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Special Collections
Some unusual formats and rare items make up our special collections of Urban Affairs materials:
- Campaign literature for candidates running in Toronto municipal elections from 1969 to the present
- Voters lists for Toronto for most years from the mid-1960's to 1994
- The Campaign to Save the Old City Hall - a microfiched collection of original documents and papers outlining the efforts to preserve Toronto's old city hall
- City directories, including current issues of the Polk Criss-Cross Directory for the Greater Toronto Area
- Maps for land use, transit, parks and bicycle routes for Toronto, Canadian and international cities
- Special aerial photographs, planimetric and property data maps
- Microforms of the Canadian Research Index (formerly known as Microlog) and Index to Current Urban Documents, among others. The indexes provide access to local government publications in Canada and the United States
- Current issues of Toronto daily newspapers and selected community newspapers
- Noteworthy gifts to the library including the scrapbooks of F. G. Gardiner (the first Metro Chairman), radio speeches by Nathan Philips (the former Mayor of Toronto), and studies by renowned planners like Dr. E. G. Faludi and Norman Wilson
- Various Statistics Canada publications and many census documents. An official depository library, the Urban Affairs Library receives selective government materials.
- Vertical files of pamphlets on municipal and urban topics, as well as current and retrospective newspaper clippings from the Toronto papers
Updated on: January 6, 2009
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