63 Earle Toppings fonds Victoria University Library - Special Collections
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2016-05-24
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Earle Toppings fonds 63 Canadiana Literary and Film Resources 1877, 1946-2022 9 cm of textual records1 audio cassette1 video cassette8 compact discs1 flexi disc4 photographs Victoria University Library - Special Collections
71 Queen’s Park Crescent East Toronto Ontario Canada M5S 1K7 Telephone: (416) 585-4470 Fax: (416) 585-4591 Email: victoria.library@utoronto.ca http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/collections/special_collections

Title based on contents of the fonds.

Toppings, Earle

Earle Toppings was an editor at The Ryerson Press, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and CBC Radio Drama. He was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1931, and grew up near Kipling. After attending high school in Kipling, Vancouver, and Surrey, B.C., he attained a B.A. at the University of British Columbia, and then graduated from the Academy of Radio Arts in Toronto. Beyond his editing career he also worked as a newscaster, producer and program director at CBC and other radio stations, and taught in Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson University, where he produced Canada's first course for university credit by radio, broadcast by Ryerson's Open College in 1976. Before becoming an Art advisor (Toppings Art), he was producer and interviewer for *Canadian Writers on Tape* and *Canadian Poets on Tape*. A volunteer at the Art Gallery of Ontario and other institutions, he and his wife Iris reside in Toronto.

Published

Fonds contains records related to Earle Toppings' professional career as an editor, producer, news caster and educator, as well as records related to his personal life. It includes correspondence, typescripts, radio scripts, proofs, transcripts of interviews, offprints, programs, notebooks, notes and audiovisual material.Fonds is comprised of the following series:Series 1: Typescripts, radio scripts and draftsSeries 2: CorrespondenceSeries 3: Records relating to "Canadian Writers on Tape", "Canadian Poets on Tape" and "Nightfall"Series 4: Personal records

Acquired from Earle Toppings, 2008, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2023.

Further accruals are expected.

Added by MO: May 24, 2016Revised by BC: July 30, 2019Revised by BC: June 20, 2023

Literary Titans Revisited: The Earle Toppings Interviews with CanLit Poets and Writers of the Sixties (PR9189.6 .T66 2017), edited by Anne Urbancic, is available in the Victoria University Library.

No restrictions on access.

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