Collection search - Macnaughton, Alan A. - Interview

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Macnaughton, Alan A. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

389382

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1979-08-01

Item number (ISN):

389382

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1979-0126

Media:

Sound

Part:

5 of 5

Production date:

1979-08-01

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of the Honourable Alan A. Macnaughton, international lawyer and former Liberal Member of Parliament for Mount Royal (1949-1966); Speaker of the House of Commons (1963-1966); and Senator (1966-1978), by author Peter Stursberg, about: Alan Macnaughton; his family background; Sir Allen Bristol Aylesworth; the Alaska Boundary Treaty; his childhood; his education; his visit to England in circa 1923, when he worked his passage on a cattle boat; studying law at McGill University; attending the London School of Economics (1928); his legal career; his trip through Europe in the summer of 1939; as President of the Junior Board of Trade of Montreal (1939-1940); the Canadian Chamber of Commerce; the Montreal Reform Club; Macnaughton's club involvement; his various activities in Montreal; his early interest in politics; his decision to stand as the Liberal candidate in Mount Royal in 1949; Emmett Burke; the 1949 federal election; meeting his future wife (Mary Caroline White); his married life; his family; his experiences as Liberal backbencher in the St. Laurent government (1949-1953 and 1953-1957); his campaign and re-election in 1953; Reg Dawson; Maurice Lamontagne; Alan Macnaughton; his private bill on mental health; the Liberal government 1949-1957; Louis St. Laurent; Macnaughton's views on the United Nations; the Liberal Party in opposition 1957-1963; Louis-René Beaudoin; Aviation Electric Limited; Bendix Corporation; C.D. Howe; Speakership of the House of Commons; Lester B. Pearson; the Progressive Conservative government 1957-1963; Macnaughton's appointment and experiences as the first opposition chair of the Public Accounts Committee 1958-1963; the Public Accounts Committee's investigation of the cost of the Queen's Printer building; Lester B. Pearson; Maxwell Henderson; David Walker; Dick Bell; the Liberal government 1963-1966; Macnaughton's experiences as Speaker of the House of Commons 1963-1966; the flag debate; John G. Diefenbaker; House of Commons procedures; Gordon Churchill; Guy Favreau; Jack Pickersgill; George M. Carty; Macnaughton's tour of the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia; Réal Caouette; Macnaughton; his accomplishments as Speaker of the House of Commons 1963-19; the Parliamentary Press Gallery's new building; the House of Commons and its administrative procedures; up-grading the Speakership and its public image; setting up a secretariat for inter-parliamentary groups; and the Canada-France Parliamentary Association. <4h 35mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. First 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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Vault ISN:

85410

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02480

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

120912

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02482

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

461317

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02481

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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GENCAT identity number:

MSS 22018

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