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Robert A.J. Mcdonald Fonds Robert A.J. McDonald fonds Compiled by Kai Geddes, Erwin Wodarczak and John Moran (December 2020) University of British Columbia Archives Table of Contents Fonds Description o Title / Dates of Creation / Physical Description o Biographical Sketch o Scope and Content o Notes Series Descriptions o Course Teaching Materials Series . History of Canada – H135 . History of Canada – H235 . History of the Canadian West – H303 . British Columbia History – H305 . Canadian Social History – H329 . British Columbia History – H404 . Four Year Honours Seminar History – H433 . Seminars for Majors in History – H490 . Readings in Canadian History – H500 . Topics in Comparative History – H597 o McDonald Works Series . Articles and Conference Papers . Making Vancouver– Notes and Drafts . British Columbia Politics – Chapter Drafts o Research Materials Series . Subject Files . Henry Bell-Irving Biography . Haig-Brown / Uphill . Vancouver 1891 Census Printouts . Published Sources . Index Cards . Sound Recordings o Awards Series File List Catalogue entry (UBC Library catalogue) 2 Fonds Description Robert A.J. McDonald fonds. – 1972-2019. 6.56 m of textual records and other material. Biographical Sketch Dr. Robert A.J. (Bob) McDonald was born on April 5th, 1944, in Brandon, Manitoba. He graduated from the University of Manitoba with a BA and an MA (inaugural winner of the W.L. Morton Gold Medal); he later earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia he was appointed assistant professor of History in 1978. With more than three decades of teaching at Simon Fraser University, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Victoria and UBC, Bob has educated thousands of undergraduate students in Canadian and British Columbia History. In recognition of his academic commitments, Bob received the Killian Teaching Prize from UBC in 2000. McDonald published a book on Vancouver's early History, Making Vancouver: Class, Status, and Social Boundaries, 1863-1913 (1996), and many academic articles on BC and Canadian History. He edited the journal BC Studies and served on the boards and committees to raise awareness of the History of his adopted city and province, Vancouver, B.C. McDonald was also the Seagram Chair at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and president of the Vancouver Historical Society. He retired from teaching in 2012 but continued his research, sitting on the UBC History Department almost daily to work on his contribution to the book Party Conscience: The CCF, the NDP, and Social Democracy in Canada (2018), and finally, his long-awaited book on the first 100 years of BC politics. He was in the final stages of finishing that book when he passed on June 19th, 2019, from a stroke. He was 75. A scholarship fund has been created at UBC in McDonald's memory. Custodial History After McDondald’s death, a portion of these materials were transferred to the University Archives from McDonald's office at the UBC Department of History. The remainder had been kept at his residence, and were boxed-up and sent to the Archives by his family . Scope and Content The records relate primarily to McDonald’s professional teaching, writing and research work and, to a much lesser extent, are records about his personal life. The course teaching materials include outlines and syllabi, lecture notes, class handouts, newspaper clippings, website printouts, and other materials used to develop course content. Records relating to McDonald’s writing include typescript drafts, off-prints, handwritten notes, conference papers and related correspondence. The most extensive 3 records relate to McDonald’s research. They include newspaper clippings and other published items, copies of articles annotated by McDonald, handwritten index cards with notes and citations, correspondence, and audio recordings of interviews, music and speeches. Finally, records related to awards and recognition received include curriculum vitae, certificates, correspondence and McDonald’s Killam Teaching Award from 2000. Notes File list available. Other material includes ca. 540 photographs: prints, negatives and slides: b&w and col.; 25x20 cm or smaller, 15 sound recordings and 1 object. No further accruals are expected. 4 Series Descriptions Course Teaching Materials series. – 1974-2014. 1.38 m of textual records. Series consists of records documenting Robert McDonald’s teaching activities, and includes course outlines and syllabi, lecture notes, class handouts, newspaper clippings, website printouts, and other materials used in the development of course content. It is organized by course number into the following sub-series: History 135 – History of Canada, History 235 – History of Canada, History 303 – History of the Canadian West, History 305 – British Columbia, History 329 – Canadian Social History, History 404 – British Columbia, History 433 – Fourth-Year Honours Seminar, History 490 – Seminar for Majors in History, History 500 – Readings in Canadian History, and History 597 – Topics in Comparative History. Files have been largely retained in their original order, which would have reflected the order in which subjects were presented in class. There is some overlap in contents between some of the sub-series, in particular in cases where the course has been re- numbered but the subject remains the same. McDonald Works series. – 1982-2019. 70 cm of textual records. Series consists of written works by Robert McDonald, and includes typescript drafts, off-prints, written notes, handwritten notes, conference papers and related correspondence. Research Materials series. – 1972-2014. 4.46 m of textual records. 12 audio cassette recordings. Series consists of materials collected, created, or otherwise acquired by Robert McDonald as part of his research activities, and includes newspaper clippings and other published items, copies of articles annotated by McDonald, index cards with notes and citations, written notes, correspondence, and audio recordings of interviews and speeches. It is organized into the following sub-series: Subject Files, Henry Bell-Irving Biography, Haig-Brown / Uphill, Vancouver 1891 Census printouts, Published sources, Index Cards and Sound recordings. The Published sources and Index Cards sub-series consist of selections from among all such materials acquired by McDonald over the course of his professional career, retained primarily to help illustrate his research process. 5 Awards Series. – 1995-2011. 2 cm of textual records. 1 object. This small series consists of curriculum vitae, certificates of recognition, correspondence regarding the visiting Seagram Chair and contracts, letters, award notifications and sales reports for Making Vancouver. The object included is the UBC Killam Teaching Prize Award. 6 File List BOX 1 COURSE TEACHING MATERIALS SERIES History 135 – The History of Canada [overlap with History 329 and History 235] – order approx. follows chronology of the course 1-1 [H135] 1. Introduction 2. Xmas review 1987-99 1-2 Hist 135 – Expansion of Europe 1998-2008 1-3 Hist 135-001 – Natives and newcomers… 1996 1-4 Hist 135/329 – Law and order in New France 1992-96 1-5 H135 – The state and the individual 2004-05 1-6 Hist [135/]329 – Was NF feudal? 1992-2004 1-7 H135 – Fall of NF / Interp’s of Conquest 1987-2014 1-8 H135 – Society in New France 1987-99 1-9 Hist 135 – Colony and empire: The geographic expansion of NF 1998-2005 1-10 H135 – Louisbourg/Slides 1995 1-11 H135 – Deportation of the Acadians 1999-2005 1-12 H135 – Settlement of BNA 1790s-1860s… [1990s] 1-13 H135 – Economy of NF 1974-92 1-14 H135 – The fur trade and the West 1978-2000 1-15 Revolution / Counter Revolution and Loyalists [1760-1791] [Hist 135-001] 1997-2014 1-16 H135 – Lower Canada, 1791-1830 1987-99 1-17 H135 – Upper Canada 1998 1-18 H135 – Social reform mid-19th Century 1998-99 1-18a H135 – Rebellions of 1837 1987-99 1-19 H135 – 1840s-1850s: Durham’s report 1999 1-20 H135 – Race and citizenship in Brit. Col. at Confederation 2000-07 1-21 H135 – Confederation (Centre) 1985-2014 1-22 H135 – Confederation from periphery… [1987-90s] 1-23 H135 – The imaginary Indian 1999 1-24 History 135 – BC and Confederation [1990s] 1-25 [Hist 135] – Laurier, Bourassa, & Fr. Can. nationalism 1988 1-26 H135 – Riel in history 1984-2000 1-27 H135 – European conquest on the Pacific coast 2003 1-28 [Hist 135] Political culture in the age of Macdonald 1975-2000 1-29 H135 – Nations in conflict… [1990s] 7 1-30 [Hist 135] “Making Indians” – Indian land policy in the West to 1900 1996- 2000 1-31 H135 – Working class response to industrialization 1988-99 1-32 H 135 [Hist 235] Women’s movement in Canada to 1918 1976-2000 1-33 [Hist 135] Immigration as a social issue 1976-92 1-34 H135 – Regionalism [n.d.] 1-35 H135 – Farmers respond to industrialism 1979-2009 1-36 Hist 135 – Residential schools 1996-2000 1-37 H135/329 – Women and the law… 1998-99 1-38 H135 – Suburbanization, feminism, and the “zeitgeist”… 1995-96 1-39 Depression – Politics [Hist 135] 1998-99 1-40 H. 135 – The vertical mosaic… 1991-2012 1-41 The Sixties – H135 1998-2011 1-42 H135 – Trudeau & Quebec 1990-2009 1-43 Hist. 135 Slides: Vancouver a Western City 1996 1-44 Hist 135 – Conclusion 1995-99 1-45 Census Divisions – 1891 135 Tutorial Outlines History 235 – History of Canada 1-46 [Hist 235] Imperialism / Crisis of national identity 1975-95 1-47 Hist 235 – Working-class work 1997 1-48 [Hist 235] National Policy [1990s] 1-49 [Hist 235] Laurier, imperialism, & 1911 election 1987-99 1-50 H235 – The native rights question in British Columbia
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