Quinn Collection Canadian political pamphlets covering the period from the 1930's to the mid-1970's are contained in this collection. The pamphlets present the platforms and agendas of a dozen Canadian political parties as well as several foreign parties. This collection of books, pamphlets, and unpublished papers relating to the 1963-71 Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism has been donated by Professor J. Rudnyckyj. Also included are items dealing with bilingualism and multiculturalism with an emphasis on Ukrainian Quebec groups. Official or authentic versions of Masonic degrees and orders, books on occultism, and materials on the history of Freemasonry and other secret societies can be found.
Coverage includes Great Britain, North America and Europe.
The items included in them may be about a common subject, or may have been donated by a particular person. Some are located in Special Collections at Vanier, some are distributed throughout the Libraries. The collection presently contains well over 5,000 titles from virtually every discipline and includes major microfilm collections of government records and trial transcripts, some 400 doctoral dissertations, as well as extensive holdings of survivor memoirs and diaries. Materials in the collection are primarily in English and French. See section on Theses and MBA Research Papers on the Libraries website .