Collection search - Dorise Winnifred Nielsen fonds [textual record, graphic material]

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Dorise Winnifred Nielsen fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1938-1977.

Reference:

R4012-0-3-E, MG27-IIIC30

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103337

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Dorise Winnifred Nielsen fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1938-1977.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

35 cm of textual records.
2 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of memoirs by Mrs. Nielsen detailing her early life in Britain and Canada prior to her political career; correspondence, memoranda, notes and ephemera; political notebooks and travel journals.

The fonds also contains a photograph of Dorise Nielson after her election to the Parliament of Saskatchewan, as well as a photograph of her and others in China.

Provenance:

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Nielsen, Dorise W. (Dorise Winnifred) 1902-1980

Biography/Administrative history:

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Nielsen, Dorise W. (Dorise Winnifred) 1902-1980 : Dorise Winnifred Nielsen, née Webber, was born and educated in London, England. She came to Canada in 1927, under the auspices of the Church of England's Maple Leaf Association. She taught school in Norbury, Sask. prior to marrying Peter Nielsen, a farmer and homesteader. She became involved in agrarian politics in 1930, was a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Party, 1935, and was elected to its Provincial Council in 1937. The next year (1938), she helped form the United Progressive Movement, which was a constituency coalition of CCF, Social Credit, and Communists.

In the 1940 general election, she was elected Member of Parliament for North Battleford, Sask., as a United Progressive or "Unity" Party candidate. She was the third women to be a member of Parliament. It became known that she was a Communist, and she was defeated in the 1945 general election. She became a leading spokesperson and author for the Communist Party of Canada until the founding of the Labour Progressive Party in 1943. In 1945, she moved to Toronto and was elected a member of the Central executive of the Communist Party. She then worked on the Party magazine first as the business manager and then as a reporter and editor of the women's page.

During the mid-1950's, Nielsen found herself in disagreement with leading figures within the Canadian Party and, after spending 1955 in England, she immigrated to China in 1957. In 1962, Nielsen became a Chinese citizen. She worked as an English language teacher and as an editor at Peking's Foreign Language Press almost until her death in December 1980.

See also: The Canadian Directory of Parliament, 1867-1967, 1968.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a descriptive file list of volumes 1 to 3. MSS1404 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/p000003542.pdf

Additional information:

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General note:

Received in 1982.
Subject heading:

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Women - Biography, 1938-1977

Dorise Nielsen - Biography, 1938-1977

Dorise Nielsen - Correspondence, 1938-1976

Printed ephemera - Canada, 1938-1976

Dorise Nielsen - Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc., 1964-1977

Dorise Nielsen - Diaries, 1964-1977

China - Description and travel, 1964-1977

Women in politics - Canada

Pamphlets
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1982-169 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG27-IIIC30
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1404] 113

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions on use. Copyright varies. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.

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Date modified:: 2024-06-12