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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: MAIN CATALOGUE

1985-0163

Enregistrement sonore

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1964-11-02

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Speech recorded for CBC Program Archives at the CBC Twenty-Year Association and the CBC Pioneer Club, Toronto Chapter, Annual Dinner in the Four Seasons Motor Hotel. The guest speaker is Colonel William Arthur Steel, who was appointed a Commissioner with the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC) on 18 January 1933. Colonel Steel recalls the early days of the Commission, particularly the Moose River Mine disaster in April 1936 and the part played by J. Frank Willis, and the expansion of radio service to the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, Labrador and Newfoundland. He compliments the CBC for their continual expansion in those areas. J. Frank Willis expresses thanks to Colonel Steel and tells of a humorous incident when they first met in Ottawa in 1933. <20mn>

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