Cameron Tolton

Fonds number:
76
Title: Cameron Tolton
Dates of Material:
19602001
Extent:
17 cm of textual records
7 photographs : b&w
Biographical sketch

Cameron Tolton is a noted academic and long-time Professor at Victoria Univeristy.  He was born in Toronto in 1936, the second son of two teachers. After graduating from Humberside Collegiate with First Class Honours, he was awarded three Admissions Scholarships to Victoria College (Honours (B.A. 1958), where he earned a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship towards graduate study at Harvard University (A.M., 1958; Ph.D. 1965).

In 1964, he began his teaching career at Victoria as a Lecturer in French, progressing to Full Professor in 1983. While continuing in the Victoria Department of French he began to teach Cinema Studies there, as well as at Innis College, in what became that College's Cinema Studies Program/Institute. Professor Tolton's passion for film led him to serve on the Board of Directors at the Toronto Film Society; also, he was convenor for four Norman Jewison Lectures held at Victoria, featuring acclaimed film directors. Since retiring he has continued to lecture on Andre Gide and his contemporaries, and to introduce films at the Royal Ontario Museum and at the Toronto Film Society.  He is married to Catherine Grise; they have a daughter, Caroline Tolton Paterson.

Scope and content

Fonds consists of correspondence, primarily incoming, 1960-2001; teaching records, including course outlines/descriptions, lecture/research notes, essay topics, transperencies, bibliographies, exam questions, research material, and term papers for French literature and film courses, 1972-2001; records, including photographs, research/biographical material, correspondence, printed publicity material and clippings relating to the Norman Jewison Lecture Series, which featured acclaimed American film directors introduced by Professor Tolton, 1983-1989.

NOTE(S)
Source of supplied title

Title based on the contents of the fonds.

Immediate source of acquisition

Acquired from Cameron Tolton in 2011.

Language of material

Some material is in French.

Accruals

Further accruals are expected.

Finding aids

Box/file list available

Access points

Tolton, Cameron, 1936-

Subjects
  • Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.) - Faculty
  • Motion pictures - Study and teaching
  • French literature - Study and teaching