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Andrew Gillespie Cowan fonds [textual record, graphic material, sound recording]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1942-1977.

Reference:

R2527-0-3-E, MG30-E298

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

104783

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Andrew Gillespie Cowan fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1942-1977.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

5 m of textual records.
22 photographs : b&w.
2 audio reels (15 mins) : 18 cm and smaller.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of material relating to Andrew Cowan and his career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and is divided into the following series: CBC, Aide-Mémoire; Chronological Correspondence; Administrative Memoranda and Reports; CBC Overseas Unit and CBC International Service; CBC Armed Forces and Northern Service Subject Files; Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada; CBC and the Northern Service; CBC Miscellaneous Subject Series. Also included are personal correspondence and notes and reference material.

The fonds also contains photographic material depicting activities of Andrew Cowan of the C.B.C. in Europe; reunion of Canadian War Correspondents' Association; portraits of Cowan, Douglas La Chance and Danièle Dorice. Photographs by Newton, Capital Press and Herb Nott.

Also included are sound recordings of CBC talks and discussions about the social and economic problems of Eskimos and Indians in Canada, 1969.

Provenance:

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Cowan, Andrew Gillespie, 1910-1987
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Cowan, Andrew Gillespie, 1910-1987

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Société Radio-Canada
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Cowan, Andrew Gillespie, 1910-1987 : Andrew Gillespie Cowan, broadcaster and public servant, was born in Hamilton, Ont., but spent much of his youth in rural Saskatchewan and in Alberta. After graduating from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, Cowan continued his studies in economics at Brookings Institute, Washington, D.C., and at Harvard University, Boston. He worked for some time as an economist with a Royal Commission on the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, and on the secretariat of the International Wheat Advisory Committee in London.

In 1940 Cowan joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a producer for Talks and Public Affairs in the prairie region. Shortly after this he was organizer of Talks and Public Affairs for the whole western region as well as organizer of the National Labour Forum for Toronto and Ottawa. Cowan served as a CBC war correspondent in North Africa and Europe from 1943 until he returned to Toronto in 1945 to co-ordinate CBC Rehabilitation broadcasts for returning servicemen.

In January 1946 he moved to London as European representative of the CBC and he remained in that position until 1954. From 1954 to 1958 he was supervisor of Troop Broadcasts in Ottawa. Then in 1958 Cowan became director of the CBC Northern and Armed Forces Service, a position he held until his retirement in 1976. Mr. Cowan died in 1987, at the age of 76. Ottawa Citizen, April 28, 1987

Finding aid:

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Textual record (Electronic) finding aid is a descriptive file list. MSS1152 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002810.pdf

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General note:

Received in 1977 and 1981 from Andrew G. Cowan of Ottawa, Ont.
Subject heading:

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Radio broadcasters Canada

Animateurs de radio Canada

War correspondents Canada

Correspondants de guerre Canada
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1973-06-01)
1979-0180 MISA
1979-280 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-E298
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 E 298] 1--25

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1152] 97

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [COWAN, ANDREW GILLESPIE 1979-280] 3923

[Consultation 90 Open]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.
Sound recordings: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of copyright owner; no donor restrictions.

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Date modified:: 2024-04-09