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Henry Borden fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1898-1983.

Reference:

R1619-0-9-E, MG30-A86

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101492

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Henry Borden fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1898-1983.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

36 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of personal correspondence relating primarily to Borden's wartime activities as General Counsel to the War Supply Board and to the Department of Munitions and Supply, and as Chairman of the Wartime Industries Control Board, 1937-1975; correspondence between A.G.L. McNaughton, Charles P. McTague and Borden concerning McNaughton's possible adherence to the Progressive Conservative Party, 1944, 1972; speeches by Borden, Donald Gordon, C.D. Howe, J.L. Ilsley and others on the wartime controls program, 1940-1943; Borden family papers, 1898-1979; memoirs of Henry Borden, 1978-1979-1983; and memoirs of Dr. Bruce Macdonald of University of Toronto, 1953.

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Borden, Henry, 1901-1989
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Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

Borden, Robert Laird, Sir, 1854-1937

Power, Charles S., ca. 1939-1943

Borden (family)

Borden (famille)
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Borden, Henry, 1901-1989 : Henry Borden, businessman and public servant, was born in Halifax and educated at McGill, Dalhousie and Oxford. He served as General Counsel to the War Supply Board, 1939 to 1940 and to its successor, the Department of Munitions and Supply, 1940 to 1942. From 1942 to 1943 he was Chairman of the War Industries Control Board. He was President and then Chairman of Brazilian Traction Light and Power Co., 1946-1966, and President and Chairman of the British Newfoundland Corporation (Brinco), 1965-1969. He held directorships in Brascan, Barclay's Bank (Canada) and other companies as well as serving as Vice-Chairman and Chairman, 1947-1968, of the Board of Governors of the University of Toronto. A nephew of Sir R.L. Borden, he edited the elder Borden's memoirs, 1938 and letters 1971. He was created C.M.G. in 1943. See: Canadian Encyclopedia, p. 203.

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General note:

Received in 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1986 from Henry Borden.
Subject heading:

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University of Toronto

Henry Borden - Finance, Personal, [1937-1975] Canada. War Supply Board, [1937-1975]

Reverend Dr. Bruce Macdonald - Biography, 1932-1945 Canada. Dept. of Munitions and Supply, [1937-1975]

Henry Borden - Family, 1898-1979 Sir Robert Laird Borden, 1937

Henry Borden - Correspondence, 1944 A.D.P. Heeney, 1939

A.G.L. (Andrew George Latta) McNaughton - Correspondence, 1944 C.D. (Clarence Decatur) Howe, 1940-1951

Addresses, speeches, etc., Canadian, 1940-1943 Donald Gordon, 1943

Borden family - Genealogy, [1898-1979] Percy H. Gordon, 1940

Laird family - Genealogy, [1898-1979] Stephen Leacock, 1943

Business enterprises - Canada, [1937-1975] J.L. Ralston, 1943-1944

Sidney E. Smith, 1939-1943

J.L. (James Lorimar) Ilsley, 1940-1943

The Politics of Survival

J.L. (Jack Lawrence) Granatstein

Brascan (Firm), [1937-1975]

Barclay's Bank, [1937-1975]

Canada 1935-1948
Source:

Private

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MG30-A86
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