2025 was a very busy year for new accessions and accruals at the Trinity College Archives. Overall, we brought in over 25 linear meters of new archival materials – with some collections now searchable on Discover Archives. The Trinity College Archives welcomed several new collections in 2025, each offering unique insights into the history of politics, international relations, diplomacy, and culture. Among some of the highlights of these new accessions are: 

F2404 Frank Stark Fonds: Frank Milton Stark is a Research Associate and graduate of Trinity College. Dr. Stark received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in the Program of African Studies in 1972, with his dissertation entitled ‘Federalism as a Symbol of Political Integration in the Elite Political Culture of Cameroon.’ Stark’s collection is an accumulation of his research materials on Cameroonian federalism. It includes Cameroonian government publications, legal gazettes, newspapers, maps, and literary and cultural publications, including Abbia, an important journal edited by Dr. Bernard Fonlon. An internal listing of this collection is available at the Archives.

F2405 C.D. Howe Memorial Foundation Fonds:
Established in 1961 by colleagues of C.D. Howe (known to some as Canada’s “Minister of Everything”), the C.D. Howe Memorial Foundation honoured Howe’s legacy through scholarships and educational initiatives. Initially funding university fellowships, it later supported a biography of Howe and merged briefly with the C.D. Howe Research Institute. Re-established in 1982, the Foundation focused on scholarships, endowments, and cultural projects, including a documentary and a biography of John Turner. Over five decades, it contributed more than $11 million to education and research before dissolving in 2013. This collection consists of corporate and administrative records, annual meeting minutes, and records relating to scholarships and other funding initiatives. The finding aid for this collection is available on Discover Archives at: https://discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/c-d-howe-memorial-foundation-fonds

F2410 Cooperative Security in the Asia Pacific Fonds:
Received from Professors David Dewitt, Paul Evans, and Brian Job, who were involved in this unique Canadian effort between 1989 and 2005 to promote cooperative security and later human security in the Asia-Pacific region through innovative track-two diplomacy – informal dialogues involving academics, experts, and officials in their private capacities. These initiatives aimed to broaden security discussions beyond military issues, foster habits of dialogue, and strengthen Canada’s role as a constructive middle power. Papers in this collection include documentation on the North Pacific Cooperative Security Dialogue (NPCSD), the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), the Canada–Korea Forum (KCF), the Canada–Japan Symposium on Peace and Security Cooperation, and several publication series, including Eastern Asia Policy Papers, North Pacific Policy Papers, Canadian Consortium on Asia Pacific Security (CANCAPS) Bulletins. An internal listing of this collection is available at the Archives.

F2412 Nemni/Cite Libre Fonds:
Max Nemni (1935–2024) and Monique Nemni (1936–2022) were prominent Canadian intellectuals and longtime editors of Cité Libre, a pivotal Québécois political magazine. Close collaborators of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, they were entrusted with his personal papers and authored two acclaimed biographies: Young Trudeau (2006) and Trudeau Transformed (2011). As co-editors of Cité Libre from 1995 to 2000, they helped revive the magazine to promote national unity during the 1995 referendum. Their papers document the Nemni’s work as writers and editors, focusing on Cité Libre, their research, and Pierre Trudeau’s life. It includes issues of Cité Libre, research files, correspondence, Trudeau’s diaries, photographs, and audiovisual materials. The finding aid for this collection is available on Discover Archives at: https://discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nemni-cite-libre-fonds

We were also very fortunate to receive papers from filmmaker Atom Egoyan, the late Canadian politician John Godfrey, Trinity professors John Kirton and Bob Bothwell, professor and former diplomat Dan Livermore, editorial cartoonist Terry Mosher, and researcher and NGO worker Irene Sage. We also received countless contributions of photographs, student publications, and ephemera from our wonderful alumni community. Keep an eye on our Discover Archives page for more new collections to be added in the coming year. And as always, we invite anyone who is interested to explore our archival collections and discover the histories they hold!