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Political [textual record]

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Date:

1963-1996.

Reference:

R16050-24-5-E

Type of material:

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5265261

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Allan J. MacEachen fonds

Senate

Political
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Date(s):

1963-1996.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1.55 m of textual records

Language of material:

English

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While the records span, chronologically, the 1963-1996 period, most of the records fall into the 1984-1996 period, the years Allan J. MacEachen was a Senator. Included in this sub-series are files about MacEachen's former constituency, Cape Breton Highlands-Canso, correspondence with Liberal Party associations at the county level in Cape Breton, a great deal of national Liberal Party ephemera, communiqués, press releases, campaign material, party handbooks and convention and policy files and Senate caucus files on leadership and senate reform. There is one file of "clinic notes" for the 1979-1983 period. These are records that MacEachen and his constituency office staff created to keep track of local issues and to respond to constituents' complaints, requests or demands. The notes contain accounts of regular meetings held in various small Cape Breton communities in MacEachen's riding, and consist typically of a name, address and phone number with detailed notes on the nature of the interaction and finally an action to address the issue. MacEachen evidently paid attention to these interactions with his supporters and there are numerous examples of complaints being investigated and followed up with regional, provincial and federal authorities, by MacEachen, personally, and by his staff.

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Arrangement note:

This sub-series was structured by the archivist, drawing together records relating generally to politics and the Liberal Party from records that had been created, managed and transferred to Library and Archives Canada by MacEachen. The material in this sub-series has been organized chronologically by year, and then alphabetically.

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