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Bird, Florence - Interview

Item number (ISN):

163396

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1976-06-23

Item number (ISN):

163396

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1976-0103

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1976-06-23

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Description:

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Interview of Florence Bird, journalist, by Peter Stursberg, author, about her background; her career in journalism and broadcasting; her appointment as chairperson of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women; Lester B. Pearson; the Canadian flag; Laura Sabia; John Bird; Judy LaMarsh; C.M. (Bud) Drury; the Royal Commission on the Status of Women and public hearings; attitudes towards women; the position of women; Monique Bégin; the status of women at the CBC; Elsie MacGill; Doris Ogilvie; Jacques Henripin; Jeanne Lapointe; Lola Lange; John Humphrey; the Kennedy Commission on the Status of Women in the US; Esther Peterson; the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women; the position of women in Quebec; divorce laws and the Murdock vs Murdock case; women's property rights; the Canada Pension Plan and women's contributions and benefits; Gordon Sinclair; rape; birth control; abortion; Catholicism and its stance on abortion; and the effect on society of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. <1h 30mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded by the Public Archives of Canada in Ottawa.~2. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~3. Rights, title, interest and copyright assigned to “Her Majesty”; physical ownership retained by “Her Majesty”; and tape recordings and transcripts were opened for research as of publication of Stursberg's book on Lester B. Pearson entitled Lester Pearson and the dream of unity, published in 1978.~3. Florence Bird died on 18 July 1998.

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Vault ISN:

441635

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C00696

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

56:00

Made from:

1976-0090
FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

152205

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C07272

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

CNPT0208
C01544
C00696

Status:

MASTER
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Open

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 22018

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