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Donald Wallace Munro fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1972-1984.

Reference:

R3771-0-9-E, MG32-C74

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

98330

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Donald Wallace Munro fonds
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Fonds includes:

4 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1972-1984.

Place of creation:

British Columbia

Extent:

9.35 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of a collection of papers which offers insight into the problems and concerns of Donald Wallace Munro's Esquimalt-Saanich riding on Vancouver Island. Although Munro served as an elected federal politician for 13 years (1972-1984), the vast majority of his papers is correspondence with his constituents. Their concerns are: Capital punishment, Pensions (both British retirement and Public Service Indexing), inhumane animal traps, and the environment. In addition to serving on many parliamentary and Caucus Committees, Munro also had keen interests in the plight of veteran's and in the Law of the Sea Conferences, all are well documented.

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Munro, Donald Wallace, 1916-1998
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Canada. Parliament. House of Commons

Canada. Parlement. Chambre des communes

Law of Sea Institute
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Munro, Donald Wallace, 1916-1998 : Don Munro, Member of Parliament, was born in Regina in 1916. He received his education in Regina (elementary school), Vancouver (secondary and university), the Sorbonne, France and Toronto (Master's degree). He taught high school in Coquitlam, B.C. (1939-40) before enlisting with the RCAF in 1940. As a navigator, he served in Newfoundland and Africa (1942-44), and as a navigational instructor (1942-45), before receiving his discharge in 1945.

He returned to University where he received his Masters in Political Science at the University of Toronto. Following graduation in 1946, he joined the Department of External Affairs and served in the following postings: Paris, 1947-49; Ankara, 1949-51; Dublin, 1954-55; Brussels, 1955-56; Beirut, 1960-63; and Laos, 1964-65. In 1967, he was appointed Ambassador to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Panama. He held this position until 1969.

He was first elected as a Progressive Conservative to the House of Commons for Esquimalt-Saanich in October 1972, and was re-elected in 1974, 1979 and 1980. He did not run in the 1984 election.

While in Parliament, he served on a number of committees, including External Affairs and Defense, (of which he was Chairman in 1979-1980), Fisheries and the Environment and the Joint Committee on the Constitution, as well as a number of inter-parliamentary Groups and Associations, such as the Canada/US Inter-Parliamentary Group, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, the NATO Parliamentary Association, and the Int'l Association of French Speaking Parliamentarians. He was also on the Board of the Parliamentary Relations Secretariat and attended the Law of the Sea Conferences in Caracas, Geneva and New York.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a descriptive file list. MSS0611 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000094.pdf

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General note:

Acquired in 1987 from Mr. Don Munro of Sydney, British Columbia.
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Legislators - Canada - Correspondence, 1972-1984 Esquimalt (B.C.), 1972-1984

Statesmen - Canada, 1972-1984 Saanich (B.C.), 1972-1984

Pensions - Canada, 1972-1984 External Affairs Committee, 1972-1984

Animals, Treatment of - Canada, 1972-1984 Defence Committee, 1972-1984

Environmental policy - Canada, 1972-1984 Fisheries and the Environment Committee, 1972-1984

Retired military personnel - Canada, 1972-1984 Joint Committee on the Constitution, 1972-1984

Veterans - Canada, 1972-1984 Canada/United States Inter-Parliamentary Group, 1972-1984

Pensions, Military - Canada,1972-1984 Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, 1972-1984

Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - Committees, 1972-1984 NATO Parliamentary Association, 1972-1984

International Association of French Speaking Parliamentarians, 1972-1984

Board of the Parliamentary Relations Secretariat, 1972-1984
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1987/0280

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MG32-C74
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