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MacInnis, Grace - Interview

Item number (ISN):

389325

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Item (Accession level)

Date:

1979-11-26

Item number (ISN):

389325

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Type of material:

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1979-0174

Media:

Sound

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1979-11-26

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

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Interview of Grace MacInnis by author Peter Stursberg, about: Grace Maclnnis; her memories of public life; the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) circa 1933-1939; her father James Shaver Woodsworth; her husband Angus Maclnnis; Bill Irvine; weakness of the CCF in Alberta; C.C.F.'s Regina Manifesto; defeat of the United Farmers of Alberta government; communist attempts to infiltrate the CCF; Arthur Evans; the CCF.'s Regina Convention in 1933; the "United Front" resolution; Ernie Winch; Tim Buck; communist tactics; Orville Braaten; Harold Winch; the Depression; CCF aid to the destitute; the On to Ottawa trek by the unemployed and relief camp strikers during the summer of 1935; Bill Pritchard; relief camps; marches and demonstrations organized by the communists; the Price Spreads Commission report in 1934; a CCF pamphlet entitled Jungle Tales Retold; her brother Charles Woodsworth; Harry Stevens and the formation of the Reconstruction Party; the 1935 federal election 1935; the CCF campaign; the election campaign issues; anti-Semitism circa 1935; J.S. Taylor (a CCF MP from Nanaimo); Grant MacNeil; CCF relations with the Liberal Party and with the Conservative Party; William Lyon Mackenzie King; J.S. Woodsworth; his declining health; campaigning in Saskatchewan 1938; the Saskatchewan dust bowl; M.J. Coldwell; George Williams; CCF leadership; policy development; party growth; Rod Young; CCF support for NATO; Bert Herridge; Grace and Angus Maclnnis; their trip abroad in 1936; Norway's low-income housing; Sweden; the Luma Cooperative Factory; the monarchy; Denmark's folk high schools; the Spanish Civil War; isolationism; J.S. Woodsworth's views on the League of Nations and on war; CCF's attempts to stop shipments of war materials to Germany and Japan; the CCF National Council meeting circa 6 September 1939; the declaration favoring Canada's participation in the war only to the extent of economic assistance; the House of Commons emergency meeting on the declaration of war (10 September 1939); and Woodsworth's speech stating his personal opposition to the war. <2h 36mn>

Language:

English

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. Access restrictions for the sound recordings are the same as access restrictions for the transcript.~3. Fourth interview in a series of nine.~4. Recorded by Peter Stursberg in Vancouver for the joint Library of Parliament-Public Archives of Canada oral history project.~5. Grace MacInnis died on 10 July 1991.~6. There is no release form on file at Library and Archives Canada for this interview.
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