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Prime Minister's files [textual record]

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Date:

1957-1990.

Reference:

R11207-2-4-E

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Item ID number:

213575

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Victor Mackie fonds

Prime Minister's files
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Series includes:

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

1957-1990.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

14 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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The Prime Minister's files are organized by individual prime minister and hold correspondence with the prime minister, correspondence with Winnipeg Free Press president and publisher Richard S. Malone about the prime minister or his government, and research material. Mackie's letters to Malone in these files clearly supplemented or even replaced at times the confidential memoranda from Ottawa. His letters are particularly detailed for Lester B. Pearson and John Turner. There is less material for Pierre Trudeau, and no letters from Trudeau himself. Extensive correspondence with John Turner from the late 1970s and early 1980s suggests that Mackie helped him keep in touch with developments in Ottawa during his years on Bay Street. Carbon copies of Mackie's letters are filled with political news, while Turner's replies are more brief, often just thank-you's, but sometimes include commentary on Mackie's reports. The files are considerably thinner for Progressive Conservative Prime Ministers John Diefenbaker, Joe Clark, and Brian Mulroney.

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Volume [R11207] 1--2

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