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Larry and Mildred MacDonald fonds [sound recording, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1953-1957.

Reference:

R9436-0-5-E

Type of material:

Sound recordings, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

193810

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Larry and Mildred MacDonald fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1953-1957.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 audio disc (12 min).
2 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of a radio drama written in 1953 by Larry and Mildred MacDonald about an immigrant who works as a domestic while training to be the leading ballerina of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

Also included in fonds are photographs of Larry MacDonald interviewing Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent on his return from a conference in Bermuda with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 27 March 1957; and Larry MacDonald interviewing Solon Low, leader of the National Social Credit Party, at the Ottawa airport, Ottawa, Ont., ca. 1957, with CBC Television news crew in the foreground.

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MacDonald, Larry, 1921-1997
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Dominion-Wide

Associated name: MacDonald, Mildred, 1927-2009
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MacDonald, Larry, 1921-1997 : Larry MacDonald was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan on 22 August 1921. He joined the army at the outbreak of the Second World War and was injured at the Battle of Caen in 1944. Following the war MacDonald entered the field of broadcasting, working as a journalist in the CFRA (Ottawa) newsroom. Thereafter he began working as an on-air reporter and Senior News Editor for the CBC. MacDonald was the first CBC Television Newscaster in Ottawa. He was the winner of two North American broadcasting awards, and the 1969 Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation Award. MacDonald retired in 1982 after 28 years of service with the CBC. In 1988 he completed Good Evening, a book dealing with the early days of the CBC TV News. MacDonald was a Life Member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and the National Press Club of Ottawa. He was married to CBC broadcaster Mildred MacDonald. Larry MacDonald died in 1997.

MacDonald, Mildred, 1927-2009 : Mildred MacDonald, CBC broadcaster, was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. She began her journalism career with various Saskatchewan newspapers, moving on to broadcast journalism as a stringer for CHAB radio in Moose Jaw. After the Second World War MacDonald joined CFRA (Ottawa) where she hosted a daily magazine program called Meet Mildred Joyce. Thereafter, she moved to CBO to write and voice the daily Morning Commentary. In the mid 1950s MacDonald joined the CBC/CBO as a journalist, broadcaster, columnist and host. MacDonald contributed to network programs including Assignment, Trans Canada Matinee and the International Service, Metronome, Radio Noon and Les McLaughlin's Northern Service, as well as television programs such as Marketplace, Diplomatic Passport, and In Town and Out.
Over the course of her career MacDonald worked on thirty-four radio programs and five television shows. She retired from the CBC in 2001. MacDonald was married to CBC broadcaster Larry MacDonald (1921-1997). Together they had one child, Alexandra MacDonald. Mildred MacDonald died on June 4th 2009 at the age of 81 years.

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Sound recording: (Electronic) Refer to MINISIS for item-level description.

Photographs: (Electronic) Refer to MINISIS for item-level description.

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General note:

Sound recording was acquired in 1988 from Alexandra MacDonald of Ottawa, Ontario, daughter to Mildred and Larry MacDonald. Photographs were acquired in 1988, source unknown.

Citation/reference note:

A brief description of the radio drama in accession 1988-0316 (MISA) is in the book Canadian National Theatre on the Air, 1925-1961: CBC-CRBC-CNR Radio Drama in English: a Descriptive Bibliography and Union List.

Associated material note:

A script is on microfilm at the Concordia University Centre for Broadcasting Studies in Montreal.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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154-88
1988-0316 MISA
1988-085 DAP
895 (1988-06-22)
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Sound recordings

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Graphic (photo)

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Sound recording: Reproduction with written permission of CBC.
Photographs: No restrictions on use. Copyright held by Dominion-Wide.

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Date modified:: 2024-05-10