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Sedgewick, Joseph - Interview

Item number (ISN):

243265

Series title:

The Days Before Yesterday : Struggle for Nationhood

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1972-12-15

Item number (ISN):

243265

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: DAYS BEFORE YESTERDAY, THE

Accession:

1996-0018

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1972-12-15

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

photography, Wilf Doucette; interviewer, Cameron Graham

Description:

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Interview conducted for the television series THE DAYS BEFORE YESTERDAY : STRUGGLE FOR NATIONHOOD, of Joseph Sedgewick. Sedgewick talks about the unusual will of millionaire Charles Lance Miller, who left much of his estate to the Toronto woman who had the most children in the 10 years after his death. He also talks about the kidnapping of John Labatt in 1934. Sedgewick defended David Misner during the Labatt kidnapping trial and re-trial. He recalls when prohibition went into effect in Ontario and speakeasies were in operation in Windsor and Niagara Falls. Sedgewick also talks about the prosecution of communists under Section 98 in 1931. He feels that the Winnipeg General Strike fuelled fears of a communist revolution and that depressions are "fallow ground for radical thinking". He describes John Leopold, a federal agent who infiltrated the Communist Party and became a principal witness against party members. Sedgewick was present in Stratford, Ontario in 1933 during the furniture makers' strike. He gives his account of the events which led to the army being sent in to settle the strike. Sedgewick describes his involvement in managing the trust fund set up by the Ontario government for the Dionne quintuplets and the issue of their exploitation. Sedgewick believed that the Leadership League was against organized labour and set up by big business interests. He gives his impressions of R.B. Bennett, Mitchell Hepburn, Arthur Meighen, and Tim Buck. <40mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. THE DAYS BEFORE YESTERDAY : STRUGGLE FOR NATIONHOOD was broadcast in seven parts on November 4, 11, 18 and 25, 1973 and December 2, 9 and 16, 1973.~2. Transcript available in the Visual and Sound Archives Division.~3. Workprints.

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Vault ISN:

287492

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9608-0307

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

287493

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9608-0308

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

287494

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9608-0309

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

287495

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9608-0310

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

287496

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9608-0311

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

287497

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9608-0312

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

287498

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9608-0313

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

287499

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9608-0314

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

~To be Determined / À déterminer

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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