Earle Toppings
Introduction
Fonds:
#63
Title:
Earle Toppings fonds
Dates of Material:
1946–2008
Physical Description:
68 cm of textual records
1 audio cassette
1 video cassette
Accession:
#2009.03
#2011.04
Biographical sketch
Earle Toppings was an editor at The Ryerson Press, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies In Education and CBC Radio Drama. He was born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1931, and grew up near Kipling, attending a one-room country school. After high school in Kipling, Vancouver and Surrey, B.C., he attained a B.A. at the University of British Columbia, and then graduated from the Academy of Radio Arts in Toronto, directed by Lorne Greene. Beyond his editing career he also worked as a newscaster, producer and program director at CBC and other radio stations, and taught in Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson University, where he produced Canada's first course for university credit by radio, broadcast by Ryerson's Open College in 1976. Before becoming an Art advisor (Toppings Art ), he was producer and interviewer for Canadian Writers on Tape and Canadian poets on Tape. A volunteer at Art Gallery of Ontario and other institutions, he and his wife Iris have a son, Marc, and reside in Toronto.
Scope and content
Fonds consists of three series: Typescripts, proofs and other records, 1946-2008; correspondence with Canadian writers, 1962-2008; and records relating to "Canadian Writers on Tape", "Canadian Poets on Tape", 1969-1971, 2008, and "Nightfall" , 1980, 2003-2004
- Series 1: Typescripts, proofs and other records
- Series 2: Correspondence with Canadian Writers
- Series 3: Records relating to “Canadian Writers on Tape”, “Canadian Poets on Tape” and “Nightfall”
Note(s)
Source of supplied title
Title based on the contents of the fonds
Immediate source of acquisition
Acquired from Earle Toppings, 2008 and 2009
Accruals
No further accruals are expected
Finding aids
Box/File List available
Access points
Toppings, Earle
Subjects
- Authors and publishers
- Publishers and publishing