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Minister's personal records - letters and notes [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-series

Date:

1980-1984.

Reference:

R15773-24-7-E

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4932944

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Robert (Bob) Kaplan fonds

Solicitor General - Minister's correspondence

Minister's personal records - letters and notes
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Sub-series includes:

23 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1980-1984.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1.22 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Sub-series consists of correspondence, memos and notes by the minister on various issues, exchanges between the minister and his deputy-minister, his assistants, politicians, judges, police chiefs, businessmen and friends and supporters.

This is the best of the Minister's Correspondence sub-series, addressing the big issues of his portfolio and communicating at a very high level with ministers, MPs, provincial authorities and heads of government agencies.

For example, there are exchanges between Kaplan and Commissioner Simmonds of the R.C.M.P. on many issues, such as policing contracts, intelligence summaries, moving the R.C.M.P. to Renous, licensing the R.C.M.P. brand and managing access to information with respect to the 800,000 surveillance files of the R.C.M.P. and their transfer to the Dominion Archives. Material on the Corrections Service of Canada, touches on such issues as appointing Indians to Advisory Boards in certain areas, exercising the royal prerogative of mercy, policing magic mushrooms in British Columbia (not listed as a banned substance), assessments of parole boards' activities, prison disorders at Matsqui, appointments to boards, and the nature of the job of Corrections Investigator. Other documents deal with job appointments with C.S.I.S., Order-in-Council appointments and notes on C.S.I.S.

Documents also deal with conferences and congresses, and the matter of De Havilland and its future. Lower-level documents cover support for a Portuguese retirement home, support for positions on government boards, personal issues, changes of address by friends, Kaplan's bio in the Jewish Who's Who, difficulties faced by the Winnipeg Royal Ballet, a new type of spaghetti, and so on.

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Volume [R15773] 78--84

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