The Canada Council Annual Report 1961-62
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THE CANADA COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 1961-62 ‘ . new vistas which need to 6e developed’ The Canada Council FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 1961-62 One FOI!~ Wellinplon Street Ottawa THE CANADA COUNCIL Patron’ The Right Honourable The Prime Minister of Canada, Ottawa, Canada. Sir: 1 have the honour to transmit herewith my predecessor’s Annual Report of The Canada Council as required by section 23 of the Canada Council Act (5-6 Elizabeth II, 1957, Chap. 3) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1962. 1 have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, Chairman. June 30. 1962 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page General Introduction 1 PART ONE: Th Endowment Fund The Arts 3 Introduction 3 Theatre Opera il Ballet 12 Creative Artists at Stanley House ‘4 Periodicals 16 The Provincial Arts Council of Quebec 20 Symphony Orchestras 21 Roundup 24 The Humanities and Social Sciences 29 Scholarships and Fellowships 30 Research 32 Assistance to Publication 32 Assistance to Universities 33 Information Service 35 Canadian National Commission for Unesco 38 Introduction 38 Committees 38 The East-West Major Project 39 International Programme and Activities 40 Programme Promotion and Development 43 Canadian University Service Overseas 45 Relations with Unesco, Paris 46 Finances 47 Canada and Unesco 47 Conclusion 49 The Financial Prospect 49 PART TWO: University Capital Gra&s Fund Eligibility 54 Grants Made 55 PARTTHREE: Finances Endowment Fund 56 The Five Year Investment Record 58 University Capital Grants Fund 58 Auditor General’s Report 62 Balance Sheet 63-64 Endowment Fund - Statement of Income and Expenditure and Surplus 65 PARTFOUR: Or@Z7Zi&iO?Z Meetings 66 Co-operating Agencies 66 Governor General’s Awards 66 Canada Council Medals 67 PART FIVE : Section I (a) Scholarship and Fellowship Programme 68 Section I (b) Awards of Scholarships, Fellowships and Other Grants to Individuals to be used in I 962-63 69 Section I (c) Donations of Fellowships Administered by The Canada Council 104 Section 2 Special Projects and Grants in Aid to Individuals 105 Section 3 Grants to Organizations 110 Section 4 List of Visiting Lecturers 132 Section 5 Canadian Representation at International Conferences, Festivals and Competitions 136 Section 6(a) Canadian National Commission for Unesco - Committees I g6 I -62 140 Section 6(b) Canadian National Commission for Unesco - Surveys 14’ Section 6(c) Canadian National Commission for Unesco - Canadian Representation at International Unesco Meetings I g6 I -62 142 Section 6(d) Canadian National Commission for Unesco - Grants for Programme Promotion and Development 1961-62 145 Section 6(e) Canadian National Commission for Unesco - Members of the Commission 146 Section 6(f) Canadian National Commission for Unesco - Co-operating Bodies ‘53 Section 6(g) Canadian National Commission for Unesco - Programme Committee - The Advisory Panels ‘55 Section 7 Donations 158 Section 8(a) University Capital Grants Fund - List of Securities asat March 31, 1962 ‘59 Section 8(b) Endowment Fund - List of Securities as at March 3 I, 1962 I 60 General In traduction IN EACH OF our first four annual reports, we presented to the govern- ment and the public a straightforward account of what had been done during the year under review. We added to that, when we thought it would be helpful to do SO, comment and explanation. Now that the Council has had five years of experience, we believe that we have gained enough knowledge to justify an attempt to look ahead, not very far it is true, and not in the hope of defining accurately every hillock and pool by the road, but in the reasonable expectation that we may discover at least some of the more prominent features of the terrain into which we shall move within the next few years. We hasten to disclaim any intent to prophesy, or to impose a blue- print on the future of the arts, humanities and social sciences in Canada. What we wish to accomplish in this report is quite simple: to note, as accurately as we may, the direction of events, carry a little further the revelation of problems already partly revealed, and draw attention to needs that are already drawing attention to themselves. We hope that this modest exercise in taking the forward look Will be of use to govern- ment and public alike, and give a special interest to The Canada Council’s report for I g6 I -62. We have not forgotten, of course, that our primary responsibility is to make a report, to relate what we have done since April I, I g6 I . This year we have largely but not wholly confined this necessary element of the report to Part Five, in which Will be found, in exhaustive detail, lists of a11 the grants we have made to individuals and to organizations. For those who still may not be completely familiar with the nature of The Canada Council, we reiterate that the Council’s operations are divided into two large programmes, each of which is supported by a separate fund. There is the Endowment Fund, the annual income of which is used to carry out an extensive programme of grants to individ- uals in the form of scholarships, fellowships and research assistance, a programme of awards to organizations - orchestras, theatres, ballets, art galleries, research councils or institutes, and the like - and support for the Canadian National Commission for Unesco; and there is the University Capital Grants Fund, the purpose of which is to help our universities provide buildings for the arts, humanities and social sciences. In Part One Will be found what we have to say, in keeping with the purpose indicated in this introduction, about the humanities, the social sciences, the arts, and the Canadian National Commission for Unesco. The titles of the other parts of the report indicate without ambiguity the nature of their contents. Other matters, which are necessary to a full understanding of a11 our operations, are recorded in Part Five. CLAUDE BISSELL April I 4, I 962 Chairman 2 PART ONE: The Endowment Fund THE ARTS Introduction As we have pointed out in the General Introduction, previous reports on the arts have been largely retrospective. This year, as Mrs Malaprop puts it in 2’7zeRiva& ‘our retrospection Will be a11 to the future.’ Or rather, we shall at least try to measure the landscape round with an eye on the prospect before us. For the arts in Canada are like a garden; they corne up seasonally. And after SO much cultivation and planting of the good seed, we need no longer be astonished at a show of flowers. Of course blight may fa11 occasionally on this or that; the lilac garden may flourish unexpectedly; an exotic wanderer, some night-blooming cereus, may blow in on an unlikely wind. But it is certainly no longer an unweeded garden and things rank and gross in nature do not pos- sess it merely. We think therefore that we should be less concerned this year with the established beds and should pay more attention to the landscaping. There seem to be partly discernible in some of the arts new vistas which need to be developed, and we have felt that from the advantage of our gazebo we should attempt to point them out. Pointing things out un- fortunately does not get the job done, and we doubt that at the moment we have the resources necessary to support fully a11 that we believe our artists capable of doing. Nevertheless, the posture of awareness is at least a becoming one. Theatre For two days before the opening of the Canadian Conference of the Arts at the O’Keefe Centre in May, 1961, SO admirably organized by Alan Jarvis and his small staff, the Council took advantage of the pres- ence of people concerned with the arts from across the country. In the deep, deep peace of private rooms provided in the Centre away from the hurly-burly of the conference preparations, the officers of the Council together with the Chairman and some of the members held private talks on writing, the visual arts, the theatre, and music, with informed people who were in Toronto to take part in the Conference. Our pur- pose was to review what we had been doing, to gather fresh ideas, and 3 to consider plans for the future. One of the most rewarding of these ses- sions was that concerned with the theatre. The Council has for some time been bothered by the lack of good professional theatre in a number of Canadian cities which might have been expected to support a company. Apart from one or two tentative forays there has recently been no well-established professional theatre outside Montreal, Toronto, Stratlord and Winnipeg. Other cities have had to rely largely upon the uncertain glory of touring companies. This would be bad enough in itself, since it is generally considered among civilized people that the theatre (particularly as a commentary upon contemporary society) is an essential to well-being, like wheat and steel. Indeed, as Mr John Hirsch, the director of the Manitoba Theatre Centre has implied, it is a national asset and should be cultivated. At the moment, however, nobody is making much theatrical hay out in the grasslands. There are, of course, a great many amateur theatres doing excellent work, but this - as any professional actor Will explain without any prompting - is not at all the same thing. This unsatisfactory state of affairs now is aggravated by the presence in Montreal, and for the summertime in Stratford, of the National Theatre School of Canada. At the end of the summer of 1963 some thirty Young actors Will erupt on the quiescent scene from the school; and in each year thereafter a similar or larger number Will appear.