Overview
The Prayer of the Founders is that Hart House under the guidance of its Warden, may serve in the generations to come the highest interests of this University by drawing into a common fellowship the members of the several colleges and faculties, and by gathering into a true society the teacher and student, the graduate and the undergraduate; further, that the members of Hart House may discover within its walls the true education that is to be found in good fellowship, in friendly disputation and debate, in the conversation of wise and earnest men, in music, pictures and the play, in the casual book, sports and games and the mastery of the body.”
Whether it’s getting lost in a new favourite book in a quiet corner of the House, or chancing upon an old classic in the Hart House Library, Hart House has long been a place to discover new stories and great literature.
That tradition continues with “The Bookplate Project,” a collaboration between Hart House and students from St.Michael’s College. Students have reflected on the significance of the books in the Hart House Library Collection as representations – for good or for ill – of “Canadian” identity over the past century. With the help of special QR codes placed inside the books, readers can consider the students’ reflections and be inspired to formulate their own thoughts about the last 100 years of “Canadian” literature at Hart House.
May 2019–April 2020
Hart House Library
The views and opinions expressed in the bookplate are those of the student authors and do not necessarily reflect the (guidelines and policies) official policy or positions of Hart House at the University of Toronto.
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1919–1929
Newfoundland Verse
E. J. Pratt
Out of the Wilderness
Wilson MacDonald
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry 1914-1919 (Volume II)
Ralph Hodder-Williams (formerly lieutenant)
Short Circuits
Stephen Leacock
The United States as a Neighbour, from a Canadian Point of View
Sir Robert Falconer
1930–1939
A Book of Canadian Prose and Verse
Compiled by Edmund Kemper Broadus and Eleanor Hammond Broadus
Labor in Canadian-American Relations
Norman J. War
The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems
E. J. Pratt
1940–1949
Behind the Log
E. J. Pratt
Canada After the War: Studies in Political, Social and Economic Policies for Post-War Canada
Alexander Brady and F. R. Scott
The House of All Sorts
Emily Carr
The Ill-Tempered Lover and Other Poems
Louis Alexander MacKay
1950–1959
A Book of Canadian Humour
John D. Robins & Margaret V. Ray
Renown at Stratford
Tyrone Guthrie, Robertson Davies, Grant Macdonald
1960–1969
Canada on Stage: A Collection of One-Act Plays
Edited by Stanley Richards
The Search for Identity: Canada Postwar to Present
Blair Fraser
1970–1979
Canada North Now: The Great Betrayal
Farley Mowat
In Times like These
Nellie McClung
The Great War and Canadian Society: An Oral History
Edited by Gus Richardson and Daphne Read
Women at Work: Ontario, 1850–1930
Edited by Janice Action, Penny Goldsmith, and Bonnie Shepard
1980–1989
Never Sit Where the Cat Sat: Gags, Giggles and Gossip
Gary Dunford
Oscar Wilde in Canada: An Apostle for the Arts
Kevin O’Brien
Second Words: Selected Critical Prose
Margaret Atwood
The Festivals of Canada
Arnold Edinborough
1990–1999
Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
Canadian Impressionism
Paul Duvall
Home Game: Hockey and Life in Canada
Ken Dryden, Roy Macgregor
Stories from the Vinyl Cafe
Stuart McLean
The Great Depression (1929–1939)
Pierre Berton
2000–2009
Hand Luggage: A Memoir in Verse
P. K. Page
Monkey Beach
Eden Robinson
Ru
Kim Thúy
The Small Details of LIFE: 20 Diaries by Women in Canada, 1830–1996
Edited by Kathryn Carter
2010–2019
Boundless
Jillian Tamaki
Etta and Otto and Russell and James
Emma Hooper
Fifteen Dogs
André Alexis
Son of a Trickster
Eden Robinson
The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, And The Trial That Shocked A Country
Charlotte Gray
The Sun and her Flowers
Rupi Kaur
The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood
Edited by John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, and Ellen Scheinberg