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David Matas fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1946-2004.

Reference:

R5043-0-5-E, MG31-E109

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

107004

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David Matas fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1946-2004.

Place of creation:

Manitoba

Extent:

27.2 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of personal papers of David Matas relating to human rights, legal, immigration and refugee issues in Canada; his political activities on behalf of the Liberal Party; war criminals in Canada; Jewish organizations including B'nai Brith Canada and the Canadian Jewish Congress; refugee claimant case files and personal files.

Provenance:

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Matas, David, 1943-

Biography/Administrative history:

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Matas, David, 1943- : David Matas, lawyer, was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He received his M.A. from Princeton University in 1965 and his B.C.L. from Oxford University in 1968. He was called to the Bar of Manitoba in 1971. Mr. Matas practises law in Winnipeg, specializing in refugee immigration and human rights since 1979 and is president of the Canadian Council for Refugees.

Mr. Matas has served as a senior legal advisor to the League of Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada dealing with issues surrounding race relations and anti-hate crimes legislation. He represented the League at the Deschênes Commission which dealt with Nazi war criminals resident in Canada. He was also chairman of the Legal Committee on War Crimes of the Canadian Jewish Congress, 1981-1984. Mr. Matas was a director of the International Defence and Aid Fund for South Africa and co-chair of the Canadian Helsinki Watch Group.

He is also coordinator of the legal network of Amnesty International, Canadian Section. He has authored a number of books, including Canadian Immigration Law, 1986; Justice Delayed; Nazi War Criminals in Canada, 1987 (co-authored with Susan Charendoff); Closing the Door: The Failure of Refugee Protection, 1989 (co-authored with Ilana Simon).

David Matas was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2008.

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid is a file list. Electronic finding aid covers volumes 1-65. For finding aid covering volumes 66-137, please contact archivist. MSS2053 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000588.pdf

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General note:

Received from David Matas, of Winnipeg in 1994, 1995, and 2004.
Subject heading:

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B'nai B'rith

Canadian Bar Association

Canada-Israel Committee

Canadian Jewish Congress

Human rights Kenneth Narvey

Race relations Tannis Cohen

Multiculturalism Kurt Waldheim

War crimes Helmut Rauca

South Africa John Demjanjuk

Sanctuary movement McDonald Commission

Amnesty International

International Aid and Defence Fund for South Africa

Marion Prison (Chicago, Illinois)
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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122-020036-0
123-020013-4
1994/0213
1995/0069
2008-00098-2

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-E109
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Access restriction document

http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000001105.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Volume [R5043] 119--137

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

Volume [MG31 E 109] 1--65

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Volume [R5043] 66--118

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Finding aid box [FA 2053] 149

[Consultation 10 Closed]

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