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Jim MacDonald fonds [textual record, graphic material]
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Finding aid Textual records Finding aid no. MSS1580 This finding aid describes volumes 1 to 40 at the file level. (Electronic) (90: Open)
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Record information Jim MacDonald fonds [textual record, graphic material]
Date:1935-2001.Reference:R5490-0-0-E, MG31-B41Type of material:Textual material, PhotographsFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:101759Date(s):1935-2001.Place of creation:CanadaAdded country of publication:Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Japan, South Africa, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United StatesExtent:7.65 m of textual records.
72 photographs : b&w and col.Language of material:EnglishAdded language of material:English, French, SpanishScope and content:Fonds consists of personal papers, 1943-1986; Canadian Congress of Labour, 1948-1959; National Labour Co-operative Committee, 1955-1982; Co-operative Housing Foundation of Canada,1947-1988; Social and Community Programs Department, Canadian Labour Congress, 1939-1987; speeches, articles and reports, 1947-1981; clippings, 1963-1983; periodicals and newsletters, 1948-1983; Ministerial Task Force on Program Review, 1984-1985; Duke of Edinburgh Commonwealth Study Conference, 1956-1999. Also included, records on post-retirement activities: Social Progress in Canada, a permanent exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Civilization; Veterans Against Nuclear Arms; Coalition Against Arms Trade; and the Standards Council of Canada, 1960-2001.
The fonds also contains photographic material depicting: cooperative housing in Toronto, Mississauga, Windsor, and Ottawa, Ontario, Vancouver, British Columbia and Calgary, Alberta; the Willow Park project, Winnipeg, Manitoba; aerial views of the registered office of the Labour Congress of Canada (C.T.C.) in Ottawa, Ontario; groups participating in summer courses offered by the C.T.C. in Port Elgin; snapshots of Joe Morris and Jim MacDonald, 1973; Jim MacDonald and his friends at Bellevue Casino, Montreal, ca. 1960, and also at the Canadian Museum of Civilization for the permanent exhibition on Social Progress in Canada, 1993-1994. Photographic material also includes Jim MacDonald's miscellaneous photographs, 1939-1973, related to the International Labour Conferences, 1965-1966; the Duke of Edinburgh's Study Conference Canada, 1962. Photographs have been included to specific series.Provenance:Biography/Administrative history:MacDonald, Jim, 1919- : Jim MacDonald, labour leader, was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and became an auto mechanic in 1934, as well as a charter member of the Sydney Garage Workers Union. He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, 1940-1945. While active in local politics and the co-operative movement, MacDonald became president of the Garage Workers Union until he was blacklisted following a strike in 1948. MacDonald was a student at St. Francis Xavier University, 1948-1951, where he was active in student co-operatives and in Extension Department Programs.
In 1951, he was appointed Canadian Congress of Labour representative in Sydney, and organized several unions in Nova Scotia. He was also a member of the CCF Provincial Council. In 1959, MacDonald became the executive secretary of the National Labour Co-operative Committee, established by the Canadian Labour Congress and the Co-operative Union of Canada to encourage closer ties between labour unions and co-operatives, in matters of credit unions, housing, health centres and consumer protection. In 1970, the co-operative housing programs of the NLCC were transferred to the newly created Co-operative Housing Foundation of Canada. MacDonald served as its executive director.
In 1970, MacDonald was appointed director of the new Social and Community Programs Department of the Canadian Labour Congress, which was responsible for a wide range of social programs dealing with poverty, minority groups, housing, consumer affairs, the environment, and several other areas of concern. He retired in 1983.Additional information:General note:Received in 1983 and 1990 from Jim MacDonald, and also from Mrs. Muriel MacDonald in 2004, both of Ottawa, Ont.Related material:For related materials, see: Canadian Congress of Labour sous-fonds (R5699 / MG28-I103, Mikan catalogue no. 182512) and Canadian Labour Congress fonds [multiple media]. Canadian Labour Congress fonds (R5699 / MG28-I103, Mikan catalogue no. 97903).Subject heading:- Canada. Dept. of Agriculture
- Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (Canada)
- Labour leaders - Canada, 1939-1988 Philip, Prince Consort to Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1956-1986
- Trade-unions - Organizing, 1939-1988 Duke of Edinburgh's Commonwealth Study Conference, 1956-1986
- Political parties - Canada - Canadian Co-operative Federation, 1939-1988 Canadian Congress of Labour, 1948-1959
- National Labour Co-operative Committee, 1955-1982
- Co-operative Housing Foundation of Canada, 1962-1983
- Canadian Congress of Labour. Social and Community Programs Department, 1939-1983
- Canadian Coo-operative Federation, 1943-1983
- St. Francis Xavier University (Antigonish, N.S.), 1942-1983
- Sydney Garage Workers Union, 1948-1949
- Co-operative Union of Canada, 1955-1982
- Solidarity Tower (Windsor, Ont.), 1947, 1962-1988
- Willow Park (Winnipeg, Man.), 1947, 1962-1988
- Alexander F. Laidlaw (Alexander Fraser), 1947-1981
- Canada. Dept. of Environment, 1984-1985
- Labour - archival fonds
Source:PrivateFormer archival reference no.:MG31-B41Other accession no.:1990/0234 MSS 2003/1053 -
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