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Larry Wagg fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1935-1981.

Reference:

R5611-0-0-E, MG31-B36

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Sound recordings, Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101756

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Larry Wagg fonds
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Fonds includes:

6 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1935-1981.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.5 m of textual records.
208 photographs 158 b&w.
4 audio cassettes (ca. 4 h).
3 badges.

Language of material:

English

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Larry Wagg fonds [textual records]

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Fonds consists of personal files, 1945, 1977-1980; general correspondence and memoranda file, n.d., 1951-1981; subject files relating to Wagg's work the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), the Ontario Educational Communications Authority series of television programmes on labour history, the CLC Labour Education and Studies Centre, and other aspects of labour education, n.d., 1946, 1962-1980; printed material and clippings, relating primarily to labour history, n.d., 1935, 1940-1981; memorabilia including NDP stickers and an armband and marshall's armband for the Day of Protest against wage controls, n.d., 1956.

Fonds contains photographs showing activities and conferences of the Labour Institute, First Canadian Labour Congress Ontario Summer School, and the Canadian Labour Congress Summer School.

The fonds contains sound recordings, [1970]-1980, of: a group discussion at the Canadian Labour Congress Summer School on education in the labour movement; a sound documentary entitled, Glimpses of the Past - Canadian Association for Adult Education, 1935-1975; a sound recording of a panel discussion, The Concerns of Special Interest Groups, at the symposium Education Canada, with P.C. Paul, R. Lalonde, and Larry Wagg.

The fonds also contains 3 Canadian Labour Congress badges, [ca. 1975].

Provenance:

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Wagg, Larry, 1926-

Biography/Administrative history:

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Wagg, Larry, 1926- : Larry Wagg was born in Grey County, Ont. and received his education in Guelph, Ont. In 1943, he became an apprentice member of the International Typographical Union (I.T.U.), Local 393, in Guelph. After becoming a journeyman member of the I.T.U. in 1948, Wagg served as President of the Guelph local and later became President of Brantford Local 378. From 1953 to 1956, Wagg was secretary-treasurer of the Brantford and District Labour Council, and when the new Brantford Labour Council was formed after the merger of the Canadian Congress of Labour and the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada, Wagg became the Council's first President.

Wagg joined the staff of the Canadian Labour Congress in 1961, serving as educational representative for Ontario region before moving on to become regional education director for the prairie Provinces in 1967. In 1970, he returned to Ontario to hold the position of Ontario regional director. In 1974, Wagg was appointed assistant director of education for the C.L.C. and one year later he was appointed director. In August 1981, Larry Wagg left the C.L.C. to accept an appointment as labour consellor for Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries at the Canadian High Commission in London.

Finding aid:

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Textual records: (Electronic) The finding aid is a list of file titles. A complete list of printed material transferred to the National Archives Library is available in the finding aid. MSS1520

Sound recordings: (Paper) See AV Collection files for item level descriptions.

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General note:

Acquired from Larry Wagg.

Related material:

See also Brantford Trades and Labour Council, MG 28, I 106.
Subject heading:

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Labour leaders - Canada, 1935-1981 Canadian Labour Congress, 1946, 1962-1980

Trade-unions - Oragnizing, 1946, 1962-1982 Canadian Labour Congress Labour Education and Studies Centre, 1946, 1962-1980

Trade-unions - Organizing, 1946, 1962-1980 Ontario Educational Communications Authority, 1946, 1962-1980

Education - Canada, 1946, 1962-1980 New Democratic Party of Canada, 1956

Larry Wagg - Wills, 1945
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1984-10-17)
1984-0392 MISA
1984-280 NPC
1989-548 DAP
1999-00399-3
MG31-B36

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-B36
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000532.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Finding aid box [FA 1520] 117

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Medals 14020--14022

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions. Various copyright. Badges: No restrictions. Copyright expired.
Sound recordings: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the copyright holder.

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