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William Dodge fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1943-1986.

Reference:

R4520-0-2-E, MG31-B56

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

107134

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William Dodge fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1943-1986.

Bilingual equivalent:

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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

2.15 m of textual records.
117 photographs : 109 b&w.
1 maquette : applied wood and/or commercial board relief designs and lettering with applied hand-drawn card illustrations ; 18 cm x 27 cm.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French

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Fonds consists of the personal papers of William Dodge. The papers document his activities as an arbitrator in labour-related matters and as a director or participant in a number of organizations and public corporations, including the Bank of Canada, Canada World Youth (CWY), Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), Conference Board of Canada, National Museums Canada (NMC), Ontario Hydro and others.

Fonds also includes photographs depicting William Dodge, his colleagues and his friends and family. The greater part of the photographs concern Dodge's work with the Canadian Labour Congress (ca. 1958-1974). Other topics include Dodge's military service, his marriage, the founding of the New Democratic Party (NDP), and a meeting of the Board of Directors of Ontario Hydro (ca. 1974-1981). Most of the photographs are not identified or dated.

In addition, the fonds includes a maquette, an artist's model in the form of a free standing poster used to prepare the full size back drop for the stage of the 1961 New Democratic Party founding convention.

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Dodge, William, 1911-1986

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Canadian Labour Congress

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Dodge, William, 1911-1986 : William Dodge (1911-1986) was born and raised in Verdun, Quebec. In 1927, he became an employee of Canadian National Railways, and in 1930 joined the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees (CBRE). After serving with the Royal Canadian Artillery in the Second World War, he studied economics at Sir George Williams University (B.A., 1949). He worked for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation's (CCF) Quebec Labour Committee in 1948 and became a full-time representative for the CBRE in 1949.

Dodge served several terms as vice-president of the Montreal Labour Council and also sat on the executive council of the Quebec Federation of Labour (1957-1958). An active CCFer, he contested ridings for the party and served on its national executive. In 1958, he was elected executive vice-president of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC); he continued in that post until he was elected secretary-treasurer in 1968.

As a senior officer of the CLC, Dodge was involved in several national labour issues, including the Norris Inquiry (Industrial Inquiry Commission on Shipping on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River System) and the trusteeship over maritime transportation unions. He established the CLC's White Collar Organizing Committee and supervised its activities for about five years. He sought the CLC presidency in 1974, but did not stand for office at the 1974 convention after the CLC executive council narrowly endorsed Joe Morris for president.

After his retirement from the CLC executive, Dodge served as the CLC Ombudsman (1975-1983) and also as a union appointee on arbitration boards. He was active in various consultative and policy research organizations, notably the C.D. Howe Research Institute and the Conference Board of Canada, and he continued to work with these organizations after leaving the CLC executive.

Dodge was a member of the Ontario Government's Committee on University Affairs (1967-1974), and in retirement served on the boards of directors of Ontario Hydro (1974-1981) and of the Bank of Canada (1975-1981). He also served on the Board of Trustees of National Museums Canada (NMC) and on the executive of Canada World Youth (CWY). He was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 1974. He died in Ottawa In 1986.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid is a file list describing vols 1 to 12 MSS2069 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000602.pdf

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General note:

Received in 1995 from Mrs. Lily Dodge, Ottawa, Ontario.

Arrangement note:

The fonds is arranged in seven series.

Related material:

For records created by William Dodge in his capacity as Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), see the Canadian Labour Congress fonds (R5569, MG28-I103, volumes 364 to 401).
Subject heading:

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Ontario Hydro

Heavy water reactors - Ontario, 1973-1978 Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, 1976-1983

Labour policy, 1970s Bank of Canada. Board of Directors, 1968-1981

Industry and State, 1970s C.D. Howe Institute, 1973-1986

Industrial relations, 1970s C.D. Howe Institute. British North American Committee, 1973-1985

Nuclear energy - Ontario, 1979-1981 Carleton University. Academic Staff Association, 1974-1977

Tripartism, 1970s Canada. Industrial Commission as to Shipping in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River System

Canada World Youth, 1975-1977

Canadian Committee of Scientists and Scholars, 1978-1981

Canadian Labour Congress Ombudsman, 1973-1983

Canadian Labour Congress, Local 1506 (Rimouski, Qué.), 1978-1981

Conference Board in Canada, 1977-1978

Conference Board of Canada, 1981-1982

Co-operative Fishermen's Guild, Local 80 (Prince Rupert, B.C.), 1976-1979

Grain Workers Union, Local 333 (Vancouver, B.C.), 1974-1981

Hotel and Restaurant Employees' and Bartenders' International Union, 1972-1981

Moose Jaw and District Labour Council, 1979

Milan Nastich, 1974-1980, 1985-1986

National Museums of Canada. Advisory Committee on a New National Gallery Building, 1974-1975

Ontario. Committee on University Affairs, 1969-1974

Operation Solidarity (B.C.), 1983-1984

Order of Canada, 1974-1977, 1985-1986

Prince Rupert Amalgamated Shoreworkers and Clerks Union, 1976-1979

Quinte Labour Council (Trenton, Ont.), 1974, 1977-1978

Service Employees Union, Local 478 (North Bay, Ont.), 1975-1979

Sudbury and District Labour Council, 1979

Eileen Tallman Suffrin, 1981-1984

Jim Todd, (Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers), 1982, 1983

Maurice Wright, 1963, 1966

Labour - archival fonds
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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122-020083-2
123-040418-X
1994/0224
1995-217 DAP
1996-041 DAP
94-285
96-014

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-B56
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000540.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Finding aid box [FA 2069] 149

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: No donor restrictions. Various copyrights on selected items. Credit the National Archives of Canada.
Maquette: No donor restrictions. Copyright: New Democratic Party of Canada. Credit: National Archives of Canada / Visual and Sound Archives Division.

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