Series includes business correspondence between Ryerson Press and Dorothy Livesay. Most letters are from various editors and managers regarding the publishing and publicity of Livesay's works. There are also copies of letters written by Livesay to various people at Ryerson Press. Correspondents include Lorne Pierce, Frank Flemington, Elsinore Haultain, Fred(?) Ellins, Enid Thornton, Earle Toppings, Campbell Hughes, George Truss, Georgeanna Hamilton, and Robin Farr. Correspondence is arranged chronologically.
Series also includes miscellaneous items such as newsclippings, postage receipts, royalty statements, review lists, and advertisements.
Textbook; status: other; Enterprise level: Gr. 3; approved: 1939. Source cites "for classroom libraries". Textbook; status: other; Enterprise level: Gr. 3, 4; approved: 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953.
Textbook; status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 6; approved: 1940, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955.
Student reference; status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 3, 4; approved; 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967.
Textbook; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 9; approved: 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941. Student reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 11; approved: 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947. Sources cite title as The Modern World.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 12; approved: 1939.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 12; approved: 1939.
Textbook; status: other; Social Studies 30; level: Gr. 12; approved: 1939, 1940.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 12; approved: 1939.
Teacher reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 7, 8; approved: 1940, 1947.
Textbook; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 7, 8; approved: 1944.
Textbook; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 8; approved: 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969.
Student reference; status: other; General Mathematics; level: Gr. 10, 11; approved: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943. Student reference, teacher reference; status: other; General Mathematics; level: Gr. 10, 11, 12; approved: 1944, 1945, 1946. Textbook; status: basic; General Mathematics; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950. Student reference; status: other; Mathematics; level: Gr. 10, 11, 12; approved: 1951, 1952.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies 10; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1971, 1972. Teacher reference; status: other; Social Studies 10; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1971, 1972.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 7; approved: 1971, 1972.
Textbook; status: other; Social Studies 10; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976.
Textbook; status: other; Citizenship; level: Gr. 3, 4; approved: 1922.
Teacher reference; status: other; Art ; level: Gr. 7, 8, 9; approved: 1944, 1947.
Textbook; status: other; Homes and Home Furnishings; level: Gr. 11; approved: 1952, 1953.
Textbook; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 7, 8, 9; approved: 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947.
Teacher reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 7, 8, 9; approved: 1937. Student reference; status: other; Social Studies 1; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1950, 1951, 1952. Student reference; status: other; Social Studies 2; level: Gr. 11; approved: 1938, 1939, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952. Teacher reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 7, 8, 9; approved: 1941. Textbook; status: basic; Social Studies; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949. Textbook; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 9; approved: 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952. Student reference; status: other; Social Studies 10, 20; level: Gr. 10, 11; approved: 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 12; approved: 1939.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 12; approved: 1939.
Textbook; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 7; approved: 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1958. Volume I is called: Discovery to 1763.
Textbook; status: basic; Social Studies; level: Gr. 8; approved: 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969. The 1967 source specifies the 1966 edition.
Teacher reference; status: other; Physical Education; level: Division I, II (Gr. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6); approved: 1936. Textbook; status: other; Social Studies; level: Elementary; approved: 1940. Spine title: The Canadian Book of Games.
Textbook; status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 4, 5, 6; approved: 1936.
Textbook; status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 5; approved: 1939, 1940. Textbook; status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 4, 5, 6; approved: 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955. From endpaper: "A Geography Reader for Gr.s V, VI, VII, VIII". Some sources cite title as Canadian Neighbours.
Status: other; Enterprise; level: [Elementary]; approved: 1940. Status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 5, 6; approved: 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953.
Textbook; status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 5; approved: 1940, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953.
Student reference; status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 5, 6; approved: 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965. Student reference; status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 5; approved: 1966, 1967. Textbook; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 6; approved: 1975.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies 10; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1971.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies 10; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1971, 1972.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies 10; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1971.
Textbook; status: other; Reading and Literature; level: Gr. 1; approved: 1924; 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936. For supplementary reading. Textbook; status: basic; Reading; level: Gr. 1, 2, 3; approved: 1937, 1938, 1939 (listed as "pre-primers for division I - grades I-III").
Teacher reference; status: other; Art; level: Gr. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; approved: 1951.
Textbook; status: other; Science; level: Gr. 4, 5, 6; approved: 1936.
Teacher reference; status: other; General Mathematics; level: Gr. 10, 11; approved: 1938, 1939, 1940. Teacher reference, student reference; status: other; General Mathematics; level: Gr. 10, 11; approved: 1941, 1942, 1943. Student reference, teacher reference; status: other; General Mathematics; level: Gr. 10, 11, 12; approved: 1944, 1945, 1946. Textbook; status: basic; General Mathematics; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950. Student reference; status: other; Mathematics; level: Gr. 10, 11, 12; approved: 1951, 1952.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 12; approved: 1939.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 12; approved: 1939.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 12; approved: 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 (to be used in a "classroom library").
Textbook; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1943.
Textbook; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr.10, 12; approved: 1947.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 7; approved: 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964.
Teacher reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 12; approved: 1955.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies 30; level: Gr. 11; approved: 1970. Used as part of pilot project for Social Studies 20 in 1970.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies 30; level: Gr. 12; approved: 1970. Source cites authors as Pearl and Schaffter. Used as part of pilot project for Social Studies 30 in 1970.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies 10; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1971, 1972.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies 10; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1971, 1972.
Textbook; status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 6; approved: 1939, 1940.
Textbook; status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 6; approved: 1940. Source cites title as: The Body and Health: Grade Six.
Textbook; status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 4; approved: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953.
Student reference; status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 4, 5, 6; approved: 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 7; approved: 1937. Textbook; status: basic; Social Studies; level: Gr. 7; approved: 1938, 1939, 1940. Textbook; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 7, 8; approved: 1941, 1948, 1949, 1950. 1937 source cites that this work will not be ready until October 15th. First copyright is 1938.
Textbook; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 9; approved: 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947. Textbook; status: basic; Social Studies; level: Gr. 8; approved: 1953.
Fiction; status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 3; approved: 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972.
Student reference; status: other; Home Economics, Needlework; level: Gr. 10, 11, 12; approved: 1940. Student reference; status: other; Home Economics; level: Gr. 7, 8, 9; approved 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947. Textbook; status: other; Home Economics; level: Grade 10, 11; approved 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960. Textbook; status: other; Home Economics; level: Gr. 7, 8, 9; approved: 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960. Source from 1941 cites author as Iverson.
Teacher reference; status: other; Home Economics; level: Gr. 7, 8, 9; approved: 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949. Textbook; status: other; Home Economics; level: Gr. 10, 11; approved: 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950. Textbook; status: other; Home Economics; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1951, 1952, 1953. Textbook; status: other; Home Economics; level: Gr. 7, 8, 9; approved: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984. Textbook; status: other; Home Economics; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1964, 1965, 1966. Textbook; status: basic; Foods and Nutrition 30; level: Gr. 12; approved: 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978. Textbook; status: basic; Food Science 10, 20, 30; level: Gr. 10, 11, 12; approved: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984. The revised 1969 ed. became authorized in 1970 followed by the metric edition in 1979. From 1961 sources give authors as Wattie and Donaldson.
Biography; status: other; English Literature 11; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1964, 1965. Biography; status: basic; English; level: Gr. 11; approved: 1965.
Teacher reference; status: other; English; level: Gr. 10, 11, 12; approved: 1965.
Textbook; status: other; Nature Study; level: Gr. 6; approved: 1929. Student reference; status: other; Science; level: Gr. 4, 5, 6; approved: 1936.
Textbook; status: basic; Music; level: Gr. 10, 11; approved: 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957. Teacher reference; status: other; Music; level: Gr. 7, 8, 9; approved: 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955.
Teacher reference; status: other; Art; level: Gr. 10, 11, 12; approved: 1958.
Student reference; status: other; Dramatics; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies 2; level: Gr. 11; approved: 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941. Textbook; status: basic; Economics; level: Gr. 12; approved: 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945. Teacher reference; status: other; Economics; level: Gr. 12; approved: 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957. Textbook; status: other; Social Studies 2; level: Gr. 11; approved: 1947, 1948. A revised edition was published in 1940.
Textbook; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 7, 8; approved: 1948, 1949, 1950. Textbook; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 7; approved: 1951.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 8; approved: 1937. Textbook; status: basic; Social Studies; level: Gr. 8; approved: 1938, 1939, 1940. Textbook; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 7, 8; approved: 1941, 1948, 1949, 1950. 1937 source cites that this work will be ready October 15th.
Student reference; status: other; Social Studies; level: Gr. 9; approved: 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952.
Textbook; status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 5; approved: 1939. Source cites "for classroom libraries".
Textbook; status: other; Enterprise; level: Gr. 5; approved: 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959.
Textbook; status: basic; Enterprise; level: Gr. 1, 2; approved: 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967.
Teacher reference; status: other; Enterprise; level: Elementary; approved: 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967.
Teacher reference; status: other; Citizenship; level: Gr. 7, 8; approved: 1922.
Textbook; status: other; English; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1944, 1945. Textbook; status: basic; English; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952. Textbook; status: basic; English literature; level: Gr. 10; approved: 1953.
Teacher reference; status: other; English Language; level: Gr. 10, 11, 12; approved: 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978.
Textbook; status: other; Reading; level: Gr. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; approved: 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943. Textbook; status: other; Reading; level: Gr. 6; approved: 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944. Textbook; status: basic; Reading; Gr. 4, 5, 6; approved: 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965. Source cites publisher as: Nelson, Toronto from 1947 on. Accompanied by manuals, workbooks, teacher guides, introductory wall charts and sentence, phrase and word cards.
Textbook; status: other; Reading; level: Gr.4, 5, 6; approved: 1948, 1949. Title include: Over the Bridge (Gr.4), Under the North Star (Gr.5), My World and I (Gr. 6).
Teacher reference; status: other; Art; level: Gr. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; approved: 1951.