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Review of the Department of Public Works 1954-1960 by Hugh Andrew Young [textual record]

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Date:

1962.

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R5395-0-8-E, MG31-E8, Volume number: 1

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103701

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Review of the Department of Public Works 1954-1960 by Hugh Andrew Young
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Date(s):

1962.

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0.8 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Item is a report of Hugh Andrew Young, Deputy Minister of the Department of Public Works entitled Review of the Department of Public Works 1954-1960. The report outlines the organizational and personnel changes in the department during the period when Mr. Young was Deputy Minister. Transcripts, 34 pages.

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Young, Hugh Andrew, b. 1898

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Young, Hugh Andrew, b. 1898 : Hugh Andrew Young, public servant and military officer, born in 1898 at Winnipeg, Man., received his education from the University of Manitoba, B. Sc. in electrical engineering, 1924. He served with the 44th Canadian Infantry Battalion in World War I. He joined the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals in 1924 and served with them in the Arctic and sub-Arctic. He attended Staff College, Camberley, England 1933-34 and proceeded overseas upon the outbreak of war in 1939. He served in various staff and command appointments during World War II. On his promotion to Major General in 1944 he was appointed Quartermaster General of the Canadian Army.

After the war he was appointed Vice-President of Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation 1946, then Deputy Minister of Resources and Development and Commissioner of the Northwest Territories in 1950. From 1953 to 1963 he was Deputy Minister of Public Works.

See also: The Canadian Who's Who, 1970-72.

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Hugh Andrew Young
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Canada - Officials and employees, 1962 Canada. Dept. of Public Works, 1962

Review of the Department of Public Works 1954-1960
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MG31-E8
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