Series documents academic research undertaken by Dr. Marika Ainley throughout her academic career. It contains research material from projects in Ainley's main areas of research, the history of ornithology and the history of early and contemporary women scientists, as well as research on the relationship between early women scientists and Aboriginal peoples. The series is arranged into thirteen subseries: ornithology research, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and Doris Huestis Speirs correspondence monograph; "Scientists vs. government experts: The wood buffalo controversy, 1920-1991," "Restless energy: A biography of William Rowan, 1891-1957," women in science and engineering research, Catharine Parr Traill, "Critical turning points: Women engineers within and outside the profession," funding applications, North American and Australian indigenous knowledge and science, oral histories, "Creating complicated lives," publications, and Mabel F. Timlin. Series consists of photocopies of articles; correspondence; bibliographies; draft and published versions of articles, conference proceedings, and monographs; interviews and transcripts; recordings of conferences; statistical data; questionnaires; consent, submission, and other forms; pamphlets and other material from conferences; applications for grants and funding; overhead transparencies; photographs; and notes.
File consists of handwritten and typescript correspondence regarding Ainley's research on ornithology.
File consists of handwritten notes and photocopied research materials on Louise de Kiriline Lawrence.
File contains material relating to the submission and editing of Ainley's chapter, "Marriage and Scientific Work in Twentieth-Century Canada: the Berkeleys in Marine Biology and the Hoggs in Astronomy" in "Creative Couples in the Sciences" about the experiences of two scientific couples: Edith and Cyril Berkeley and Frank and Helen Hogg. File consists of correspondence, edited manuscripts, permissions form templates and a call and instructions for submissions.
File largely consists of photocopied material including articles by or about Dr. Pauline Jewett, her doctorial thesis, and a transcribed interview with Jewett. File also contains research notes for Ainley compiled by Christian Torsein.
File consists of research material on Professor Clara C. Benson, a professor in the department of Food Chemistry at the University of Toronto. Materials consist mostly of printouts and photocopies of books, newspapers, and archival materials at the University of Toronto Archives.
File consists of archival research materials and notes on Dr. Helen Belyea including requests for the aforementioned research material. File also includes research materials on Dr. Grace Anne Stewart and general research materials on women in geology. Included is a conference schedule on Women in the Geosciences from 1992 and a student paper from that year.
File consists of research materials concerning minorities in the sciences. Materials include photocopied newsletter, newspaper clipping from the Montreal Gazette on racial discrimination, a paper by one of Dr. Ainley's students, Dr. Glenda C. Prkachin's CV, printed images of landscapes and women on paper, and 2 overhead transparencies. Finally, file includes a collection of archival reproductions of photographs from Dr. Elinor Huntsman Manson's collection.
File consists of biographical records concerning Dorothy E. Smith.
File consists of records concerning Elinor Silver Keeping, including obituaries, hand written notes, and other photocopied research materials.
File consists of access to records requests from the McGill University Archives for Ainley's research.
File consists of research notes and correspondence on women scientists at Acadia College and University of New Brunswick.
File consists of research paper and notes on women attending Sir George Williams University, which later became Concordia University.
File consists of photocopied research materials including published materials, archival research, and notes on natural history and science.
File consists of the report "Fifty Times Around the Sun: A History of the Montreal Centre Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 1918-1968" signed by the authors.
File consists of research materials concerning Margaret Benston including archival research, photocopied articles, notes, and related correspondence.
File consists of articles by Jun Takeda, a Japanese Ecologist.
File consists of edited draft copies of the covering letters, questions to be asked to interviewees and Alison Bowe's covering letter for the questionnaire sent to female engineering graduates from Queen's University.
File consists of correspondence between Ainley and her research assistant, Jenny Fry, relating to interview requests; responses to Ainley's interview requests; notes; and envelopes marked, "return to sender."
File consists of photocopied research materials for "Re-explorations: new perspectives on gender, environment and the transfer of knowledge in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia" with a few handwritten notes on cue cards.
File consists of research materials related to indigenous in the Yukon possibly for Ainley's book "Re-explorations: new perspectives on gender, environment and the transfer of knowledge in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia." Material largely consists of photocopies, printout, and publication by the Yukon Archives as well as catalogue listing from UNBC library and the Yukon Public Library and various heritage organization in the Yukon.
File consists of Queensland University Thesis: "Lifting the Blankets: The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia" by Valerie Atkinson.
File consists of University of Western Australia Thesis: "Cultural Realities and Partial Truths: Gendered Ethnographies in Northern Aboriginal Australia" by Sandy Toussaint.
File consists of research materials by or about Dr. Helen Watson Veran and Aboriginal Australians science.
File consists of 3 CDs on Auckland, receipts, and handwritten notes.
File consists of miscellaneous documents including research materials, handwritten notes, correspondence, and heavily annotated syllabus. Computer disk contains an annotated bibliography and bibliography on the role of native women and environmental knowledge.
File consists of research on Australian aboriginal botany. File includes printed library catalogue records for books.
File consists of correspondence regarding visiting fellowship in Australia.
File consists of printed webpages on the Archives of Australia sectorial network, the Canberra Ornithologists Group Contacts, and handwritten notes.
File consists of photocopied published research concerning aboriginal botany in Australia and women in science in Canada.
File consists of printed bibliographies of research on Australian Anthropology and Australian Aboriginal Ethnobotany.
File consists of typed research notes on books concerning Australian indigenous knowledge and botany.
File consists of handwritten notes by Ainley about her research projects, as well as other events in her life, focusing, predominately on the period from 1985-1993.
File consists of photocopies of methodology articles and conference proceedings, predominately on the topic of qualitative feminist research; correspondence relating to conference session proposals; the submission of a course syllabus to a journal; transcribed notes on methodology; and a book loan request.
File consists of draft proposals, schedules and group assignment information relating to graduate teaching in New Zealand; a notice about changes to internet service at the University of Northern British Columbia; articles on historiography, methodology and qualitative data analysis; correspondence relating to book reviews; and photocopied notes from interviews.
File consists correspondence relating to research requests by Ainley at the archives of McGill University in the 1980s and correspondence relating to the citation for Ainley's article "Women and Science" for Chinook Media's website.
Item is the first part of an interview with bacteriologist Dr. Christine Rice about her early life and university career at Queen's University.
Item is an interview in Wolfville, Nova Scotia in which Marianne Ainley asks Jaye Fraser about her early life, education and the development of her career, including the obstacles Fraser perceived herself to face and her work in New Brunswick and Montreal.
Item is the first part of an interview in which Marianne Ainley interviews Isabel K. Williamson about the development of and perceived impediments to the development of her career as well as the disciplinary culture of astronomy and the relationship between amateur and professional astronomers.
Item is an excerpt from a presentation on women in geology with a presentation by Linda Scott on the role of women in the private sector scientific community and a workshop on families where both persons have professional roles.
Item is an interview in which Marianne Ainley interviews Virginia Douglas about her career as a psychologist, including her early life, the obstacles she faced and her reason for choosing psychology as a science.
Item is the second part of the first half of a conference on the history of women in chemistry and discusses the historical contributions of women to chemistry.
Item is the second part of an interview in which Marianne Ainley interviews Sylvia Ruby about her early life and the development of her career including what influenced her choose a career in science and any impediments she perceived herself to face in becoming a scientist.
Item is a lecture about Aboriginal religion in Australia given by Marcia Langton during the 6th Interdisciplinary Congress on Women in Adelaide, Australia from April 21-26, 1996.
Item is an interview in which Marianne Ainley interviews Erica Kurbely about her reasons for becoming an engineer and the story of her coming an engineer.
Item is two interviews at Dr. Allin's home discussing the creation of an association of physicists in Canada and Dr. Allin's retirement and her teaching and research shortly before she retired. It was created as part of the University of Toronto Oral History Program.
Item an interview in which Dr. Dorothy Forward discusses her life at the University of Toronto, her time in student residences and the development of her career and some of the obstacles she faced. It was created as part of the University of Toronto Oral History Program.
Item is the first part of an interview in which Madeline Fritz describes her early life, her reasons for choosing to study Geology and the development of her career at the University of Toronto. It was created as part of the University of Toronto Oral History Program.
Item is the fourth part of an interview with Dixie Pelleut, a former professor in biology at Dalhousie University, about her life and academic career as research for Fingard's monograph, "Gender and Inequality at Dalhousie: Faculty Women before 1950."
Item is discussion in which Rose Sheinan, Susan Drysdale and Claudie Solar discuss and answer questions about their education and the development of their careers as women working in the sciences