Flip Your Lids: Archival photo essay from Carleton U

To my delight, while flipping through the latest issue of the Carleton University Magazine, I came across a photo essay on some of the archival materials held at the Archives and Research Collections within Carleton Library. Among other materials, it highlights a jewell of the archive - a donation from the estate of Jacob Siskind, a well known mid-20th century Canadian music critic for both the Ottawa Citizen and Montreal Gazette. Here's a link the article and a video/article (the video attached here) discussing the collection and the place of Jacob Siskind in Canadian music history. I owe a debt of thanks to the folks at the Carleton Archives - quite pivotal in sending me down the archives path as a future career. 


Cheers!

New Lester B. Pearson archival materials

I was recently involved (to a very small extent but involved nonetheless!) in the donation of some Lester B. Pearson materials from when he was an undergraduate student at the Victoria University in the University of Toronto prior to, during and after the First World War. They were recently in the possession of the family but have joined a number of LBP and his son Geoffrey Arthur Holland Pearson (a distinguished Canadian and diplomat in his own right) materials that have been donated to the Carleton University and University of Victoria (University of Toronto) archives. Keep an eye out for more LBP and GAHP materials from Carleton as they're eventually accessioned and made available.

The University of Victoria Archives has just digitized the donated LBP materials and have made them available online here. Hon. Landon Pearson, LBP's daughter-in-law and GAHP's wife who donated the material, made an interesting note as to why LBP's grades fell so drastically after his return to U Vic after the war.....likely suffering from shell shock - post traumatic stress disorder.