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Duncan Gordon Blair fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1954-1990.

Reference:

R3369-0-2-E, MG32-C11

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103528

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Duncan Gordon Blair fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1954-1990.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

9.32 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of nine main series including Parliamentary papers, 1968-1975, 4.3 m, and Liberal Party material concerning the National, provincial and local levels, 1954-1973, 2.3 m. Papers relating to three organizations with which Justice Blair was closely involved: the Canadian Section of the International Commission of Jurists, the Canadian Judges' Conference and the Constitution and Laws Committee of the Dominion Command of the Royal Canadian Legion. There are both copies of outgoing correspondence and originals of correspondence received for each of the three organizations, as well as various subject files.

Provenance:

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Blair, Duncan Gordon, 1919-2006

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Blair, Duncan Gordon, 1919-2006 : Duncan Gordon Blair, born in 1919 at Regina, Sask., was educated at the University of Saskatchewan and at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1941. He saw action with the Irish Regiment in Italy, and was seriously wounded in May 1944. Blair, an Ottawa lawyer, served as an officer of the constituency, provincial and national organizations of the Liberal party in various capacities over a number of years. From 1964 to 1968, he was President of the Liberal party in Ontario and he sat as Member of Parliament for Grenville-Carleton from 1968 to 1972. In 1976, he was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal.

Justice Blair was president of the Canadian Section of the International Commission of Jurists from 1973-1976. He was Chairman of the Constitution and Laws Committee of the Royal Canadian Legion from 1976-1986. He was founding member of the Canadian Judges' Conference and was chairman of that organization from 1983-1984, after which time he remained a member, and was active on the compensation and nominating committees. See also: Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1972.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a file list of the whole fonds. MSS1233 (90: Open)

Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS1233 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000188.pdf

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General note:

Received in 1980 and 1992 from D. Gordon Blair, Ottawa, Ontario.
Subject heading:

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Judges - Canada

Royal Canadian Legion

Legislators - Canada, 1968-1972 Liberal Party in Ontario, 1954-1973

Canada. Parliament - Election districts, 1968-1972 Liberal Party of Canada, 1957-1973

Election districts - Ontario, 1968-1975 Canada. National Capital Commission, 1968-1972

Legislation - Canada, 1969-1971 House of Commons Committee on Procedures and Organization, 1968-1972

Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - Committees, 1968-1972 Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, 1968-1972

Civil service - Canada, 1968-1972

Political parties - Ontario, 1968-1972

Ontario - Politics and government, 1968-1972

Deschenes Commision - Berger Case

Canadian Judges Conference

International Commision of Jurists

Human Rights
Source:

Private

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MG32-C11
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