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Churchill, Gordon - Interview

Item number (ISN):

389305

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1980-09-17

Item number (ISN):

389305

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1980-0119

Media:

Sound

Part:

4 of 4

Production date:

1980-09-17

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of the Honourable Gordon Churchill by author Peter Stursberg, about: Gordon Churchill; his memories of public life; the Avro Arrow; the Progressive Conservative government's decision to discontinue the Avro Arrow program in 1958; Murray Peden; John G. Diefenbaker; Crawford Gordon; Department of Defence Production and the scrapping of the Avro Arrow; Gordon Churchill; his article entitled “The Villains in the Tragedy of the Arrow” (with a reading of this article by Gordon Churchill); federal election of 1963; charges of American interference; Richard Starnes; Walton Butterworth; the "Butterworth letter" affair of 1963 (with a reading of the letter by Gordon Churchill); Lester B. Pearson; Howard Green; the 1964 Progressive Conservative Party annual meeting; the leadership issue; the flag debate of 1964; Leon Balcer; Dalton Camp; the anti-Diefenbaker movement within the Conservative Party circa 1965; Walter Gordon; the 1965 federal election; the Liberal government circa 1963-1965; Duff Roblin; Conservative Party circa 1962-1968; Churchill's attempt to draft Duff Roblin into the federal political arena in 1965; the Conservative Party leadership convention of 1965; Lucien Cardin; the Liberal government of 1965-1968; the Gerda Munsinger affair; John G. Diefenbaker and the Munsinger affair; the Conservative Party leadership question; Dalton Camp; Robert Stanfield; Quebec's power over the federal government; the Conservative Party's failure in Quebec; Churchill's support for Diefenbaker as leader of the Conservative Party; his petition to that effect in November 1966; the 1967 Conservative Party leadership convention; Donald Fleming; Dick Bell; John G. Diefenbaker; his refusal to disclose his intentions with regard to his candidacy at the 1967 leadership convention; Churchill's attempts to dissuade him from running; his decision to run and support received; Gordon Churchill; his break with Robert Stanfield and the Conservative Party; defeat of the Liberal government over a major finance bill in February 1968; Stanfield's support for Pearson in not forcing the resignation of the Liberal government; and Churchill's views on Robert Stanfield. <4h 5m>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. Final interview in a series of three (for the first two interviews see accession 1980-0031).~3. Recorded by Peter Stursberg in Mill Bay, Vancouver Island for the joint Library of Parliament-Public Archives of Canada oral history project.~4. Gordon Churchill died on 3 August 1985.~5. There is no release form on file at Library and Archives Canada for this interview.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

459087

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02683

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

459088

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02685

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1105220

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02684

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Open

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 22018

Reproduction access:

Crown copyright : no donor restrictions : with written permission of interviewee

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