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Marler, George - Interview

Item number (ISN):

389686

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Item (Accession level)

Date:

1978-09-13

Item number (ISN):

389686

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Type of material:

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Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1978-0140

Media:

Sound

Part:

4 of 4

Production date:

1978-09-13

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

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Interview of George Marler, retired federal and Quebec provincial politician, by author Peter Stursberg, about: George Marler; his family background; his education; his career in the legal profession and in municipal, provincial and federal politics; the Royal Naval College of Canada in Halifax in 1917; the Halifax explosion of 4th December 1917; Montreal circa 1923-1948; Marler's work as Vice-President of the Montreal Board of Revisions and of Valuations 1937-1940; use of the French language in Montreal in the legal profession and on Montreal City Council; Montreal City Council circa 1940; Sir Herbert Marler; the Canadian embassy in Tokyo; Camillien Houde; the Montreal Botanical Gardens; Marler's reasons for becoming a Liberal; his election to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec on 23rd March 1942; his experiences as provincial Liberal House Leader and Leader of the Opposition 1948-1953; his decision to enter federal politics; his appointment and experiences as Minister of Transport (1954-1957); the Quebec general election of 1948; the Provincial Liberal Party of Quebec circa 1942-1954; theleadership convention of May 1950; English-French relations in Quebec; Georges-Émile Lapalme; Maurice Duplessis; the Quebec provincial government circa 1942-1954; the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Collapse of the Duplessis Bridge at Trois-Rivières; Louis-Philippe Pigeon; Maurice Duplessis as a Quebec nationalist, a federalist, and an autonomist; federal-provincial relations; road construction in Quebec; the federal Department of Transport circa 1954-1957; amendments to the Canadian Telegraph Act circa 1955; the request by the Commercial Cable Company to land a cable in Nova Scotia circa 1955; Louis Saint Laurent; the Champlain Bridge in Montreal; the Royal Commission on the Coastal Trade of Canada circa 1954; the Liberal government from 1954-1957; C.D. Howe; the Pipeline Debate of 1956; Louis-René Beaudoin; Louis Saint Laurent, his comments on the Suez crisis; the federalelections of 1957 & 1958; John G. Diefenbaker; Jack Pickersgill; the Royal Commission on Canadian Economic Prospects, in 1955; Walter Gordon; discussion in 1957 about the Old Age Pension; the nickname "six bucks" Harris; and Constitutional amendments. <3h 32mn>

Language:

English

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. Access restrictions for the sound recording are the same as access restrictions for the transcript.~3. There is no release form on file at Library and Archives Canada for this interview.~4. First interview in a series of two.~5. Recorded by Peter Stursberg in Montreal for the joint Library of Parliament-Public Archives of Canada oral history project.~6. George Marler died on April 10, 1981.
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