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Title: Letter from Bora Laskin
Description: A letter/card to Doris McCarthy from Bora Laskin, sent from Ottawa, ON, January 6, 1974. Letter reads: "SUPREME COURT OF CANADA COUR SUPREME DU CANADA CHIEF JUSTICE CHAMBERS CABINET DU JUGE EN CHEF CANADA January 8, 1974 Dear Doris: I can think of no better way to inaugurate the use of this stationery than to send you a note of appreciation and affection from Peggy and me. The room at the top is always available. Love Bora."
Date Created: 1974

Title: "Season's Greeting" card and Photograph of Governor General (Ramon John Hnatyshyn) with wife
Description: "Season's Greetings" card from Governor General R. Hnatyshyn and wife Greta Hnatyshyn, sent from Rideau Hall, Ottawa, ON, in 1991 to Doris McCarthy.
Date Created: 1991

Title: Canadian Girl in Training
Description: Draft of a chapter for Doris McCarthy's autobiography "A Fool in Paradise: An Artist's Early Life," discussing Doris's early involvement with the Canadian Girls in Training (CGIT) when she was a teenager. 11 pages.
Date Created: 1990
Subject: Youth

Title: Letter from Gus Harris
Description: Letter to Doris McCarthy from Gus Harris, Mayor of Scarborough, congratulating Doris on her receipt of the Order of Canada.
Date Created: 1987-01-23

Title: Sketches of Fool's Paradise kitchen and house on the Bluffs.
Description: Interior design sketches of kitchen at Fool's Paradise and a perspective of the house from the Bluffs.

Title: Letter of congratulations from David Peterson, Premier of Ontario
Description: Letter from David Peterson, Premier of Ontario, to Doris McCarthy, congratulating her on her appointment to the Order of Canada, 1987.
Date Created: 1987-02-16

Title: Childhood
Description: Draft of a chapter for Doris's autobiography "A Fool in Paradise: An Artist's Early Life," covering Doris's childhood up to 1918. 8 pages.
Date Created: 1990
Subject: Early childhood

Title: St. Aidan's Nativity Play Schedule and Dialogue, completed 1983
Description: Typewritten pages of schedule and script for nativity play completed 1983, performed at St Aidan's Church, 70 Silver Birch Avenue at Queen Street East, Toronto.
Date Created: 1983
Subject: Religion

Title: Work
Description: Draft of a chapter for Doris's autobiography "A Fool in Paradise: An Artist's Early Life," covering 1930-1931, including Doris's summer at camp Tanamakoon and her submission of canvases to the OSA (Ontario Society of Artists) annual juried show. 11 pages.
Date Created: 1990
Subject: Youth

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