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TheCanada Council Members Michelle Tisseyre Elizabeth Yeigh Gertrude Laing John James MacDonaId Audrey Thomas Mavor Moore (Chairman) (resigned March 21, (until September 1976) (Member of the Michel Bélanger 1977) Gilles Tremblay Council) (Vice-Chairman) Eric McLean Anna Wyman Robert Rivard Nini Baird Mavor Moore (until September 1976) (Member of the David Owen Carrigan Roland Parenteau Rudy Wiebe Council) (from May 26,1977) Paul B. Park John Wood Dorothy Corrigan John C. Parkin Advisory Academic Pane1 Guita Falardeau Christopher Pratt Milan V. Dimic Claude Lévesque John W. Grace Robert Rivard (Chairman) Robert Law McDougall Marjorie Johnston Thomas Symons Richard Salisbury Romain Paquette Douglas T. Kenny Norman Ward (Vice-Chairman) James Russell Eva Kushner Ronald J. Burke Laurent Santerre Investment Committee Jean Burnet Edward F. Sheffield Frank E. Case Allan Hockin William H. R. Charles Mary J. Wright (Chairman) Gertrude Laing J. C. Courtney Douglas T. Kenny Michel Bélanger Raymond Primeau Louise Dechêne (Member of the Gérard Dion Council) Advisory Arts Pane1 Harry C. Eastman Eva Kushner Robert Creech John Hirsch John E. Flint (Member of the (Chairman) (until September 1976) Jack Graham Council) Albert Millaire Gary Karr Renée Legris (Vice-Chairman) Jean-Pierre Lefebvre Executive Committee for the Bruno Bobak Jacqueline Lemieux- Canadian Commission for Unesco (until September 1976) Lope2 John Boyle Phyllis Mailing L. H. Cragg Napoléon LeBlanc Jacques Brault Ray Michal (Chairman) Paul B. Park Roch Carrier John Neville Vianney Décarie Lucien Perras Joe Fafard Michael Ondaatje (Vice-Chairman) John Roberts Bruce Ferguson P. K. Page Jacques Asselin Céline Saint-Pierre Suzanne Garceau Richard Rutherford Paul Bélanger Charles Lussier (until August 1976) Michael Snow Bert E. Curtis (Ex-officia) Bill Glassco Normand Thériault Blanche Faucher David W. Bartlett George D. Garland ( Secretary-General) Helen Hnatyshyn Executive Staff Charles Lussier, Director Timothy Porteous, Associate Director F. A. Milligan, Associate Director for University Affairs Claude Gauthier, Assistant Director and Treasurer Jules Pelletier, Assistant Director and Chief of Management Advisory Services David Bartlett, Secretary-General for the Canadian Commission for Unesco Alan Armstrong, Secretary of the Council Contents The Canada Council v Humanities and Social Sciences 53 Former Members and Directors vii Consultative Groups and Selection Committees 54 Foreword ix Special M.A. Scholarships 56 Introduction xi Doctoral Fellowshins 58 Leave Fellowships 62 Prizes and Commemorative Awards 1 Research 68 Prises 2 Publication 82 Commemorative Awards Conferences and Travel 84 The Arts Special Grants and Studies a7 Killam Program Juries and Selection Committees 6 Visual Arts and Photography 10 Explorations Program Film 15 Other Programs 97 Video 17 Cultural Exchanges 98 Writing, Publication and Translation 19 Grants for Cultural Exchanges 99 Music and Opera 35 Grants for International Representation 164 Theatre 43 Stanley House 106 Dance 46 M The Canadian Commission for Unesco 107 Other Grants 48 Touring Oillce 49 Finances 109 Introduction 110 Financial Statement 113 Securities 122 Canada Council Publications 128 Introduction Twenty Years in the Wings needs the Council may fil1 in the years to corne, it Will still be mostly in the business For twenty years the Canada Council has of spending money as wisely as possible on been in the wings, behind the scenes, ap- behalf of the arts and, for a while at least, plauding rather than applauded. That is how the humanities and social sciences. it should be, even when the Council takes a Visitors may know this, but they are still more active role than grant-giving, as in the often surprised to see that our offices look Art Bank, the Touring Office and the publica- like other offices. Accounting procedures and tion of special studies. The artists are the computers are part of the daily routine, and stars, and SO - in a more muted way - are the the loudest noise is the clacking of many scholars. When the Council is doing its job, typewriters. Each place in the boardroom it expects them to receive longer and louder cornes equipped with water glass, pad of applause. paper and pencils, and people corne to Nonetheless, it did not hurt one bit to hear meetings armed with sheafs of background the good things said about the Council on its papers thick enough to worry the busiest twentieth anniversary. We still glow at the corporate executive. recollection of, for example, Sandra Gwyn It is true that you see more works of art writing in Saturday NZghct that the Council on display than in most offices, but the has remained true to its sometimes diflicult Council believes that even this difference is mandate, and that it “somehow managed to bound to be less dramatic as the years go by. become the nerviest and the most life-en- Already the Art Bank and the example set hancing [institution] this country has ever by many corporations have brought more art produced.” into government and business offices. The reason for this short but welcome Nonetheless, being part of the Canada burst of applause is to be found not in our Council cari be very rewarding, if only be- boardroom and offices, but spread across the cause of the opportunities to see, hear and country in the form of a more flourishing read the work of some of the most talented community of artists and scholars. and productive people in the country. It also What the Council itself deals with is mostly means meeting artists and scholars. TO get money and advice. It takes on other roles the advice it needs to do its work well, the only because a thing needs doing and there Council consults hundreds of people in the is no one able to do it. For example, if there field. The lists of panels and juries in this were enough buyers and displayers of the report read like a Who’s Who in the arts, best new Canadian art, there would be no humanities and social sciences in Canada, need for an Art Bank, and if private im- and these are only the formally constituted presarios could afford to fil1 a11 the needs of groups. Many other experts are consulted our far-flung country, the Touring Office on a day-to-day basis. would gladly leave the field. Whatever new xi Former Members and Directors of The Canada Council Chairmen John M. Godfrey, 1970-1973 Claude Bissell, 1960-1962 Wilfrid P. Gregory, 1965-1968 Brooke Claxton, 1957-1960 G. Edward Hall, 1960-1966 Jean Martineau, 1964-1969 Margaret Harvey 1959-1963 John G. Prentice, 1969-1974 Eric Harvie, 1957-1959 D. B. Weidon, 1962-1964 Henry D. Hicks, 1963-1969 Bernice Holota, Vice-Chaiimen 1971-1974 Dora de Pedery Hunt, 1970-1973 Gérard Filion, 1962-1964 Frances Hyland, 1973-1976 Brian Flemming, 1974-1976 D. Park Jamieson, 1962-1965 J. Francis Leddy, 1964-1969 Raoul Jobin, 1961-1964 Georges-Henri Lévesque, 1957-1962 Stuart Keate, 1963-1969 Guy Rocher, 1969-1974 Basil Kushnir, 1961-1964 Members Luc Lacourcière, 1962-1965 Murray Adaskin, 1966-1969 Elizabeth Lane, 1970-1973 Mrs. Reginaid R. Arkell, 1957-1959 Annette Lasalle-Leduc, 1964-1967 Jean Adrien Arsenault, 1963-1969 Napoléon LeBlanc, 1964-1970 Ronald Baker, 1970-1976 J. Francis Leddy, 1957-1960 Jules Bazin, 1957-1959 Douglas V. LePan, 1964-1970 Jean-Charles Bonenfant, 1970-1976 Howard Leyton-Brown, 1971-1974 Monique Bosco, 1971-1974 Léon Lortie, 1968-1971 L. W.Brockington, 1957-1962 Frank Lynch-Staunton, 1959-1965 Samuel Bronfman, 1957-1962 Mrs. Angus L. Macdonald, 1957-1963 Alex Colville, 1966-1972 C. J. Mackenzie, 1963-1969 J. A. Corry, 1966-1972 N. A. M. MacKenzie, 1957-1963 Andrée Desautels, 1967-1970 Frank MacKinnon, 1957-1963 Louis A. Desrochers, 1968-1974 W.A. Mackintosh, 1957-1960 John James Deutsch, 1974-1976 Ernest MacMillan, 1957-1963 Mrs. W. J. Dorrance, 1963-1969 Byron March, 1968-1971 Mrs. Stanley Dowhan, 19651968 Pauline McGibbon, 1968-1971 Lady Dunn, 1961-1962 David Monson, 1961-1964 Frederick R. Emerson, 1957-1959 Trevor F. Moore, 1962-1968 Marcel Faribault, 1960-1966 Eustace Morin, 1957-1961 Brian Flemming, 1970-1974 Mme Alfred Paradis, 1957-1961 C. H. Forsyth, 1965-1966 André Paré. 1971-1974 vii -i - Vida Peene, 1957-1961 Georges P. Vanier, 1957-1959 Gilles Pelletier, 1965-1968 David H. Walker, 1957-1961 Kathleen Richardson, 1964-1970 J. M. S. Wardell, 1962-1965 Marquita Riel, 1971-1974 D. B. Weldon, 1961-1962 Claude Robillard, 1966-1969 Gerald M. Winter, 1959-1965 Aileen Ross, 1968-1971 Directors Claude Roussel, 1972-1975 Ignatius A. Rumboldt, 19651968 1957-1965, A. W. Trueman John A. Russell, 1957-1961 1965-1969, Jean Boucher June-Russell, 1972-1975 1969-1971, Peter M. Dwyer David W. Slater, 1968-1972 1971-1975, André Fortier J. W. T. Spinks, 1960-1966 Associate Directors Samuel Steinberg, 1962-1968 1957-1965, Eugène Bussière E. P. Taylor, 1957-1961 1965-1969, Peter M. Dwyer Emile Tellier, 1959-1962 1969-1972, Robert Elie Mme Victor Trénanier. 1961-1964 Foreword This year the Canada Council marks its days. The great vitality of the cultural life twentieth anniversary. Following custom, it of Alberta impressed us a11 very deeply. At has used the occasion for an interna1 evalua- every stop we were greeted warmly, but this tion of its past achievements and present fine display of hospitality did not prevent policies. One need only compare the state of our hosts from being very vocal in their crit- the arts twenty years ago with today to see icism as well as generous with words of that the Council has contributed to the praise and encouragement. The key problem growth and enjoyment of the arts in Canada. is communication. In a country as vast as At the same time, the country has evolved, Canada, how cari we keep in touch with the and the Council must be responsive to communities we serve and, ideally at least, changing needs.