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Malcolm Wickson fonds [textual record]

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Fonds

Date:

1968-1978.

Reference:

R14862-0-8-E, MG32-G23

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

107161

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Malcolm Wickson fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1968-1978.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

2.8 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of three series that document Wickson's political career with the Progressive Conservative Party.

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Wickson, Malcolm, 1931-1988

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Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

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Wickson, Malcolm, 1931-1988 : political activist lawyer

Malcolm Wickson was born at Vancouver in 1931. Educated at the University of British Columbia, he was admitted to the B.C. Bar in 1957. In addition to practising law in Vancouver, he was involved in real-estate development and financing. Starting in 1949, he was also active in the B.C. Progressive Conservative Party. In 1964 he was elected as the provincial party's director. Two years later, be became vice-president. In 1967 he was elected as party president.

In 1968 Wickson's political activity shifted to the national scene. From March 1968 to October 1970, he served as national director of the federal Progressive Conservative Party. During his tenure, he borrowed new ideas from the Republican Party in the United States and the Conservative Party in Britain, introducing a number of innovations in the management and administration of the P.C. Party and re-organizing its fund-raising activities. He also introduced significant changes relating to public-opinion research, policy development, and long-range campaign planning. In 1971 he joined the committee responsible for planning the Tory's successful campaign in the Ontario provincial election. The following year, he was appointed as the director of operations for the party's federal campaign.

In 1974 Wickson became national campaign chairman. Following the Tory's defeat in the 1974 election, he remained active as a member of the federal party's Treasury Committee (1976-1977). He also served on the Convention Committee that planned the Conservative's 1976 leadership convention. After 1977, Wickson's focus shifted from backroom politics to his business concerns. He died at Vancouver in 1988.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a file list of volumes 1 to 14 MSS2064 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000598.pdf

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General note:

Documents created in: Vancouver, B.C.
Material was donated by the executors of Wickson's estate in 1995.
Subject heading:

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Brian Mulroney

Public Opinion Research John Fraser

Elections - Canada - 1972 Norman Atkins

Elections - Canada - 1974 Robert Stanfield

Political Leadership Joe Clark
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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123-020037-1
1995/0123

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MG32-G23
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