Order of Canada - Statement "A Community of Dreams"

A statement by Peter C. Newman asking Order of Canada recipients if they will help promote a unified Canadian identity by endorsing a statement of intent with their names in advertisements in the Globe and Mail and Le Devoir.

Congratulatory letter from George Backus

Congratulatory letter from George Backus, President, Ontario Society of Artists, on behalf of the OSA, to Doris McCarthy for having received the Order of Canada, sent on March 12, 1987, from Toronto, ON.

Recent Oil Paintings and Watercolours

Exhibition held at The Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Features a reproduction of "Iceberg Image #1" on front and "Neighbors at Change Island" on back.

Selected Work

Exhibition held at Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario. Features small reproductions of "Overnight Snow," "Fall," and "Sketch (Georgian Bay)."

A Fool in Paradise: An Artist's Early Life

Book launch invitation for Doris McCarthy's memoir, held at the Wynick/Tuck Gallery in Toronto, Ontario.

Paintings of the Arctic: Doris McCarthy

Invitation to preview and exhibition "Paintings of the Arctic: Doris McCarthy" at Merton Gallery.

Letter to Doris McCarthy's father from her maternal grandfather

A letter from Doris McCarthy's maternal grandfather, Archie Moffatt, to her father, George A. McCarthy, regarding his second proposal to Doris' mother and his consent. Sent from Montreal, June 18, 1900. Letter reads: "Montreal. My dear Mr. McCarthy I have to apologize for my apparent neglect in not replying to your letter of the 10th more promptly but the question put is so serious that it must be my excuse for taking time to deliberate and consult - In my mind an engagement is as serious and binding as marriage and the interest of my daughter, for whom my love cannot be expressed in words, demands that it should not be lightly entered upon or without serious reflection. While I really appreciate the honor you for a second time confer on me I regret you have not taken me more into your confidence respecting your worldly prospects for as I told you six months ago that was the only reason I had in hesitating to give my consent; for while I have the fullest confidence in your honor and good intentions. I know that young people are over sanguine and hopeful and consider the sentimental side of such a question rather than the material which I am sorry to say after all is the most enduring. However to relieve you from suspense, I give my consent, but I hope you will not misunderstand me. If I ask you to write me more fully on the above subject and to regard me always as your friend and well wisher. AW Moffatt."

Handbook for Fool's Paradise

Caretaking directions and historical information about Fool's Paradise.

The Order of Canada, 25th Anniversary Gala

Program pamphlet for the Order of Canada, 25th Anniversary Gala at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto, ON, on Sunday October 18, 1992, attended by Doris McCarthy.

Letter of congratulations from Thomas Seniw

A congratulatory letter for the Order of Canada in which the artist Thomas Seniw also discusses religious influences on his art, and Doris McCarthy's work "Iceberg Fantasy." This letter was sent on April 30, 1987, from McGill University, Faculty of Religious Studies, Montreal, Quebec.