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Budge Wilson fonds

  • MS-2-650
  • Fonds
  • 1948-2018
Fonds consists of manuscripts and proofs of Budge Wilson's books and short stories; correspondence with publishers, students, and teachers; publicity material; photocopies and clippings of reviews, profiles, and notices regarding awards and appearances; diaries; recorded radio interviews; and an assortment of other documents created and collected by the author throughout her writing career. The fonds also contains materials relating to the adaptation of Wilson's novel "Before Green Gables" into a Japanese animated television series.

Material for Margaret Laurence lecture

File contains correspondence, promotional material, a draft of Budge Wilson's lecture, and three photographs. The lecture took place on October 21, 2004.

Draft of speech for the Halifax Public Libraries freedom to read week program on remembering Margaret Laurence

  • MS-2-650.2010-031, Box 55, Folder 7
  • File
  • June 2, 1983 - March 3, 1993
  • Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File includes Budge Wilson's handwritten speech and a copy of a speech by Margaret Laurence "On Censorship...A Speech given to Ontario Provincial Judges and their Wives" and "Remarks on Margaret Laurence" by Joan Y. Johnston. The file also contains a letter from the Halifax City Regional Library about her participation in the event.

Awards and honours

Series contains records relating to Budge Wilson's awards and honours, including correspondence, programs, certificates, and speeches.

Correspondence, speech, and article on Budge Wilson and The Leaving

File contains correspondence from Janice Kulyk Keefer to Budge Wilson regarding a speech and article that she wrote about Wilson's book "The Leaving." The speech and article were presented at a conference on Maritime Women held at Acadia University in 1995. The file includes two versions of the article.

Published talk : Margaret Laurence, listener

File contains a copy of a published talk by Budge Wilson entitled "Margaret Laurence, Listener." The memorial talk was originally delivered at the Wenjack Theatre at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario on February 2, 1987. It was later published in the Canadian Woman Studies Journal (Volume 8, Number 3).

Typescript of a speech

File consists of the hand-written speech of Budge Wilson given at the book launch for Before Green Gables, in February 2008. Includes three photographs taken at the event.

Handwritten script of commentary regarding the Swissair disaster on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio program Information Morning

File consists of the hand-written draft of a script by Budge Wilson, regarding the Swissair disaster, on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Halifax Information Morning program. Includes two photocopies of letters to Dick Miller, a CBC producer. Also includes three copies of the final typescript of the speech.

Typescript of a speech and other materials of Budge Wilson regarding a school reunion at Branksome Hall

File consists of: the typescript of a speech of Budge Wilson; the typescripts of electronic email messages; the itinerary for the reunion; photocopied photographs of the Class of 1945 (Budge Archibald Wilson's class) and gravestone of Edith MacGregor, Principal of Branksome Hall; class list with addresses; and the Branksome Hall school reunion program.
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