Collection search - Harold Warren Danforth fonds [textual record, cartographic material]

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Harold Warren Danforth fonds [textual record, cartographic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1963-1973.

Reference:

R5392-0-6-E, MG32-C66

Type of material:

Textual material, Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103871

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Harold Warren Danforth fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1963-1973.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

2.7 m of textual records.
1 map.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of subject files on such topics as welfare, agriculture, energy, Thames River Flood, and old age pensions; and general correspondence.

The fonds also contains a map entitled Canadian Arctic Gas Study, 1973.

Provenance:

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Danforth, Harold Warren, 1916-

Biography/Administrative history:

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Danforth, Harold Warren, 1916- : Harold Warren Danforth, born in 1916 at Leamington, Ont., graduated from the Ontario Agriculture College at Guelph, Ont., and entered into a career in farming at Blenheim, Ont. He was active in the community and in politics serving as Deputy Governor of the Kinsmen Club, president of the Ontario Vegetable Growers Association, chairman of the Blenheim District Agriculture Fair, and was a municipal councillor from 1956-1958.

Danforth was first elected to the House of Commons for the riding of Kent-Essex in a Progressive Conservative majority in 1958. He was defeated in 1962 but re-elected in 1963, and he held the seat until he was again defeated in the 1974 General Election.

See also: The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967, 1968, and Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1987.

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Textual records: (Paper) The finding aid is a descriptive file list. MSS1575

Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS1575
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000265.pdf
Subject heading:

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Legislators - Canada, 1963-1973 Thames River (Ont.), 1963-1973

Election districts - Ontario, 1963-1973 Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, 1963-1973

Public welfare - Canada, 1963-1973 Kent-Essex (Ont.), 1963-1973

Agriculture - Canada, 1963-1973

Power resources - Canada, 1963-1973

Floods - Ontario, 1963-1973

Rivers - Ontario, 1963-1973

Old age pensions - Ontario, 1963-1973
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Private

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MG32-C66
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Finding aid box [FA 1575] 122

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Cartographic material

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