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McGraw-Hill Ryerson Press Collection The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited
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Asselstine, R. W.

File contains agreements between The Ryerson Press, The MacMillan Company of Canada Limited, and R. W. Asselstine. Agreements include:
1) R. W. Asselstine and MacMillan for book "Golden Treasury Readers"
2) R. W. Asselstine and Ryerson Press for book "Canadian Treasury Readers Book IV"
3) R. W. Asselstine, Ryerson Press, and MacMillan for book "Canadian Treasury Readers Book IV"
4) Memorandum of agreement between Ryerson Press and MacMillan for the Canadian Treasury Readers (Highroads to Reading)

Bates, Joseph C.

File contains two memorandums of agreement (MOA) between Joseph C. Bates, The Ryerson Press, and The MacMillan Company of Canada Ltd. Included are the MOA's for "Life and Adventure" book II in the Canada Books of Prose and Verse series; and "The Practice Book for Life and Adventure".

Bennet, Charles Lindsay

File contains agreements and a memorandum of agreement between Charles Lindsay Bennet and the Ryerson Press, and The MacMillan Company of Canada Ltd. Included in the file are:
1) Agreement between Bennet, Lorne Pierce, The MacMillan Company of Canada Limited, and the Ryerson Press for "The Canada Book of Prose and Verse, books IV, V, and VI"
2) Agreeement between Bennet and The Ryerson Press for book "Recent Prose"
3) Memorandum of Agreement between Bennet and the Ryerson Press for books "The Canada Books of Prose and Verse, Books IV, V, and VI" and accompanying correspondence.

Bollert, Lillian Grace

File contains agreements and memorandums of agreement between Grace Bollert, The Ryerson Press, and MacMillan Company of Canada. Included are:
1) Agreement between Grace Bollert, The Ryerson Press, and MacMillan Company for book "Canadian Treasury Reader Manual for Grade I" (plus correspondence)
2) Agreement between Grace Bollert, The Ryerson Press, and MacMillan Company for book "Canadian Treasury Readers
Book I"
3) Agreement between Grace Bollert, The Ryerson Press, and MacMillan Company for book phrase cards
4) Agreement between Grace Bollert, The Ryerson Press, and MacMillan Company for book wall charts
5) Agreement between Grace Bollert, The Ryerson Press, and MacMillan Company for book "Canadian Treasury Reader
Primer"
6) Agreement between Grace Bollert, The Ryerson Press, and MacMillan Company for book "My Picture Book - a pre-
primer"
7) Agreement between Grace Bollert, The Ryerson Press, and MacMillan Company for book "Canadian Treasury Reader
Manual I"
8) Assignment of copyright to The Ryerson Press and MacMillan Company by Grace Bollert for all of her works within the
Canadian Treasury of Readers line.

Covell, Harold M. and McGechaen, John

File contains agreements, memorandum of agreements and correspondence between Harold Covell, John McGechaen, The MacMillan Company of Canada, and The Ryerson Press. Included are:
1) Memorandum of Agreement between Covell, McGechaen, Ryerson Press, and MacMillan Company for the workbooks to accompany "Beckoning Trails", "Life and Adventure", "Our Heritage" as part of the Canada Books of Prose and Verse series - revised edition.
2) Memorandum of Agreement and correspondence between Covell, McGechaen, Ryerson Press, and MacMillan Company for the book "Reading Study Book to accompany Golden Caravan" in the Canada Books of Prose and Verse revised edition.
3) Agreement between Covell and The Ryerson Press for Ryerson Readers "My First Book", "On my Way", "See Me Go", "New Adventures", and "Fancy Free".
4) Correspondence between The Ryerson Press and MacMillan Company regarding copyright of book "The Canadian Books of Prose and Verse Reading Study book 3 - Our Heritage" edited by Covell and McGechaen.

Diebel, Percy William

File contains memorandums of agreement between The Ryerson Press, The MacMillan Company of Canada Limited, and Percy William Diebel for the books "Beckoning Trails - grade VII" and "Teachers manual to accompany Beckoning Trails" co-authored with Reginald McBurney.

Diltz, Bert Case

File contains memorandums of agreement between Bert Case Diltz, The Ryerson Press and MacMillan Company of Canada Ltd. for the books "The Treasury Manual grades IV-VI", and "The Canadian Treasury Readers manual three".

Dobrindt, Gerhardt Hugo

The file contains a memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, The MacMillan Company of Canada Limited, and Gerhardt Hugo Dobrindt for the book "My World and I - grade VI" part of the New World Readers.

Fyfe, Charles Taylor

File contains agreements, memorandum of agreements, correspondence and legal documents relating to Charles Taylor Fyfe. Included are:
1) Memorandum of agreement and royalty memo between Fyfe and The MacMillan Company of Canada for the book "Canada Book of Prose and Verse - Book III revised
2) Memorandum of Agreement and correspondence between Fyfe, MacMillan, and The Ryerson Press for the book "Our Heritage" book three in the Canada Book of Proses and Verse series.
3) Memorandum of Agreement between Fyfe, Ryerson Press, MacMillan, and F. F. Sutherland for the book "Our Heritage".
4) Memorandum of Agreement between Fyfe, Sutherland, Ryerson Press, and MacMillan for the book "Teacher's Guidebook to accompany "Our Heritage".
5) Assignment of Royalties to Kenneth P. R. Hodges royalties in relation to the 1948 agreement for book "Our Heritage".
6) Correspondence and re-assignment of royalties back to Fyfe from Hodges.

Hardy, Edwin Austin and Van Every, J. F.

File contains a memorandum of agreement and correspondence with Dr. Edwin A. Hardy and J. F. Van Every. Included in the file is a memorandum of agreement between MacMillan Company of Canada, The Ryerson Press, Edwin A. Hardy, and J. F. Van Every for the manual to accompany the "Canada Books of Prose and Verse I, II and III". Also in the file is correspondence between the publishing house and the authors and later correspondence regarding Edwin Hardy's estate.

MacKenzie, H. H.

File contains agreements, memorandum of agreements, and correspondence regarding the works of H. H. MacKenzie and the Canadian Treasury Readers (Highroads to Reading) book series. Included are:
1) memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, The MacMillan Company of Canada, and H. H. MacKenzie for Canadian Treasury Readers book 5
2) agreement between The MacMillan Company of Canada, The Ryerson Press, and the Minister of Education for the province of Manitoba regarding the Highroads to Reading primer and books 1-3
3) correspondence regarding royalties

Minkler, Frederick W.

File contains an agreement between The Ryerson Press, The Macmillan Company of Canada, and Frederick Minkler regarding the editing of "Over the Bridge - grade IV", "Under the North Star - grade V", and "My World and I - grade VI".

Morgan, Grace

File contains a memorandum of agreement between Grace Morgan, The Macmillan Company of Canada and The Ryerson Press regarding the book "Under the North Star - Grade V". Also in the file are legal documents regarding the author's estate pertaining to royalties.

Noble, George A.

File contains memorandum of agreements between The Ryerson Press, The MacMillan Company of Canada Ltd., and George A. Noble for the books "Workbook to accompany My World and I - Grade VI" and "Workbook to accompany Over the Bridge - Grade IV". Also in the file are memorandum of agreements between The Ryerson Press, The MacMillan Company of Canada Ltd., George A. Noble, and Harry King Fisher for the books "Workbook to accompany Under the North Star - Grade V" and "Manual to accompany Under the North Star - Grade V".

Norton, Miriam

File contains memorandum of agreements relating to Miriam Norton and her work with the New World Reader series. Included in the file are:
1) Memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, Macmillan Company of Canada, and Miriam Norton for the book "Work and Study book for Grade IV"
2) Memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, Macmillan Company of Canada, and Miriam Norton for the book "Basel Reader Grade IV"
3) Memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, Macmillan Company of Canada, and Miriam Norton for the book "Work and Study book for Grade V"
4) Memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, Macmillan Company of Canada, and Miriam Norton for the book "Work and Study book for Grade VI"
5) Memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, Macmillan Company of Canada, and Miriam Norton for the book "Teachers' Manual for Grade V"
6) Memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, Macmillan Company of Canada, and Miriam Norton for the book "My World and I - Grade VI"
7) Memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, Macmillan Company of Canada, Dr. Eleanor Boyce, and Miriam Norton for the book "Workbook to accompany Under the North Star - Grade V"
8) Memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, Macmillan Company of Canada, Dr. Eleanor Boyce, and Miriam Norton for the book "Manual to accompany My World and I - Grade VI"
9) Memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, Macmillan Company of Canada, Dr. Eleanor Boyce, and Miriam Norton for the book "Workbook to accompany My World and I - Grade VI"
10) Memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, Macmillan Company of Canada, Dr. Eleanor Boyce, and Miriam Norton for the book "Workbook to accompany Over the Bridge - Grade IV"

Ormond, Charlotte et al.

File contains agreements and memorandum of agreements. Included are:
1) Two memorandum of agreements between Charlotte Ormond, The Macmillan Company of Canada, and The Ryerson Press for the book "Manual Book Two" as part of the Canadian Treasury Readers
2) Memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, The Macmillan Company of Canada, and Charlotte Ormond for the book "Work Book for Book Two" as part of the Canadian Treasury Readers
3) Memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, The Macmillan Company of Canada, Frances Ormond, Charlotte Ormond, and Mary Agnes Beresford for the book "A manual to accompany book two" as part of the Canadian Treasury Readers

Ormond, Frances et al.

File contains correspondence and agreements. Included in the file are:
1) An agreement between Frances Ormond, The Macmillan Company of Canada, and The Ryerson Press for the book "Work Book for Book Two" - as part of the Canadian Treasury Readers; correspondence to and from Frances Ormond, and Charlotte Ormond and The Ryerson Press; and a memorandum of agreement between Frances Ormond, Charlotte Ormond, The Ryerson Press, and The Macmillan Company of Canada for the same book.
2) An agreement and a memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, Frances Ormond, and The Macmillan Company of Canada for Book II as part of the Canadian Treasury Readers.
3) An agreement between The Ryerson Press, The Macmillan Company of Canada and Frances Ormond, and a memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, The Macmillan Company of Canada, Frances Ormond, Charlotte Ormond, and Mary Agnes Beresford for "A Manual to Accompany Book Two" as part of the Canadian Treasury Readers.

Pacey, Desmond

File contains agreements, memorandum of agreements and correspondence regarding the works of Desmond Pacey. Included in the file are:
1) Agreement and correspondence between Desmond Pacey and The Ryerson Press for the book "A Book of Canadian Stories"
2) Agreement between Desmond Pacey and The Ryerson Press for the book "Frederick Philip Grove".
3) Agreement and correspondence between Desmond Pacey and The Ryerson Press for the book "Creative Writing in Canada".
4) Agreement and correspondence between Desmond Pacey and The Ryerson Press for the book "Ten Canadian Poets".
5) Agreement between Desmond Pacey and The Ryerson Press for the book "The Picnic and Other Stories".
6) Agreement between Desmond Pacey, The Ryerson Press, and The Macmillan Company of Canada for the book "Our Literary Heritage, grade XII".
7) Agreement between Desmond Pacey, The Ryerson Press, and The Macmillan Company of Canada for the book "Our Literary Heritage".
8) Agreement between Desmond Pacey and The Ryerson Press for the book "Philip Grove".
9) Agreement between Desmond Pacey and The Ryerson Press for the book "Essays in Canadian Criticism".

Penner, Philip George and Baxter, Edna

File contains memorandum of agreements between The Ryerson Press, The MacMillan Company of Canada, Philip Penner, and Edna Baxter for the book "Life and Adventure", published in the series "The Canada Books of Prose and Verse" and for the Teacher's Guidebook to accompany "Life and Adventure".

Pierce, Lorne Albert

File contains agreements, memorandum of agreements, and correspondence regarding the works of Lorne Albert Pierce. Included are:
1) agreements between The Ryerson Press and Pierce for the book "In Conference with the Best Minds"and an agreement for the same book between Pierce and Cokesbury Press, Nashville Tennessee
2) agreement between The Ryerson Press and Pierce for the book "Our Dominion: Stories of Character and Incident".
3) agreement between The Ryerson Press and Pierce for the book "Outline of Canadian Literature".
4) agreement between The Ryerson Press and Pierce for the book ""Marjorie Pickthall: A Book of Remembrance".
5) agreement between The Ryerson Press and Pierce for the book "The Strickland Sisters" as part of the Makers of Canadian Literature Series
6) agreement between The Ryerson Press and Pierce for the book "Sir Gilbert Parker" as part of the Makers of Canadian Literature Series
7) agreement between The Ryerson Press and Pierce for the book "Primitive Methodism and the New Catholicism"
8) agreements between The Ryerson Press, Pierce and Arthur Yates for the book "The Ryerson Book of Prose and Verse" a school reader for Grade IX.
9) agreement between The Ryerson Press and Pierce for the book "New History for Old".
10) agreements and correspondence between The Ryerson Press, The MacMillan Company of Canada, Pierce, and Dora Whitefield for the books "The Canada Book of Prose and Verse" books I - III
11) agreements regarding royalties for "The Treasury of Readers Books 5 & 6"
12) agreement between The Ryerson Press and Pierce regarding the estate of author Bliss Carman
13) agreement assigning title and interest in Canada Books of Prose and Verse book 5 and 6 from Pierce to his goddaughter
14) Correspondence regarding the Edith Chown Pierce Trust
15) agreement and correspondence regarding the publication of "Canadian Poetry in English" and "The Selected Poems of Bliss Carmen".
16) memorandum of agreement between Pierce, The Ryerson Press and MacMillan Company of Canada for the books "Over the Bridge", "Under the North Star", and "My World and I".
17) memorandum of agreement and correspondence between Pierce, The Ryerson Press, and The MacMillan Company of Canada for the books "Beckoning Trails", "Life and Adventure", and "Our Heritage".

Pomeroy, Elsie May

File contains agreements between the Ryerson Press and Elsie May Pomeroy for the books "Sir Charles G. D. Roberts: A Life" and "The Saunders Family". Also in the file is a memorandum of agreement between Pomeroy and The MacMillan Company of Canada for the book "Guide Book - to accompany 'Life and Adventure'"

Roberts, Bryan A.

File contains a memorandum of agreement between Bryan A. Roberts, The Ryerson Press and The MacMillan Company of Canada for the book "Teachers' Guidebook to accompany Our Literary Heritage" as part of the Canada Books of Prose and Verse, revised edition.

Robinson, Margaret

File contains memorandum of agreements for books by Margaret Robinson. Included are:
1) Memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, Margaret Robinson, and The Macmillan Company of Canada for the book "Over the Bridge - Grade IV"
2) Memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, Margaret Robinson, V. McNabb, and The Macmillan Company of Canada for the book "Work and study book to accompany Over the Bridge - Grade IV"
3) Memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, Margaret Robinson, Bertha Dick and The Macmillan Company of Canada for the book "Manual to accompany Over the Bridge - Grade IV". Also includes memo regarding publication

Roy, Elsie

The file contains agreements between The Ryerson Press and Elsie Roy for the Canadian Treasury Readers: "Primer", "Book 1", "Workbook for Book 1", and "Workbook for Primer". Also in the file is a memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, The Macmillan Company of Canada and Elsie Roy transferring the copyright for all the books back to the publishers.

Roy, Henrietta

File contains agreements between The Ryerson Press and Henrietta Roy for The Canadian Treasury Readers "Workbook for the Primer", "Primer", "Book 1", and "Workbook for Book 1". Also in the file is correspondence with Henrietta and Elsie Roy regarding their books and a memorandum of agreement between The Ryerson Press, The Macmillan Company of Canada, and Henrietta Roy regarding the copyright of her works.

Sheffield, P. H.

File contains agreements between P. H. Sheffield, The Ryerson Press, and The MacMillan Company of Canada Ltd. Agreements include:
1) memorandum of agreement between P. H. Sheffield, The MacMillan Company of Canada, and The Ryerson Press for the book "Canadian Treasury of Readers Primer and Book I". There is also a letter with the agreement
2) memorandum of agreement between P. H. Sheffield, The MacMillan Company of Canada, and The Ryerson Press for the book "The Canadian Treasury of Readers Primer"
3) memorandum of agreement between P. H. Sheffield, The MacMillan Company of Canada, and The Ryerson Press for the book "The Canadian Treasury of Book I". Included with the agreement is a transfer of copyright agreement.
4) Agreement between P. H. Sheffield and The Ryerson Press regarding editorship of Canadian Treasury of Reader books.

Swayze, James Frederick

File contains agreements and other materials related to the written works of James Frederick Swayze. Included in the file are:
1) Agreement between The Ryerson Press and J. F. Swayze for the general editorship of textbooks in English Literature for grades IX-XIII
2) Agreement between The Ryerson Press, J. F. Swayze, and A. M. Beattie for the books "Prose Vol. I and Vol. II", and "Poetry Vol. I and Vol. II"
3) Memorandum of Agreement between J. F. Swayze and The Ryerson Press for the book "Book IV in the Canada Books of Prose and Verse Series"
4) Correspondence re: royalties on book "Golden Caravan"
5) Memorandum of Agreement between The Ryerson Press and J. F. Swayze for the book "The Practice Book for The Golden Caravan".
6) Memorandum of Agreement between The MacMillan Company, The Ryerson Press, and Mr. & Mrs. Swayze for the book "Guide Book to Accompany Our Heritage"
7) Agreement between The Ryerson Press and J. F. Swayze for the book "Tonty"
8) Agreement between The Ryerson Press and J. Fred Swayze for the book "And See Penelope Plain".
9) Agreement between The Ryerson Press and J. F. Swayze for the book "The Fighting Le Moynes"
10) Agreement between The Ryerson Press and J. Fred Swayze for the book "Run for your Life!"
11) Agreement between The Ryerson Press and J. F. Swayze for the chapbook "In the Egyptian Gallery"
12) Agreement between The Ryerson Press and J. Fred Swayze for the book "Manitoulin Manhunt"
13) Agreement between The Ryerson Press and J. F. Swayze for the book "Born to Trouble"
14) Correspondence and copy of will for James Frederick Swayze
15) Correspondence between the Ryerson Press and Mrs. J. F. Swayze regarding copyright.

Whitefield, Dora

File contains a memorandum of agreement and correspondence between The MacMillan Company of Canada Limited, The Ryerson Press, and Dora Whitefield regarding the "Canadian Books of Prose and Verse" Books I, II, and III.

Young, Madeline C.

The file contains memorandums of agreement between Madeline C. Young, The Ryerson Press, and The MacMillan Company of Canada. Also in the file is correspondence regarding royalties. Agreements include:
1) Memorandum of Agreement for book "Beckoning Trails"
2) Memorandum of Agreement for book "The Practice Book for Beckoning Trails"
3) Memorandum of Agreement for book "Beckoning Trails - Grade VII"
4) Memorandum of Agreement for book "Guide Book to accompany Beckoning Trails"