Collection search - Arnold Danford Patrick Heeney fonds [textual record, graphic material]

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Arnold Danford Patrick Heeney fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1836-1971.

Reference:

R2420-0-3-E, MG30-E144

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102042

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Arnold Danford Patrick Heeney fonds
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Fonds includes:

8 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1836-1971.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

3.095 m of textual records.
586 photographs b&w and col.

Language of material:

English

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The fonds documents Heeney's personal life and all phases of his career and is organized into the following series: career correspondence and memoranda, 1935-1970; memoirs and related material, 1836-1971; subject files, 1940-1969; benevolent and learned associations, 1949-1970; personal and family papers, 1867-1970; articles, speeches and clippings, 1923-1970; and material relating to the Royal Tour of 1939.

Fonds also contains photographic material. Fourty-four photographs, 1900-1968, are portraits of the Heeney brothers in the company of individuals and groups; portrait of Pat and W.L. Mackenzie King. Sixty-seven photographs, 1907-1968, depict a visit to Europe of Mr. and Mrs. Heeney, 1950; tour by the Permanent Joint Board on Defence to U.S; army installations in Alaska, June 1968; Rev. W. Bertel Heeney (accession 1977-220 NPC) includes separations and composites.

Copies of 121 photographs, 1930-1970, depict air training plan, 1940; Quebec Conference, 1943; Paris Peace Conference; NATO 1952-53 Permanent Joint Board on Defence, 1970; Ambassador to United States, 1953; portrait of A.D.P. Heeney. Twenty-three photographs, 1939-1945, depict the Royal Tour, 1939; Air Training Conference, Ottawa, Ont., 1939; Canadian Cabinet War Committee, 1943 and 1944; Canadian Cabinet Secretariat, March 21, 1945. There are also 6 files of 331 photographs, ca. 1930-ca. 1970, that are related to the diplomatic career of Arnold D.P. Heeney, with an emphasis on his period as Canadian Ambassador in Washington, D.C. from 1953.

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Heeney, Arnold, 1902-1970
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McGill University

Vanier Institute of the Family

University of Manitoba

Canadian Institute Of International Affairs

Institut Vanier de la famille
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Heeney, Arnold, 1902-1970 : Public servant and ambassador.

Born in Montreal on 5 April 1902, Heeney was the son of an Anglican clergyman, the Reverend Canon Bertal Heeney, and Eva Marjorie Holland. Admitted to the Bar of Quebec in 1929, he practiced law with the Montreal firm of Meredith, Holden, Heward and Holden until late in 1938. During this period he was also a sessional lecturer in the Faculty of Law at McGill University from 1934 to 1938. He was married in June of 1931 to Margaret Yuile. The couple had two children, William Brian and Patricia Jane. Heeney died at Ottawa on 20 Dec. 1970.

Heeney was educated at St. John's college school, Winnipeg, and the University of Manitoba where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts in 1921 and his Master of Arts in 1923. He attended St. John's College at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship from 1923 to 1926 where he studied modern history and law. He received his B.A. from Oxford in 1925 and an M.A. in 1936. While at Oxford University, he was an avid sportsman in a range of different sports. In 1926, Heeney entered the law faculty at McGill University graduating in 1929 with the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law. In 1948, he was presented with the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of British Columbia.

Recruited by Prime Minister King, Heeney was appointed to the post of principal secretary to the Prime Minister on 1 October 1938. Heeney was the first person to be appointed as principal secretary and tried to remain non-partisan in this office. From 1940 to 1949, he was Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, organizing the work of the Cabinet War Committee and the key ministers of the crown. He is considered to have modernized the business of government and the work of the Cabinet.

From 1949 to 1952, he served as Under Secretary of State for External Affairs. He then served as Ambassador to NATO from 1952 to 1953. He was Canada's Ambassador to the United States twice: from 1953 to 1957 and from 1959 to 1962. He was Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, 1957 to 1959, and later Canadian Chairman of the International Joint Commission, 1962 to 1970. He also served as the Canadian Chairman of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence from 1967 to 1970.

Heeney wrote several books on Canadian government and the Public Service. His autobiography, entitled The Things that are Caesar's: Memoirs of a Canadian Public Service was published posthumously in 1972.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid consists of a descriptive file list for all textual records. MSS0637 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000831.pdf

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General note:

Most of the material was received in 1973 and 1974 from Mrs. A.D.P. Heeney and Mr. Brian Heeney. A few items were transferred in 1969 from the Department of External Affairs and in 1971 from the Office of the International Joint Commission. Material was also received in 1982 from Mr. Brian Heeney of Peterborough, Ontario. In 1998, family correspondence between Arnold Heeney and members of his family was received from Goodith Heeney.

Associated material note:

Publications: Transferred to the National Archives Library.
Subject heading:

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Civil servants - Canada, 1902-1970 William Lyon Mackenzie, 1935-1970

Canada - Foreign relations, 1940-1969 Canada. Privy Council, 1935-1970

Ambassadors - Canada, 1936-1970 Canada. Dept. of External Affairs, 1935-1970

Associations, institutions, etc. - Canada, 1940-1969 Canada. Dept. of External Affairs. Embassy (United States), 1935-1970

Learned societies, institutions, etc. - Canada, 1949-1970 Public Service Commission, 1935-1970

Secretaries - Canada, 1902-1970 International Joint Commission, 1935-1970

Royal visitors - Canada, 1939 Permanent Joint Board on Defence, 1935-1970

Authors - Canada, 1836-1971 The Things that are Caesar's, 1836-1970

Sympathy letters, 1970-1971 Merchant-Heeney Report, 1940-1969

Anglican Church, 1949-1970 Public Service Commission, 1940-1969

Atlantic Institute, 1949-1970

Arctic Institute of North America, 1949-1970

Institute of Public Administration, 1949-1970

Montreal Neurological Hospital (Montreal, Quebec), 1949-1970

National Capital Arts Alliance, 1949-1970

International Affairs
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1972-042 NPC
1973-359 NPC
1975-099 NPC
1977-220 NPC
1981-136 NPC
1998-0018 (1998-02-09)
2002-01168-0
MG30-E144

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-E144
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 E 144] 1--17

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 637] 67

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Box [HEENEY, ARNOLD 1975-099] 4831

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic(photo): electronic

[Consultation99 Closed pending processing]

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Original photographs: No donor restrictions. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old. Copyright expired on items more than 50 years old. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no. Photographs by Y. Karsh (in accession 1981-136 NPC): See accession 1987-054.
Copies of 121 photographs, 1930-1970, (accession 1972-042 NPC): National Archives does not provide copies; they must be obtained from lender. Copyright: for items still in copyright, copyright must be established by the holder of the original(s).

NOTE: it is believed most of the originals for the Loaned material (1972-042) was donated to Library and Archives Canada in the subsequent accessions from Heeney, thus copies may be provided in those instances.

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