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Civic Dinner Coronation Week

Item number (ISN):

370738

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1953-06-04

Item number (ISN):

370738

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK

Accession:

2006-0014

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1953-06-04

Production company:

CHSJ

Description:

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Recording of speeches at a civic dinner held in the Admiral Beatty Hotel, Saint John, New Brunswick, during Coronation Week. The dinner is held on the occasion of a gathering of mayors of the Maritime provinces and the state of Maine. The first speaker, whose talk is already in progress, is not named but is probably the mayor. He talks about the celebration of the 170th anniversary of the founding of Saint John and thanks the audience on behalf of the city. Crowd noises, chatter and clanking of cutlery follow as there is a break in the proceedings. The dinner festivities resume with greetings by A. J. Mason, President of the Federation of Mayors of Canada, on behalf of the association. Next, a speaker who is not named introduces the main speaker, Lieutenant-Governor D.L. MacLaren. MacLaren brings greetings from the people of New Brunswick and gives some of his views on municipal government, calling the commission form of government the best form of municipal government. He then proceeds with the main subject of his talk, a history of British war medals and soldiers who won them. His theme is that these heroes built the Commonwealth. The talk is based on the collection of war medals assembled by his father. Among his subjects are: collecting war medals; stories of World War One medal winners, including some Canadians; the issuing of medals in Canada for World War Two; talking to a merchant navy sailor during a stop in Saint John; the Victoria Cross won by Private James Davis of the Black Watch, a native of Edinburgh, during the Crimean War (MacLaren shows this medal to the audience); a conversation MacLaren had during the Second World War with CPR flag captain Ronnie Stewart about Stewart's World War One service as a Q-boat captain; the history of some medal winners; various jokes about soldiers; and a joke about Winston Churchill and Bernard Montgomery. He also talks about the role of the Governor General and Lieutenants-Governor and refers to his own military service in the First World War. <30mn>

Language:

English

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1. Some audio buzzing at intervals.~2. This talk is on two 12-inch discs recorded at 33 1/3 RPM.~3. Duration is approximate.

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Vault ISN:

418691

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

2006-0014/05
2006-0014/06

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

DISC

Stock:

TRANS

Technical description:

GLASS

Duration:

46:17

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

418699

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2006-02-0022

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

52:59

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1003144

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2006-02-0022

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

2006-0014/05
2006-0014/06
2006-0014/07

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2006-02-0022

Reproduction access:

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