Funeral programme for Lydia Dotto.

DVD of an interview with Chris Hadfield.

Information on Lydia Dotto's career as a photographer, and her company ImageInnovation Photography.

Book outline for a book on medicine in space by Lydia Dotto.

Copy of the "Canadian Space Agency. Space Science Research in Canada. The CSA's report to the 36th Cospar Meeting. Beijing, China, July 2006." Includes a printed version in English and a CD-ROM with English and French versions.

Science in Society Journalism Award for Lydia Dotto for her feature "Liar, Liar" in The National.

VHS tape with recordings of a round table discussion about the history of space medicine (September 26, 2003).

VHS tapes with English versions of program "The Great Warming" by Stonehaven CCS Canada Corporation. Includes eight tapes with titles:

• "Episode 1. The human fingerprint" (November 24 and December 5, 2003), 2 copies, one with time code burnt in,
• "Episode 2. Age of uncertainty" (November 24, 2003), 2 copies, one with time code burnt in,
• "Episode 3. Our children's planet" (November 24 and December 5, 2003), 2 copies, one with time code burnt in,
• "Episode 3. Rough cut" (July 21, 2003), 1 copy,
• "Show 1Rough cut" (May 15, 2003), 1 copy.

Published copies of National. The Canadian Bar Association magazine with Lydia Dotto's articles. Titles of articles are:

• "You can't believe your eyes" (Volume 11, No. 7, November 2002),
• "Liar liar" (Volume 13, No. 3, January/February 2004).

Transcript of an interview by Lydia Dotto to William Carpentier from November 10, 2001.

Printout copies of online articles written by Lydia Dotto and published in CBC News (2000-2001) on the topics of climate change.

Materials relating to Lydia Dotto's book "Proof or Consequences." Includes a letter from the publisher, and an outline of the work.

VHS tape with recordings of the "Climat Science work shop [sic] at the Chateau Cartier" (November 9, 1999).

Digital copy of the proceedings of Climate change and salmon stocks (Vancouver, British Columbia) organized by the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council. Includes notes on Lydia Dotto's presentation "Storm Warning: Gambling with the Climate of our Planet" as part of the panel "What is the best strategy to adopt?"

Printout of an email sent to On the Nature of Things with three proposals for topics - global warming, space medicine and cybersickness. Also includes articles by Dotto on the subjects as examples.

Contract and addendum between Lydia Dotto and Doubleday for her book "a climate of change: extreme weather, global climate change and human choices."

Contracts and correspondence between Lydia Dotto and others relating to the publication of her book Storm Warnings, as well as the possible development of the book as a television miniseries.

VHS tapes with regordings of "Half asleep, half alive" by High Road Productions Inc. Includes three tapes with titles:

• "Half asleep, half alive. Rough cut sections. Firefighters 1, 2, 3" (May 9, 1997),
• "The body: inside stories. Half asleep, half alive,"
• "The body: inside stories. Half asleep, half alive."

CD with interviews of Kate Bradshaw, Barry Fowler, Gary Gray, Doug Hamilton, Kate Lines, Steve Roberts, Bob Thirsk, and Dave Williams.

Story synopsis for the episode "a perfect five" from the TV show "the outer limits."

VHS tape with recordings of program "Canada in Space." Includes one tape with title "Canada in space. The Discovery Channel" (November 16, 1995).

Cassette tape with a CBC logo and the handwritten label STS-74.

Microcassettes with interviews of David Williams, Marc Garneau, Chris Hadfield, Dane Russo, and Wendell Mendell.

One news media pass for the STS-74 Shuttle/Mir mission.

One temporary news media badge from the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Centre giving Lydia Dotto access to building 2.

VHS tapes with recordings of program "The Nature of Things." Includes two tapes with titles:

• "Nature of Things. New Materials" (January 26, 1994),
• "The Nature of Things with David Suzuki. Show #2 - 1994-1995. the Advanced Material World" (October 13, 1994).

Canadian Science Writers' Association Science Journalism Award given to Lydia Dotto for her feature "Global Warming: Dealing with Uncertainty" in the Globe and Mail.

Transcript of interview by Lydia Dotto to William Winegard from September 26, 1991.

Transcript of interviews by Lydia Dotto to Kenneth Eric Money.
One interview took place during the IML mission press conference (June 26, 1991), the other interview is undated and not located.

Typed annotations from the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML) press conference in Ottawa, June 26, 1991.

Transcript of interviews by Lydia Dotto to Alan Mortimer from May 1991 and July 1992.

Published copies of Challenges. Ontario's business: issues and opportunities magazine with articles by Lydia Dotto. Titles of articles are:

• "Converging technologies" (Spring 1991),
• "Computer literates... or technopeasants?" by Lydia Dotto and Eva Klein (Spring 1992),
• "Net benefit: thinking of doing business on the internet?" (Winter 1995).

Transcript of interviews by Lydia Dotto to Dr. Karl H. Doetsch from January 1991, from May 1991, and one undated.

Transcript of interviews by Lydia Dotto to William MacDonald "Mac" Evans from January 1991 and from May 2, 1991.

Transcript of an interview by Lydia Dotto to Jim Middleton from September 18, 1990.

Transcript of an interview by Lydia Dotto to Lloyd Pinkney from June 29, 1990.

Transcript of interviews by Lydia Dotto to Dr. Roberta Lynn Bondar from May 25, 1990, and September 5, 1990.

Transcript of interviews by Lydia Dotto to Bruce Aikenhead from May 10, 1990, May 1991, and October 27, 1991.

Transcript of interview by Lydia Dotto to Parvez Kumar from May 10, 1990.

Transcript of interviews by Lydia Dotto to Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau from May 10, 1990, and from May 3, 1991.

Transcript of interviews by Lydia Dotto to Steve Maclean from May 10, 1990, May 1991, and July 1992.

Research materials and annotations from press conferences and interviews. Includes astronaut press conferences; transcripts of interviews with Bruce Aikenhead, Robert Brent "Bob" Thirsk, and Robert Stewart; and photocopies of news stories written by Dotto about Thirsk.

One article from an unknown publication by Lydia Dotto titled "we can't believe your eyes: improving the accuracy of eyewitness evidence."

Book review for Lydia Dotto's book "losing sleep" by Stacey D'Erasmo from The Village Voice.

Short story Lydia Dotto entitled "A perfectly good watch."

Synopsis of a science fiction novel by Lydia Dotto titled "the whole truth about everything."

Book reviews, excerpts, and correspondence related to Lydia Dotto's book "asleep in the fast lane."

Published copies of Equinox: the magazine of Canadian discovery with Lydia Dotto's articles. Titles of articles are:

• "Gossamer Barnstormers" (undated),
• "Final Frontier" (No. 40, July/August 1988),
• "The seven second solution" (No. 109, March 2000),
• "Man on a mission" (No. 83, October 1995),
• "Dr. Kildare to outer space, please" (No. 101, November 1998).

Published copies of University of Toronto Magazine with Lydia Dotto's articles. Titles of articles are:

• "Coping with crisis" (Winter 1994),
• "Alter egos sharing confusion" (Summer 1991),
• "Canola - A Canadian success story" (Winter 1987),
• "Virtual perception with Plato spectacles" (Spring 1991),
• "The world of Emi: zappers and zappers" (Autumn 1990),
• "Dangerous holes in the sky above" (Autumn 1988),
• "Tomorrow's weather? Forecast modelling" (Summer 1990).

Digital copies of articles and reports written by Lydia Dotto in different media and for various organizations. Titles and media are:

• "Canada and The European Space Agency Three Decades of Cooperation" published by the European Space Agency (ESA) Publications Division (May 2002),
• "Long-distance surgery" in The Globe and Mail (April 21, 2018),
• "NASA group urges space station changes to save space science" in Nature, Volume 326 (April 2, 1987),
• "Canada's aviation medicine pioneers." Includes two copies, one published by the Canadian Space Agency; another one published in Flight Comment, issue 2 (2015) and reproduced and modified with permission from the Canadian Space Agency,
• "Canada's space medicine pioneers: Owen Coons," published by the Canadian Space Agency,
• "Outbreak: the climate connection" in The Globe and Mail (August 30, 2003).

Also contains a photograph of a screenshot with an excerpt from Harold Coward's Fifty years of religious studies in Canada : a personal retrospective with a mention to Dotto's work.

Printed calendar for the year 1987 with the topic "Canada in Space" published by the Canadian Astronaut Program.

Invitation for Lydia Dotto to attend an event at the New York Public Library for her book "planet Earth in jeopardy" being listed as one of the top books of the year for teens. Also includes a transcript of a speech that Lydia Dotto gave at Carleton based on the contents of the book, as well as correspondence related to the publishing of the book.

One envelope addressed to Lydia Dotto from Spacelab.

Materials relating to Lydia Dotto's book "Canada in Space," Includes invitations to the book launch, and information on Canadian astronauts.

One photograph of the opening of Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute in North York, Ontario. There is a picture of Garneau inset into the bottom right hand corner of the image.

Published copies of University of Toronto Magazine with Lydia Dotto's articles. Titles of articles are:

• "Nobel laureate John Polanyi" (Winter 1986),
• "Life in the fast track" (Autumn 1989),
• "The Mammography debate" by Lydia Dotto and Eva Klein (Winter 1993),
• "Never too thin" by Lydia Dotto and Eva Klein (Spring 1993),
• "Genome quest" (Summer 1995),
• "By your eyes only" (Spring 1990),
• "Space university not science fiction" (Spring 1988).

Materials related to Lydia Dotto's book Canada in space (1987). Includes newspaper clippings by and about Dotto from different media, press releases, book reviews, promotional events schedules and information, and related correspondence.

Media are Canadian Business (1986), content Magazine (1986), Dimensions (n.d.), Library Guild (n.d.), The Globe and Mail (1987), The Ottawa Citizen (1987), The Province (1987), The Charlatan from Carleton University (1987), Calgary Herald (1987), Quill & Quire (1987), Halifax Mail Star (n.d.), Financial Post (n.d.), _The Edmonton Journal) (1987), and other unidentified and undated.

Also includes a press release from TVOntario.

Cassette tape with the labels: Bob Thrisk and Von Koughnett.

Cassette tapes with Lydia Dotto's appearances on the CBC radio show Morningside.

Programme for the Women's Press Club of Toronto anniversary gala, held April 11, 1986. The gala honoured Lydia Dotto among others.

Cassette tape with the labels: humans in space panel, McEvans, CBC Star Wars, Parvez Kumar, Parnas (SDI).

Audio cassette tapes containing recordings of interviews with astronauts performed by Lydia Dotto.

Press site pass for Lydia Dotto for the STS-41-G space shuttle mission.

Originals and photocopies of articles by Lydia Dotto published in different media in the year 1984. Media are The Globe and Mail, Information Technology, Circle, The DMR Letter, Quest, Grauate: the University of Toronto Alumni Magazine, Doctor's Access, and The Journal published by the Addiction Research Foundation.

Cassette tape with the first Canadian astronaut and shuttle inquiry on the CBC programme Morningside.

Two photographs of Lydia Dotto during a zero gravity training flight at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas.

Award given to Lydia Dotto by the Canadian Science Writers' Association for outstanding journalism in science and society.

Published copies of magazines with articles by Lydia Dotto. Titles of articles are:

• "Take off, eh?" in Quest. Canada's Urban Magazine (May 1984),
• "The chosen few: selecting Canada's first astronauts" in Wardar. The Magazine of Wardair Canada (Fall 1987),
• "Canada's space robots: going boldly where humans can't" in Engineering Dimensions (Vol. 12, No. 2, March/April 1991).

One news media pass for Lydia Dotto for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Two signed photographs and 4 snapshots of Christ Hadfield, as well as a signed photograph and a snapshot of the 1984 Space Team Canada.

Transcript of an interview with Dr. Joseph Kerwin, Senior Vice President, Wyle Laboratories.

Sandford Fleming medal awarded to Lydia Dotto by the Royal Canadian Institute for outstanding contributions to the public understanding of science.

Originals and photocopies of articles by Lydia Dotto published in different media in the year 1983. Media are Canadian Business, Doctor's Review, Quest, Canadian Geographic, en Route Magazine, Information Technology, City Woman, and Science Link.

Includes a program and printed speech delivered by Dotto at "A microcomputer conference for women" (Toronto, September 26 to 28, 1983) in which Lydia Dotto participated as a Luncheon Speaker. And program for "The age of microchips: the next five years" (Toronto, July 28 to August 1, 1983) where Dotto participated in the panel "Moral issues - who controls "progress"? Who pays the social cost?"

One photograph of Lydia Dotto and colleagues standing in front of a large satellite dish in front of the ROM. The satellite was the idea of Dotto who arranged for the 1983 Canadian Science Writers' Association conference to be a teleconference. The conference was linked to six other cities across the country.

The Royal Canadian Institute Sandford Fleming Medal given to Lydia Dotto in recognition of outstanding achievements in promoting knowledge and understanding of science amongst Canadians.

Originals and photocopies of articles by Lydia Dotto published in different media. Media are The Graduate (1982), Equinox: the magazine of Canadian discovery (1982), en Route Magazine (1982), Canadian Business (1982), Business Journal (1982), CIPS Review (1982), Quest (1982), and others unidentified and undated.

Published copies of Challenges. Ontario's business: issues & opportunities magazine with Lydia Dotto's articles. Titles of articles are:

• "Smart systems" (Winter 1982),
• "Climate change put the heat on Ontario" (Spring 1989),
• "Terminal illnesses" (Spring 1990),
• "Anytime, anywhere" (Fall 1989).

Published copies of magazines with Lydia Dotto's articles. Magazines and titles of articles are:

• "Coping with journalists after mastering space" in Content for Canadian Journalists (November/December 1986),
• "Living in space" in Dimensions: Canada's Science Newsmagazine (January 1987),
• Annonymous articles about Canada in Space in Canadian Science & Technology (Fall 1994),
• "Deep Sea geological excitement" in Graduate. The University of Toronto Alumni Magazine (Volume XI, No. 3, January/February 1984),
• "Coming down to Earth" in Business Journal (April 1982),
• Annonymous articles in Exploring the human dimension. Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities (Fall 1994),
• "Proof of consequences" in Alternatives Journal (Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 2000).

Originals and photocopies of articles by Lydia Dotto published in different media. Media are Legion Magazine (1980), Canadian Business (1980), Canadian Geographic (1980), ComputerData (1980), en Route Magazine (1980), In Search (1980), and others unidentified and undated.

One news media pass from NASA for the first mission of the Space Shuttle.

Science journalism award given to Lydia Dotto by the Canadian Science Writers' Association. Also includes a photograph of Lydia Dotto receiving the award.

Appreciation award given to Lydia Dotto by the Canadian Science Writers' Association on their tenth anniversary year.

Unknown patch showing a pair of wings with a maple leaf flag in the middle.

National Magazine Awards RBW Awards for Science and Technology awarded to Lydia Dotto.

Photocopies of published editions of Science Weekly (1981) and Canadian Science (1985-1992) of which Lydia Dotto was executive editor along with Harold Schiff. Some editions contain articles by Dotto.

Published reports written by Lydia Dotto. Titles of reports are:

• "The industrialization of space. A report by Lydia Dotto for Allenvest Group Limited" (1995),
• "Science communications framework for Environment Canada. Prepared for Environment Canada S&T Advisory Board Working Group on Science Communications" (2000),
• "The microelectronics revolution. A study for Housser & Co. Limited by Lydia Dotto" (1980).
• "Canada and the European Space Agency Three Decades of Cooperation" (2002).

Cassette tape labeled McElroy and Sagan.

Cassette tape with Lydia Dotto's interviews on CBC shows including on space, sleep, climate and nuclear winter.

National Magazine Awards honourable mention for RBW Awards for Science and Technology given to Lydia Dotto.

Originals and photocopies of articles by Lydia Dotto published in different media. Media are Legion Magazine (1980), Canadian Business (1980), Canadian Geographic (1980), ComputerData (1980), en Route Magazine (1980), In Search (1980), and others unidentified and undated.

Published copies of publications with articles written by Lydia Dotto. Titles of articles are:

• "Scientific problems" in Farewell to the 70s (1979),
• "Canadian flexes Canadarm muscles" in Spar Horizons (1995),
• "Commercialization poses ethical challenges" in Impact, published by Ryerson University (2006),
• "Canada and U.S. got warmer and wetter during the 20th Century" in CBC News (2000).

Also includes two published copies of The Capsule (1991 and 1992) published by Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute with articles about Dotto.

Materials related to Lydia Dotto's participation in conferences and events. Includes scripts for the "Couchiching Conference on the Social Impact of Microcomputers" (July 30, 1983), the "Canadian Global Change Program" (August 1, 1990), "Space Business" (April 30, 1984), and one unidentified.

Contains a photograph of a media visit to the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine (DCIEM), and two photographs of Katheleen Campbell presenting the Ministry of State for Science and Technology Award to Dotto.

Also includes the RBW Award for Science and Technology from the National Magazine Awards Foundation to Lydia Dotto in 1979.

Originals and photocopies of articles by Lydia Dotto published in different media. Media are Canadian Aviation (1978), Canadian Business (1978, 1979), Legion Magazine (1978, 1979), Science Forum (1978), en Route Magazine (1979), Canadian Geographic (1979), and others unidentified and undated.

Published copies of Science Forum Magazine for the year 1978. Copies include articles by Lydia Dotto. Titles of articles are:

• "Made-to-order weather" (Vol. 11, No. 1, May-June 1978),
• "Science confronts 'pseudo-science'" (Vol. 11, No. 2, July-August, 1978),
• "The Ozone War: dispatch from the front" (Vol. 11, No. 2, July-August, 1978),
• "Satellites" (Vol. 11, No. 3, September-October, 1978),
• "The great nuclear debate" (Vol. 11, No. 4, November-December, 1978).

Also contains articles by journalist Joan Hollobon.

Articles by Lydia Dotto on the ozone layer, as well as reviews and correspondence relating to her book of the same name.

Materials related to Lydia Dotto's books and publications. Includes newspaper clippings by and about Dotto from different media, book reviews, related correspondence.

Media are The Citizen (1978), Canadian Geographic (1988), The Prince George Citizen (1993), The Globe and Mail (1999), The Winnipeg Sun (1999), The Edmonton Journal (1999), The Toronto Star (1999), Canadian Space Gazette (1996), Publishers Weekly (1991), Kirkus Reviews (1990), Update (1993), and other unidentified and undated.

Books reviewed are:

• The Ozone War (1978),
• Thinking the unthinkable: civilization and rapid climate change (1988),
• The astronauts: Canada's voyageurs in space (1993),
• Storm warning: gambling with the climate of our planet (1999),
• Losing sleep: how your sleeping habits affect your life (1990),
• Blue Planet: a portrait of Earth (1991),
• Asleep in the fast lane: the impact of sleep on work (1990),
• Ethical choices and global climate warming (1993).

Materials related to Lydia Dotto's and Harold Schiff's book The Ozone War (1978). Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings by and about the book in different media, book reviews, press releases.

Media are Palo Alto Times (1979), American Meteorological Society (1979), Nature (1979), Family Focus (1978), The Ottawa Citizen (1978), New Scientist (1978), The Morning Call (1978), The Futurist (1980), The Toronto Star (1993), Peterborough Examiner (1990-1993), The New York Times (1990), Waterloo Chronicle (1990), Nuclear Journal of Canada (1988), The Daily Mercury (1990), London Free Press (1990), Ottawa Journal (1978), The Chronicle Review (1978), The Vancouver Sun (1978), Yorkgazette (n.d.), Washington Post (1978), Sunday Charleston (1978), Macon Telegraph & News (1978), South Bend Tribune (1978), and others unidentified and undated.

Includes a press release for Storm warning: gambling with the climate of our planet (1999) in the News from Doubleday (1999).

Article by Lydia Dotto for an untitled publication titled "Oil gusher beneath Arctic ice sends chill up drillers' spines."

One press pass for the Space Shuttle Enterprise free flight.

Lydia Dotto's private pilot's licence for single engine day flying, a certificate of her first solo flight, her licence validation certificate, and her restricted radiotelephone operator's certificate. All documents are in a small private pilot's licence case.