13th Annual Report The Canada Council ’ 19694970 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, 1970. I am, Sir, /urs very truly, John G. Prentice, Chairman. June 30,197O 2 TO Jean Martineau, Chairman of the Canada Council 1964-1969, to Francis Leddy, Vice- Chairman 1964-1969 and member 1957-1960, and to Jean Boucher, Director of the Canada Council1965-1969, homage from their former colleagues and associates. 3 Contents The Social Sciences and Humanities The Arts Other Programs 8 Introduction 57 Introduction 96 Prizes and Special Awards Assessment; research training - Doctoral Notes in a iime of austerify; retiring 97 Cultural Exchanges Ftkowships; research - Leave Fellow- deficits; diffusion of the arts; the arts and ships; research - direct grants; the taxa tien. 101 Canadian Commission for Unesco raison d’&tre; Canadian studies program. 60 Levels of Subsidy, 1965-66 to 1969-70 105 Stanley House 17 Levels of Subsidy, 1965-66 to 1969-70 63 Music Finances 18 Research Training 108 Introduction 68 Opsra Doctoral Fellowships; distribufion of 113 Auditor General’s Report Doctoral Feliowships by discipline. 70 Theatre 114 Financial Statement 20 Ressarch Work 75 Dance Leave Fellowships; disfribution of Leave Appendix 1 78 Visual Arts Fellowships by discipline; Research 126 List of Doctoral Fellowships Grants; distribution of Research Grands 85 Cinema and Photography by discipline; list of Leave Felowships, Appendix 2 Killam Awards and large Research 87 Writing 132 List of Research Grants of less than Grants. $5,000 94 Other Grants 45 Research Communication Appendix 3 List of grants for publication, confer- 141 List of securities ences, travel to international meetings and visiting scholars. 53 Special grants March 31,1970 M.mbWU John G. Prentice (Chairman) Douglas V. LePan Guy Rocher (Vice-Chairman) Léon Lortie Alex Colville Byron March J. A. Corry Mrs. Pauline McGibbon Miss Andrée Desautels Miss Kathleen Richardson Louis A. Desrochers Dr. Aileen Ross Napoléon LeBlanc David W. Slater ImestmenI Commltiee Trevor F. Moore (Chairman) John O. Prentice Louis Hébert David W. Slater Mui.gOlnOnI Peter M. Dwyer, Director Claude Gauthier, Assistant Dlmctor Robert Elie, Assoclate Director and Secretary F. A. Milligan, Associate Director Paul Boisclair, Assistant Dimctor for University Affairs and Treasurer Advirory Arta Panel James Domville (Chairman) Edward Gilbert John Avison Paul-Mark Lapointe Miss Dorothy Cameron Eli Mandel John Robert Colombo Guido Molinari Miss Laurel Crosby Luke Rornbout Anthony Emery Léopold Sirnoneau Victor Feldbrill Miss Andrée Desautels (Mernber of Council) Serge Garant MroyAdemic Panel Jacques Brazeau (Chairman) A. M. Moore J. P. Audet H. Blair Neatby David Braybrooke J. G. Nicholson Michel Chevalier W. C. Desrnond Pacey Paul-André Comeau A. E. Safarian W. H. Coons B. L. Strayer Vianney Décarie F. G. Vallée E. J. H. Greene S. Warhafî Louis-Edmond Hamelin Douglas V. LePan (Member of Council) W. F. Mackey David W. Slater (Member of Council) Officers Arts Mm. Monique Aupy (Theatre Arts) Naim Kattan (Writing) Miss Yvonne Goudreau (Short Term Grants) Rodrigue Millette (Short Term Grants) Mrs. Helen Hodgson (Executive Assistant) Miss Jean Roberts (Theatre Arts) Miss Anne-Marie Hogue (Administration) David P. Silcox (Senior Arts Officer, Guy Huot (Music) Visual Arts, Film) Social Sciences and Humanities Mrs. Mireille Badour Miss Marcia McClung Mrs. Erika von Conta lain McKellar Robert Cournoyer Mrs. Jean Morrison Mrs. Audrey Forster Mrs. Susan Ruether Noel Gates Lloyd Stanford Jean Lengellé Ian Sutherland-Brown Awards Service Jules Pelletier, Chief M. W. MacFarlane, Assistant Chief Mrs. Elizabeth Evans Herve Guindon Miss Charlotte Nadeau Information Services Gerald Taaffe, Chief Mario Lavoie, Assistant Chief Finance Marilyn Janes, Assistant Treasurer Philip Kirby, Financial Operations Norman Lamont, Research and Analysis Canadian Commission for Unesco David Bartlett, Secretary General Jacques-Victor Morin, Associate Secretary General Miss Olga Jurgens Mrs. Louise Rohonczy Social Sciences and Humanities kroduction Assessment The head of a very large body of expert sitting together, Sharp of tongue and wit A schoolmaster of our early acquaintance advice is the Academic Committee of the and eye, and representing the many different used to begin classes on the Iliad not with Council itself under the chairmanship of Dr. disciplines which the humanities and social any enticing reference in English to the Guy Rocher of the University of Montreal. It sciences comprise, are ready to agree on topless towers of Ilium, to the ringing plains is made up of those members of the Council any problem unless certain fine points of of windy Troy, to the fact that dust hath who have had and retain a close association distinction are finely argued. That they do closed Helen3 eye, but rather with this with university affairs and with the research find consensus shows both the moderation plain statement of his values: Today, boys, community. They are men with a wide per- they have exercised and their realization we begin the study of Homer - a veritable spective and a broad spirit, and they have of the need for solutions. They are helped treasure-trove of grammatical peculiarities. little patience with what one of them once in this by two members of the Council who Round unvarnished tales about the arts described precisely as “arid and repellant join the Pane1 as obsetvers and act as a link and learning may be back in fashion. A scholarship - the desperate work of parched between those who advise and warn and section of the Canada Council’s last annual savants who somehow got tut off from the those who must make the final decisions. report which simply described its system of juices of life”. Essentially this Council The membership of the Academic Pane1 adjudication of arts Awards and Bursaries committee gives a general scrutiny to the shifts every year according to a formula of turned out to be of particular interest to our evaluation which has already been done rotation, and retiring members are not public. Judges, whom rumour had glimpsed by other juries and individual advisors; and eligible for immediate reappointment after as a bunch of the boys in the back room, any matter of policy affecting universities their normal term of three years. In this were seen in fact to be working artists, teach- and the research community goes forward way the Council ensures that the Pane1 is ers and critics very much out in front. This for final decision by the Council itself with not captured and held by any particular being SO, it may be a good thing this year to a recommendation from this its vital establishment within the academic com- Write about the methods we use to assess committee. munity. Of course, no body of twenty people applications for training and research in the But the brunt of policy assessment and could conceivably deal with all the appli- humanities and social sciences: and then to the final stages of adjudication are borne by cations which corne to the Council. There take a look in a way that may interest the gen- the Advisory Academic Panel. During the is therefore a third lever of assessment. eral reader at the problems they create. year under review its chairman was Pro- It consists of scholars who either meet The expenditures which the system fessor E. J. H. Greene, Associate Dean of together as small juries of specialists, or handles amounted in the year under review Arts at the University of Alberta. The Pane1 who cari be consulted individually on any to $17.6 million of public funds. A good deal has eighteen members drawn from univer- particular case which may fall within their of this money was directed towards the sities across the country, and their names field of knowledge. The results of their behavioural sciences which, when the time are listed elsewhere in this report. Its role assessments are available to the Academic is out of joint as it is now, are most con- is similar to that of the Council’s Advisory Pane1 and then to the Academic Committee cerned to investigate man’s natural relations Arts Panel. Its existence is required by the for their review and judgement. In this way to man and to the unnatural environment Council’s philosophy that its work cari the academic community itself is deeply which technology has warped around him - oniy be as good as the advice on which it involved in the Council’s whole process of and perhaps to propose remedies. The is based, and that good advice is usually to adjudication and we do not hesitate to go social sciences in general have in the past be found only among people grown expert outside the country to a distinguished been most seriously neglected in Canada, over the years, and that therefore some scholar whose advice would be valuable. though they now begin to make their of these people must be brought together to There are deep Wells of scholarship to be essential contribution to the welfare of our give it, and that such differences as they tapped - the main trouble is to divine society. The techniques the Council uses may have from time to time must be resolved. precisely where the right well is. to direct funds to these and other good ends For it must not be imagined for one With these three levels of adjudication seem therefore worth taking a look at. moment that eighteen learned professors and policy assessment in mind - the Academic Committee of Council members, the first instance, they do not usually present years, and in particular to provide an ade- the Advisory Academic Pane1 whose any very sérious difficulties.