and administrative papers, such as
the minutes of the Board of Directors meetings and the by-laws issued
by the co-operative. There are details of a 1977-1978 expansion project
which saw the conversion of a boathouse into a meeting facility; included
are two small architectural drawings.
Correspondence in this series consists of a letter written by Hans and
Marion Sinn announcing their resignation from the administration of the
co-operative. A second letter addressed to the Sinns acknowledges their
contribution to the creation of the published work Making Waves: The
Grindstone Story.
The series also contains circulars produced by the co-operative outlining
their programs and a copy of Making Waves: The Grindstone Story.
This publication tells how the Kingsmill home came to be used by the Quakers
for peace education and what lead to Canada’s only co-operatively
owned and operated education centre for social change.
Box 3
F.1 Certificate of Incorporation,
1976
F.2 Grindstone Co-operative by-laws,
1977
F.3 Administrative papers, 1978
F.4 Financial statements, 1978
F.5 Expansion project including two
architectural drawings, 1977-1978
F.6 Administrative papers, 1979
F.7 Board Member report, 1979
F.8 Administrative papers, 1980
F.9 Administrative papers, 1981
F.10 Board Member report, 1981
F.11 Board Member report, 1982
F.12 Administrative papers, 1983
F.13 Correspondence sent and received
by Hans and Marion Sinn, 1983
F.14 Making Waves: The Grindstone
Story, 1983
F.15 Circulars announcing programmes
offered at the Grindstone Island Centre, 1977-1983
F.16 Circulars announcing programmes
offered at the Grindstone Island Centre, 1977-1983
F.17 Miscellaneous papers found loose
among Series III, 1977-1983
Second Accrual
F.18 Published materials: Grindstone
Reports, 1965-1969 (8 items); Grindstone Notes, 1977-1978 (1
binder); published report on the 6th Annual Quaker-Unesco seminar, 1968.
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