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Date:1938-2006.Reference:R5497-73-6-EType of material:Photographs, Textual materialFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:3699443Date(s):1938-2006.Place of creation:OntarioExtent:1.9 m of textual records.
19 photographs: 9 b&w and 10 col.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:This series contains files related to the personal life of Gordon Robertson.
The series includes a diary from his year at Exeter College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar (1938-1940); press clippings from his career; personal and professional agendas; transcripts of interviews with Gordon Robertson in the early 1990s, conducted by Tom Earle for the Oral History Project; and correspondence and mementos surrounding honorary degrees received, and associations belonged to.
The files of personal correspondence and attached documents contain congratulatory notes, notes of thanks, trip arrangements, invitations, and comments on books and articles from a wide range of correspondents, from neighbours and friends to authors, academics and Prime Ministers (past, present and future). There are letters on political and social topics of the time, in particular relating to Northern and constitutional issues, which continued to interest Gordon Robertson long after his retirement from Public Service. A very short list of the many correspondents includes: Jean Beetz (Supreme Court of Canada), Marcel Cadieux (diplomat), Solange Chaput-Rolland (journalist and Senator), Jean Chretien, David Dilks (British historian), Eugene Forsey (Senator), Ed Gallant, Stuart Hodgson (Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, 1967-1979), Edith Iglauer (author), Peter Jull (academic with interest in the north and constitutional issues), Pierre Juneau, Arthur Kroeger (Deputy Minister of several government departments including Indian and Northern Affairs), Hilda Neatby (historian), E.A. (Ed) Ritchie (Canadian diplomat and longtime friend of Gordon Robertson), Thomas Shoyama (senior public servant), Hamilton Southam, Paul Tellier, Sir Burke Trend, UK Cabinet Secretary), and M.W. Ward (head of Wardair).Source:Private -
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