Frank and Libbie Park fonds [textual record, graphic material]
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Frank and Libbie Park fonds [textual record, graphic material]
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Record information Frank and Libbie Park fonds [textual record, graphic material]
Date:1866-1997.Reference:R4846-0-X-E, MG31-K9Type of material:Textual material, PhotographsFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:105399Date(s):1866-1997.Place of creation:CanadaExtent:7.875 m of textual records.
99 photographs : b&w.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Fonds consists of material concerning "The Power of Money, The Anatomy of Big Business", "Canada: Land of Two Nations", the Canadian Youth Congress, civil liberties, the Congress of Canadian Women, Eastern Europe, the Fellowship for a Christian Social Order, the Korean War, labour movement, the Labour-Progressive Party, Marxist studies, the Media Methodist Committee, subject files, New Brunswick public affairs, the New Democratic Party, the Spanish Civil War, the Suez Crisis, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation, the USSR, the Wartime Information Board, the Women's International Democratic Federation, Second World War Marxist analyses, Radio Havana Cuba, the Canadian Textile and Chemical Union, and scrapbooks.Provenance:Additional name(s):Biography/Administrative history:Park, Frank, 1910- : Francis W. Park (1910- ) was born in Newcastle, N.B. and attended Upper Canada College and McGill University. He has practised law in Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario. He served in the Canadian Army in World War II working for the Wartime Information Board. He has since been Director of the National Council for Canadian-Soviet Friendship and managing editor of National Affairs Monthly. In 1948 he married Libbie Rutherford and in 1949 they visited Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, later writing Moscow: As Two Canadians Saw It (Toronto: 1951). The Parks were active in the Toronto Peace Council, the Canadian Peace Congress and the Labour-Progressive Party/Communist Party of Canada during the 1950s and 1960s. From 1959 to 1968 they lived in Latin America and wrote and broadcast editorials for Radio Havana. On their return to Canada, Mr. Park spent a year with the Centre for Developing Areas Studies at McGill as a research associate. He has practised law in Toronto since 1972.
Park, Libbie, 1900- : Libbie Park née Rutherford was born in Montreal in 1900, and educated at Strathcona Academy, the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing and the University of Toronto. In the 1930's she was a member of the Montreal Health Group to which Dr. Norman Bethune also belonged. During and after World War II she served in Europe with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. After the War she became secretary, Health Division, Toronto Welfare Council, 1946-1949, national secretary of the Congress of Canadian Women and secretary of the Toronto Peace Council.; Since 1952, she worked on a number of research projects with her husband Frank Park including, The Power and the Money (Toronto: 1958), Anatomy of Big Business (Toronto: 1962) and was one of three authors of Bethune: The Montreal Years, An Informal Portrait (Toronto: 1978).Additional information:General note:Received in 1979 from Frank and Libbie Park of Toronto, Ont. and in 1999 from Marguerite Taillfer of Montreal, Quebec. See accession record (2000-01189-6) for information related to media material.Subject heading:- Business enterprises - Canada, 1945-1972 Canadian Youth Congress, 1935-1940
- Canada - Economic policy, 1945-1972 Quebec (Province). Padlock Act, 1937
- World War II - Conscription, 1935-1940 Regina Riot, 1935
- Draft - Canada, 1935-1940 Canada. Canadian Bill of Rights, [between 1935 and 1962]
- Canada. Canadian Armed Forces - Recruiting, enlistment, etc., 1935-1940 Citizen's Defence Movement, [between 1935 and 1962]
- Youth - Civil liberties, 1935-1940 Civil Rights Union, [between 1935 and 1962]
- Youth - Employment, 1935-1940 League for Democratic Rights, [between 1935 and 1962]
- Regina (Sask.) - Riots, 1935 Congress of Canadian Women, 1950-1953
- Censorship - Canada, [between 1935 and 1962] Fellowship for a Christian Order, 1942-1943
- Racism - Canada, [between 1935 and 1962] United Mine Workers of America, [between 1937 and 1968]
- Civil rights - Canada, [between 1935 and 1962] United Steelworkers of America, [between 1937 and 1968]
- Prime ministers - Canada - Correspondence, [between 1935 and 1962] United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, [between 1937 and 1968]
- Race discrimination - Canada, [between 1935 and 1962] Labour-Progressive Party, 1939-1971
- Civil rights movements - Canada, [between 1935 and 1962] Communist Party of Canada, 1939-1971
- Social welfare - Canada, 1950-1953 Tim Buck, [between 1939 and 1971]
- Pacifism, 1950-1953 William Kashtan, [between 1939 and 1971]
- Hungary - History - Revolution, 1956 Leslie Morris, [between 1939 and 1971]
- Communism - Romania, [between 1949 and 1957] Czechoslovakia, 1968
- Czechoslovakia - Description and travel, 1949 Marxist Studies Centre (Toronto, Ont.), 1958-1973
- Trade-unions - Czechoslovakia, [between 1949 and 1957] Methodist Federation for Social Action, 1956-1964
- Korean War, 1950-1953 - Prisoners and prisons, 1952-1954 Mickiewicz (Adam) Centennial Committee, 1956
- Korean War, 1950-1953 - Biological warfare, 1952-1954 Jacques Herbert, 1956
- Labour movements - Canada - History, 1937-1968 Fredericton Peace Council, [between 1866 and 1970]
- Minto Strike, 1937 Malcolm Macpherson, [between 1866 and 1970]
- Strikes - New Brunswick, 1937 Herbert L. Stewart, [between 1866 and 1970]
- Trade-unions - Canada, [between 1937 and 1968] Dr. Louis Manny, [between 1866 and 1970]
- Political parties - Canada - Platforms, 1939-1971 Edward Winslow, [between 1866 and 1970]
- Housing - Canada, [between 1939 and 1971] W.D. Herridge, 1939
- Medical care - Canada, [between 1939 and 1971] New Democracy Movement, 1939
- Women - Canada, [between 1939 and 1971] New Democratic Party, 1960-1961
- Socialism - Canada, [between 1939 and 1971] Ottawa Parliamentary Study Society, 1944-1945
- Winslow family, [between 1866 and 1970] Canadian Peace Congress, 1935-1977
- New Brunswick - History, [between 1866 and 1970] Toronto Peace Council, 1935-1977
- Elections - New Brunswick, 1944, 1956 National Council for Canadian-Soviet Friendship, 1947-1954
- Elections - Canada - Provinces, 1944, 1956 Canadian League for Peace and Democracy, 1935-1939
- Labour relations - New Brunswick, 1937-1944 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1945-1946
- Political parties - Canada - Provinces, 1960-1961 Jos. Stalin, [between 1948 and 1964]
- Antisemitism, 1944-1945 Nikita Krushchev, [between 1948 and 1964]
- Peace movements - Canada, 1935-1977 Canada. Maritime Information Board, 1943-1945, 1969, 1978
- Pacifists - Canada, 1935-1977 Women's International Democratic Federation, 1949
- Spain - History - Civil War, 1936-1939 Canadian Textile and Chemical Union, 1969-1978
- Egypt - History - Intervention, 1956 Artistic Woodwork Company Ltd., [between 1969 and 1978]
- Suez Crisis, 1956 Puretex Knitting Company, [between 1969 and 1978]
- Europe - History - 1945-, 1945-1946 Canadian Union of Construction Workers, [between 1969 and 1978]
- Russia - Social life and customs, [between 1948 and 1964] York University Staff Association, [between 1969 and 1978]
- Nursing services - Europe, 1945-1946 Latin America, 1950-1959
- Nurses - Europe, 1945-1946
- Russia - Foreign relations, [between 1948 and 1964]
- China - Foreign relations, [between 1948 and 1964
- Havana (Cuba) - Radio programs, 1962-1967
- Havana (Cuba) - Radio, 1962-1967
- Canada 20th century
- Canada 20e siècle
- Labour - archival fonds
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