File consists of personal and professional correspondence to and from James Downey, living at that time in Waterloo, Ont. Includes many greeting cards.

File consists of a briefing book belonging to James Downey relating to his activities as Commissioner on the New Brunswick Commission on Excellence in Education, established in 1991 by Premier Frank McKenna.

File consists of personal and professional correspondence to and from James Downey, living at that time in Waterloo, Ont. Includes correspondence addressed toJames Downey in his capacity as President of the University of Waterloo. Includes a many greeting cards.

File consists of James Downey's file of speeches and speech drafts and notes, in his capacity as President of the University of Waterloo.

File consists of photocopies of speeches, speech notes, presentations by James Downey in his capacity as President of the University of Waterloo. Includes a table of contents.

File consists of a small bound book given to James Downey upon his leaving his position at the University of Waterloo. Includes signed ts. (computer output) letters from colleagues.

File consists of 12 items of correspondence between James Downey and Chet Campbell, Chairman of the UNB Board of Governors. Also includes materials from Campbell's children and wife regarding his death and funeral.

Tables of contents and lists of speeches and papers written and presented by James Downey between the years 1980 and 1999. Contains lists with title and date of publication or address of writings.

File consists of three address and telephone booklets.

File consists of James Downey's file of speeches and speech drafts and notes, in his capacity as President of the University of Waterloo.

Series consists of speeches, speech notes, briefs, presentations and reviews, by James Downey, most in his official capacity as President of the University of New Brunswick and the University of Waterloo. Some have Downey's ms. notes and corrections. Some pieces are photocopies; some are original tss.

File consists of speeches and presentations by James Downey in his capacity as President of the University of Waterloo, computer output. Includes a table of contents.

Series is comprised of memorabilia created and accumulated by James Downey. Includes two books of notes given to Downey by colleagues.

File consists of the fall 1999 edition of UNB Alumni News. The edition includes a transcript of a speech given by James Downey in honour of Colin B. Mackay.

James Downey’s commonplace book for some years in the 1990s. Includes general notes, notes for talks and conferences, extracts from correspondence, and quotations from different authors.
Contains handwritten annotations on margins.

File consists of speeches by James Downey, some in his capacity as President of the University of Waterloo, most computer output.

File consists of twenty six miscellaneous correspondence from James Downey when he was teaching at the University of Georgia. Correspondents include:

• Anderson, Wyatt;
• Bauman Rare Books;
• Bobak, Molly;
• Davison, Fred;
• Dyer, Tom and Anna;
• Eastman, Donald;
• Elder, Bob;
• Freedman, Aviva;
• Lukezic, Elizabeth;
• McDonald, Larry;
• Mitchell, Paul;
• Pach, Joseph;
• Pereira, Maria;
• Shallit, Jeffrey;
• Shantz, Susan;
• Simpson, Ed;
• Simpson, Ronald;
• Speir, E.G.;
• Thomas, Emory;
• Young, Ingrid.

File consists of seven items of correspondence between James Downey and Hewlett Packard (Canada) relating to Downey's time as a member of the Board of Directors.

File consists of ninety five items of correspondence between James Downey and Anne Martin. Includes a CV and materials relating to a project that the two worked on of an edition of "The Sermons of Mr. Yorick" by Laurence Sterne. Also includes correspondence to others involved with the Sterne project, and academic materials relating to Anne Martin.

File consists of fifty two items of miscellaneous personal correspondence between James Downey and others for the years 1999-2000. Correspondents include: Adam, Stuart; Archer, Kate; Beattie, Lorraine; Bird, Phil; Butt, Arthur; Campbell, Douglas; Clark, Ian; Cook, John; Cowan, Ann; Flagg, Mary; Frampton, Ethel; Gaulin, Michel; George, Peter; Giroux, Robert; Globe and Mail; Globus, Swani & Morton; Green, Bert; Higgins, Michael; Kalbfleisch, Jim; Konrad, Helmut; Lynch, David; Maymusson, Lynne; McKane, Paul; Milne-Smith, Carol & Ian; Mitchell, Paul D.; Mogridge, Behill; Morris, Claire & John; Parr-Johnston, Elizabeth; Patterson, Stephen E.; Pereira, Maria C.; Piper, Martha; Rymes, Tom K.; Sevcik, Ken; Shantz, Susan; Sievwright, Georgia; Simpson, Ronald D.; Skibsrud, Johanna; Smith, Rev. Mary; Van Loon, Richard J.; Vinnicombe, Elizabeth; Wicks, Ed; Wiffen, Bob; Woerner, Anna; Zanna, Betsy.

File consists of thirty items of miscellaneous personal correspondence between James Downey and others for the years 1999-2000. Correspondents include: Aitken, Lady Violet; Banks, Robin & Marjory; Beckett, Barry; Blok-Anderson, Uffe & Sharon; Carragher, Bridie; Cavan, Rosemary; Claxton, Lois; The Ditchley Foundation; Dixon, Ross & Doris; Gavin, Rhonda; George, Alan; George, Peter; Golini, Vera; Green, Bert; H[?], Reuben; Johnston, Wayne; Kalbfleisch, Jim; Kerton, Robert & Bari; Lafonest, Gerry & Marie; MacLaughlin, Wade; Montague, Susan; Polonsky, Gary; Pond, Ron; Rees, Nicholas; Shantz, Susan; Sharp, Allan; Shaw, Robert; Trotter, Barb; White, Terrence.

James Downey’s commonplace book for December of 1999 and the year 2000. Includes general notes, notes for talks and conferences, extracts from correspondence, and quotations from different authors.
Contains handwritten annotations on margins.
Content is organized by date.

File consists of materials relating to the Association of Commonwealth Universities general conference in Ottawa in 1998. Includes programmes, speeches, and two copies of the A.C.U. Bulletin magazine, from 1998 and 2000.

File consists of ca. one hundred fifty items of correspondence from Colin & Mary Mackay to James Downey between the years 1997-2000. Note that correspondence from this time period may appear in other files.

File consists of three weekly calendars: one desk size, one from the Smithsonian Museum and one large desk planner.

File consists of ninety five items of correspondence between James Downey and Anne Martin. Includes a CV and materials relating to a project that the two worked on of an edition of "The Sermons of Mr. Yorick" by Laurence Sterne. Also includes correspondence to others involved with the Sterne project, and academic materials relating to Anne Martin.

File consists of forty items of miscellaneous correspondence between James Downey and others for the years 2000-2001. Correspondents include: Cavan, Rosemary; Crawford, Purdy; Cunningham, Pat; De la Daurantaye, Claire V.; Dixon, Ross and Doris; Flanagan, Frank and Rita; Ford, Christine Tausig; Golini, Vera; Graham, Mary; Greenberg, Joel; Higgins, Michael W.; Johnston, Ann Dowsett; Kieswette, Linda; Konrad, Helmut; Krupke, Emma; Lajeunesse, Claude; Leggett, William; Lithgow, Kathy, Vanessa and Rebecca; Lundy, Jim; Miller, Judith; Montague, Susan; O'Donovan, Val; Reid, Hugh; Robbins, K. Thomas; Rymes, Thomas Kenneth; Strangway, David; Wicks, Ed; Wu, Michael and Teresa.

File consists of seventy six items of miscellaneous correspondence between James Downey and others for the year 2001. Correspondents include:

• Aitken, Lady Violet;
• Anderson, John;
• Armitage, Howard;
• Barry, Michael H.;
• Berland, Kevin;
• Bird, J.W. Bud;
• Carty, Arthur J.;
• Chakma, Amit;
• Cook, Nancy;
• Currie, Richard J.;
• Davenport, Paul;
• De la Durantague, Claire V.;
• Dellandrea, J.S.;
• English, John;
• Foster, Florence;
• Gillham, Robert;
• Goodwin, Ed;
• Graham, Mary;
• Green, Irvin;
• Hallman, Lyle and Wendy;
• Heroux, M. Michel;
• Hiscock, Ethel and Ralph;
• Hnatyshyn, Ray and Gerda;
• Hobday, John;
• Kildaris, Fred;
• Konrad, Helmut;
• Krupke, Erma;
• Lemessurier, Bob;
• MacDonald, Alastair;
• Maiden, Colin and Jenefor;
• McCarthy, Sheila and Mac;
• McCutchan, Walter;
• Mitchell, Paul D.;
• Monkman, Julia;
• Nicholson, Doris;
• O'Donovan, Valentine;
• Parsons, June;
• Reid, Hugh;
• Saunders Bellingham, Susan;
• Simpson, Ronald;
• Strangway, David;
• Szathmary, Emoke J.E.;
• Talbot-Allan, Laura;
• Thayer Scott, Jacqueline;
• Thompson, John;
• Van Loon, Richard J.;
• W., Doug; Watts, Ronald L.;
• Wright, Janet;
• Wurtele, Douglas.

File consists of nine items of correspondence between James Downey and Mordecai Richler. Also includes a memoir written by Downey on Richler and related correspondence.

File consists of journals with articles or reviews by James Downey. Includes:

• University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 1976;
• Innovative Higher Education, Vol. 25 No. 4, Summer 2001;
• Acadiensis, Spring 1999;
• The Humanities Association Review, Vol. 25, No.2, Spring 1974;
• University of Toronto Quarterly Fall 1981;
• English Studies in Canada Vol. IV, No. 2, Summer 1978;
• University of Toronto Quarterly, Summer 1980.

File consists of material relating to "Issues Paper I: Schools for a New Century." Includes correspondence, reports, presentation, responses to the issues paper.

File consists of nine items of correspondence between James Downey and Jim Kalbfleisch. Also includes clippings relating to Jim Kalbfleisch.

File consists of items ca. one hundred three items of correspondence between James Downey, and Kenneth and Julia Monkman. Also includes articles on Shandy Hall and Sterne, as well as correspondence regarding the Shandy Hall Trust.

File consists of twenty eight items of correspondence between James Downey and David Richards. Also includes clippings and obituary notes.

James Downey’s commonplace book for the year 2001. Includes general notes, notes for talks and conferences, extracts from correspondence, and quotations from different authors.
Contains handwritten annotations on margins.
Content is organized by date.
Some pages are missing.

File consists of materials relating to James Downey's trip to Cyprus to receive the Symons Award from the Association of Commonwealth Universities. Includes correspondence between Downey and Dorothy Garland of the ACU.

File consists of tributes and eleven items of correspondence relating to the death of Ian Lithgow. Includes clippings and correspondence between James Downey and others regarding Lithgow's death, as well as three items of correspondence from Downey to Lithgow.

File consists of fifty seven items of correspondence between James Downey and Gordon Wood. Includes clippings, articles and other accompanying documentation.

File consists of one desk size and one pocket-size weekly appointment calendar.

File consists of a ts. (computer output) transcript of an interview with Harrison McCain, February 19, 2001.

File consists of five items of correspondence between James Downey and David Strangway. Also includes materials related to an essay project.

File consists of two items of correspondence between James Downey and Munro Beattie, chairman of the English Department at Carleton. Also includes biographical information on Munro Beattie.

Correspondents listed in file 56.

Correspondence received and sent by James Downey to his sisters. Most letters written by Downey are under the heading “Dear Sis.” Contains photocopies of photographs and related newspaper clippings.
Also includes a published copy of UHN, Caring Together: a newsletter for and about the staff of University Health Networ, Volume 6, Number 7 (February 18, 2002) and Volume 5, Number 29 (July 23, 2001); and ephemera related to the “Opening Ceremony of Commonwealth Universities 1998 General Conference.”

File consists of one desk size weekly appointment calendar.

File consists of materials related to the Initiative on the new Economy Advisory Committee chaired by James Downey. Includes reports and a presentation.

James Downey’s commonplace book for the year 2002. Includes general notes, notes for talks and conferences, extracts from correspondence, and quotations from different authors.
Contains handwritten annotations on margins.
Content is organized by date.

File consists of 2 items of correspondence relating to Anastasious Christodoulou as well as accompanying biographical materials.

File consists of two interviews with James Downey and Gilles Paquet conducted by Rick Holmes-Hayes. The interviews discuss the resignation of John Porter.

File consists of one hundred four items of miscellaneous correspondence between James Downey and others for the years 2001-2002. Correspondents include:

• Aitken, Lady Violet
• Astry, Sophia
• Christodoulou, Joan
• Claxton, Lois
• Cohen, Reuben
• Costello, Mark J.
• Cuff, Harry
• Dann, Moira
• Davenoprt, Paul
• Elder, Bobby
• Flinn, Tyson
• Giroux, Robert
• Graham, Kenneth
• Gunn, Maureen
• Hamer, Kathy
• Hallman, Lyle S.
• Heaney, Seamus
• Higgins, Michael
• Hnatyshyn, Ramon John
• Humby, Reuben
• Hunter, Robert J.
• John, David G.
• Kerr, Mike
• King, Everard H.
• Konrad, Helmut
• La Forest, Marie & Gerry
• Lynch, Mary Louise
• MacDonald, Alastair
• Maiden, Colin & Jenefor
• McLaughlin, John
• McQueen, Trina
• Migus, Doris
• Miller, Judith
• Montague, Susan
• Mouteon, Alice
• Moulton, Ed
• NB Sports Hall of Fame
• Ostry, Sylvia
• Pollock, Joyce
• Richards, Marilyn
• Saunders Bellingham, Susan
• Scott, Catherine
• Sedra, Adel
• Sehorn, Gerry
• Shepherd, Murray
• Simpson, Ronald
• Sims, Betty
• Stewart, James
• Sudal, Barbara
• Teron, Jean
• Thompson, Mary
• Yan, May.

File consists of ten items of correspondence relating to Tennis Canada. Also includes three annual reports.

File consists of the August 2002 edition of The Bulletin, the magazine of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. The edition includes a memorium article by James Downey titled "Anastasios Christodoulou: the very model of a Secretary General."

Series consists of files relating to consulting and advisory work by James Downey on behalf of provincial governments. James Downey was special advisor to the premier of New Brunswick from 1990 to 1993 and was co-chair of the Commission on Excellence in Education in New Brunswick. In 2003 he was appointed advisor to the Minister of Education on Ontario's Rural Education Strategy review. Includes correspondence, briefing notes, submissions, reports, clippings, publications and ephemera.

File consists of materials relating to James Downey's work with the Association of Universities and Colleges Canada on various panels and committees.

File consists of ca. two hundred fifty items of correspondence between Colin & Mary Mackay and James Downey between the years 1990-2003. Note that correspondence from this time period may appear in other files.

File consists of ca. three hundred items of correspondence from James Downey to Colin and Mary Mackay between the years 1990 and 2003. Note that this binder of correspondence was created by James Downey and that further correspondence from this time frame may be found in other files.

File consists of ca. three hundred items of correspondence from James Downey to Colin and Mary Mackay between the years 1990 and 2003. Note that this binder of correspondence was created by James Downey and that further correspondence from this time frame may be found in other files.

File consists of two tss. (computer output) of the 2003 David C. Smith lecture "Schools are us" delivered by James Downey upon his receiving the David C. Smith Award.

Series is comprised of works written by James Downey. Includes offprints of scholarly articles, articles published in university publications and materials related to his works on Sterne.

Fonds consists of material relating to activities and interests of James Downey from 1963 to 2004. The fonds contains biographical information, manuscripts and typescripts of his published works and speeches, "commonplace books," files relating to his various academic positions, files relating to consulting and advisory work on behalf of provincial governments. Includes appointment calendars, clippings, personal and professional correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts and typescripts, reports and research materials.

Also includes papers received from Florence Reid.

Series consists of daily and weekly appointment calendars, as well as weekly schedules, belonging to James Downey.

File consists of one binder assembled by James Downey relating to his activities as Advisor on Rural Education Strategy, a position to which he was appointed on May 1, 2003 by Elizabeth Witmer, Deputy Premier and Minister of Education for Ontario. Includes a copyof the final report.

File consists of teaching notes and notes about students in classes taught by James Downey at the University of Waterloo.

File consists of materials relating to the rural education review for 2003. Includes ts. of the report, research information, correspondence and a map.

File consists of twenty items of correspondence between James Downey and Eric Garland, Associate Vice President Administration at University of New Brunswick. Includes correspondence regarding Eric Garland and his death, and a CV.

File consists of ca. one hundred fifty items of correspondence between Colin & Mary Mackay and James Downey between the years 1980-2003. Also includes materials relating to the death of Colin Mackay. Note that correspondence from this time period may appear in other files.

File consists of an advisory report to Simon Fraser University written by James Downey and James Kalbfleisch. Also includes correspondence between James Downey and Michael Stevenson regarding the report.

File consists of ca. two hundred fifty items of correspondence between Colin & Mary Mackay and James Downey between the years 1990-2003. Note that correspondence from this time period may appear in other files.

File consists of ca. three hundred items of correspondence from James Downey to Colin and Mary Mackay between the years 1990 and 2003. Note that this binder of correspondence was created by James Downey and that further correspondence from this time frame may be found in other files.

File consists of forty three items of correspondence between James Downey and others for the year 2003. Correspondents include:

• Aitken, Lady Violet
• Charette, Brent
• Clark, Ian D.
• Cuff, Harry
• de Jocas, Michel
• Eaton, Fred
• Elder, Bobby
• Hamer, Kathryn
• Harding, Robert J,
• Hartman, Norman
• Koen, Lorne
• Keonick, Wayne
• Kilbride, Helen
• Montague, Susan
• Murdock, Ian
• Ruben, Allen
• Shepherd, Murray
• Simpson, Ron & Charlotte
• Strople, Stephen
• Tausig Ford, Christine
• Teron, Jean
• Thompson, John
• Tucker, Mary
• University of Waterloo
• Walker, Bud
• Wills, Jenny
• Witmer, Elizabeth
• Woerner, Anna.

File consists of the December 2003 edition of University Affairs. The edition includes an article by James Downey title "The Heart of our Enterprise."

File consists of one desk size weekly appointment calendar.

Series consists of notebooks or "commonplace books" kept by James Downey between 1986 and 2003. Includes ms. check lists, aide-memoires, speech notes, meeting notes, letter drafts, clippings, ephemera, snapshots.

File consists of the spring 2003 edition of UNB Alumni News. The edition includes an article by James Downey titled "Beaverbrook's Choice" on the appointment of Colin B. Mackay.

File consists of materials relating to a special meeting of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony that was chaired by James Downey. Includes a clipping, voting information, agendas, and a transcript of opening remarks.

Series consists of James Downey's files relating to friend and former student, Florence Reid. Includes correspondence to and from Florence Reid, clippings, manuscripts, tss., photographs, etc.

File consists of two items of correspondence between James Downey and Peter Sims. Also includes an interview with Downey on Sims, a tribute to Sims and biographical information.

James Downey’s commonplace book for the years 2003 and 2004. Includes general notes, notes for talks and conferences, extracts from correspondence, quotations from different authors, and the reproduction of a photograph from December 1961 with two children and an adult.
Contains handwritten annotations on margins.
Content is organized by date.
Also includes materials related to the “Wedding ceremony,” a “Toast to the Bride” speech, and a “Toast to the groom’s parents, Jim and Laura by Allen Ruben” for Geoffrey Downey and Krista Flieger (August 2, 2003), with photocopies of photographs from the ceremony.

File consists of correspondence (originals and copies) between James Downey and Florence Reed. Includes snapshots, newspaper clippings, ephemera, greeting cards, tss. of writing by Florence Reid.

File consists of the The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Governance and Management Review Report published by James Downey, October 2004.

File consists of the Institutional quality review of the University of Limerick: EUA Reviewer's Report, published by the European University Association Institutional Evaluation Program in November, 2004.

File consists of fifty eight items of correspondence between James Downey and Harrison McCain. Also includes correspondence with other members of the McCain family, and accompanying materials.

File consists of ca. one hundred fifty items of correspondence between James Downey and Otto Tucker between 1980-2005.

File consists of ca. two hundred items of correspondence from Cyril F. Poole to James Downey between 2001-2005.

File consists of a report prepared by James Downey on the review of the agreement amongst Durham College, The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) and Trent University. The final report includes introductory remarks, a briefing note, terms of reference, text of the agreement, report of the external examiner of UOIT and the memorandum of agreement.

File consists of one report published by James Downey titled "Review of the Agreement Between the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Trent University."

File consists of five items of correspondence between James Downey and Valentine O'Donovan. Also includes correspondence relating to O'Donovan and his death, and a written tribute.

File consists of ca. two hundred items of correspondence from Cyril F. Poole to James Downey between 2001-2005.

File consists of ca. one hundred fifty items of correspondence between James Downey and Otto Tucker between 1980-2005.

James Downey’s commonplace book for the year 2005. Includes general notes, notes for talks and conferences, extracts from correspondence, and quotations from different authors.
Contains handwritten annotations on margins.
Content is organized by date.