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Chalmers Jack Mackenzie fonds [textual record]

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Fonds

Date:

1920-1985.

Reference:

R1686-0-4-E, MG30-B122

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102519

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Chalmers Jack Mackenzie fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1920-1985.

Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Extent:

2.58 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of biographical material; diaries; War Technical and Scientific Development Committee; Correspondence; daily journals; speeches, addresses, articles of C.J. Mackenzie; and subject files.

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Mackenzie, C. J. (Chalmers Jack), 1888-1984

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Mackenzie, C. J. (Chalmers Jack), 1888-1984 : Chalmers Jack Mackenzie, engineer and science administrator, was born in 1888 at St. Stephen, N.B., obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Dalhousie University in 1909 and a Master of Civil Engineering from Harvard in 1915. After working briefly as a consulting engineer in Alberta, Mackenzie went overseas in 1916 with the 54th Battalion CEF. Returning in 1918, he became a professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, a position which he held until 1939, and was also the Dean of the College of Engineering there from 1921 to 1944. He was also active in Saskatoon municipal politics.

"Dean" Mackenzie is best known for his involvement in the evolution of a Canadian science policy and the development of atomic energy. From 1935 to 1964, he was a member of the Advisory Council of the National Research Council of Canada. He was appointed Acting President of the NRC in October 1939, and became President in October 1944. During these years much of the NRC's resources were devoted to war and military research. He served as President of the Atomic Energy Control Board from 1948 to 1961. Mackenzie resigned from the NRC in 1952 to become President of the newly formed crown corporation, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, a position he held until 1953.

In this capacity, he oversaw the early years of the atomic energy project at Chalk River, Ontario. He resigned from AECL September 1953.

Mackenzie retired from public service in 1964, but continued to pursue part-time careers as Chancellor of Carleton University and Director of Chemcell Limited and Columbia Cellulose Limited. Dean Mackenzie died in Ottawa on 26 February 1984.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a file list describing content found in volumes 1 to 13. MSS1456 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/p000003404.pdf
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Engineers - Canada, 1920-1985 War Technical and Scientific Development Committee, 1940-1951

Scientific research, 1920-1985 National Research Council of Canada, 1939-1953

Atomic energy - Canada, 1920-1985 Canada. Atomic Energy Control Board, 1939-1953

Scientists - Canada - Diaries, 1939-1964 Canada. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, 1939-1953

Scientists - Canada - Correspondence, 1942-1964 Sir Frederick Banting Fund, 1940-1951

Scientists - Addresses, 1920-1967
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Private

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MG30-B122
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 B 122] 1--13

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1456] 115

[Consultation 10 Closed]

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