Collection search - Andrew McNaughton - Canadian

MCNAUGHTON, A.G.L.

1971-0027

Sound

2 of 2

1966-09-11

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

producer/script, Frank Lalor; narrator, J. Frank Willis

Special memorial program on General A.G.L. McNaughton. Friends and associates speak about him. Subjects include: his First World War service; his role in the establishment of relief camps for unemployed people during the 1930s Depression; his career as a scientist and as President of the National Research Council; his Second World War Service as Inspector General and General Officer Commanding; Exercise Spartan in March 1943; his desire to keep Canadian troops as a united force; his political career; his appointment as Minister of National Defence in 1944 and his position on conscription; becoming Canadian chair of the Canada-U.S. Joint Board on Defence in 1946; Canadian delegate to the United Nations Committee on Nuclear Disarmament; his role as Canadian chair of the International Joint Commission; and the Columbia River Treaty. <61mn>

English

Open

MSS 20342

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur