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Grace Hartman fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

[ca. 1930-1995].

Reference:

R14899-0-3-E, MG31-B58

Type of material:

Textual material, Sound recordings, Photographs, Art, Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

107233

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Grace Hartman fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

[ca. 1930-1995].

Bilingual equivalent:

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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

3.34 m of textual records : some photocopies.
16 audio cassettes (ca. 14 h).
3 audio reels (ca. 3 h).
645 medallic objects.
150 photographs : multiple processes.
1 drawing : pen & ink.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of records that document the life and career of Grace Hartman, labour leader with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) and other organizations. The fonds also includes subject files; files on various feminist, peace, labour, and political organizations of interest to Hartman; general correspondence and memoranda not related to NUPE or CUPE; and personal papers.

Sound recordings in the fonds include speeches, interviews, and audio dubs of radio and television programs by or about Hartman documenting her union activities and her interests (1979-1986).

Objects in the fonds include lapel buttons, pins, charms, ribbons, decals, wood and textile objects, and other similar items that concern Canadian and international labour unions, the women's movement, the peace movement, and other subjects (1930-1999).

Also included are photographs that document Hartman's career as a local, provincial and national officer of NUPE and CUPE (national secretary-treasurer, 1967-1975; national president, 1975-1983), and her activities in feminist organizations such as the Voice of Women. The photographs depict conventions, conferences, speeches, strikes, demonstrations, honours and awards. Included are images of Ed Broadbent, Bill Buss, Shirley Carr, Kealy Cummings, John Fryer, Percy Huggett, Stan Little,
Ed McAllister, Dennis McDermott, J.F. Lofty MacMillan, Jack Monro, John Robarts, and Laura Sabia.

In addition, there is one editorial cartoon by Rusins Kaufmanis (b. 1925), published in the Ottawa Citizen on October 20, 1979. The Cartoon depicts Grace Hartman, CUPE National President, and Dennis McDermott, President of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), holding a banner that reads "Solidarity Forever."

Provenance:

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Hartman, Grace, 1918-1993

Additional name(s):

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Canadian Union of Public Employees

Biography/Administrative history:

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Hartman, Grace, 1918-1993 : Labour union officer

Grace Fulcher was born in Toronto in 1918, the first of four daughters of Ray and Frances Fulcher. Grace Fulcher became active in the Young Communist League in the mid 1930s after meeting Joe Hartman, whom she married in 1939. Joe Hartman, a stone cutter by trade who found work in several industries, was a member of the Communist Party of Canada and was active in the Workers Unity League and the Workers Educational Association. In addition to employment as a needleworker and various temporary office jobs, Grace Hartman worked in 1941 for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (UE). She also did organizing and office work for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee in the early 1940s.

After having two children and moving to the suburbs of Toronto, Hartman began work in 1954 as a clerk-typist for the Township (later Borough) of North York. She joined the local union of the township's office workers (Local 373 of the National Union of Public Employees [NUPE]), and served as secretary, vice-president, and during 1959 to 1967 as local president. During 1960-1963 Hartman served as president of the Metropolitan Toronto District Council of Public Employee Unions and as secretary of the Ontario Division of NUPE. In 1963 she was elected president of the Ontario Division, a position which she held until 1967.

In 1965, Hartman was elected as a national general vice-president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE, formed in 1963 by the merger of NUPE with the National Union of Public Service Employees), and in 1967 she was appointed acting national secretary-treasurer of CUPE. She retained the position of national secretary-treasurer by acclamation at the 1967 CUPE convention. In 1975 she succeeded Stan Little as the national president of CUPE, and in so doing became the first woman in North America to be elected as top officer of a major union.

During Hartman's tenure on the CUPE executive, there was an increased emphasis on the role and status of women in the union. Hartman prepared reports on the status of women in CUPE; sought to eliminate gender privilege from collective agreements; encouraged women to become union activists, officers, and staff members; and pursued labour support for feminist issues such as reproductive choice. After an illegal strike by Ontario hospital workers in 1981, Hartman and two other CUPE officials were convicted of contempt of court and served prison terms. Hartman retired as CUPE president in 1983, but continued to hold the title of president emeritus.

During 1983-1987 she represented Canadian public employees internationally as a vice-president of Public Services International. Outside CUPE, Hartman participated in peace and feminist organizations such as the Voice of Women, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC; Hartman was a founder and served a term as president in 1975), and the federal Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Hartman was a member of the Committee on Equality of Women in Canada that agitated successfully for the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in the late 1960s.

Grace Hartman died in 1993. More biographical information is available in Susan Crean's "Grace Hartman: A Woman for her Time" (Vancouver: New Star, 1995).

Finding aid:

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Textual records: (Paper) The finding aid is a file list of volumes 1 to 16 and an item list of oversize documents in volumes 17 and 18. MSS2106

Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS2106
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000631.pdf

Sound recordings: (Electronic) See MISACS for item level descriptions.

Medallic material: (Paper) Inventory list, nos. 14606-15198 Item level in accession file

Photographs: (Paper) list of photographs in accession file

Additional information:

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General note:

The records were received in 1996 from Joseph Hartman, North York, Ontario.

Related material:

For related materials, see Canadian Union of Public Employees fonds (R5440) and the Voice of Women fonds (R2846)., For sound recordings, see audio-visual database catalogue (ISN) numbers: 255490 to 255505 and 260019 to 260022. The sound recordings have registration number 1996-0266.
Subject heading:

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National Union of Public Employees, 1956-1963

National Union of Public Employees. Ontario Division, ca. 1956-1963

Ontario Federation of Public Employees, 1956-1958

National Union of Public Employees. Local 373, North York, Ont. 1959-1963

North York, Ont., 1959-1968

Canadian Union of Public Employees, 1963-1993

Canadian Union of Public Employees. Ontario Division, 1964-1967

Canadian Union of Public Employees. Local 373, North York, Ont., 1963-1968

Canadian Union of Public Employees. Metropolitan Toronto Council of Public Employee Unions, 1963-1966

National Union of Public Employees. Metropolitan Toronto Council of Public Employee Unions, 1961-1962

Public Services International, 1970-1988

New Democratic Party, ca. 1961-1992

Voice of Women, 1983-1993

Committee for the Equality of Women, 1965-1968

Royal Commission on the Status of Women, 1966-1971

National Action Committee on the Status of Women, 1984-1992

Women's International Peace Conference, Halifax, N.S., 1985

Labour - archival fonds
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1996-0266 MISA
1996-03008-6
1996-03050-7
1996-300 DAP
1996/0066
1996/0186
2919 (1996-05-07)
2953
96-146
96-209
96-211
97-004
97-007
97-009
97-010

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-B58

Other accession no.:

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1996-0266 MISA
1996-300 DAP
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000542.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Finding aid box [FA 2106] 153

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [HARTMAN, GRACE 1996-300]

[Consultation 90 Open]

2000942483;

[Consultation 90 Open]

2000943567;

[Consultation 90 Open]

C 0579;

[Consultation 90 Open]

TCS 06019;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Terms of use:

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Textual records: Access to certain portions of the fonds is restricted. For more information see MSS Restricted Papers Form.
Sound recordings: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the copyright holder and the written permission of the donor.
Medallic objects: Documents must be consulted under close supervision for conservation reasons. Copyright: Various copyrights.
Editorial cartoon: Copyright:National Archives of Canada

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