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Walker, David - Interview

Item number (ISN):

413392

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1974-01-22

Item number (ISN):

413392

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Type of material:

Sound recordings

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1974-0007

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1974-01-22

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of Senator David Walker, former Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Rosedale and Minister of Public Works of Canada, by reporter Peter Stursberg about: his education; his legal career; his political career; John G. Diefenbaker; G. Howard Ferguson; Arthur Meighen; Robert Borden; Tommy Church; Theodore Meighen; Robert Falconer; John A. Macdonald; his father David J. Walker, Sr.; Maurice Cody; William Lyon Mackenzie King; Reverend Henry J. Cody; Hugh Guthrie; Robert James Manion; J.M. Macdonell; Sidney Smith; Edna Diefenbaker; Fred Gardiner; Dana Porter; John Bracken; R.L. Hanbidge; William Brunt; George Drew; Maurice Duplessis; George McCullagh; Olive Diefenbaker; Allister Grosart; Ross McDonald; E. Davie Fulton; Vince Massey;Charles Best; Harold Macmillan; Alex Stark; Joe Atkinson; Beland Honderich; Pierre Sévigny; George Hees; Philip Gaglardi; Leslie Frost; Jean Lesage; H.A. Yonge; Eric Thrift; Finley Clark; Robert Fortier; Jacques Gréber; Paul Comtois; Donald S. Macdonald; M. Wallace McCutcheon; George Nowlan; Lester B. Pearson; George Halpenny; Gordon Chaplin; Duff Roblin; Gordon Churchill; the 1927 and 1938 Progressive Conservative Party leadership conventions; the meeting of the Progressive Conservative Party in Port Hope in 1941; the 1942 and 1948 Progressive Conservative Party leadership conventions; journalism; an editorial in the the Toronto Globe and Mail in 1948; the Progressive Conservative Party leadership convention of 1956; the 1957 federal election; the 1957 Progressive Conservative government; the 1958 federal election; the Toronto Star in 1959; the Progressive Conservative government’s cabinet meetings from 1959 to 1962; finance; government expenditures; public accounts in 1959; public works; housing; urban affairs; the economy; unemployment from 1959 to 1962; the 1962 federal election; finance; the devaluation of the Canadian dollar in 1962; defence; the debate over nuclear arms in 1962 and 1963; the Cuban missile crisis in 1962; the Progressive Conservative government’s leadership crisis in 1962 and 1963; and the 1967 Progressive Conservative Party, leadership convention. This interview was recorded at the Public Archives of Canada in Ottawa. <4h 5mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. The sound recording of the interview and the 106-page transcript made from the interview are available for public access after the death of David Walker.~2. The terms of use are stipulated in correspondence held by the Film and Broadcasting Section.~3. The finding aid gives the date of this interview as 1974-01-22 but the transcript and correspondence give the date as 1974-01-23.~4. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.
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Conditions of access:

Closed

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 22018

Restrictions on consultation:

The interview is closed until the death of David Walker.

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