Polish

Henry Harrison Madill (1889-1988) graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in architecture in 1912 and joined the faculty.  His architectural designs include the North Toronto Collegiate Institute, as well as the Thomas Foster Memorial in Uxbridge, among other works.  As an officer in the cadet corps, he helped train Polish troops at Niagara-on-the-Lake during the First World War.

The papers include a series of photos dealing with the 'Polish Army in Canada' during World War I.

Cecilia Krieger (1894-1974) was the first woman, and the third person overall, to earn a doctorate in mathematics from a Canadian University (1930).  While still a graduate student at the University of Toronto, she was appointed as an instructor in mathematics in 1928, and became a lecturer in mathematics and physics in 1931 after spending some time at Göttingen upon completion of her degree.  After 12 years she was promoted to assistant professor at the University of Toronto and taught at that rank until her retirement in 1962.  Her best known contributions to mathematics we

Peter Brock (1920-2006) was a professor of History at the University of Toronto from 1966, and a pre-eminent specialist in Polish and East European history.  He obtained doctoral degrees in history from the Jagiellonian University of Kracow, Poland, and Oxford University. Besides the University of Toronto, he taught in history departments at the University of Alberta, Smith College, and Columbia University.

The collection (with the supplement edited by Gabriele Baumgartner) includes biographical information drawn from 180 reference works published from the 17th through the 20th centuries. The biographies were taken from Polish sources, from international biographical collections and also from German, Russian, French, English and Latin documents from the period of the 17th century until approximately 1945. It contains information on clans, families and individuals, providing a complete picture of the historical, political, social and cultural development of Poland.

The Kiev Province Committee was established by Tsar Nicholas I to investigate the extent of guilt of the individuals involved in the Polish uprising of 1830-1831.  This collection comprises a total of 432 investigative files that cover the organization and operation of the Committee; the bringing of people to military court; conscriptions into the army; police surveillance; and investigation records.

The Polish Legions were formed in June 1917 by Poles serving in the tsarist army.  They aspired for reviving the Polish state and incorporating western Ukraine.  The collection includes orders by the High Command, personnel listings, local Polish military newspapers, minutes of conferences held by Polish officers, and materials on the Legion's disbandment.

This collection is based on the extensive holdings of Radio Free Europe in Munich and the Polish Library Posk in London. It includes unique primary source materials representing a wide range of opposition and dissent periodicals up to 1988, covering: uncensored periodicals 1976-December 12th, 1981; Solidarnosc periodicals 1976-December 12th, 1981; martial law and underground periodicals, Dec. 1981+; and memographs, December 1981.

The KARTA Center was founded in Warsaw in 1982 and serves as the archive of record for documenting the history of opposition and dissent in post-World War II Poland. The three archives included in this collection include the Solidarity movement archive, the Eastern archive, and the Opposition archive. The material covers the formation and activity of the Independent Autonomous Trade Union (Solidarnosc) as well as materials on other independent community, social and political groups.

This collection contains material by members of Solidarity and other Polish and international workers' movements. It includes newspaper clippings, typescript articles, graphic material, audio cassettes, medals, stamps, artifacts, and other ephemera. The collection was established in 1982 and continues to grow as a result of donations from private donors.  It consists of twenty-six boxes arranged into five series:

A collection of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and images related to Poland, with a focus on the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, assembled by Count Emeryk Hutten Czapski. The earliest item in the collection from 1505 is Erazm Ciolek's Oratio in praestia obedientia Soleni Sanctissimo nostro Julio II, Pape, in nominee serenissimi principis Alexandri Regi Polonia. The subject matter of the material includes texts written by Terence and Plutarch, biographies of Polish kings, details of famous battles, poetry books, and other topics.