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Sketches of Chief Justice Lamarre, Bernard Mergler and a Québec Communist Party Member

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Date:

1971

Reference:

Box number: BK-234

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2874084

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Duncan Macpherson fonds

Sketches of the Front de libération du Québec trial

Sketches of Chief Justice Lamarre, Bernard Mergler and a Québec Communist Party Member
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Date(s):

1971

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : pencil on wove paper
Support 27.500 x 35.200 cm

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three small sketches of Chief Justice Lamarre, Defense Lawyer Bernard S. Mergler and a member of the Québec Communist Party, Three rough portraits., Several other people were accused of lesser crimes in relation to the Laporte murder. They were tried in the Québec Criminal Court Building on Notre-Dame Street East in Montréal. Bernard S. Mergler acted as Defense Attorney for Hélène and Denise Quésnel (mother and daughter) who were charged with being accessories to the murder of Pierre Laporte., This collection contains 9 sketchbooks and 15 (approx.) large works. The sketches for political cartoons, mostly of FLQ trials, 1970-71.

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Artist: Macpherson, Duncan Ian, 1924-1993

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General note:

Set: Sketches for the F. L. Q. Crisis Trials

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Lamarre - chief justice. [u.l.]; Mergler tells everyone to vote guilty. [c.r.]; A member of Québec Communist party. [u.r.]; [above all recto, in pencil - in addition, colour notes]

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[Small Drawings of Chief Justice Lamarie, Bernard S. Mergler, and a Member of Québec Communist Party]
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political

social

politique

Montréal (Québec)

October crisis / F.L.Q. / Mergler, Bernard / Lamarre, Chief Justice
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Private

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1971-048 PIC
00050
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [1971-048]

[Consultation 90 Open]

BK-234 Item no. assigned by LAC 50

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1971-048]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-039659 Item no. assigned by LAC 50

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1971-48-50 Source: Gift of Mr. Duncan Macpherson, Toronto, Ontario.
Copyright: Estate of Duncan Macpherson. Copies not to be provided without the express written consent of the Estate of Duncan Macpherson

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