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Le fonds consiste en de la documentation collectée par l'artiste cj fleury et Mary Faught dans le cadre de la réalisation du projet Enclave. Le fonds comprend des documents textuels et des graphiques qui portent sur le déploiement du projet, son processus de création et sur sa réception auprès du public. Il inclut des descriptions du projet, des communications entre différentes parties prenantes, des communiqués et des coupures de presse.

Enclave est un monument public créé par cj fleury (artiste en arts visuels) en collaboration avec Mary Leigh Faught, (architecte paysagiste, AAPO, AAPC). L’œuvre est le résultat d’une commande pour la création d’un monument en hommage aux femmes violentées et assassinées par des hommes dans la région de la capitale nationale du Canada. Le projet a été lancé par Women’s Urgent Action, dont plusieurs membres travaillent en étroite collaboration avec les femmes victimes de violence dans les refuges et le système judiciaire. Le monument a été dévoilé le 6 décembre 1992, à l'occasion de la Journée nationale de commémoration et d'action contre la violence faite aux femmes.

Cj fleury et Mary Faught ont été invitées à présenter leur travail en lien avec le Monument des femmes contre la violence à la conférence nationale du Women’s Caucus for Art aux États-Unis, à la School for Studies in Art and Architecture de l’université Carleton, à l’université du Québec à Montréal, et au groupe de développement des arts du Conseil des arts de l’Ontario.

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The fonds consists of documentation collected by artist cj fleury and Mary Faught as part of the Enclave project. The fonds includes textual documents and graphic materials on the deployment of the project, its creative process and its reception by the public. It includes descriptions of the project, some communication between various stakeholders, press releases and press clippings.

Enclave is a public monument created by cj fleury (visual artist) and Mary Leigh Faught (landscape architect, AAPO, AAPC). The work is the result of a commission to create a monument to women abused and murdered by men in Canada's National Capital Region. The project was initiated by Women's Urgent Action, several of whose members work closely with abused women in shelters and the justice system. The monument was unveiled on December 6, 1992, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

Cj fleury and Mry Faught were invited to present her work on the Women's Monument to Violence at the Women's Caucus for Art national conference in the U.S., at Carleton University's School for Studies in Art and Architecture, at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and at the Ontario Arts Council's Arts Development Group.

The collection consists of 19 pieces of manuscript poetry, 5 letters, and a repurposed Canadian almanac that has 18 of Mary Middlemore's published pieces tipped in, as well as an additional 6 loose pieces (two of which are prose, the rest poetry, three of which appear to be duplicates of hand letterpress printed poems).

The majority of the material was written by Mary Manks Middlemore, with her name as 'Mrs. R. Middlemore' on a letterpress label identifying the collection as being her original poetry, except for a few of these poems labelled 'not mine', including one attributed to Mary Middlemore, presumably her niece and eventually daughter-in-law. The manuscript material may also contain poems by the junior, and possibly Thomas as well, though the majority seems to be from the elder Mary. While largely undated, the material seems entirely to have been written in Canada from the 1840s through the 1870s.

The group of five letters, 1834-1843, are addressed to Squire Manks of New Brunswick, the senior Mary's elder brother, and date from the period prior to the family's move to Canada. The letters include contributions by Robert Middlemore, the elder Mary, as well as the younger Mary, sometimes with multiple writers per letter. They provide background family details, and often discuss the possibility of emigration. In addition to the letters, the archive includes the marriage certificate of Thomas Middlemore and Mary Manks from 1849, a lock of the senior Mary's hair from 1880, and a card with the burial details of both Thomas and Mary Middlemore from the 1880s.