File consists of research consent forms for research pertaining to "Re-explorations: new perspectives on gender, environment, and the transfer of knowledge in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia."
File consists of research materials by or about Dr. Helen Watson Veran and Aboriginal Australians science.
File consists of research notes by Anne-Stina Kjellstrom on a book by Hannah Rachel Bell with note to Ainley about them.
File consists of photocopies from book entitled: "Protocols for consultation and negotiation with Aboriginal people" specific to Australia.
File consists of biographical information about Australian botanist, Nancy Tyson Burbidge.
File consists of biographical information and research materials about Australian, Hannah Rachel Bell.
File consists of biographical information and research materials about Australian historian, Dr. Judith McKay.
File consists of biographical information and research materials about Australian anthropologist, Phillia Kaberry.
File consists of biographical information and research materials about Australian ornithologist and poet, Jane Ada Fletcher.
File consists of biographical information and research materials about Lady Jane Franklin's work in Australia.
File consists of 3 CDs on Auckland, receipts, and handwritten notes.
File consists of interview notes and recordings. File includes interview consent form, questions, and notes from interview with Alex Hawley. File also includes a tape recording of Joan Scott's presentation "Rewriting the History of Feminism" at Concordia University No. 14, 1996. Disk contains files relating to a variety of Dr. Ainley's projects including "Re-explorations," women in science, Parr Traill, and other projects. Disk contains many interview transcripts and notes.
File consists of recordings, consent forms, and photocopied research materials from interview with Susan MacGregor. File includes research materials regarding early settlers of the Okanogan.
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 photocopied research materials concerning gender roles of First Nations women.
File consists of photocopied research materials on Native Americans and the learning section the Boston Globe newspaper from 1993.
File consists of research materials and related correspondence concerning Charlotte Flett.
File consists of research materials and notes concerning Ellis Rowan.
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 research records from Ainley's Re-explorations project on the transfer of indigenous knowledge and science. File includes typed research notes, printed catalogue records, photocopies of articles, and an issue of the Beaver magazine.
File consists of printed and photocopied research materials concerning Ursula McConnel's life and work in Australia.
File consists of printed and photocopied research materials concerning Georgiana Molloy's life and work in Australia.
File consists of printed research materials concerning Helena Ford's life and work in Australia.
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 biographical information 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.
Subseries contains material relating to Dr. Ainley's research on ornithology beginning in Ainley's graduate research and her early post-doc career. This subseries includes drafts of Ainley's Masters thesis "La Professionnalisation De L'Ornithologie Americaine, 1870-1979" (The Professionalization of American Ornithology, 1870-1979) for the University of Montreal and drafts of her PhD thesis "From Natural History to Avian Biology: Canadian Ornithology 1860-1950" for McGill University. Thus subseries also includes materials related to an uncompleted monograph about the history of the first 100 years of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). The project was originally proposed to the centennial committee of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1979 and was to be completed by Keir Sterling and Charles H. Blake. Ainley was invited to join the project in 1981, shortly after which Charles Blake passed away. In 1987, the project was abandoned, but was then revived in 2003 for the 125 year anniversary based on a revision of the original manuscript and new additions to cover the period of 1983-2008, before being abandoned for a second time. Subseries also contains the research materials for Ainley's chapter in "Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979," entitled, "Field Work and Family: North American Women Ornithologists, 1900-1950." The article details the experience of female ornithologists, focusing on, among others, Margaret Morse Nice and Althea Sherman. Subseries consists of photocopied and hand-copied correspondence between Margaret Morse Nice and Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, between Nice and William Rowan, and between Nice and Althea Sherman.
File consists of correspondence relating to: decisions on material to be included in the monograph, edits of early drafts of sections of the monograph, locating research materials, and the general administration of the monograph project.
File consists of archival research records concerning Ainley's research on the American Ornithologists' Union. File includes, correspondence, archival reproductions, and photocopies.
File consists of National Museum of Natural Sciences article "Les nomes des oiseaux d'amerique du nord" ("The names of North American birds") on the names of birds.
File consists of Ainley's Masters thesis "La Professionnalisation De L'Ornithologie Americaine, 1870-1979" (The Professionalization of American Ornithology, 1870-1979) at the University of Montreal.
File consists of 5.25 inch floppy disk which may contain backup files concerning the history of the American Ornithologists' Union.
File consists, predominately, of correspondence between Ainley and Speirs relating to travel and ornithology publication recommendations. It also contains archival correspondence between Speirs and Roy Ivor and Spiers and George Watson and a card sent to Ainley by Murray, Speirs's husband, notifying Ainley that she was not included in Speirs's will.
File consists of records related to Ainley's research on Montreal Women Scientists: Oral History project including correspondence, progress reports, and proposals.
File consists of student paper on Dr. Ainley's research and experience conducting interviews and gathering oral histories: "Interviewing the Interviewer: The Contextual Component of the Oral History Collection" by Sanadra Wallace. File includes two copies of Sanadra Wallace's recorded interview with Ainley on tape and CD.
File consists of consent forms from various participants in Ainley's numerous research projects.
File consists of research materials and notes concerning Muriel V. Roscoe. File includes correspondence and interview transcript with Muriel Roscoe.
File consists of interview transcript of Delaney Barton in both print and digital form.
File consists of printed interview transcripts for Wendy Wickwire, Nancy Turner, Jane Young, Antonia Mills, Heather Harris, and Beryl Amaron.
File consists of interview transcripts and CV of Virginia Douglas.
File consists of computer disk with "over[looked?] oral histories" files. Slides primarily contain pictures of women who were the subjects of Ainey's research.
Subseries documents the research for Ainley's monograph, originally titled, "Overlooked Dimensions: Women and Scientific Work at Canadian Universities, 1884-1980." The monograph draws on research from previous research projects and was conceptualized as a culmination of Ainley's life's work. The monograph was incomplete at the time of her death and was published posthumously after being edited by Marlene Rayner-Canham and Geoff Rayner-Canham under the title "Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880-1980." Originally scheduled to be published by UBC press shortly after Ainley's death in 2008, the manuscript was published by the McGill-Queen's University Press in 2012. Subseries consists of articles and excerpts from publications by Ainley and others, audio recordings of interviews and presentations, notes, drafts, and correspondence.
File consists of excerpts of course notes from Ainley's courses, Gender 707: Feminist Perspectives on Science and Technology and Women's Studies 403: Science, Technology and Women's Lives; the proceedings from Ainley's presentation at the History of Science Society Annual Conference in 1997, "Women and Field Work in Canada: persistence and strategies, 1815-1990"; and excerpts.