It is Canada’s only collection of its kind that is open to general public as well as the academic community. Today the Toronto Public Library’s collection of speculative fiction is said to be Canada’s largest, as well as one of the finest in the world. She was also a commentator on radio and TV shows, including Dr. She founded the Hydra North network of science fiction writers in Toronto and was involved in the Writers’ Union and the Canadian peace movement from the mid-1970s until her death in Toronto in 1997. She organized and promoted science fiction in Canada and mentored its writers. Merril, who became a Canadian citizen in 1976, was an active member of Toronto’s writing community.
One year later, in 1970, she would donate the Spaced Out Library and its 5,000 items to the Toronto Public Library. She founded the Rochdale library, which later was called the Spaced Out Library. Merril became known as Rochdale’s resource person in publishing and writing.
Merril taught nondegree subjects in exchange for room and board at the free university, which was an experiment in student-run education and co-operative learning. She settled into Rochdale College, the 18-storey hippie haven at Bloor and Huron Sts. As the Vietnam War raged on, science-fiction author and editor Judith Merril - disgusted with the violence hurled against anti-war demonstrators during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago - packed her books and bags and immigrated to Canada.Īlready well-respected in the science-fiction writing world, Merril was in her mid-40s when she landed in Toronto in 1969 with an extensive personal collection of books and unpublished manuscripts of science fiction.
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