Collection search - Green, Howard Charles - Interview

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Green, Howard Charles - Interview

Item number (ISN):

389841

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1978-11-21

Item number (ISN):

389841

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1978-0178

Media:

Sound

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1978-11-21

Production company:

Peter Sturberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of Howard Charles Green, former lawyer and Progressive Conservative Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament for the riding of Vancouver South, by author Peter Stursberg, about: Howard Charles Green, his family background; Kaslo, British Columbia circa the early 1900s; his uncle Senator Robert Francis Green; his education at Kaslo and at the University of Toronto; his joining the 54th Kootenay Battalion in May 1915, his experiences during World War I; World War I; Ypres; the Somme; Vimy Ridge; the gas attack of 1st March 1917 and the armistice to bury the dead; Colonel Kamball; the Honorable Francis Grosvenor (Lord Ebury) and the 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade 1918; the role of the Canadian Corps in World War I; General J.A. Currie; the armistice of 11th November 1918; demobilization of Canadians from France to England in 1918;his decision to enter politics; studying law at Osgoode Hall; difficulties of gaining accreditation in B.C., forming his own law firm of Collins and Green in 1926; Ian MacKenzie; F. Key Collins (the first Supreme Court judge in B.C.); H.W. "Bert" Herridge; remittance men; Green's reasons for becoming a Conservative, his election to the House of Commons for Vancouver South in 1935; Leon Ladner; the federal elections of 1930 and 1935; Angus Maclnnis; the Conservative Party circa the 1930s; R.B. Bennett as leader of the Opposition and reasons for Bennett's resignation as leader of the Conservative Party in 1938; and Robert James Manion. <1h 55mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. The sound recording of the interview(s) and/or transcript(s) made from the interview(s) conducted on 26 Oct 1971, 24 March 1978, 21 Nov 1978, 23 May 1979 and 7 Nov 1979 are available for public access after 26 Oct 1971, 24 March 1978, 21 Nov 1978, 23 May 1979 and 7 Nov 1979. ~3. All claims of copyright by the interviewer or interviewee are hereby waived to ensure the widest possible access for research and publication.~4. First interview in a series of three.~5. Recorded by Peter Stursberg in Vancouver for the joint Library of Parliament-Public Archives of Canada oral history project.~6. Howard Green died on 26 June 1989.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

454783

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01448

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL
1978-0098

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

843711

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01449

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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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 22018

Reproduction access:

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

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