Description
Title Proper | John Erskine Read Fonds |
Date(s) | 1938 |
General material designation |
This fonds contains 4 textual records.
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Scope and content |
This fonds comprises three series regarding the War Measures Act, war-time protection and other measures, decisions of an advisory committee regarding the treatment of "enemy persons" in Canada, and an interview transcript of John E. Read discussing the Department of External Affairs.
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Name of creator |
[Read, John Erskine, 1888-1973](http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=102058&lang=eng)
, lawyer and legal scholar, created this archive and gave it to the LAC in 1969.
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Immediate source of acquisition |
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
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Structure
Repository | [Library and Archives Canada](TINA_LAC.xml) |
Digital Objects (4)Correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, etc., of the Committee on Defence Co-ordination (in preparation of the proposed War Book).Facsimile: Correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, etc., of the Committee on Defence Co-ordination (in preparation of the proposed War Book).Correspondence, reports, etc., on measures to be taken in event of war with Japan and Italian intervention in the War. Included is other material on various wartime measures.Facsimile: Correspondence, reports, etc., on measures to be taken in event of war with Japan and Italian intervention in the War. Included is other material on various wartime measures.Advisory Committee on the Protection of Canadian Interests in Enemy Territory and the Treatment of Enemy Interests in Canada. General memoranda.Facsimile: Advisory Committee on the Protection of Canadian Interests in Enemy Territory and the Treatment of Enemy Interests in Canada. General memoranda.Transcript of an interview with John E. Read in which he discusses his career in the Department of External AffairsFacsimile: Transcript of an interview with John E. Read in which he discusses his career in the Department of External Affairs