Charles Burchill Lynch fonds [multiple media]
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Charles Burchill Lynch fonds [multiple media]
Hierarchical level:FondsContext of this record:Fonds includes:12 lower level description(s)View lower level description(s) -
Finding aid Textual records: (Paper) The finding aid is a descriptive file list of the contents of volumes 1 to 16. MSS2004Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS2004
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000553.pdfPhotographs: (Paper) File list is available in the accession file.Moving images and sound recordings: (Electronic) See MISACS for item level descriptions. -
Record information Charles Burchill Lynch fonds [multiple media]
Date:1919-1994.Reference:R6102-0-4-E, MG31-D247Type of material:Textual material, Photographs, Art, Sound recordings, Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:106919Date(s):1919-1994.Place of creation:CanadaExtent:3.02 m of textual records.
894 photographs b&w, col.
5 drawings pen and ink.
1 print.
22 audio cassettes (ca. 17 h, 30 min).
8 audio reels (ca. 8 h).
1 film reel (ca. 10 min).Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Fonds consists of correspondence with Lynch's family and fans as well as correspondence with publishers and others which demonstrates his interest in business. As such, the general correspondence series includes contracts and agreements for radio and television programs with the CBC and CJOH TV. Also included are notebooks and manuscripts for his columns and programs. The fonds also consists of material relating to his public appearances, to his travels to China and the Arctic and material which highlights his activities with a number of associations and clubs. Fonds also contains printed material.
Fonds also consists of photographs, taken by a variety of photographers related to the career of Charles Burchill Lynch including: a trip to the Arctic in 1973; a trip to China in 1975; giving speeches; playing the harmonica with personalities such as Brian Mulroney and Margaret Trudeau; and the 1994 celebration of D-Day in France.
Fonds also consists of cartoons of various personalities and issues including: Charles Lynch, Robert Stanfield, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and Joe Clark. Cartoons are by Rusins Kaufmanis, Jack [Innes], George Shane and an unidentified artist.
Fonds also consists of a reproduction of a George Shane cartoon of Charles Lynch and Ab Douglas.
Fonds also consists of sound recordings relating to the career and musical talent of Lynch incuding speeches, proceedings of National Parliamentary Press Gallery Shows, radio documentaries on Canadian war correspondents and musical performances, [ca. 1958]-1989.
Also included is a television newscast from CBC's national Late News service for the evening of March 27, 1959.Provenance:Additional name(s):Biography/Administrative history:Lynch, Charles Burchill, 1919-1994 : Charles Burchill Lynch, newspaperman and commentator, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of Canadian parents on 3rd December 1919, and was brought to Canada at the age of two weeks. He grew up and was educated in Saint John, New Brunswick, and started his newspaper career there in 1936.
He worked for newspapers and news agencies in Saint John (New Brunswick), Halifax (Nova Scotia), Vancouver (British Columbia), Montreal (Quebec) and Toronto (Ontario) before joining Reuters News Agency as a war correspondent at the end of 1943. He then served as Reuters correspondent in Berlin, and headed the team of Reuters correspondents.
He remained with Reuters until 1956, on various assignments including that of Chief Correspondent in South America, Chief Correspondent in Canada (1947-1950) and Editor in New York City. In 1956, he became United Nations correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and appeared on the national TV election coverage in Canada in 1957.
Charles Lynch became Chief of the Ottawa bureau of Southam News in 1958, and was appointed Chief of Southam News in 1960, in charge of national and international news coverage. In addition to his writing, he lectured to Canadian audiences from coast to coast, and was a familiar figure on national radio and television. He served as president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1976, and received an honorary doctorate of laws from Mount Allison University the same year. He was past president of the Canadian War Correspondents Association, and in 1981 he was named to the Canadian News Hall of Fame. In December 1984, he retired from Southam News and continued to free-lance.
His writings from abroad won him the Bowater Award and the National Newspaper Award. In 1965, he published his first book, "China, One Fourth of the World", based on his dispatches during the course of a two-month tour of the People's Republic of China. In 1977, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1983, his first volume of memoirs, "You Can't Print That!", appeared later followed by a second volume, "A Funny Way to Run a Country", in 1988. He published a number of other books based upon his observations of Canadian political life including "Race for the Rose" (1984), "The Lynch Mob" (1988) and "Fishing With Simon" (1991).
In a lighter vein, Charles Lynch was also a musician of note and appeared as guest harmonica soloist with various bands and symphony orchestras. He called himself "the last of the sporting house harmonica players".Additional information:General note:Material received in 1994 from Charles Lynch's widow, Claudy Mailly, Gatineau, Quebec.Arrangement note:Photographic material is organized into 7 files. Items are organized by media within each file.Subject heading:Source:PrivateFormer archival reference no.:MG31-D247 -
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