The series documents Flora MacDonald's activities as a tutor with the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University; President of the Elizabeth Fry Society, Kingston; founding member and first Executive Secretary of the Committee for an Independent Canada; member of the Hotel-Dieu Hospital Finance Committee, Kingston; Director of the Canadian Institute of Public Affairs; Director of the Douglas-Caldwell Foundation; Co-Chairperson of the Waterfront Committee in Kingston; and consultant with the Royal Commission on the Status of Women and some activities related to her work as National Secretary of the Progressive Conservative Association of Canada. The files were created and kept by Flora MacDonald during her stay at Queen's University.
The record types are: background discussion papers for PC Party Annual meetings, 1971; press releases; speeches - Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1971, Robert L. Stanfield, 1968-1971; research notes; bulletins, newsletters and literature received from correctional institutions; papers produced by university professors; correspondence - incoming, outgoing dealing with Committee for an Independent Canada; essays on an Independent Canada; minutes of the National Executive meetings of the Committee for an Independent Canada, 1971; clippings; transcripts of Flora MacDonald interviews; minutes of the Elizabeth Fry Society, Kingston, 1950-1965; minutes of the Finance Committee of the Hotel-Dieu, Hospital, Kingston, 1970-71; PC Party speakers handbook, 1954; working documents for PC Party annual meeting and Policy Conference, December 1971; communiques, PC Party; minutes of the Executive Committee of the PC Association of Canada, 1966-1969; and incoming correspondence from various PC organizations.
Constitution- Canada; Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau; Canadian Civil Liberties Association; Corrections associations; Canadian Institution on Public Affairs; committee on an Independent Canada; CUSO and International Centre; Douglas-Caldwell Foundation; Drug Abuse Education Unit; electoral system in Canada; Elizabeth Fry Society, Kingston; foreign policy and foreign aid; French Canada; Grand Theatre, Kingston; Hotel-Dieu, Kingston; housing construction cost, Kingston; India - Documentation collected by Flora MacDonald during her 1969 trip; industrial expansion; interviews of Flora MacDonald's pertaining the PC Party; Liberal Party of Canada; National Committee for Canadianization of Canadian Universities; personal correspondence, 1967-1972; papers and articles prepared by Flora MacDonald; Political Party System in Canada; prison for women, Kingston; PC Party - various branches and organizations; Robert L. Stanfield; Canada Water Act (Proposed), 1968; seminar on Canada - U.S. relations (Queen's), 1969; Sealed Knot, Kingston, 1970-71; Social Planning Council, Kingston; taxation; War Measures Act, 1970-1971; women in politics, 1957-1971; and women's liberation.
