Morris Cyril Shumiatcher fonds [textual record]
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Morris Cyril Shumiatcher fonds [textual record]
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Date:1946-1949.Reference:R4945-0-1-E, MG31-E19Type of material:Textual materialFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:103777Date(s):1946-1949.Place of creation:ManitobaExtent:5 cm of textual records.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Fonds consists of correspondence and transcripts of hearings before the Bird Commission.Provenance:Biography/Administrative history:Shumiatcher, Morris Cyril, 1917- : Dr. Morris Shumiatcher, barrister, was born in 1917 at Calgary, the son of pioneer Jewish lawyer Abraham I. Shumiatcher, K.C. He received his education at the University of Alberta, B.A. 1940, LL.B. 1941; a travelling scholarship to Japan 1940; and LL.M. at the University of Toronto 1942, S.J.D. 1945. He was admitted to the Bars of Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories; appointed a K.C. 1948; Officer of the Order of Canada 1982; and Order of the Sacred Treasure of Japan 1987.
He served with the R.C.A.F. 1943-1945 (air-gunner); Law Officer, Dept. of Attorney-General of Saskatchewan 1945-1949; Council to the Labour Board of Saskatchewan; Personal Advisor and Assistant to the Premier of Saskatchewan T.C. Douglas; and drafted Saskatchewan Bill of Rights in 1947.
In addition, general practise of Law since 1949; Lecturer in adult education at the University of Western Ontario and in law at Dalhousie, Toronto and Saskatchewan universities; and t.v. lecture series on International Affairs, law, Indian Affairs, civil liberties, legal problems of farmers and military law. Publications include Assault on Freedom, 1962, Man of Law: A Model, 1979 and Welfare: Hidden Backlash, 1971. National Chairman, Civil Liberties Section Canadian Bar Association; director of the Institute of International Affairs and the Saskatchewan Arts Centre; Dominion Drama Society Council and active in many other organizations.
See also Canadian Who's Who, 1989, p.806.Additional information:General note:Received in 1976 from Morris C. Shumiatcher.Subject heading:- Japanese Canadians - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
- Tommy Douglas - Correspondence, [1846-1949] Canada. Royal Commission on Japanese Property Losses, 1946-1949
- Ian A. Mackenzie - Correspondence, [1946-1949] Canada. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, [1946-1949]
- H. Francis G. Bridges - Correspondence, [1946-1949] Shumiatcher %26 Shumiatcher (Firm), 1946-1949
- M.J. Coldwell - Correspondence, [1946-1949] Japanese Canadian Citizens Association, 1947-1949
- T. Buck Suzuki - Correspondence, [1946-1949] Canada. Dept. of Fisheries, [1946-1949]
- Law - Canada - Cases, 1946-1949
- World War II - Confiscations and contributions - Canada, Western, 1942-1945
- Legislators - Canada - Correspondence, [1946-1949]
- Politicians - Saskatchewan - Correspondence, [1946-1949]
- Saskatchewan - Politics and government, 1946-1949
- Fisheries - Licenses - Canada, [1946-1949]
- World War II - Evacuation of civilians - Canada, 1942-1945
- World War II - Claims, 1946-1949
- Canada 1935-1948
- Governmental investigations Canada
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