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Frank Howard fonds [textual record, cartographic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1875-1974.

Reference:

R3507-0-7-E, MG32-C20

Type of material:

Textual material, Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103533

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Frank Howard fonds
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Fonds includes:

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Date(s):

1875-1974.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

15.4 m of textual records.
19 maps

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence and reference files collected by Frank Howard during his term as Member of Parliament for Skeena, B.C., 1957-1974.

Fonds also consists of maps primarily of the federal riding of Skeena or other regions of British Columbia. There are also maps of northwestern Canada and the Atlantic provinces as well as maps of 1972 federal election results across the country.

Provenance:

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Howard, Frank, 1925-

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Canada. Parliament - Election districts

Biography/Administrative history:

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Howard, Frank, 1925- : Frank Howard, born in 1925 at Kimberley, B.C., concluded his formal education at grade ten. In 1943, he commenced work at the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Kimberley, British Columbia. Howard later began an apprenticeship as an iron moulder and then entered the logging industry. While working in the logging industry, he became active in the International Woodworkers of America (I.W.A.). In 1949, he was elected trustee of the I.W.A. Local 1-71, and in July 1949 he became an I.W.A. organizer and was assigned to work in local 1-71. He was president of the local from 1950 until 1957.

He was a Member of the Legislative Assembly, representing Skeena from 1953 to 1956, and then from 1979 to 1986. He served as N.D.P. House Leader, 1980-1985 and Opposition Debate Leader for the Ministry of Forests. He was a Member of Parliament, representing Skeena, B.C., from 1957 to 1974. During his political career, Frank Howard had been a parliamentary observer to the 13th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1958. He was parliamentary delegate to the N.A.T.O. Atlantic Congress at London in 1959. He was a member of the 1962 Canada - U.S. Interparliamentary Group.

See also: Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1985, 1987.

Finding aid:

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Textual records ; cartographic material (Electronic) The finding aid is a list of all files in volumes 1 to 77 as well as the maps in boxes 2000005051 and 2000022492. MSS1359 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002559.pdf

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General note:

Received in 1976 from Frank Howard of Aylmer East, Que.
Subject heading:

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Frank Howard - Correspondence, n.d., 1938-1974 Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, 1957-1974

Legislators - Canada, 1957-1974 Skeena (B.C.), 1957-1974

Election districts - British Columbia, 1957-1974

Indians of North America - Canada, n.d., 1938-1974

Prisons - Canada, n.d., 1938-1974
Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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MG32-C20
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000838.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Finding aid box [FA 1359] 111

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

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Date modified:: 2024-05-10