1 14th Annual Report The Canada Council 1970-1971 Honourable Gérard Pelletier Secretary of State of Canada Ottawa, Canada Sir, I have the honour to transmit herewith the Annual Report of the Canada Council, for submission to Parliament, as required by section 23 of the Canada Council Act (5-6 Elizabeth Ii, 1957, Chap. 3) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1971. I am, Sir, Yours very truly, John G. Prentice, Chairman. June 341971 3 Contents The Arts The Humanities and Social Sciences Other Programs 10 Introduction 50 Levels of Subsidy, 1966-67 to 1970-71 90 Prizes and Special Awards 12 Levels of Subsidy, 1966-67 to 1970-71 51 Research Training 91 Cultural Exchanges Doctoral Fe//owships; distribution of 14 Music and Opera Doctoral Fellowships by discipline. 96 Canadian Commission for Unesco 21 Theatre 54 Research Work 100 Stanley House Leave Fellowships; distribution of Leave 27 Dance Fellowships by discipline; Research Finances Grants; distribution of Research Grants 102 Introduction 30 Visual Arts, Film and Photography by disciph’ne; list of Leave Fellowships, Killam Awards and large Research 105 Financial Statement 39 Writing Grants. Appendix 1 48 Other Grants 78 Research Communication 119 List of Doctoral Fellowships List of grants for publication, confer- ences, and travel to international Appendix 2 meetings. 125 List of Research Grants of less than $5,000 86 Special Grants Support of Learned Societies; Appendix 3 Other Assistance. 135 List of Securities March 31. 1971 Members John G. Prentice (Chairman) Brian Flemming Guy Rocher (Vice-Chairman) John M. Godfrey Ronald Baker Elizabeth A. Lane Jean-Charles Bonenfant Léon Lortie Alex Colville Byron March J. A. Corry Pauline McGibbon Dora de Pedery Hunt David W. Slater Louis A. Desrochers Investment Committee Trevor F. Moore (Chairman) John G. Prentice Frank Elliott Case John M. Godfrey Management Peter M. Dwyer, Director Paul Boisciair, Assistant Director Robert Elie, Associate Director and Treasurer F. A. Milligan, Associate Director Jules Pelletier, Assistant Director for University Affairs and Chief, Awards Service Claude Gauthier, Assistant Director and Secretary Advisory Arts Pane1 James Domville (Chairman) Eli Mandel John Avison Guido Molinari Dorothy Cameron Sydney Newman Laurel Crosby Betty Oliphant Gerry Eldred Christopher Pratt Victor Feldbrill Murray Schafer Jacques Hébert Léopold Simoneau Paul Hébert Dora de Pedery Hunt Doug Jones (Member of Council) Advisory Academic Pane1 Vianney Décarie (Chairman) K. E. Kidd W. H. Coons (Vice-Chairman) A. M. Moore Jean-Paul Audet J. G. Nicholson David Braybrooke K. Z. Paltiel Raymond Breton A. E. Safarian W. A. C. H. Dobson Marc-Adélard Tremblay Alfred Dubuc S. Warhaft E. J. H. Greene Ronald Baker (Member of Council) Louis-Edmond Hamelin Jean-Charles Bonenfant L. G. Harris (Member of Council) Canadian Commission for Unesco David Bartlett, Secretary General Jacques-Victor Morin, Associate Secretary General 5 Arts Awards Juries Writing (French) Visual Arts Roger Duhamel Françoise Desrochers-Drolet Rina Lasnier Albert Dumouchel Réjean Robidoux Anthony Emery Hugh Leroy Writing (English) William Withrow Northrop Frye Malcolm Ross Cinema and Photography George Woodcock Robert Daudelin Wendy Porteous Music Christian Rasselet Louis Applebaum Michael Snow John Newmark Ron Solomon Jean Papineau-Couture Theatre and Dance James de 6. Domville Gratien Gélinas William Hutt Arts Bursaries Juries Writing (French) Music (Performance, North America) Maurice Blain Lorand Fenyves Monique Bosco Victor Bouchard Jacques Brault John Avison Ezra Schabas Writing (English) Pierrette Alaries D. G. Jones Kildare Dobbs MUS~C (Composition) Gwendolyn MacEwen Victor Feldbrill Serge Garant MUS~C (Performance, Europe) Murray Schafer Brian Priestman Raoul Jobin Dance (Canada) Kenneth Gilbert Gwen Ashton Martha Hill Betty Oliphant 6 Dance (London, England) Cinema and Photography Peter Brinson Robert Daudelin Maryon Lane Wendy Porteous Christian Rasselet Theatre Michael Snow Yvette Brind’Amour Ron Solomon And6 Muller Marc Negin Architecture Christopher Newton Gustav0 da Roza Jean-Louis Lalonde Visual Arts Fred Lebensold Greg Curnoe Mira Godard Gordon Smith Screening Committees for English Literature Philosophy and Religious Studies Doctoral Fellowships L. Lane (Chairman) V. Cauchy (Chairman) R. G. Baldwin H. M. Estall A. R. Bevan B. Morissette D. R. Cherry L. E. Toombs H. J. Hood Z. Vendler R. E. Watters R. H. Vincent French Literature History H. Tuchmaier (Chairman) P. Harnetty (Chairman) C. A. E. Jensen L. E. Boyle R. Joly J. C. Dub@ R. G. Motut J. E. Flint Pierre Page J. Hamelin P. Wyczynski I. N. Lambi Foreign Literatures; Classics; Linguistics Sociology, etc., Anthropology, Geography R. Charbonneau (Chairman) J. Brazeau (Chairman) E. Berry M. B6langer G. Bursill-Hall A. L. Bryan E. Gareau Frank Jones J. 6. MacLean R. R. Krueger A. J. Shaw A. L. Laycock G. S. Wickens P. Montminy Psychology, Education Political Science and Law J. A. Easterbrook (Chairman) R. C. Pratt (Chairman) G.-Y. Drolet L. Balthazar N. S. Endler J. C. Courtney A. Godbout K. Dore T. B. Greenfietd Y. Ouellette R. Sévigny W. Young A. H. Shephard Fine Arts Economies, Business Administration, G. Vickers (Chairman) Mathematics M. Adaskin A. M. Sinclair (Chairman) J. Des Gagniers R. F. Harris K. Hare M. Leenders C. Morin G. Marion T. Matuszewski W. D. Wood Screening Committees for Social Sciences Humanities (including Fine Arts) Leave Fellowships Yves Dubé (Chairman) René De Chantai (Chairman) W. R. Blair Ronald Bloore Guy Dubreuil Maurice Lebel M. A. Ormsby J. A. McNeety Donat Pharand T. N. Penelhum Douglas Pullman R. M. Ross D. S. Spafford L. J. Shein Selection Committees for Humanities & Social Sciences Physical & Biological Sciences Cultural Exchanges Gilles Lalande (Chairman) Roland Rivest (Chairman) Marcel Dagenais Bernard Bernier G. Dumouchel Claude Hamel Jacques L’Heureux Fabius Leblanc G. A. McMurray P. H. LeBlond K. Weiermair J. C. Picot Fine Arts Jacques de Tonnancourt (Chairman) Alain Desvergnes David Silcox Selection Committees for Humanities Social Sciences Exchanges of Research Scholars Emmanuel Trépanier (Chairman) André Raynauld (Chairman) Jean Ethier-Biais Ezio Cappadocia C. H. Moore J. S. Dupré Seiection Committee for the J. C. M. Obefsby (Chairman) Foreign Area Fellowship Program for Lauchlin Currie studies in Latin America Paul-Yves Denis Lionel Vallée Introduction In this section of our annual report we themselves, and the well conceived plans as an experiment has become a permanent attempt to describe everything the Canada some of them have for the coming year, part of the gallery’s activities. Counci! has done for the arts during the points towards a more stable financial An innovation in our Diffusion of the Arts year in as concise and clear a way as future for the performing arts in Canada. program was a grant to the Canadian Mime possible. Another problem widely discussed during Theatre for a tour of the Northwest Terri- TO give a complete explanation of our the year was the relationship between the tories. The company is small and uses few actions on behalf of the arts we would Boards of Directors and professional mana- props, which kept transportation costs in have to say much more, and in fact go far gement, and, in response to many requests the vast and sparsely settled Territories beyond the scope of our report. We would the Council produced a publication which, down to a reasonable amount. It was the first have to say why the arts are important to if not a Guide for the Perplexed, has time a professional company has performed Canadians, which is like defining “culture” apparently proven to be a useful resource in many of the communities, and, mime or “beauty”, words that may seem simple document for a number of arts organizations being what it is, language was no barrier and are in everyday use but Will probably in their own discussions, Given the soberly between the players and their mainly never be defined to everyone’s satisfaction. descriptive title of Readings on the Govern- Eskimo-speaking audiences. The perform- We would afso have to list all the good ing Boards of Arts Organizafions, it was ances were received enthusiastically in all things done by the artists and arts organi- distributed only to persons directly con- of the communities, and artists of the zations during the year, and a// the problems nected with arts organizations in Canada. company, who often had to hammer together they face, rather than limit ourselves, as we For the second year the Council made a a stage for the evening’s performance, and do, to pointing out a few of the more number of relatively small grants under its improvise in a number of other ways, found important of them. Diffusion of the Arts program to assist it an extremely valuable experience. For years now we have been talking in organizations in the performing and visual There have been improvements in the our Annual Reports about the perennial arts solve the problem of reaching new living and working conditions of many problem of accumulated deficits in per- audiences, usually in the communities they individual artists during the past fourteen forming arts organizations, and here at least serve, but in some cases in regions which years, and in part these are due to growing is one problem that is becoming less acute. see little or none of the professional arts. government support of the arts over this As Will be seen in the sections on Music, Last year we described how some of time. We nonetheless hold by the words of Opera, Theatre and Dance, the Council these experimental projects bring the arts our annual report of four years ago, when made special grants of about $350,000 to churches or shopping centres, or before we said that “in many ways, and in his own during the year to retire the deficits that Young people, or offer opportunities for way, it is the artist himself who in part foots performing arts organizations have accu- creative involvement within the community.