FRENCH STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
1 ”As a tree with the passage of time”: the University of Toronto motto.
2 Saint Michael’s College Yearbook, 1946-47, 6. See also photograph on page 7.
3 St Michael’s College Archives, Kevin Kirley, “French at the U. of T.: Recollections” (manuscript), 7. Subsequent quotations from Kevin Kirley are from this source.
4 Archives of the Sisters of St Joseph, Toronto, anon., “Obituary” (typescript).
5 Letter from Deborah Webster Rogers, 6T4, to Mariel O’Neill-Karch, 18 Sept. 1992.
6 Letter from Marie Noëlle Chynn (née Lou), 5T8, to Mariel O’Neill-Karch, 11 June 1993.
7 ”The Agonizing Solitude: The Poetry of Anne Hébert,” Canadian Literature 10 (Autumn 1961): 51-61.
8 Translated into English as Writing in the Father’s House (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991).
9 In 1986 Catherine Grisé and C.D.E. Tolton co-edited a festschrift in honour of Victor Graham, Crossroads and Perspectives: French Literature of the Renaissance, published by Droz.
10 Letter from Robert Fink to Mariel O’Neill, 19 July 1970.
11 Published in 1965 by Les Presses de l’Université Laval. It obtained the Prix Raymond Casgrain.
12 The Arts & Science Students’ Union at the University of Toronto, ASSU Anti-Calendar, 1982-83, 72.
13 See appendix 7 for a full list of plays produced in the various colleges under the auspices of the departments of French.
14 The author wishes to thank Father R.B. Donovan for his many contributions to this section and for his careful rereading of all St Michael’s College entries.
15 Presidents’ reports cited in this chapter are in the University of Toronto Archives.
16 The writer is grateful to Professor Donald G. Ivey, principal of New College from 1963 to 1974, for permission to consult his unpublished history of the college (1962-74).
17 See John L. Ball, Scarborough College, University of Toronto: The First Twenty-Five Years (1989).
18 The author is indebted to Peter Moes for preparing a typescript, “The Past Remembered: French at Scarborough – the First Years,” from which this quotation and others that follow are drawn.
19 BORA LASKIN ET AL., GRADUATE STUDIES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT’S COMMITTEE ON THE SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES, 1964-1965 (TORONTO, 1965), 30.
20 Figures supplied by the University of Toronto Office of Statistics, Records, and Convocation.