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University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives Series
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Canadian Labour Congress

Series consists of Canadian Labour Congress reports (including reports of the Political Education Department), newsletters, minutes, correspondence, clippings, press releases, reports of the Ontario Federation of Labour and the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, articles by T.C. Douglas, text of speech by Ed Broadbent, convention programmes and resolutions, policy statements relating to anti-inflation measures; subject files on the Canadian political system, education, federal election results and industrial democracy; copies of Business Week and the Labour Review; and photographs of delegates at labour conventions.

Canadian women peace activists oral history interviews

Series consists of audiocassettes of interviews carried out by Barbara Roberts mainly in 1988 as part of her research into Canadian women who were peace activists before 1960 and contains interviews with Edith Adamson, Hilary Brown, Dr. James Endicott, Mildred Fahrni, Mary Hinde, with various people who knew Laura Hughes, and with Betty Midiros, Nellie Peterson, Louise Swift, Marjorie Thibodeau, Mary Thompson, Jean Woodsworth, and Sheila Young. Consent forms signed by Edith Adamson, Hilary Brown, Mildred Fahrni, Marjorie Thibodeau, Mary Thomson, and Sheila Young, are filed in series 11, box 4.2. There are no consent forms signed by Dr. Endicott, Mary Hinde, Betty Midiros, Nellie Peterson, Louise Swift, Jean Woodsworth, or the people interviewed about Laura Hughes.

The subjects talk variously about their lives before they became involved in the peace movement and the factors that shaped their views of war; different kinds of pacifism; groups they belonged to in the 1930s; the influence on them of the growth of fascism; work they did in the Second World War; groups or organizations that were interested in or connected with the peace movement, such as the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Peace Congress, the Communist Party, the C.C.F., the Vancouver Women’s School for Citizenship, various church groups, the Voice of Women, the Mother’s Committee against Radiation Hazards, etc.; women who were active in the peace movement and in the Peace Congress; the politics of the peace movement; the Cold War, the “witch hunt” and its effects on people’s lives, etc.

Capital Regional District

Series consists of records related to Derrick Mallard’s involvement with Capital Regional District (C.R.D.) committees and initiatives, including the Environment Committee, the Green Space Workshop, and the Roundtable on the Environment. Derrick Mallard was the chairman of the CRD Waste Management Advisory Group from 1988-1990.

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