Canadian Journal of Photography
Mar. 1870-Mar. 1871; Jan. 1-Sept. 1, 1875//
Toronto, Ewing & Co.
The first Canadian photographic magazine.
MICROFILM 1 reel $253.00
The Arion
v. 1, no. 1-12; Oct. 1880-Sept. 1881//
Toronto, monthly.
"A Canadian journal of art, devoted to music, art, literature, and the drama."
MICROFILM 1 reel $253.00
Canadian Architect and Builder
v. 1-21, no. 19; Jan. 1888-Apr. 1908//
Toronto, monthly.
"A journal of constructive and decorative art."
The first definitive microfilm edition of a famous architectural journal. Like Construction (see below), it is a rich source of illustrations and photographs for architects and historians interested in such topics as town planning, social housing, and the role of unions in the building industry. This influential journal was the organ of the Ontario Association of Architects, carrying as well reports from the Quebec Association of Architects, the Alberta Association of Architects, and the Canadian National Association of Builders.
MICROFILM 12 reels $2496.00
Canadian Photographic Journal
v. 1-6; Feb. 1892-Feb. 1897//
Toronto, Geo. W. Gilson.
"Devoted to the interests of the professional and amateur photographer."
Absorbed by Professional Photographer, Buffalo, N.Y.
Rare Canadian photographic magazine.
MICROFILM 3 reels $749.00
Construction
v. 1-27, no. 5; Oct. 1907-Oct./Nov. 1934//
Toronto, H. Gagnier [etc.]
"A journal for the architectural, engineering and contracting interests of Canada."
An estimated 10,000 illustrations (including plans and interiors) combine with scholarly articles to provide an outstanding resource for architects, social and cultural historians, city planners, and designers. The original drawings and photographs of facades, interiors, and architectural details are essential for historically accurate restoration work.
This edition microfilmed from issues in the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library, the University of Toronto Library, and the University of Illinois Library, Urbana-Champaign.
MICROFILM 17 reels $4111.00
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
Journal.
v. 1-16; Jan. 1924-Dec. 1939
Published to June 1966; microfilm includes v. 1-16 complete.
Continued as Architecture Canada.
A bound volume of annual indexes to hundreds of articles and illustrations is included with the microfilm.
Indispensable source for the study of Canadian architectural history in the pre-World War II period.
MICROFILM 6 reels $1498.00
Ontario College of Art
Council. Records, 1912-June 1979.
18 v.
Records include biographical information on artists associated with the oldest college of art in Canada. (In 1996, name changed to Ontario College of Art and Design.)
MICROFILM 6 reels $1498.00
Hill Topics
Apr. 1921-July 7, 1923//?
Toronto, weekly. Illustrated.
"A newspaper for residents of Avenue Road Hill district."
MICROFILM 1 reel $253.00
Rosedale Topics
Feb. 19, 1921-July 28, 1923//
"A newspaper for residents of Rosedale."
MICROFILM 1 reel $253.00
Hill-Rosedale Topics
Sept. 1, 1923-Mar. 20, 1925//?
Toronto, weekly. Illustrated.
"Published in the interests of the residents of North and South Rosedale, Moore Park, Deer Park, Avenue Road Annex, Wells Hill, Wychwood, and St. Clair West districts."
Toronto social history of the early 1920's in a microcosm. The articles and stylish advertisements address an upper middle- class audience. Profiles of "Prominent Residents" are featured.
MICROFILM 1 reel $253.00
Canadian Radio Guide
v. 1-2, no. 17; Dec. 19, 1931-Feb. 18, 1933//?
Toronto.
"The national weekly of programmes and personalities."
A window on the landscape of Canadian broadcasting as it existed before the founding of the National Radio Commission in 1932.
MICROFILM 1 reel $253.00
National Gallery of Canada/Galerie Nationale du Canada
Exhibition catalogues, 1919-1959/Catalogues d'exposition, 1919-1959.
ca. 450 items [second printing, 1991]
Beginning with the Canadian War Memorials exhibition in 1919, these catalogues are an invaluable source of information on Canadian artists and their works. The Canadian Group of Painters, the Sculptors' Society of Canada, the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, The Canadian Society of Graphic Art, the Royal Canadian Academy, the Group of Seven, the Painters Eleven are among the groups included. The catalogues of the Canadian International Salons of Photographic Art document exhibitions that helped shape photographic awareness in Canada.
A HARDCOPY FINDING AID lists title, collation (including number of illustrations) and exhibition dates.
Indispensable for any large public, academic or art library.
MICROFICHE 167 sheets $1950.00
Maritime Art
v. 1-3, no. 5; Oct. 1940-July/Aug. 1943//
Halifax, Maritime Art Association
"A Canadian art magazine."
This title gradually assumed the role of a national art magazine, with contributors in Quebec, Ottawa, Montreal, and the prairie provinces.
Superseded by Canadian Art.
MICROFILM 1 reel $253.00
Guerilla
v. 1-3, no. 32; June 5, 1970-June 30, 1973//
Toronto, weekly.
"Radical alternate culture."
The labour column chronicled "in the most amazing detail, a whole series of strikes that had been. . .forgotten or ignored."--This magazine, Jan. 1983.
MICROFILM 3 reels $749.00
Centerfold
v. 1-4, no. 1; Aug. 1976-Nov. 1979//
Calgary, Toronto.
"Artists' news magazine."
The interdisciplinary approach focuses on the artist as political activist in such fields as performance, collaborative and video art.
MICROFILM1 reel $253.00
Artists Review
v. 1-4, no. 1; Oct. 11, 1977-Oct. 1980//
Toronto, Artists Cooperative Toronto.
"Written by artists for artists."
"An important focus of criticism in the late 1970's"--John Bentley Mays,
Globe & Mail, Feb. 27, 1988.
MICROFILM 1 reel $253.00
Parallélogramme
v. 1-17; Nov./Dec. 1976-Spring 1992.
Toronto, Association of National Non-Profit Artists' Centres.
"Contemporary Canadian art news."
The most comprehensive listing available of Canadian artist-run galleries, with descriptions and reviews of exhibitions. Articles (in English and French) deal with feminism and art, censorship, video art, government cultural policies and other issues of concern to working artists.
MICROFILM 6 reels $1498.00
NOW [magazine]
v. 1- Sept. 10, 1981- v.39 2020//
Toronto.
"Toronto's weekly."
With the largest circulation of any Canadian alternative (street) paper , NOW is a unique mirror of the cultural life of Canada's largest city. For more than twenty-five years, its' listings and reviews of the arts, theatre, books, restaurants, and music have been more comprehensive than those of any Toronto daily. Other topics covered frequently include Canadian racial issues, feminism, lesbian and gay rights, environmental causes, social housing and local, provincial, federal and international issues.
"In Canada [in the alternative weekly field] the biggest success story is Toronto's NOW magazine."--Globe & Mail, June 11, 1988.
MICROFILM Back run (1981-2016/17) 136 reels $31,576.00
Flyers: Six Months of Toronto Junk Mail.
A project undertaken on the principle that what everyone throws out must have some value. A complete photographic record (approximately 2,000 exposures) of the flood of advertising flyers and other unaddressed mail delivered to a Spruce Street house in Toronto's Cabbagetown neighbourhood, July 1-December 31, 1996.
Not all the material is directed to low end market promotion (pizza flyers, lube shops, etc.): among the advertisers are Canada Post, Cabbagetown Preservation Association, the City of Toronto, CBC, and TV Ontario. An Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs flyer on Megacity legislation, "Toronto For All of Us," achieved subsequent notoriety. The pamphlet's inaccurate and misleading information prompted a motion of censure by the Speaker of the House--a move unprecedented in the history of the Ontario Legislature.
MICROFILM 2 reels $395.00