Robert S Kenny

Robert ("Bert") S. Kenny (1905-1993) was a member of the Communist Party of Canada, and a 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 collection of approximately 25,000 items, the Robert S. Kenny Collection or "Kenny Collection", now kept in the University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. The Canadian section has 382 books and 768 pamphlets.