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Harris, Walter - Interview

Item number (ISN):

389381

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1979-07-25

Item number (ISN):

389381

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1979-0124

Media:

Sound

Part:

5 of 5

Production date:

1979-07-25

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of Walter Harris, lawyer and former Liberal Member of Parliament for Grey-Bruce (1940-1957) and Cabinet Minister in the Louis St. Laurent government, by author Peter Stursberg; about: Walter Harris; his family background; his education; acquiring his legal practice in Markdale in 1931; Patrick McCullough; Markdale, Ontario circa the 1930s; his early involvement in politics; Agnes MacPhail; the United Farmers of Ontario; J.J. Morrison (Secretary of the United Farmers of Ontario 1915-1933); Ernest Charles Drury (Premier of Ontario 1919-1923); the Ontario election of 1919; Sir Adam Beck; the Progressive Party; the "Ginger Group" (left-wing Progressives); the federal election of 1940; reasons for Walter Harris' defeat of Agnes MacPhail in Grey-Bruce during the 1940 federal election; his joining the Graham Simcoe Foresters in September 1939; his wartime experiences as an officer and an MP; the House of Commons during World War II; its atmosphere; Jimmy Sinclair; William Lyon Mackenzie King; Jimmy Gardiner; J.L. Ralston; the conscription crisis of 1944; Angus Lewis MacDonald; C.G. "Chubby" Power; the federal election of 1945; John Bracken; William Lyon. Mackenzie King; his campaign promise for a Canadian flag in 1945; the Canadian flag debate in 1945 and 1946; the joint Senate-House of Commons Flag Committee; J.L. Ilsley; Louis St. Laurent; Jean Lesage; General A.G.L. McNaughton; Harris’ appointment and experiences as Parliamentary Assistant to the Secretary of State for External Affairs (Louis St. Laurent) in 1947 and 1948; the 1948 Liberal Party leadership convention; his appointment and experiences as Minister of Citizenship and Immigration 1950-19; the Hal Banks affair; Indian Act revisions circa 1952; the 1949 federal election; Louis St. Laurent; Paul Hellyer; David Croll; his appointment and experiences as Minister of Finance 1954-1957; the Canadian economy in the 1950s; a universal hospitalization scheme (1957); his experiences as House Leader 1950-1957; the House of Commons debate on the Emergency Measures Act circa 1955; C.D. Howe; Lester B. Pearson; the House of Commons pipeline debate and the introduction of closure in May 1956; Louis-René Beaudoin; Colin Cameron; John Deutsch; James Coyne; the bank rate circa 1956; governmental responsibility for the Bank of Canada; Louis Rasminsky; the "tight money policy" circa 1956; increasing the old-age pension by $6 (or 15 percent which equalled the cost of living increase); his being called "six-bucks Harris"; the 1957 federal election; the Suez crisis in 1956; the 1958 Liberal Party leadership convention; his decision to run for the provincial leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1958; the 1968 federal Liberal Party leadership convention; reversion to a two-Party system; the future of the Liberal Party; Joey Smallwood; Sir Albert Walsh; and Sir Leonard Outerbridge. <4h 31mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. Recorded by Peter Stursberg for the joint Library of Parliament-Public Archives of Canada oral history project.~3. This interview is closed, except with permission of Walter Harris (Walter Harris died on 10 January 1999).~4. There is no release form on file at Library and Archives Canada for this interview.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

460382

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02471

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

460384

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02472
C02473

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 22018

Reproduction access:

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

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