Fonds consists of items from Harbron's journalistic and academic interests in Latin America, naval, military and shipping activities in Canada and abroad, Canadian and American conservatism, as well as his work with the CBC and the Management Review Group of the Department of National Defence.
Sound recordings consists of group discussions with unidentified Junior Officers and Non-commissioned Officers with the Canadian Armed Forces. The discussions were recorded at various Canadian Forces Bases and at headquarters for air, sea, mobile, and training commands. Also included is an interview with British Minister of the Environment, Peter Walker.
Fonds also contains photographs depicting activities, equipment and personnel of the "Little Norway" training centre of the Royal Norwegiean Air Force, Toronto, 1943; testing and manufacture of the Avro Canada CF-100, C-102 Jetliner, CF-105 Arrow and Avrocar aircraft and the Orenda jet engine by A.V. Roe Canada Ltd. and Orenda Engines Ltd., Toronto; and various portraits of executives, engineers and test pilotes of A.V. Roe Canada Ltd. and Orenda Engines Ltd.
Harbron, John D., 1924- : John D. Harbron, journalist, naval officer, scholar, was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1924 and was educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Havana. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Korean War, retired as a Lieutenant-Commander, RCN, was Canadian editor of Business Week, N.Y., editor of Executive Magazine, associate editor of the Toronto Telegram, foreign affairs analyst at Thomson Newspapers and Canadian correspondent of the Miami Herald since 1972.
Harbron is the author of numerous articles and essays, and the author of Communist Ships and Shipping (1963), This Is Trudeau (1968), C.D. Howe (1976), Canada Without Québec (1977), Spanish Foreign Policy since Franco (1984), Trafalgar and the Spanish Navy (1988) and The Longest Battle (1993).
