Collection search - Leolyn Dana Wilgress fonds [textual record, graphic material]

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Leolyn Dana Wilgress fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1926-1963.

Reference:

R4381-0-0-E, MG31-E9

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103702

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Leolyn Dana Wilgress fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1926-1963.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

10 cm of textual records.
12 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of handwritten drafts of five chapters of memoirs, 1892-1917, and four chapters of "Moscow Through the Years", n.d., 5 cm; memoranda, speeches, pamphlets, and occasional letters concerning such subjects as, Siberia 1919, and Kuibyshev, Russia, 1943, the Atlantic Alliance, NATO, Canadian export trade, western foreign policy, European economic cooperation, Canadian defence, 1958-63, and Commercial Intelligence Journals, 1926-27, 5 cm.

The fonds also contains photographs of a meeting of Commonwealth High Commissioners in London, England, March, 1951; and portraits from international political conferences attended by D.L. Wilgress, 1950-1951.

Provenance:

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Wilgress, Leolyn Dana, 1892-1969

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Wilgress, Leolyn Dana, 1892-1969 : Leolyn Dana Wilgress, born in 1892 at Vancouver, B.C., was educated in Japan and Canada. After graduating from McGill University in 1914, he joined the Department of Trade and Commerce as a trade commissioner. He served in Russia, Romania, England and Germany. In 1932 he became director of the commercial intelligence service. In 1940 Wilgress became deputy-minister of the Department of Trade and Commerce.

Wilgress joined the Department of External Affairs in 1942 as Canada's first minister and later ambassador to the U.S.S.R. He also served with the United Nations, on trade and tariff negotiations, as High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom, and on the North Atlantic Council of Deputies. From 1952 to 1953 he was Under Secretary of State for External Affairs. Following this he represented Canada at NATO Council, at OEEC, and as Canadian chairman on the Permanent Joint Board of Defence for Canada and the United States.

See also: The Canadian Encyclopedia, 1985 and The Canadian Who's Who, 1967-1969.

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General note:

Received in 1971 from Mrs. D. Wilgress.
Subject heading:

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Canada - Officals and employees, 1926-1963 Siberia (Russia), 1958-1963

Diplomats - Canada, 1926-1963 Kubibyshev (Russia), 1958-1963

Manuscripts - Leolyn Dana Wilgress, 1926-1963 Atlantic Alliance, 1958-1963

Speeches, addresses, etc., Canada, 1926-1963 North American Treaty Organization, 1958-1963

Canada - Commerce, 1956-1963 Commercial Intelligence Journals1926-1927

Canada - Military policy, 1958-1963 Moscow Through the Years, n.d

Canada - Foreign relations
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1974-450 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-E9
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG31 E 9] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [WILGRESS, DANA L. 1974-450] 4831

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions. Various copyright. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.

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