John D. Harbron fonds [textual record, sound recording, graphic material] Archives / Collections and Fonds
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John D. Harbron fonds [textual record, sound recording, graphic material]
Hierarchical level:FondsContext of this record:Fonds includes:9 lower level description(s)View lower level description(s) -
Finding aid Textual records: (Paper) The finding aid is a descriptive list of file titles. MSS1838Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS1838
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000415.pdfSound recordings: (Electronic) See MISACS for item-level descriptions.Photographs: (Electronic) Item level description available on-line in MINISIS.Photographs: (Paper) Biography of John D. Harbron in accession file.Photographs: (Paper) Inventory list available in accession file. -
Record information John D. Harbron fonds [textual record, sound recording, graphic material]
Date:1946-1992.Reference:R5588-0-X-E, MG31-D224Type of material:Textual material, Sound recordings, PhotographsFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:105789Date(s):1946-1992.Place of creation:OntarioExtent:1.8 m of textual records.
11 audio cassettes (12 h, 8 min).
154 photographs b&w, negative.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Fonds consists of items from Harbron's journalistic and academic interests in Latin America, naval, military and shipping activities in Canada and abroad, Canadian and American conservatism, as well as his work with the CBC and the Management Review Group of the Department of National Defence.
Sound recordings consists of group discussions with unidentified Junior Officers and Non-commissioned Officers with the Canadian Armed Forces. The discussions were recorded at various Canadian Forces Bases and at headquarters for air, sea, mobile, and training commands. Also included is an interview with British Minister of the Environment, Peter Walker.
Fonds also contains photographs depicting activities, equipment and personnel of the "Little Norway" training centre of the Royal Norwegiean Air Force, Toronto, 1943; testing and manufacture of the Avro Canada CF-100, C-102 Jetliner, CF-105 Arrow and Avrocar aircraft and the Orenda jet engine by A.V. Roe Canada Ltd. and Orenda Engines Ltd., Toronto; and various portraits of executives, engineers and test pilotes of A.V. Roe Canada Ltd. and Orenda Engines Ltd.Provenance:Additional name(s):Biography/Administrative history:Harbron, John D., 1924- : John D. Harbron, journalist, naval officer, scholar, was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1924 and was educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Havana. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Korean War, retired as a Lieutenant-Commander, RCN, was Canadian editor of Business Week, N.Y., editor of Executive Magazine, associate editor of the Toronto Telegram, foreign affairs analyst at Thomson Newspapers and Canadian correspondent of the Miami Herald since 1972.
Harbron is the author of numerous articles and essays, and the author of Communist Ships and Shipping (1963), This Is Trudeau (1968), C.D. Howe (1976), Canada Without Québec (1977), Spanish Foreign Policy since Franco (1984), Trafalgar and the Spanish Navy (1988) and The Longest Battle (1993).Additional information:General note:Presented between 1990 and 1998 by John D. Harbron of Etobicoke, Ont.Subject heading:- Mexique
- Jamaïque
- Brésil
- Chili
- Guyana
- Joe Clark
- Gordon Churchill
- Alvin Hamilton
- Pauline Jewett
- Michael Starr
- Conservatism - United States, [1960-1991] Latin America, 1946-1991
- Shipping - Canada, [1950-1992] South America, 1946-1991
- Military art and science - Canada, [1950-1992] Central America, 1946-1991
- Naval art and science - Canada, [1950-1992] Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1957-1988
- Icebreaking vessels, 1981-1984 Donald S. Macdonald, 1970-1972
- Canada - Foreign relations, 1956-1991 Dr. Herminio Portell-Vila, 1960
- Canada - Defenses, 1947-1989 Kaiser Industries
- Aviation - Canada, 1947-1989 Jordan Young, 1965
- Couchiching Conferences, 1960-1969 Paul Martin, 1965
- Canada. Parliament - Elections, 1968 Judy LaMarsh, 1967
- Canada - Relations - China, [1957-1988] Canadian Association for Latin America, 1969
- White House (Washington, D.C.) Robert H. Winters
- Sugar trade Robert Choquette, 1970
- Maris Pone, 1971
- Fidel Castro
- J.C.M. Ogelsby, 1974
- Alastair Gillespie, 1975
- Jean Chrétien, 1977
- A. Curtis Wilgus, 1981
- Dan Heap, 1982
- Ivan Illich, 1979
- Domincan Republic, 1965-1984
- Puerto Rico, 1965, 1973
- Radio Canada International, 1969-1982
- Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, 1974-1991
- Mitchell Sharp, [1946-1991]
- James C. Hibbard, 1939-1967
- Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation
- Avro Arrow, [1940-1989]
- Forbes Burnham, 1973
- Michael Manley, 1973
- Donald M. Fleming
- John B. Hamilton
- William Lewis Morton
- Flora MacDonald
- John Meisel
- John G. Diefenbaker
- B. Alfred Warkentin
- Heath Macquarrie
- Fred Stinson
- W. Wallace McCutcheaon
- Paul Fox
- Denis Smith
- W.A. Curtis
- J.W. Pickersgill
- Dalton K. Camp
- Basil Dean
- E.D. Fulton
- Peter Newman
- T.H.B. Symons
- Tom Hockin
- Harvie Andre
- Michael H. Wilson
- Frank Meloy, 1976
- Ken Adelman, 1981
- Ronald Reagan, 1980-1982
- Paul H. Robinson, 1982-1985
- George P. Schultz, 1990
- Richard Nixon, [1960-1991]
- Gerald Ford, [1960-1991]
- Chile
- Cuba
- Mexico
- Brazil
- Argentina
- Jamaica
- Venezuela
- Argentine
- Panama
- Panamá
Source:PrivateFormer archival reference no.:MG31-D224 -
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