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Gustave Gingras fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1924-1996.

Reference:

R2174-0-6-E, MG31-J12

Type of material:

Textual material, Sound recordings, Moving images, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

137879

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Gustave Gingras fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1924-1996.

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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

16,4 m of textual records.
1116 photographs : 979 b&w and 137 col.
2 film reels (30 min).
4 videocassettes (ca. 2 h, 32 min).
2 audio discs (ca 30 min).
2 audio reels (ca. 1 h, 30 min).
15 audio cassettes (ca. 2 h, 42 min).

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French
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Gustave Gingras fonds [textual record]

Gustave Gingras fonds [textual record]
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Fonds consists of Gingras' personal and professional correspondence in both English and French; membership and executive documents for organizations such as the Canadian Medical Association, Canadian Forces Medical Council, Institut de Réadaptation de Montréal/ Rehabilitation Institute of Montreal and St. John Ambulance. It includes Gingras' work on special studies for the War Amps of Canada for the Canadian prisoners of war taken by the Japanese at Hong Kong in 1941, his participation in different projects for the United Nation Organisation and the Canadian International Development Agency, the foundation of a rehabilitation center in Vietnam in 1965, his assistance in Morrocco in 1959-60 and for the thalidomide victims of the early 1960's. It contains also the manuscript of his autobiography "Combats pour la survie" (and its English translation "Feet was I to the lame") as well as diaries, diplomas, scrapbooks (containing press clippings and photographs), numerous speeches, addresses and publications. Finally included are moving images and sound recordings of talks and press conferences given by Gingras, in French and English, about his work.

Photographic material depicts the career of Gustave Gingras such as reception of awards, attendance at meetings, participation in the War Amps Association, the Canadian Medical Association, the Defence Medical Association, the St-John Ambulance, the RCMP, the Institut de Réadaptation de Montréal and the time of his mission in Vietnam. Also included is an album on rehabilitation clinics in Vietnam.

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Gingras, Gustave, 1918-1996

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Gringras, Gustave, 1918-

Biography/Administrative history:

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Gingras, Gustave, 1918-1996 : Gustave Gingras was born in Montréal on 18 January 1918. He received a classical education at College Bourget, Rigaud, Qué., where he graduated with a B.A. in 1936. Granted his M.D. by the Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, in 1941, he immediately entered the Canadian Army Medical Corps and served overseas until the end of the war in 1945. He was then put in charge of rehabilitating veterans at the Queen Mary Veterans Hospital, Montreal. He was founder and Executive Director of the Institut de Réadaptation de Montréal/ Rehabilitation Institute of Montreal from its establishment in 1949 to his retirement in 1976. Gingras was both a national and international pioneer in the specialty of physical and rehabilitation medicine. His expertise and knowledge were highly regarded by the Université de Montréal, where he served as both Professor of Rehabilitation and Director of the School of Rehabilitation, 1954-76. Gingras produced more than one hundred papers on rehabilitation. The numerous honours and awards that Gingras received over the years are an indication of the mark he has left on rehabilitation medicine. The rehabilitation of war veterans was just part of Gingras' work.

In 1969, he received the Lasker Award for his rehabilitation work in Latin America for the United Nations, his leadership in the Moroccan oil poisoning disaster of 1959-1960 and his contribution to the Canadian rehabilitation program in Vietnam. In addition, he acted as an officer for many scientific/medical societies and non-professional bodies. After his retirement in 1976, Gingras relocated to Prince Edward Island where he was Director of Rehabilitations Services for the PEI Department of Health 1977-1980 and Chancellor of the University of PEI, 1974-1982. He was a consultant to the War Amps of Canada for special compensation for Canadians who were taken prisoner of war at Hong Kong as well as compensation for thalidomide victims of the early 1960's. He died in May 1996.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid describes vols. 1 to 85 at the file levels. MSS2107 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000632.pdf

Photographic accession no. 1985-266: (Paper) Descriptions of each volume located in 326 with a copy in Photo art & Research. FA-162 (90: Open)

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General note:

Received from Gustave Gingras in 1980 and 1985 and from Camille de la Chevrotière in 1996.

Language note:

Material mostly in English with about 15 percent of the correspondence in French.

Subject heading:

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Physicians Québec (Province)

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1973-06-02)
(1985-10-15)
1979/0527
1980-0042 MISA
1985-0618 MISA
1985-0619 MISA
1985-0620 MISA
1985-266 NPC
1985/0372
1996-03024-8
1996-04010-3
1996/0118
1997-064 DAP
1998-0033 VSA
96-239
MG31-J12

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-J12
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000766.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Finding aid box [FA 2107] 153

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (video)

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [GINGRAS, GUSTAVE 1985-266] TCS 01241

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [GINGRAS, GUSTAVE 1997-064] TCS 01429

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Sound recordings and moving images: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the copyright holders.
Photographs: No restrictions on use. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old; copyright expired on items greater than 50 years old. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.

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