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[Eagleson, S.P. - Interview]

Item number (ISN):

440900

Series title:

National Research Council Oral History Project

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1975-07-10

Item number (ISN):

440900

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA / CONSEIL NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES DU CANADA

Accession:

1975-0157

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1975-07-10

Production company:

National Research Council

Production credit:

interviewer, Don Phillipson

Description:

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Interview of S.P. Eagleson by Don Phillipson. Subjects discussed include: NRC Chairmen: Dr. A.B. Macallum, Dr. A.F. Ruttan, Mr. R.F. Ross, Dr. F.D. Adams, and Dr. H.M. Tory; Tory's policy - 1927 endowments by Sun Life and Hollinger Mines Inc.; in 1940, War Research Fund received endowments from Eaton's and Bronfmans; pre-1928, the Mellon Institute was the model of industry-finance institute enabling small industries to participate as well; Irving Langmuir; foreign ownership always impeded NRC's efforts to promote research, therefore Canadian industrialists were not interested during prosperity; Canadian Manufacturers' Association supported research and NRC but had no representation on HAC, similarly to universities; G.Y. Chown; in 1928, NRC Headquarters moved to Edwards Mill on John Street from Bryson Building on Queen Street and built lab facilities with water channel, wind tunnel and hydraulic basin; Edwards Mill was used by NRC until Montreal Road labs were available in the late 1930s; in 1923, Rockcliffe site was being discussed for the NRC and it is during the Tory regime that the Montreal Road site was expropriated; CDA disagreements flowed from vague boundary between crop improvement and biological research; science department labs exhibition halls located on east side of building and housed aeronautical display until World War Two; SDL had no cafeteria until after World War Two and many staff ate sandwiches in their offices; NRC internal estimates were based on directors of divisions draft budgets, internal NRC conference; Treasury Board approval and House of Commons; at the creation of SDL, staff were initially ranked low and then came the Depression and the pay and promotion freeze; Col. F.M. Gaudet was senior full-time officer until September 1922; HAC was a self-replacing body which had always chosen its own chairman hence the resentment of imposition of McNaughton by the Government; annual report of 1944 plans peacetime policy: NRC as Government science adviser and research on engineering problems; in the 1920s, Government accepted HAC advice on scholarships and grants, building NRC labs and Association Committee system; after 1945, the Government accepted NRC proposals on atomic research, creation of DRB, establishment of Canadian Patents Ltd., and other topics; for the peacetime budget, HAC had no indication of Government plans for NRC, so HAC recommended DRB, MRC creation on their own initiative; and HAC felt that medical research was uniquely placed to raise research funds directly. <1h 59mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Subject description taken from partial transcript in binder, National Research Council Oral History Project, Index A-G.~2. Part of track 2 of PAC tape 556 and part of track 1 of PAC 557.~3. S.P. Eagleson worked for the NRC from April 1917 to July 1957.~4. Poor quality recording.

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Vault ISN:

674826

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C00557

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

674833

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C00556

Vault code:

GAT

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:

GAD 0FD645

Restrictions on consultation:

open.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

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