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Walter James Turnbull fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1945-1950, 1983.

Reference:

R2580-0-1-E, MG30-E543

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

106719

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Walter James Turnbull fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1945-1950, 1983.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

11 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of diaries kept by Walter Turnbull, which document his activities as Deputy Postmaster-General from 1945-1950. They describe telephone and personal interviews with colleagues, employees and politicians about the administration of the post office.

Also included in the fonds, is 2 typed drafts of chapter one (and introduction/foreword) of work titled: "Humpty Dumpty: Rise and Fall of the Post Office Department, 1945-1982" (by Walter Trumbull, 1983).

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Turnbull, Walter James, 1896-1987

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Turnbull, Walter James, 1896-1987 : Walter J. Turnbull was born in 1896 in Oxford Mills, Ontario, 56 km southwest of Ottawa. He joined the post office at age 19, where he worked in the area of public relations. He was seconded from the post office during the Second World War and was principal secretary to Prime Minister Mackenzie King. He served as liaison between the press train and the royal train, when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the country in 1939. He attended the meeting in Quebec city in 1943, where Winston Churchill and Franklin Rosevelt planned the 1944 invasion of Normandy. In June 1945, Turnbull was appointed Deputy Postmaster-General. In 1957, he organized the International Postal Union Congress in Ottawa. After retiring in 1957, Turnbull organized the postal service in the West Indies.

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General note:

Donated in 1993 by Mr. A.W. Hynes.
Subject heading:

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Railway mail service

Walter James Turnbull - Diaries, 1945-1950 Canada Post

Postal service - Canada, 1945-1950

Postal service - Canada - Employees, 1945-1950

Postal service - Canada - Postmasters, 1945-1950

Postal service - Censorship - Canada, 1945-1950

Postal rates - Canada, 1940-1950

Postal service - Damaged mail, 1940-1950

Postal service - Canada - Employees - Salaries, etc., 1945-1950

Franking privilege, 1945-1950

Air mail service - Canada, 1945-1950

Postal service - Foreign mail, 1945-1950
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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120-020109-4
2018-00015-2

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MG30-E543
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