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Matheson, John - Interview

Item number (ISN):

389215

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1977-01-20

Item number (ISN):

389215

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1977-0008

Media:

Sound

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1977-01-20

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of John Matheson, judge, by Peter Stursberg,about: John Matheson, his background, his career in law and politics; Lester B. Pearson; the federal by-election in Leeds in 1961; the 1958 Liberal Party leadership convention; William Lyon Mackenzie King; the Liberal Party and its time in opposition from 1961 to 1963; John F. Kennedy; James Coyne; the nuclear arms issue 1962 to 1963; national unity; Canadian flag; bilingualism; Quebec, the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s; Tom Cossitt; Cuban missile crisis; Liberal government 1963 to 1968; Walter Gordon; Alan Beddoes; more about the Canadian flag and its design; John G. Diefenbaker; Leon Balcer; Liberal Party political scandals; Guy Favreau; federal election of 1965; Pierre Elliott Trudeau; federal-provincial relations; Canada-China relations; Chiang Kai-Shek; Liberal Party, the 1968 Liberal Party leadership race; and the creation in 1966 of the Order of Canada. This interview was recorded at the Public Archives of Canada in Ottawa. <2h 55mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. Consultation of this interview was closed without permission of Peter Stursberg until 31 December 1980.~3. Release form signed 20 January 1977 reads: Rights, title, interest and copyright assigned to “Her Majesty”; physical ownership retained by “Her Majesty”; and tape recordings and transcripts were opened for research as of publication of Stursberg's book(s) on Lester B. Pearson, published in 1978 and 1980.

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Vault ISN:

371474

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01051

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

33:49

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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MSS 22018

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