Finding Aid
Boxes 1-8 contain annotated typescript introductions to CBC Sunday Night, Tuesday Night and Wednesday Night programs by James Bannerman.
Box 1 - Introduction - CBC Sunday Night
October 27, 1963 - October 17, 1965
No. 1 - No. 104
Box 2 - Introduction - CBC Tuesday Night
October 26, 1965 - March 4, 1969
No. 104 - No. 170
Box 3 - Introduction - CBC Tuesday Night
March 11, 1969 - July 7, 1970
No. 171 - No. 236
Box 4 - Introduction - CBC Wednesday Night
October 18, 1950 - January 14, 1953
No. 1 - No. 117
Box 5 - Introduction - CBC Wednesday Night
January 21, 1953 - April 27, 1955
No. 118 - No. 234
Box 6 - Introduction - CBC Wednesday Night
May 4, 1955 - March 26, 1958
No. 235 - No. 386
Box 7 - Introduction - CBC Wednesday Night
April 2, 1958 - October 18, 1961
No. 387 - No. 557
Box 8 - Introduction - CBC Wednesday Night
October 25, 1961 - January 17, 1962
No. 558 - No. 662
Boxes 9-18 contain annotated typescripts written by James Bannerman. Several of the individual folders contain research notes as well as correspondence dealing with that particular script.
Box 9:
"Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick" 46 p.
"An Affair of Honor" 15 p.
"Ancient Egypt"--The Pyramids 17 p.
"The Anvil Stands (Vanishing Blacksmith)" 19 p.
"The Baccarat Case" 78 p.
"Ballyhoo" 6 p.
"The Blind Mouth" 19 p.
"The Blue Nose" 20 p.
"The Boer War Veterans" (incomplete )
Box 10:
"Canada and the American Civil War" 54 p.
"Canadian Painters"
- Emily Carr 23 p.
- Clarence Gagnon 15 p.
- Paul Kane 17 p.
- James Morrice and Maurice Cullen 19 p.
- Tom Thomson 19 p.
"Canadian Verse" 7 p.
Box 11:
"Charlottetown 1864 (The Way We Began)" 44 p.
"Chautauqua" 18 p.
"Christmas in Canada" 40 p.
"Cursed Be That Bread" 25 p.
"The Day It Happened" 20 p.
"Design for a Nation" 24 p.
"Dilemma of the Clergy" 8 p.
Box 12:
"English Drama" Pts. I-V 119 p.
"Equality for Women" 20 p.
"The Era of Noise" 8 p.
"The Exodus" 20 p.
"France in Crisis" 37 p.
"Give Us This Day" 19 p.
"The Great Eastern" 67 p.
Box 13:
"Hadyn" 13 p.
"Hamlet" Pts. I-VI 141 p.
"How Very Strange" 25 p.
"I'm Alone" 27 p.
"Invective and Repartee" 31 p.
"Invisible Women" 26 p.
"Julius Caesar" Pts. I-V 106 p.
Box 14:
"Let's Make an Opera" Pts. I-III 42 p.
"The Life of Joseph Conrad" 109 p.
"Lives of the Poets" -- D.H. Lawrence 28 p.
"Macbeth" 17 p.
"Mr. McIntosh's Marvelous Apple" 21 p.
Box 15:
"Murder By Court Martial" 64 p.
"Music in a Technological Age" 64 p.
"Music in Canada"-- Programs 1-13
"Music in the Making" 37 p.
- The Nutcracker
- Sleeping Beauty
- Swan Lake
Box 16:
"A Naming of Places" 26 p.
"Nelson's Canadian" 18 p.
"An Old Man's Fancy" 21 p.
"Piltdown" 33 p.
"Poet of the Habitant" 29 p.
"Portrait of an Age" (The Ante Bellum South) 30 p.
"Red is for Danger" 56 p.
"Regimental No. Zero" 21 p.
Box 17:
"Snobbery" 35 p.
"The Surgeon Major" 75 p.
"Trouble in the Red River" 18 p.
Box 18:
"What Can We Learn From Abroad" 13 p.
"The Wheat That Lived" 21 p.
"Who Knows?"
- Programs 1-13
"The Wines of Ontario" 18 p.
Boxes 19-22 contain published and unpublished articles written by James Bannerman. He uses the name Bannerman (his most popular pseudonym) along with several of the other pseudonyms he wrote under: George Austen, Peter Davidson, Robert Elliott and Pierre Lousanne. Titles in parenthesis are those which appear in the actual magazine clippings.
Box 19:
"Ballooning" ( "When Ballooning was the Craze") Maclean's Magazine December 24, 1955
"A Beach of Strangers" CBC Times II no. 40, April 11-17, 1959
"Beaver Beaver Burning Bright" Mayfair editorial 1949
"CBC Wednesday Night" According to correspondence in the file terms were set up for possible publication in booklet form, but there is no evidence that this was ever done.
"Canadian Claret" En Route November-December 1969
"Charles Dickens in Canada" ("An Excursion Into Canada With Charles Dickens") Maclean's Magazine December 15, 1953
"Cooking With Herbs" ("Let Herbs Help You") Chatelaine March 1954
"The Dashing Millionaire" ("How J.K.L. Ross") Maclean's Magazine April 2, 1955
"The Great Eastern" ("The Ship That Was Cursed") Maclean's Magazine December 15, 1949
Box 20:
"He Collects Canada" Maclean's Magazine July 1, 1954
"Horsemeat" ( "Hungry Enough to Eat a ..." ) Maclean's Magazine November 15, 1951
"Jumbo" ("The Tragic Death of the Great Jumbo") Maclean's Magazine November 12, 1955
Box 21:
"Laura Secord" ("The Truth About Laura Secord") Star Weekly July 2, 1960
"Putting on Weight" Star Weekly April 2, 1960
"The Quebec Bridge" ("The Black Day the Quebec Bridge Fell") Maclean's Magazine October 13, 1956
"The Seaway--A Sweet-and-Sour History" CBC Times II no. 50, June 20-26, 1959
"Slow Convoy to Hell" ("The Nightmare Convoy of the Atlantic") Maclean's Magazine May 15, 1952
"That was the Prince of Wales" ("The Year we Went Wild for the Prince of Wales") Maclean's Magazine April 26, 1958
"War in the St. Lawrence" ("The Battle of the St. Lawrence") Maclean's Magazine October 15, 1949
Box 22:
The Age of Irresponsibility, Dr .Wilder Penfield
Boxes 23-24:
Clippings and tear-sheets
Box 25:
Correspondence
Boxes 26 and 27:
Miscellaneous Material
Box 28:
Incomplete or Abandoned Material
2 Metal Boxes containing research notes on index cards for scripts and articles
