FontanusPub Date : 1994-01-01DOI: 10.26443/fo.v7i.106
Alfred Van Peteghem
{"title":"An Early Canadian Herbal","authors":"Alfred Van Peteghem","doi":"10.26443/fo.v7i.106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26443/fo.v7i.106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81279,"journal":{"name":"Fontanus","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69321797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FontanusPub Date : 1994-01-01DOI: 10.26443/fo.v7i.104
R. Harvie
{"title":"Views of Rome, Visions of Rome: Piranesi Prints from the Nobbs Collection in the Blackader-Lauterman Library, McGill University","authors":"R. Harvie","doi":"10.26443/fo.v7i.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26443/fo.v7i.104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81279,"journal":{"name":"Fontanus","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69321648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FontanusPub Date : 1994-01-01DOI: 10.26443/fo.v7i.96
M. Bisson, Barbara Lawson, B. Trigger
{"title":"Excavating Collections: Archaeological Finds at the Redpath Museum","authors":"M. Bisson, Barbara Lawson, B. Trigger","doi":"10.26443/fo.v7i.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26443/fo.v7i.96","url":null,"abstract":"Two research projects relating to the Redpath Museum's archaeology collections are described as part of a general discussion of the value and Jicture role of such collections. One project involved the discovery at the Museum of an important piece of Meroitic art datingfrom the first century A.D. and of the cast of a companion piece, both of which had been lost track of after they wre displayed in Liverpool in 1914. The second project concerned the use of stone tools and bones in the Redpath Museum to help date and confirm the original place of discovery of a number of European Palaeolithic figurines purchased in a Montreal antique shop in 1990. These discoveries illustrate the research potential of these long neglected and little known collections. It is argued that, as ever more archaeological sites are destroyed as a result of population growth and economic development, museum collections will become an increasingly important source of infonnution about the past.","PeriodicalId":81279,"journal":{"name":"Fontanus","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69322158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FontanusPub Date : 1994-01-01DOI: 10.26443/fo.v7i.107
Jason Pan
{"title":"In Touch with History: The Archival Collection of Professor Thomas Henry Clark","authors":"Jason Pan","doi":"10.26443/fo.v7i.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26443/fo.v7i.107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81279,"journal":{"name":"Fontanus","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69321972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FontanusPub Date : 1994-01-01DOI: 10.26443/fo.v7i.98
Y. Lindeman
{"title":"Witness Testimonies of the Holocaust and the Meaning of Memory","authors":"Y. Lindeman","doi":"10.26443/fo.v7i.98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26443/fo.v7i.98","url":null,"abstract":"Almost$& years after the events, the conspiracy of silence on the part of bystanders and victims of the Holocaust, is at last beginning to be l~jled and exposed. In its place come re-examination, new historical documentation and, increasingly, eye-witness accounts. Though the former victims are motivated by their last-minute chance to set the historical record straight against what is viewed as the Nazi war against memory, their new eagerness to test@ is tempered by an ambivalence caused by their pain and loss. Meanwhile, the policies of indiference, silent abandonment and quiet collaboration on the part of nearly all the occupied European countries as well as the North American powers are now being exposed and re-evaluated. At the same time, the voice of the child survivors, those who were children during WWZZ, is increasingly being heard. As they break through their previous silence, some of their testimony seems to mark a new perspective. At best, it ofers both to society and to them, the last and youngest eye-witnesses of the Shoah, a renewed opportunity for integration, healing and closure.","PeriodicalId":81279,"journal":{"name":"Fontanus","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69322236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FontanusPub Date : 1993-01-01DOI: 10.26443/fo.v6i.78
S. Frost
{"title":"The Redpath Hall: The Portraits","authors":"S. Frost","doi":"10.26443/fo.v6i.78","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26443/fo.v6i.78","url":null,"abstract":"The Redpath Library opened in 1893 conformed closely to current notions of appropriate facilties by providing a large open reading room. The donors, Peter and Grace Redpath, conspired closely with the architect, Andrew Taylor, to produce for this purpose a 'Great Hall,' equipped with a lofty timber roof, and adorned with many carvings and much painted galss of unusual quality. When the 1952 extensions provided readers with alternative facilities, the Great Hall was taken over by the University as its aula or Hall of Honour. On its walls the portraits of generous benefactors, influential chancellors and maste@l principals were hung to convey and conserve the University S awareness of its event@l past. Quirks of personality, the fickleness of administrative interest and the subjective nature of artistic judgments, have combined to produce a somewhat fortuitous and uneven collection of paintings, which nevertheless give the Repath Hall its unique character, and confirm its signijkance in the life of the University, if not as the shrine of lares et penates certainly as the grand salon of alma mater.","PeriodicalId":81279,"journal":{"name":"Fontanus","volume":"146 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69321626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FontanusPub Date : 1993-01-01DOI: 10.26443/fo.v6i.81
Martin B. Cohen
{"title":"The Redpath Family and the McGill Libraries' Collections","authors":"Martin B. Cohen","doi":"10.26443/fo.v6i.81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26443/fo.v6i.81","url":null,"abstract":"In celebrating the centenary of the Redpath Library, we also celebrate the role of Peter Redpath as benefactor, since it was his donation of money that made the construction of the building possible. However, it behoves us at this time as well to mark the Redpath family's donations and influence upon the subsequent growth of the McGill collections both Peter Redpath's donation of over 3,000 carefully selected books purchased by him on McGill's behalf, together with another 2,000 plus bequeathed to McGill by his widow, and the subsequent creation of the Peter Whiteford and Jocelyn Clifford Redpath Memorial Fund, an endowment existing for the benefit of the McGill Libraries which has enabled the purchase of a number of fine and scarce items since its establishment in 1903; the W.W. Redpath Fund, which was used for much of the early building up of McGill's engineering collections; and the Sir Thomas and Lady Roddick Fund, used from its establishment in 1954 until today for the purchase of rare books.","PeriodicalId":81279,"journal":{"name":"Fontanus","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69321753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}