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Quart, Josie D. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

389896

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1978-10-12

Item number (ISN):

389896

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1978-0149

Media:

Sound

Part:

4 of 4

Production date:

1978-10-12

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of Josie D. Quart, senator and former National President of the Women's Progressive Conservative Association of Canada (1958-1963); by author Peter Stursberg; about: Josie D. Quart; her family background; her education; her memories of political life; her husband Harry Quart; her daughter Jo Ouellet; Senator Norman Paterson; Quebec City circa 1900; English-French relations in Quebec City; Donald Cameron; Anglophones leaving Quebec; her memories of early Quebec nationalism; St. Lewis Academy in Quebec City; the Garrison Club in Quebec City); World War I; the conscription issue in Quebec City; Frank Dinan; the conscription issue during World War I; [P.-J.-Arthur?] Cardin, Ernest Lapointe and Charles "Chubby" Power whipping up Quebec nationalism for the benefit of the Liberal Party; "Chubby" Power; voting irregularities in Quebec; "ballot without stub"; travelling ballot; her views on women's liberation; her involvement in the League for Women's Rights; the women's franchise in Canada and in Quebec; the Constitutional Act of 1791; the Union Act of 1843; reasons for Quebec lagging behind other provinces in granting votes to women (Quebec in 1941 and other provinces in 1918); Thérèse Casgrain; Family Allowances; the Quebec government's insistence that Family Allowance cheques be made payable to the father; reaction from the women of Quebec in 1945; Bill 18 (the Godbout Bill) granting women the franchise in Quebec provincial elections; allowing women to be candidates in provincial elections; and if elected to sit as a member in the Legislature; Sir William Price; the Women's Progressive Conservative Association; Mrs. Charles (Thais) Fremont; Quart's involvement with the Women's Progressive Conservative Association; her appointment to the Senate in November 1960; John G. Diefenbaker; Georges-P. Vanier; the appointment of women to the Senate; women becoming eligible for Senate seats in July 1929; the question of the definition of women as "persons" under the British North America Act of 1867; the case heard before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, England in July 1929; Judge Emily Murphy; her first day on the bench of the Magistrate's Court in Edmonton on 1 July 1916 and her being accused of being on the bench illegally according to a ruling in 1876 under British Common Law which considered women as persons in "pains and penalties" but not in matters of "rights and privileges"; Josie Quart's appointment and experiences as Canadian delegate to the United Nations General Assembly in 1957; as Canadian Representative to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (1958-1960); difficulties of being a Conservative in Quebec; Maurice Duplessis; and women's role in the Senate. <4h 1mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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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. Recorded by Peter Stursberg in Senator Quart's office in Ottawa; for the joint Library of Parliament-Public Archives of Canada oral history project.~5. Josie Quart died on 17 April 1980 at age 84.

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Vault ISN:

455593

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01428

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

679182

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01429

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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