This fonds consists of three accessions of digital material from the creator. The first accession (A09-64) is 2 DVDs of the transcripts of “The T.G. Hamilton Files”; the second (A10-79) is 2 sets of 10 DVDs (7 video discs, 2 text and image discs, and 1 text disc) of “The T.G. Hamilton Files (2010)”; the third (A15-60) is a hard drive containing several .mp4 video recordings, mostly documentary films about life after death, completed in 2015.

This collection is comprised of one series: National Research Centre Bid Committee supporting records (MSS 407, EL 72)

The collection has remained in its original order.

The fonds is entirely focused on the creation of the National Research Centre on Indian Residential Schools Proposal by the University of Manitoba’s National Research Centre Bid Committee to obtain the records of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. The subject matter of the records includes: privacy, access and intellectual property; legal agreements and settlement agreements; mandate of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; past and present Aboriginal presence on campus; Aboriginal representation samples; Residential Schools in Canada: locations, research, intergenerational suffering; Aboriginal presence within other University or cultural heritage institutions. The records are in the following various formats: newspaper clippings, emails, settlement agreements, mandates, pamphlets, booklets, drawings, talks, drafts, statistics, reports, letters, invitations, agenda and meeting minutes, budgets, research, maps, funding applications, proposals, and two DVD’s.

Programs and correspondence relating to awards and prizes for which Reading by Lightning was nominated.

Catalogues from Goose Lane Editions from 2009, 2010, and 2011.

Notes from Thomas's addresses to book clubs and other small groups.

Email correspondence relating to prizes and freelance writing.

Correspondence regarding the 2009 Commonwealth Prize.

Correspondence with McClelland & Stewart fiction publisher Ellen Seligman regarding the publication of Curiosity. Also includes a synopsis of the novel, a letter from Stefan Pleszczynski expressing interest in adapting Curiosity into a film and a questionnaire about the book filled out by Thomas.