Citizenship Judge Stanley Grizzle

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Citizenship Judge Stanley Grizzle

Item ID number:

3706558

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

[1999?].

Reference:

R10961-2-3-E, Volume number: 43

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

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Item ID number:

3706558

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William J. Stapleton fonds

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Citizenship Judge Stanley Grizzle
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Date(s):

[1999?].

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 painting : oil on canvas ; 50.8 x 40.6 cm.
Image 50.800 x 40.600 cm

Language of material:

English

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Portrait of Citizenship Judge Stanley Grizzle by William J. Stapleton.

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Grizzle, Stanley

Artist: Stapleton, W. J. (William J.), 1916-2008
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Grizzle, Stanley : Stanley Grizzle was born in Toronto in 1918. His family immigrated from Jamaica in 1911. He served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps overseas during the Second World War. From 1946 to 1962, he served as an officer of the Toronto CPR Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He ran as a CCF candidate in 1959. From the early 1960's he served with the Ontario Labour Relations Board until 1978. In that year, he was appointed Judge in the Canadian Court of Citizenship, the first African-Canadian in the court's history. He received many honours including his induction into the Labour Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Order of Canada in 1995. He has published a book, My Name's Not George (Toronto Umbrella Press 1998), the story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Canada and several brochures on Blacks in Canada.

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General Note:

Support brand: Artists' Choice / Premium Quality Canvas, Artist Approved

Alpha-numeric note:

Work carries the item number R10961-454.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed in blue, recto, lower right: Stapleton (complete transcription), Inscribed in blue ink, verso, lower right: Judge Stanley Grizzle / portrait for Labour Hall of Fame / painted from life / WJ (complete transcription)

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Portraits

Black history

Black Canadians
Source:

Private

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2003-00377-0
2003-0103 VSA
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Graphic (art)

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Colour transparency [R10961]

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C-151473;

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C-151483;

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Volume [R10961]

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43 Item no. assigned by LAC 454

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Credit: William J. Stapleton / Library and Archives Canada
Copyright: Estate of William J. Stapleton

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