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After five decades in activism, city-building and community planning, University of Toronto alumna Ceta Ramkhalawansingh has amassed an impressive collection of local history – and she is donating some of it to her alma mater. 

So far, Ramkhalawansingh – who co-founded the first women’s studies program at ��˾��ֱ�� in 1971 and was one of its first lecturers – has shipped off 30 cartons of records to the ��˾��ֱ�� Archives and 17 boxes of feminist-theory and Caribbean-studies books to the New College library, .

“My big pandemic project has been trying to make that knowledge and information available and not lost,” Ramkhalawansingh told the Star.

Ceta Ramkhalawansingh (centre) at ��˾��ֱ�� in 1975 (photo by Robert Lansdale/University of Toronto Archives)

In 2020, 50 years after creating the women’s studies program, Ramkhalawansingh was celebrated for establishing the Ceta Ramkhalawansingh Scholarship to support students in the at ��˾��ֱ��.  She said at the time that she “never really left ��˾��ֱ��” and continues to give back to the community through her current project.

“If I could make a contribution to increasing that knowledge,” she told the Star, “I’m more than happy to spend the time doing it.”