Collection search - Rowe, William Earl - Interview

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Rowe, William Earl - Interview

Item number (ISN):

389986

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1978-08-14

Item number (ISN):

389986

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1978-0123

Media:

Sound

Part:

5 of 5

Production date:

1978-08-14

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of William Earl Rowe, former Conservative Member of Parliament and Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario (1963-1968), by author Peter Stursberg; about: William Earl Rowe; his family background; his experiences and involvement in horse racing (1913-1970); his reminiscences of his 40 years in politics; harness racing; difference between a standardbred and a thoroughbred; trotters and pacers; breeding standardbreds; training; race tracks; modern developments and regulations; the popularity of harness racing; sulkies; costs; Rowe's education; his decision to become a Conservative; the importance of research and development to the economy; his election as Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Simcoe South in 1923; and as Conservative Member of Parliament for Dufferin-Simcoe in 1925; R.B. Bennett; George Drew; Louis S. Saint-Laurent; the 1957 federal election; C.D. Howe; the Conservative Party circa 1925-1978; Rowe's financial difficulties owing to his political career; his appointment as President and Managing Director of the Great Lakes Paper Company (1938-1954); C.H. Carlisle; Mitch Hepburn; the Great Lakes Paper Company and the cancellation of its timber limits by Mitch Hepburn; Rowe's appointment and experiences as leader of the provincial Conservative Party of Ontario 1936-1938; the 1937 Ontario general election; Hepburn's proposal to form a coalition with Rowe in the hope of ousting William Lyon Mackenzie King; George McCullagh; Rowe's resignation from the leadership of the Conservative Party of Ontario in 1938; Mitch Hepburn's profound dislike for William Lyon Mackenzie King; William Lyon Mackenzie King; the provincial Conservative Party of Ontario circa 1936; Mitch Hepburn's proposal for a coalition between the Ontario Liberal and Conservative Parties as a means to stop socialism; Rowe's contention that this would be the quickest way to establish socialism in the province; F.P. O'Connor; his financial backing for Hepburn; the Hambletonian race in 1946; Rowe's horse 'Van Riddell'; Rowe's setting a world record at the Thornecliffe Raceway in 1953; R.B. Bennett as leader of the Opposition and as Prime Minister; Bennett's reasons for resigning the leadership of the federal Conservative Party in 1938; Robert Manion; Arthur Meighen; William Lyon Mackenzie King's relations with Arthur Meighen; John Bracken; John G. Diefenbaker; Rowe's appointment as Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario in 1963; the British crown as a symbol of unity; encroaching government powers; Sir Robert Borden; Sir Wilfrid Laurier; Lester B. Pearson; and the Conservative Party leadership convention 1976. <4h 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. Recorded by Peter Stursberg at Rowlands, near Newton-Robinson, Ontario, for the joint Library of Parliament-Public Archives of Canada oral history project.~5. William Earl Rowe died on 9 February 1984.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

455006

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1978-0123/1
1978-0123/2
1978-0123/3
1978-0123/4
1978-0123/5

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

5

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

455007

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01382
C01383

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

1978-0123/1
1978-0123/2
1978-0123/3
1978-0123/4
1978-0123/5

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

558438

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

389986-1978-0123-1-S1.wav
389986-1978-0123-1-S2.wav
389986-1978-0123-2-S1.wav
389986-1978-0123-2-S2.wav
389986-1978-0123-3-S1.wav
389986-1978-0123-3-S2.wav
389986-1978-0123-4-S1.wav
389986-1978-0123-4-S2.wav
389986-1978-0123-5.wav

Number of items:

9

Kind of sound:

WAV

Duration:

252:41

Made from:

1978-0123/1
1978-0123/2
1978-0123/3
1978-0123/4
1978-0123/5

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

558439

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

389986-1978-0123-1-S1.mp3
389986-1978-0123-1-S2.mp3
389986-1978-0123-2-S1.mp3
389986-1978-0123-2-S2.mp3
389986-1978-0123-3-S1.mp3
389986-1978-0123-3-S2.mp3
389986-1978-0123-4-S1.mp3
389986-1978-0123-4-S2.mp3
389986-1978-0123-5.mp3

Number of items:

9

Kind of sound:

MP3

Duration:

252:41

Made from:

1978-0123/1
1978-0123/2
1978-0123/3
1978-0123/4
1978-0123/5

Status:

REF
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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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