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McGrand, Fredrick Addison - Interview

Item number (ISN):

389979

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1978-08-21

Item number (ISN):

389979

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1978-0126

Media:

Sound

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1978-08-21

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of Senator Frederick Addison McGrand by author Peter Stursberg, about: the provincial Liberal government of New Brunswick; reasons for the defeat in 1952; John B. McNair; the demand for unionization by employees of the New Brunswick Hydro Commission in 1952; the New Brunswick provincial election of 21 September 1952; main issues seen as unionization of Hydro Commission employees; abolition of the sales tax; education costs; Hugh John Flemming; McGrand's appointment to the Senate in July 1955 (the date of his swearing in was January 1956); the Senate Committee on Banking and Commerce; the Senate Committee on Land Use 1957-1963; the Agricultural Re-Development Agency (ARDA); Alvin Hamilton; McGrand giving up his medical practice in 1964; the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare; capital punishment; the treatment of criminals throughout history; the New Brunswick Department of Health (it was the first in the British Empire) and its beginnings; Dr. Walter Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic; McGrand's interest in mental and emotional health; the necessity of knowing causes of crime before deciding on a solution; Senator McGrand's resolution to set up a sub-committee of the Health and Welfare Committee to study causes of crime, in 1976; Senator Earl Hastings; Senator Joan Neiman; the Senate Sub-Committee on Childhood Experiences as Causes of Criminal Behaviour (set up in 1977); the influence of prenatal life on the child's development; the importance of parenting; a meeting of the international organization of juvenile court judges in Montreal July 17-22, 1978; Monique Bégin; and the value of work done by the Senate Sub-Committee on Childhood Experiences as Causes of Criminal Behaviour. <2h 9mn>

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. Second interview in a series of two.~5. Recorded by Peter Stursberg in Ottawa for the joint Library of Parliament-Public Archives
of Canada oral history project. ~6. Frederick Addison McGrand died on 3 September 1999.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

455587

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01403

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

130:00

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

455009

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01404

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

134:00

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL
1978-0127/1

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 22018

Reproduction access:

Crown copyright : no donor restrictions : with written permission of interviewee

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