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Richard J. Joy fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1940-1997.

Reference:

R4471-0-1-E

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

163733

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Richard J. Joy fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1940-1997.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.42 m of textual records.
30 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French

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The fonds consists of textual records and photographs relating to the life, career, research and publications of Richard J. Joy. The fonds consists of four series: a Personal Material series, which contains information regarding Joy's education, early work as an engineer and personal life; a Correspondence series; a small series of Research Files; and a Publications series containing information about the publication of Joy's three books in addition to his work on submissions to various Federal and Provincial Commissions and a collection of his academic papers.

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Joy, Richard J., 1924-1998

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Joy, Richard J., 1924-1998 : Richard J. Joy was born in Montreal in 1924. Joy received his early education at Lower Canada College. Following his graduation from the College in 1940, Joy continued his education at McGill University where he studied chemical engineering, receiving a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1945. Further studies at Harvard University resulted in a Masters of Business Administration degree in 1947. Joy worked for the Dominion Linseed Oil company as a plant engineer from 1948 to 1951 and then for the Dominion Rubber Company as a chemical engineer from 1952 to 1960. He worked for the federal government with the Industrial Development Bank and the Department of Regional and Industrial Expansion between the 1960s and the 1980s. During the 1960s Joy became interested in minority languages and bilingualism in Canada and the study of demographics. He presented papers at academic conferences, including ACFAS (Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement de la science), and self-published his first book, "Languages in Conflict" in 1967. Primarily a demographic study, the book outlined the decline of the English language in Quebec and the decline of French in the rest of Canada since Confederation. Joy gradually earned the attention of the scholarly community and the media. A commercial press, McClelland and Stewart, reprinted "Languages in Conflict" in 1972 with an introduction by a leading sociologist. Joy's next book, "Canada's Official-Language Minorities" was commissioned by the C.D. Howe Institute in 1978. His last book, "Canada's Official Languages: the Progress of Bilingualism", was published by the University of Toronto Press in 1992. Joy's research provided fodder for both sides of the language debates in Quebec and Canada in the 1970s and 1980s. Although he participated actively in these discussions, he did not take a stand on one side or the other, preferring in stead to argue from factual grounds and correct the misperceptions of others. Richard J. Joy died June 26, 1998 of Parkinson's disease. Richard J. Joy fond (R4471)

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a file list. MSS2222 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000722.pdf

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General note:

The records were donated to the National Archives of Canada by Colette Joy of Ottawa, Ontario between October 1999 and June 2000.

Arrangement note:

The photographs are filed with the textual records.

Language note:

Approximately 65 percent of the fonds material is in English. The remaining 35 percent is in French. The French documents consist of correspondence and newspaper clippings.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2000-00796-1
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 2222] 509

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

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