Collection search - MacKenzie, Norman A.M. - Interview

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MacKenzie, Norman A.M. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

389526

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1979-05-20/1979-05-30

Item number (ISN):

389526

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1979-0093

Media:

Sound

Part:

5 of 5

Production date:

1979-05-20/1979-05-30

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of Senator Norman Archibald MacRae (Larry) MacKenzie by author Peter Stursberg, about: Norman A.M. MacKenzie’s education in Thorburn and at Pictou Academy in Nova Scotia; continuing his education at Dalhousie; financing his education after the war; his decision to study international law; doing graduate work at Harvard Law School; going to Cambridge on a Carnegie Fellowship;Pictou Academy; Dalhousie University circa 1919-1923; Harvard Law School; John E. Read;his work as English Language Legal Advisor to the International Labour Office (ILO) circa 1924-1926; his decision to return to Canada as a professor of international law at the University of Toronto in 1927; the League of Nations Association; seen as the only hope to save the world from a second world war; William Lyon Mackenzie King's isolationist attitude to world affairs; Herbert Norman; MacKenzie’s wife Margaret Thomas; the story of national hero Bill Jones; MacKenzie’s job as president of the University of New Brunswick 1940-1944; Lord Beaverbrook; the Wartime Information Board; his work as Chairman of the War Time Information Board; his decision to accept the presidency of the University of British Columbia in 1944; the University of British Columbia circa 1944-1962; Grattan O'Leary; speaking at the Liberal Party's summer school on Canadian Foreign Policy in the Far East at Port Hope and the next day at the Conservative Party's summer school at Pickering College (in the early 1930s); his views on the Senate; the Senate; Senate reform; the basis for Senate appointments; an elected Senate; the University of British Columbia; rapid growth after World War II; housing students in army huts; veterans as the best students; faculty; the Department of Slavic Studies; the Department of Asian Studies; the Institute of Pacific Relations; Dr. Gordon Shrum; Simon Fraser University; universities; multi-versities versus. universities; the value of a university education; research versus. teaching; financial problems; universities as the most important institutions in our society; the Royal Commission on the Arts, Letters and Sciences (Massey Commission) as a landmark in Canadian history; the commission’s recommendations; the necessity for financial support from the federal government for university education; theNational Federation of Canadian Universities; recommendation for veterans' allowances; the University of East Africa; a practical versus academic orientation; MacKenzie’s appointment to the Senate as an Independent Liberal in 1966; his role as mediator of the St. Lawrence Seaway workers' strike of June 1966; being accused of triggering inflation with the 30 percent settlement for the Seaway workers; more on the St. Lawrence Seaway workers' strike of June 1966; union demands; the 30 percent settlement; the fact that the Liberal government did not explain the circumstances of the situation to the public or to Parliament; bilingualism and his view that it should be introduced in primary schools and it should not be made compulsory for adults. <5h 13mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. Second interview in a series of two.~3. Recorded by Peter Stursberg in Vancouver for the joint Library of Parliament-Public Archives of Canada oral history
project. ~4. This interview was recorded on May 20 and May 30, 1979.~5. Norman Archibald MacRae MacKenzie died on January 26, 1986.

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Vault ISN:

459463

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02419

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

1979-0075/058
1979-0075/059
1979-0075/060
FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

459464

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02420

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

459467

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02421

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Open

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 22018

Reproduction access:

Crown copyright : no donor restrictions : interviewee restrictions vary : see notes

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