Laurence Ricou fonds. 1945-1999.

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Laurence Ricou fonds. 1945-1999.

The fonds consists of Ricou's correspondence during his teaching careers at the University of Lethbridge and UBC. The fonds also includes records relating to his involvement with the Association of Canadian University Teachers of English (ACUTE), book reviews, negotiated grants, Literary History of Canada, Canada research fellowships and a summer course taught on the writings of Malcolm Lowry. The fonds also contains research information pertaining to the life and work of Canadian author Patricia Blondal.

36 cm of textual records.2 photographs.2 audiotapes.

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Association of Canadian university teachers of English

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Blondal, Patricia, 1926-

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Patricia Blondal was born in Souris, Manitoba. She attended the University of Manitoba in the early 1940s and then became a broadcaster in Winnipeg upon her graduation. Blondal also travelled throughout Canada and spent a year in England. She married Harold Blondal in 1946 and spent the 1950s living with her husband and children in Montreal. Blondal wrote short stories, two novels and one mystery novel which remains unpublished. From the description of Patricia Blondal fonds. 1948-19...

Ricou, Laurence R., 1944-

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Laurence "Laurie" R. Ricou was born in Brandon Manitoba on October 17, 1944 and earned his B.A. at the University of Manitoba in 1965. He moved to the University of Toronto where he earned his MA in 1957 and Ph.D. in 1971. Ricou then went to the University of Lethbridge where he taught English for eight years beginning in 1970. While at Lethbridge he became a specialist on Canadian Prairie regionalism and prairie writing. In 1978 he moved to Vancouver and joined UBC's Department of English. Rico...