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Senate [textual record, graphic material]

Niveau hiérarchique :

Série

Date :

1865-2003.

Référence :

R16050-21-X-E

Genre de documents :

Documents textuels, Documents photographiques, Objets (incluant les médailles et épinglettes), Documents sonores

Trouvé dans :

Archives / Collections et fonds

No d'identification :

5265250

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Allan J. MacEachen fonds

Senate
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Série comprend :

12 description(s) de niveau inférieur
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Date(s) :

1865-2003.

Lieu de création :

Canada

Étendue :

40.71 m of textual records.
32 photographs : b&w prints ; 20 x 25 cm and smaller.
234 photographs : col. prints ; 20 x 26 cm and smaller.
397 digital textual records.
1 pin : pewter.
1 silver medal.
1 audiocassette : 12 min.

Langue du document :

anglais

Portée et contenu :

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Overall, much of the material focusses on Allan J. MacEachen's role as the Majority Leader of the Senate, particularly during the 1984-1991 period. During this period, MacEachen occupied the unofficial role of Leader of the Opposition, following the landslide federal election victory of the Mulroney Government in 1984. As the Opposition Senate Leader, representing the majority in the Senate, MacEachen and his Liberal colleagues opposed many of the initiatives put forward by the new Conservative Government, including NAFTA, the imposition of the GST, Bill C-103, an act to establish the Atlantic Canadian Opportunities Agency, Bill C-124, an act to amend the Canadian Labour Code and others. The decision, taken in 1991, by the Conservative Government to add Conservative Senators to the Senate ended MacEachen's role as a significant obstacle to an advancing Progressive Conservative Party agenda.

Also included in the series are the committee records of three initiatives that MacEachen chose to involve himself in as his career as a federal parliamentarian came to an end. MacEachen was a prominent Canadian member of the Bank of Montreal's International Advisory Committee and was a member of the Atlantic Bridge Group. A related record in the Special Issues sub-series details MacEachen's role as a participant in the review of Canadian Foreign Policy in 1994. Records relating to this committee work include minutes, agendas, briefing materials, correspondence and reports, detailing MacEachen's involvement in as well as the mandates, activities and goals of each of the committees.

Much of the material in this series, many, many small individual files containing a single piece of correspondence, a card, a memoranda or note-to-file and many informational files, seem to have been amassed with a view to assisting MacEachen compose a chapter, an anecdote or a reference for a post-mortem on a long and distinguished political career. These subject files, then, aside from the files that have been placed in specific, subject-based sub-series, have been left in this one, very large sub-series.

MacEachen, it is noted, continued to work on this monograph following his departure from the Senate in 1998, finally submitting a draft of the first nine chapters to a publisher in 2002. This draft, which covered MacEachen's early life growing up in Inverness, Nova Scotia, his formative years at St. Francis Xavier University and his political career up to 1968, was never completed.

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Historique de la conservation :

This material was transferred to Library and Archives Canada over a ten year period from 1998 to 2008, well after MacEachen retired from the Senate in 1996. While he retired in 1996, MacEachen was able to continue to occupy a Senate office until 1998 and it was during this period of time, from 1996 to 1998, that the records in this series were organized and processed for transfer. At least two sets of student researchers, in 1996 and 1998, worked on creating file lists and organizing the material. .

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The material in this series has been segregated and processed largely on the basis of its contents and custodial history. An initial box survey inventory of the approximately 175 boxes of material and an overall lack of inherent organization suggested the need to organize the material into approximately eleven or twelve sub-series, including separate categories for administration, legislation, briefing materials, committees, correspondence, politics, Nova Scotia, personal, special issues, speeches and subject files. This triage was undertaken, resulting in about 50 boxes of material being assigned to ten sub-series, the subject or operational records category being triaged last.

At that point, processing this last sub-series, subject or operational files, it became apparent that, overall, these last several hundred volumes of MacEachen material appeared to be organized primarily to support his attempts to write his political memoirs. Documents in the file themselves illustrate how MacEachen directed his student researchers to organize his material around themes and issues that he championed over his political career and intended to interpret in some detail, his attempts to secure funding to help him publish and even efforts to find an appropriate archival repository that would support this literary endeavour.

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Documents textuels

[Consultation96 Restrictions varient]

Volume [R16050]

[Consultation 90 Ouvert]

1269--1351;

[Consultation 90 Ouvert]

1359--1366;

[Consultation 90 Ouvert]

1474--1483;

[Consultation 90 Ouvert]

1609--1614;

[Consultation 90 Ouvert]

1622;

[Consultation 90 Ouvert]

Volume [R16050]

[Consultation 18 Restreint]

1352--1358;

[Consultation 18 Restreint]

1367--1466;

[Consultation 18 Restreint]

Documents iconographiques (photo)

[Consultation96 Restrictions varient]

Volume [R16050] 1349--1350

[Consultation 90 Ouvert]

Volume [R16050]

[Consultation 18 Restreint]

1368--1369;

[Consultation 18 Restreint]

1371;

[Consultation 18 Restreint]

1373;

[Consultation 18 Restreint]

1450;

[Consultation 18 Restreint]

1453;

[Consultation 18 Restreint]

1458;

[Consultation 18 Restreint]

1471--1473;

[Consultation 18 Restreint]

Objet

[Consultation90 Ouvert]

Volume [R16050]

[Consultation 90 Ouvert]

1471;

[Consultation 90 Ouvert]

1622;

[Consultation 90 Ouvert]

Documents sonores

[Consultation90 Ouvert]

Documents textuels: électroniques

[Consultation18 Restreint]

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