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Stanley Knowles

Item number (ISN):

465281

Series title:

CBC Tuesday Night

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

465281

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

KNOWLES, Stanley

Accession:

1976-0153

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1976-08-31

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

producer/script, Lloyd Tataryn; technical producer, John D. Lewis; announcer, George McLean

Description:

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CBC radio documentary about Canadian politician Stanley Knowles, featuring an interview of Knowles and excerpts of interviews of friends and colleagues. It begins with clips of John Diefenbaker and Manitoba Premier Edward Schreyer reflecting on Knowles’ career. Knowles talks about: the struggle his Canadian parents faced while living in impoverished circumstances in Los Angeles, California, where Knowles was born ; the lack of social programs at that time such as pensions and medicare; the decision by Knowles to move to Canada and become a church minister; his studies at Brandon College in Manitoba; his classmate and friend Tommy Douglas, a future Premier of Saskatchewan and the first federal leader of the New Democratic Party; their shared view that churches needed to address social issues such as poverty, hunger and war; his graduation from United College in Winnipeg in 1933; the Great Depression of the 1930s; the social gospel sermons Knowles preached in churches and on radio broadcasts; the need to help the unemployed; disgruntled church members who did not like his sermons and preferred to go back to the traditional church emphasis on an individual’s relationship with God; and his start in politics. There are clips of David Lewis and Edward Schreyer. Stanley Knowles won a by-election in 1942 and Liberal Senator Eugene Forsey recalls the skepticism that greeted the news of Knowles’ election.The documentary also covers such subjects as how Stanley Knowles became an expert in parliamentary procedure and his role in mobilizing the opposition parties and guiding their parliamentary strategy against the government during the 1956 pipeline debate, a controversy over the Liberal government’s desire to get public funds for the Trans-Canada Pipeline. Knowles lost his seat in the House of Commons in 1958 and became the vice-president of the Canadian Labour Congress, working to form the labour-farmer-Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) alliance that transformed the CCF into the New Democratic Party (NDP). In 1962 Knowles was re-elected as a Member of Parliament, representing the riding of Winnipeg North Centre for the NDP. There are excerpts of interviews of newspaper columnist Douglas Fisher, MP and former Speaker of the House Marcel Lambert, Ged Baldwin, an expert in parliamentary procedure for the Progressive Conservative Party and Eugene Forsey. They talk about Knowles’ parliamentary skills and his persistence in such issues as his private members’ bill to abolish the Senate. The documentary also includes an excerpt of Knowles reminiscing during a speech he gave in June 1976 to the graduating class at Queen’s University.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. At the conclusion of the broadcast, CBC thanks Queen’s University for permitting the use of the excerpt of the speech at the June convocation.
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 16126

Restrictions on consultation:

~To be Determined / À déterminer

Reproduction access:

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

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