Robert S. Kenny
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Robert ("Bert") S. Kenny (1905-1993) was a member of the Communist Party of Canada, and an avid collector of books, documents, and other materials pertaining to the radical and labour movements, particularly in Canada.
Kenny was born of Irish descent in Lindsay, Ontario. He graduated in Toronto from Riverdale Collegiate Institute. Kenny began to collect materials on radicalism in the thirties.
His immense collection of approximately 25,000 items, the Robert S. Kenny Collection or "Kenny Collection", now resides in the University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. The Canadian section alone has 382 books and 768 pamphlets.
