Collection search - Macnaughton, Alan A. - Interview

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Macnaughton, Alan A. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

389374

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Item (Accession level)

Date:

1979-09-20

Item number (ISN):

389374

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Type of material:

Sound recordings

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1979-0145

Media:

Sound

Part:

5 of 5

Production date:

1979-09-20

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

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Interview of the Honourable Alan A. Macnaughton by author Peter Stursberg, about: Alan Macnaughton; his memories of public life; Campobello International Park; Leo Dolland; Edward Muskie; Macnaughton's experiences as Chairman of the Roosevelt-Campobello International Park (1966-1970); laying of a cornerstone for the reception centre at Campobello by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and President Lyndon Johnson; dedication of the centennial fort at St. Andrews-by-the-Sea;John Turner; the Queen Mother; the New Brunswick Development Corporation; plans to build a fish meal factory on Campobello Island; Alan Macnaughton’s private bill on mental health; his views on airports; the Commonwealth; his experiences as Chairman of the trans-Canada public forum on the environment (circa 1972); and as Vice-Chairman of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Conference on Human Environments in Stockholm, Sweden circa 1972 or 1973; the environment; the U.N. Conference on Human Environments held in Stockholm; economic committee; Jack Davis; Bob Shaw; Maurice Strong; Senate reform; an elected Senate; value of the Senate; the Canada-U.S. Inter-Parliamentary Association; the Senate; its public image, organization, appointments, partisanship and question of conflict of interest; the pharmaceutical industry; Lester B. Pearson; the Liberal government circa 1966-1968; the House of Commons; procedural reform; John G. Diefenbaker; Gordon Churchill; Allan MacEachen; redistribution of electoral seats; Macnaughton's involvement with international corporations; Swiss Bank Corporation; Canada's potential; foreign investment in Canada; Brown Boveri (of Switzerland); Hoffman-Laroche Ltd.; Perrelly Co.; Dunlop Tires; Aviation Electric Ltd.; Bendix Corporation; Macnaughton's start in the international business community; European multinationals investment in Canada; international law; the Swiss; bankers; the labour situation; bilingualism; the Official Languages Act; Quebec; unilingualism; the future of the English minority in Quebec; the referendum on Sovereignty-Association; contributions of the English; separatism; the future of Quebec; the future of the Liberal Party; Montreal; Macnaughton's attempts to make a speech in the Senate on the contributions of English-speaking Canadians to Quebec; his law firm Martineau-Walker; Caisses Populaires; influence of the Church in Quebec; the Montreal Reform Club; changes in Quebec; special status for Quebec; Senator Ewasew; Quebec; referendum on Sovereignty-Association; social implications of agitation and disorder; Pierre Elliott Trudeau; and civil disobedience. <4h 20mn>

Language:

English

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. Final interview in a series of three.~3. Recorded by Peter Stursberg in Ottawa for the joint Library of Parliament-Public Archives of Canada oral history project.~4. Closed except by permission of Alan Macnaughton until his death (Macnaughton died on 16 July 1999).
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