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Innis, Mary Quayle.
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Elizabeth Dundas Long was a Canadian journalist and broadcaster who was head of the Women's Talks Department at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on October 10, 1891, Long was educated at the University of Manitoba where she received her Master of Arts in English Poetry. In 1920 she began working as Reporter of Women's Activities for the Winnipeg Tribune and in 1922 became Editor of the Social and Women's Department at the Winnipeg Free Press. Long worked there until 1926 when she became Associate Editor of the Free Press Prairie Farmer. In 1938 Long joined the CBC, the first woman to be hired by the corporation in an executive capacity, as head of women's interests. She later worked as special advisor to the CBC on women's interests until her retirement in 1956. During this time, and in her retirement years, she held many positions such as Vice President of the International Council of Women. Long died in 1978.
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Mary Quayle Innis was an economist, writer, editor, and academic administrator. She was born Mary Emma Quayle in St. Mary's, Ohio on April 13, 1899. From 1915 to 1919 she attended the University of Chicago, graduating with a Ph.B. in English. There she met a young Canadian economics instructor, Harold Adams Innis. After their marriage on May 10, 1921, she joined him in Toronto where he had started teaching in the Political Economy Department at the University of Toronto, and where he remained for the rest of his life.
Quayle accompanied her husband on research tours until their children were born: Donald Quayle (April 21, 1924), Mary Ellen (Sept. 5, 1927), Hugh Roderick (Nov. 17, 1930), and Anne Christine (Jan. 25, 1933). Innis continued writing while at home with her family and published a number of stories in the Canadian Forum. She also wrote An Economic History of Canada (1935; revised and enlarged, 1943) which became a standard university text, followed by two other history texts for use in the schools: Changing Canada (2 volumes, Fish, Fur and Exploration and New France and the Loyalists, 1951-1952) and Living in Canada (1954), written in collaboration with Alex A. Cameron and Arnold Boggs. In the 1940s most of her short stories appeared in Saturday Night (forty-five stories between 1938 and 1947). Several of these were rewritten for inclusion in Stand on a Rainbow, (1943), an autobiographical "novel". For ten years Innis was editor of the YWCA Quarterly, and in 1949 she wrote a history of that organization, Unfold the Years, a survey of the growth of the Young Women's Christian Association in Canada from its inception in 1873.
After her husband's death in 1952 Mary Quayle Innis entered a more public life. In 1955 she became Dean of Women at University College, where she served for nine years. She was a Canadian delegate to the Commonwealth Conference on Education held in Oxford in 1959. After her retirement she became vice-chairman of the Committee on Religious Education in the Public Schools of the Province of Ontario. Innis received an LL.D. from Queen's University in 1958 and one from the University of Waterloo in 1965, in recognition of her literary and academic achievements
During these years, Innis continued to write and publish stories and also worked as an editor. Travellers West appeared in 1956 as well as a selection of her husband's articles and addresses, Essays in Canadian Economic History, followed by Mrs. Simcoe's Diary in 1965. Innis also worked with two university groups to edit commemorative anthologies, The Clear Spirit (1966), the centennial project of the Canadian Federation of University Women, and Nursing Education in a Changing Society (1970), for the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the School of Nursing at the University of Toronto.
Mary Quayle Innis died suddenly on 10 January 1972, the day before her revised edition of Harold Innis's Empire and Communications appeared.
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Thirty-eight typescripts:
- “Political Status of Women: Dame Millicent Fawcett.” (original, 6 pages);
- “Political Status of Women: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.” (original, 7 pages);
- “Political Status of Women: Mms. Charaoui of Egypt.” (original, 5 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: A Woman of Indonesia.” (original, 7 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: Sarah Hale.” (original, 6 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Womne: Women of Iran.” (original, 6 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: The Story of Harriet Martineau.” (original, 10 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: Light for the Blind.” (original, 6 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: Halide Edib of Turkey.” (original, 4 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: Women in Syria.” (original, 3 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: Dr. Helen Hogg, Canadian Astronomer.” (original, 4 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: Begum Ikramullah and Women of Pakistan.” (original, 3 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: The Tale of Beatrix Potter.” (original, 4 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: General Evangeline Booth.” (original, 6 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: Grandma Moses.” (original, 3 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: How Mrs. Beaton Came to Write her Cookbook.” (original, 4 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: Ana Figueroa of Chile.” (original, 3 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: Alberta Frontier Doctors.” (original, 4 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: Two Hard Working Young Women -- Queen Juliana of Holland and Queen Frederika of Greece.” (original, 3 pages);
- “Political and Social Status of Women: Mrs. Edith Sampson.” (original, 4 pages);
- "Political and Social Status of Women: Aphra Behn." (original, 5 pages);
- "Political and Social Progress of Women: Marie-Helene Lefaucheux." (original, 2 pages);
- "Political and Social Progress of Women: Letitia Hargrave." (original, 3 pages);
- "Political and Social Progress of Women: Peace River Doctor." (original, 4 pages);
- "Political and Social Progress of Women: Freya Stark English Woman Explorer." (original, 3 pages);
- "Political and Social Progress of Women: Pierra Hoon, First Woman Doctor of Thailand." (original, 2 pages);
- "Political and Social Progress of Women: Dr. Louise Martingale - Woman Surgeon" (original, 2 pages);
- "Political and Social Progress of Women: Dame Caroline Haslett" (original, 3 pages);
- "Progress of Women: Gertrude Jekyll" (original, 3 pages);
- "Political and Social Progress of Women: Women of the Gold Coast" (original, 3 pages);
- "Social and Political Progress of Women: Princess Tsahai of Ethiopia" (original, 3 pages);
- "A Successful Woman in Public Life: Mrs. Lee of Portland" (original, 3 pages);
- "Woman Engineer of the Year: Elsie Grey MacGill" (original, 3 pages);
- "Social and Political Status of Women: Mrs. Humphry Ward Play Centres and School for Crippled Children" (original, 4 pages);
- "Summer Travellers Then and Now: Ladies on the Train" (original, 3 pages);
- "Women on Whaling Ships" (original, 4 pages);
- "Social and Political Progress of Women: History of Women's Meetings" (original, 5 pages).
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“Crippled” is an outdated and pejorative term used historically to refer to individuals with a physical disability. The use of the term in the file title has been maintained in keeping with Special Collections & Archives’ approach to language in archival descriptions, which prioritizes speaking openly about and clearly identifying problematic, harmful, and otherwise offensive records in the department’s holdings. This approach, while potentially upsetting, allows for the critical assessment and questioning of historical material by contemporary researchers.
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- Stark, Freya (Subject)