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Michener, Roland - Interview

Item number (ISN):

388901

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1979-03-17

Item number (ISN):

388901

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1979-0053

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1979-03-17

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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First interview in a series of interviews by Peter Stursberg, author, of Roland Michener, about: his business and legal career; articling with the firm of Gregory and Gregory of Toronto; his family; setting up his own law practice circa 1925; forming a partnership with Daniel Webster Lang in 1927; Daniel Webster Lang; Edward B. Jolliffe; his wife Norah E. Michener (née Willis); Healey Willan; Roland Michener; his practice in mining and corporation law; the development of mines in Northern Ontario, legal problems involved in setting up mining companies; prospecting; costs; Dr. Norman Keevil; W.N. Tilley; Roland Michener's various activities and life in Toronto; his children; Toronto circa 1925 to 1979; his early interest in politics, his activities on behalf of the Conservative Party; the members of the Conservative Party other than Members of Parliament; a policy meeting in Port Hope in September 1942; the Conservative Party national convention in Winnipeg in December 1942; David Walker; John G. Diefenbaker; Michener's decision to run as a Conservative candidate for the Provincial Legislature in St. David's riding in Toronto in 1943; Mitch Hepburn; George Drew; and the Ontario provincial election of 4 June 1945. <2h 6mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. First interview in a series.~3. Recorded by Peter Stursberg in Ottawa for the joint Library of Parliament-Public Archives of Canada oral history project. ~4. Roland Michener died on August 6, 1991.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2008-11-0031
A1 2008-11-0032

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 22018

Reproduction access:

Crown copyright : no donor restrictions : with written permission of interviewee

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