The Ivan L. Head fonds consists of personal and professional records created during Mr. Head's life and career from 1930-2004. Material relating to Mr. Head's personal life includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, speech notes, notes, reference material, publications/brochures, clippings, guest lists, certificates, photos, and scrapbooks. The material documenting Mr. Head's career and professional life relates to all stages of his career, including education and early career, teaching at the University of Alberta, advisor to Prime Minister Trudeau, President of IDRC, teaching at UBC, and professional correspondence, conference papers, speeches, and records created as a renowned advisor and lecturer to, and researcher and member of the international development and international law community.
The fonds consists of a small amount of material relating to Mr. Head's early years at public school in Alberta, as a student at the University of Alberta and Harvard Law School, in the foreign service with the Department of External Affairs, and later as a Professor of Law at the University of Alberta. Material includes school records, certificates, correspondence, applications, articles, programs, lecture and course notes, annual reports and reports, clippings and photos. The fonds includes Mr. Head's undergraduate and graduate theses. The fonds includes material on an Alberta initiative for a 1967 Centennial project, the Commonwealth Law Officer Program, the Electoral Boundaries Commission, legal advice sought by the Department of External Affairs, a Ford Foundation research project conducted by Ivan Head and others, and the University of Alberta's Diamond Jubilee.
The fonds consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, notes for the Prime Minister's addresses, notes, reports, clippings, brochures and photos documenting the years Mr. Head spent as Justice Minister Trudeau's Associate Counsel for Constitutional Issues (1967-68), as Legal Assistant to Prime Minister Trudeau (1968-1970) and as Foreign Policy Special Assistant to Prime Minister Trudeau (1970-78). The documents relate to a range of foreign affairs issues and policy, including economic policy, arctic policy, relations between Canada and China, Japan, the United States, the USSR, the Middle East, the Bilderberg meetings, the export of arms, nuclear arms proliferation and limitation, Canadian and international policy on disarmament, Canadian defence policy, Commonwealth heads of government meetings and missions, the United Nations, and official visits to many countries.
The fonds consists of a small number of files related to Mr. Head's years as President of the International Development Research Centre (1978-1991), including correspondence, memoranda, speech notes, reports, publications, clippings and photos, and a small amount of material related to Mr. Head's career as a Professor of Law and Director of the Liu Centre at the University of British Columbia, including annual reports, activity reports, brochures, correspondence, memoranda, meeting agendas and minutes, speeches, reports, publications and clippings.
The fonds consists of a significant amount of correspondence, conference papers, speeches, reports, project proposals, publications, articles, agendas, brochures, clippings, memoranda, photos and other material documenting Ivan Head's correspondence with colleagues in Canada and internationally, attendance and presentation at conferences in Canada and internationally, speeches, and work with international organizations and research institutes as a member, board member, administrator, advisor, and researcher.
The fonds consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, journal articles, book reviews, chapter excerpts, publications, notes, clippings and photos related to the articles, book reviews and books written and edited by Ivan Head. The fonds also consists of correspondence, speeches, certificates and degrees, programs, brochures, clippings and photos relating to the many awards and honourary doctorates received by Mr. Head between 1977 and 2002.
