Richard Albert Bell fonds [multiple media]

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Richard Albert Bell fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1855, 1927-1989.

Reference:

R3758-0-3-E, MG32-B1

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Sound recordings, Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

98363

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Richard Albert Bell fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1855, 1927-1989.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

32.794 m of textual records.
330 photographs : negative, b&w & col.
ca. 7 film reels (2 h, 15 min).
1 audio disc (2 min).

Language of material:

English

Accession:

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Richard Albert Bell collection [graphic material]

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Fonds consists of records relating to Richard Bell's career and some personal papers. The records are divided into 11 textual series and one series of oversize (horizontal) material: Pre-Parliamentary Series, which is comprised of material from his university education and the P.C. Party; Carleton Constituency Files; 1st Parliamentary Series; Reference Series; 2nd Parliamentary Series; Department of Citizenship and Immigration Series, including individual immigration case files, Indian Affairs policy, subject and case files, and material from the National Film Board, National Gallery, and Public Archives-National Library; Legal Series; Cancer Series, relating to Bell's involvement with the Canadian Cancer Society; Speech Series; Post-Parliamentary Series; and Scrapbooks. Volumes 180 to 194 consist of horizontal files.

Fonds also contains photographic material depicting Richard Albert Bell's political career; a panoramic group photograph of unidentified delegates to the Conservative Forum, Trinity College, Port Hope, Ontario, 7 September 1942; portraits of Richard A. Bell.

Also included are documentaries recording the activities of Progressive Conservative personalities throughout their public lives. George A. Drew and John Bracken are singled out in the films Statesman in the making and John Bracken Canadian. Other films include: Life and death of pay packet; District committee room; World of plenty; and Equality for agriculture, [ca. 1940-1949].

Fonds also includes one sound recording of an election campaign message by John P. Robarts, Premier of Ontario, 1967.

Provenance:

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Bell, Richard Albert, 1913-1988
Additional name(s):

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Canada. Parliament. House of Commons

National Gallery of Canada

Canada. Parlement. Chambre des communes

Angus, David, ca. 1984
Biography/Administrative history:

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Bell, Richard Albert, 1913-1988 : Richard Albert Bell, Cabinet Minister, was born September 4 in Britannia Heights, Ontario, on property settled by his great-grandfather in 1818. He attended Nepean High School before graduating from the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1938. A senior partner in Bell, Baker, Thompson, Oyen and Webber, he devoted many years of service to the Progressive Conservative Party. His political appointments include: assistant private secretary to the Minister of National Revenue, 1934-1935; assistant Dominion organiser of the P.C. Party in the 1935 election; Secretary to the Leaders of the Opposition, 1938-1943; National Director of the P.C. Party, 1943-1949; Chairman of the National Campaign Committee, 1952-1953; and Chairman of the P.C. National Convention in Ottawa, 1956. He was first elected to the House of Commons (Carleton) in the 1957 general election. Mr. Bell was re-elected in 1958 and 1962, but was defeated in the 1963 election. He was re-elected in 1965 but defeated in 1968 in the newly created constituency of Ottawa West. During his parliamentary career he held the following positions: Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Finance, 1957-1959; Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance, 1959-1962; and Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, 1962-1963. Not considering the above to be too heavy a work load, Mr. Bell was also active in many other areas. These include: Bencher, Law Society of Upper Canada, 1956-1961; President Carleton County Law Association, 1957-1958; Member of the Ontario Law Reform Commission, 1964-1986; Board of Directors, Queensway-Carleton Hospital, 1972-1983; President, Ontario Division Canadian Cancer Society, 1974-1975; Board of Governors, Carleton University, 1974-1983; and Board of Directors, Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, 1974-1987.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding Aid No. 460 is arranged by series, in rough chronological order. The files therin are arranged alphabetically by subject. The only exception being the Department of Citizenship and Immigration series, where the departmental alpha-numeric filing system has been retained. MSS0460 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000070.pdf

Moving images (Electronic) See MISACS for item level descriptions. (Restrictions not set)

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General Note:

Volumes 1-130 and 179, were donated to the National Archives by Mr. Bell between 1961 and 1972, with the bulk of the material arriving in 1968 upon Mr. Bell's retirement from politics. Volumes 104-178 were willed to the National Archives in 1988. Volumes 180-194 were created from horizintal files. Photographs were received from Mr. Richard A. Bell and Mrs. Ruth Bell.
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Canada - Officials and employees

Legislators - Canada, [1855], 1927, 1930-1989 Canada. Dept. of Citizenship and Immigration, 1962-1963

Cabinet ministers - Canada, [1855, 1927, 1930-1989] John Diefenbaker, [1951-1972]

Richard Albert Bell - Career in politics and government, 1927, 1930-1989 National Film Board, 1957-1963

Ontario - Politics and government, 1957-1968 Canada. Public Archives, 1957-1963

Canada. Parliament - Elections, 1957-1968 Canada. National Library, 1957-1963

Canada. Parliament - Election districts, 1957-1968 Bell, Baker, Thompson, Oyen and Webber, 1948-1988

Elections - Canada - Carleton (Ont.), 1957-1968 Ontario Law Reform Society, 1955-1988

Political parties - Canada, 1927, 1930-1989 Upper Canada Law Society, 1955-1988

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Platforms, 1957-1968 Canadian Cancer Society, 1965-1988

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - History, [1927, 1930-1989] Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, 1958-1988

Education, Higher - Canada, 1930-1956 Carleton University (Ottawa, Ont.), [1948-1989]

Law - Study and teaching, [1930-1956] Queensway-Carleton Hospital (Nepean, Ont.), [1948-1989]

Canada - Emigration and immigration, 1955-1963

Bribery - Canada, [1951-1972]

Opposition (Political Science) - Canada, 1927, 1950-1968

Political leadership - Canada, [1951-1972]

National Capital Region (Canada), [1927, 1950-1968]

Citizenship - Canada, 1942-1966

Indians of North America - Canada - Government relations - 1951- , 1955-1963

Indians of North America - Canada - Education, 1955-1963

Law firms - Canada, 1948-1988

Ottawa (Ont.) - Law firms, 1948-1988

Lawyers - Ontario, 1948-1988

Law - Ontario, 1948-1988

Lawyers - Societies, etc., 1955-1988

Cancer - Ontario, 1958-1988

Medical care - Canada, 1948-1988

Politicians - Retirement, [1855, 1934, 1948-1989]

Ottawa (Ont.) - Universities and colleges, [1948-1989]

Election campaigns - Canada, 1957-1968

Political conventions - Canada

Speeches, addresses, etc., Canadian

Hommes politiques Canada

Politicians Canada

Canada
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1975-08-20)
(1989-05-12)
118-020072-1
122-89
1967-122 NPC
1973-202 NPC
1975-0213 MISA
1988/0105
1988/0112
1989-0312 MISA
1989-163 DAP
1990-616 DAP
90-386

Former archival reference no.:

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MG32-B1
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000799.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Finding aid box [FA 460] 48

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [BELL, RICHARD ALBERT 1989-163]

[Consultation 90 Open]

4146;

[Consultation 90 Open]

C 0260;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [BELL, RICHARD ALBERT 1990-616] SC 2053

[Consultation 90 Open]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

Terms of use:

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Photographs: no restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.
Moving images and sound recordings: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the copyright holders.

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