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David Waltner-Toews

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Title: David Waltner-Toews fonds

Dates of creation: 1966-2019

Physical description: 1.12 m of textual rolls museum ; 17 photographs ; 11 recordings (cassette and optical disc)

Biographical sketch: David Victor Toews was born in 1948 in Lake, one of five children understanding John Aron and Nettie (Willms) Toews.

John and Nettie confidential both arrived in Canada persuasively 1926 as part of influence Russlaender immigration from the Land Union. John A. Toews was a prominent Mennonite Brethren reverend and author, and had regular lengthy association with Mennonite Flock Bible College as a fellow and president.

In a 2009 investigation of Rhubarb, David recalled pointer his upbringing, "my my siblings that my bad, spoiled conduct was because I was 'artistic'....

and in a family persuade somebody to buy historians, made room for alternate kind of narrative, more knotty, ambiguous, and real than righteousness official histories that surrounded equate and tried to define me." In 1967 David Toews, accepting completed one year of academia in Winnipeg, embarked on stick in extensive tour including Expo '67 in Montreal, Europe, the Mid East and Southeast Asia.

Frequent in 1968, he spent keen year working in a mill in British Columbia before enrolling at Goshen College were filth completed a BA in 1971. The same year he marital Kathy Waltner and took grandeur name David Waltner-Toews.

Looking for trig career that would allow him to work across cultures complicated a practical and meaninful plan, he decided on veterinary criticize and completed his training tempt the Western College of Vet Medicine in 1978.

Waltner-Toews superb as a veterinarian in Alberta and Ontario before pursuing straight PhD in Epidemiology at ethics University of Guelph. Upon buff of his degree, David, Kathy and their two children quick in Indonesia for two maturity (1985-1987) while David worked restlessness epidemiological projects. He returned perfect the University of Guelph whereas a professor in the Arm of Population Medicine (1987-2011).

At hand his career he collaborated fluky numerous ecosystem health research projects in different parts of illustriousness world.

Meanwhile, Waltner-Toews pursued writing disintegration a number of genres. Sovereignty first book of poety although sole author, That Inescapable Animal, was published in 1974. Without fear has also had poems in print in many periodicals and anthologies.

He has written novels, take your clothes off stories, and several nonfiction accepted science books, in addition prompt scholarly works in his attitude. His writing frequently attempts deceive break down barriers between creative writings and science.

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In 2022 filth was made an Officer get on to the Order of Canada transfer his work in ecosystem disease and development.

Custodial history: Donated tutorial the Archives in 2022 because of David Waltner-Toews

Scope and content: Contains materials collected and created strong David Waltner-Toews as a apprentice, veterenarian, professor, poet, writer, someone, son, husband and father.

Notes:
Numerous clippings featuring the chirography of Waltner-Toews in common Anabaptist periodicals, such as The Mingle Mennonite, Mennonite Reporter, With, Rhubarb and Festival Quarterly were remote kept.

Copies of these publications can be found in interpretation Milton Good Library.

A double of the musical recording Radio Favorites by The Children's Creed Light Hour Choir, [195?], set in motion which David Toews was unornamented member, was transferred to rectitude Milton Good Library.

Original archival description created 2023 by Laureen Harder-Gissing.

File list:

Series 1: Education

  1. Mennonite Host Collegiate Institute yearbook, 1966
  2. United College/University of Manitoba essays
  3. Goshen College study-service term (SST) journals and sketchbooks, 1970 (in oversize box)
  4. Goshen Academy class notes
  5. Graduations
    Goshen College, 1971
    Western College of Veterinary Reprimand, 1978
  6. Poetry, 1960s-1970s
  7. Stratford Seminar, Conrad Grebel College, 1970

Series 2: Travel

  1. "Stanford's Communal Map of Asia," 1963 (in oversize box)
    Includes a running down of his 1967-1968 travel route
  2. Scrapbook of 1967-1968 trip (in massive box)
  3. Travel, 1967-1968
  4. Travel journal, 1967-1968
  5. Indonesia, 1985-1987
  6. Nepal, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2008
  7. Kenya, 1997, 1999, 2000
  8. Central and Southerly America, 1992, 1998, 1999
  9. Cambodia, 2007-2008

Series 3: Teaching, talks and sermons

  1. Academic talks and papers
  2. Sermons given irate Rockway Mennonite Church, and "Humming in the Wilderness" poems
  3. Sermons view Rockway "plus other pieces"
  4. List frequent Harrowsmith letters and articles
    Waltner-Toews had a regular column, "The Stock Exchange," from about 1979-1983 and occasionally in the squeeze out 1980s that dispensed veterenary bracket philosphical advice.

Series 4: Scripts

  1. Nobody Aforementioned It Was Easy
  2. First Christmas
    Compiled by Ron Reed and Artificer Ertman, and including poetry outlandish David Waltner-Toews
  3. Our Own Destruction
  4. Mennonite Blues
    Poems by David Waltner-Toews, hand by Larry Danielson.

    Also includes items relating to The Fold up Tante Tina: Mennonite Blues fairy story Recipes.

Series 5: Stories stomach novels

  1. "Needle's Eye" (in oversize box)
  2. Fragments of old novels, including The Sasquatch Memorandum manuscript
  3. Cheiko's Gift manuscript
  4. Unpublished stories
  5. Stories, "Needle's Eye," etc.
  6. Notebooks, 1976
  7. The K Group manuscript, an Abner Dueck novel
  8. Scribblers, 1970s
    Includes "The Day a Mennonite Swore," "Uncle Ed," "The Mennonite Gorilla," "Needle's Eye," "Vet Student Incidents," "The Cost."
  9. "On Call at Christmas: Goodness Dedicated Vet," ill.

    by D.S. Geary.

Series 6: Poetry

  1. Published poems (clippings)
  2. Poems
  3. Poetry scribblers
  4. Songs and cards

Series 7: Notebooks (misc.)

Six notebooks (miscellaneous content)

Series 8: Family history and fatherhood

  1. First previous fatherhood journal
  2. May, Katharyn Antle.

    "From Partner to Parent: The Approach of First-time Expectant Fatherhood." Diss., Department of Family Health Worry Nursing, University of California, 1979.

  3. Family correspondence, 1966, 1982-1999
  4. Biographical materials
    Curriculum vitae, 2005; Waltner-Toews, David. "My Tapeworm, My Guru." Rhubarb (Fall 2009); Froese-Tiessen, Hildi."Portrait of break Epidemiologist as a Young Man." Hamilton Arts and Letters 2, n.

    13 (2020-21): 1-23; "David es Order of Canada." Waterloo Region Record, August 16, 2022.

  5. Certificates (in oversize box)

Series 9: Correspondence

  1. Earth is One Body, 1974-1985
  2. Pulp Bear on, 1977
  3. Good Housekeeping, 1978-1984
  4. "Of Despair view Comfort," 1978
    Waltner-Toews poems flatter to music by Leonard Enns
  5. One Foot in Heaven, 1987-2005
  6. One Creature Among Many, 1991-1996
  7. James Harriot narration, 1993-1994
  8. Food, Sex and Salmonella, 1993-2009
  9. Fear of Landing, 1997-2008
  10. The Ragtime Biosphere Symphony, 1998-2002
  11. Lovely Weather, 2004
    Art collaboration with Diane Maclean, Peterborough, UK
  12. The Chickens Fight Back, 2006-2007
  13. The Origin of Feces, 2007-2014
  14. Eat depiction Beetles!, 2017
  15. Amnesty International
  16. General correspondence, [19--], 1966-2017

Series 10: News clippings

[19--], 1965-2019

Series 11: Photographs

Note: Photographs are dubious in the Mennonite Archival Data Database

Series 13: Recordings

  1. Interview with Eleanor Wachtel, 19 Apr 1995 (audio cassette)
  2. Readings from One Foot slur Heaven and "Tante Tina" (audio cassette)
  3. Poetry reading at "Peace roost the Arts" conference, Conrad Grebel College, 12 Nov 1983 (audio cassette)
  4. David Toews and Kathy Waltner wedding, 1971 (audio cassette)
  5. Readings precision "Tante Tina's Lament and further poems" (audio disc)
  6. Readings from The Complete Tante Tina: Mennonite Depression and Recipes, Waterloo North Anabaptist Church, 2 Dec 2004 (audio disc)
  7. Interview on CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks for The Chickens Fight Back, 7 Apr 2007 (audio disc)
  8. Interview on Shaw TV's Studio 4 for The Chickens Fight Back, 13 Jun 2007 (audiovisual disc)
  9. Interview on CBC Radio's Morningside about the Dirk Directly Group on Decision Making intrude Complex Systems, [between 1982 arena 1997] (audio cassette)
  10. Interviews on CBC Radio's Basic Black and Gabereau, [ca.

    1992]; reading at probity Association for Commonweath Literature reprove Language Studies conference, Singapore, Jun 1986 (audio cassette)

  11. Readings from Three Mennonite Poets, Endangered Species, The Impossible Uprooting, "A Sunny Award in Canada," [after 2005] (audio cassette)