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Barry McKinnon fonds
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- Textual record
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- Sound recording
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- Source of title proper: Title based on fonds creator.
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1958-2003 (Creation)
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Physical description
11 m of textual records and other material
198 audio recordings
227 photographs
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Scope and content
Fonds consists of a large and extended correspondence, manuscript materials (both his own and others), publications, proofs, financial records, transcriptions, audio tapes, lectures and preparation work for teaching. A large quantity of influential (and obscure) periodicals published in the west is also included. Includes material related to Barry McKinnon and The Caledonia Writing Series and Gorse Press. The audio collection consists of cassette and reel to reel tapes of poetry readings and interviews in Prince George and other locations within Canada, including Edmonton, Montreal, and Vancouver. Readings from the 1980 Writing Conference Words/Loves at the College of New Caledonia (CNC) are also included along with many Poetry Readings at CNC during the 1970s to the 1990s. Poets and writers in the audio collection include Barry McKinnon, Ken Belford, Earle Birney, Bill Bissett, George Bowering, Robert Creeley, Brian Fawcett, Gerry Gilbert, Arti Gold, Elizabeth Hay, Roy Kiyooka, Robert Kroetsch, Evelyn Lau, Irving Layton, Dorothy Livesay, Daphne Marlatt, Susan Musgrave, bp Nichol, Michael Ondaatje, Stan Persky, David Phillips, Al Purdy, George Stanley, Sharon Thesen, Fred Wah, and Tom Wayman.
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Arrangement
Partial arrangement undertaken.
Language of material
- English
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Restrictions on access
Some files may be restricted--contact archivist.
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Finding aids
A complete listing of authors in the audio collection and summaries of cassette tapes are available in a partial finding aid. A file list of the correspondence is also available.
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General note
Accession # 2000.6