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Doug Tomlinson fonds
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Fonds includes 3.4 m of textual records. -- ca. 40 photographs
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Douglas Tomlinson was born in Toronto in 1919. He moved to Montreal in 1929. He grew up in the working-class district of Verdun. The poverty he witnessed in this depression era community inspired him for a career as a social activist. After a 4-year career in the RCAF he was discharged in Winnipeg in 1945. From there he went to Edmonton where he pursued his political interests in a variety of groups including Technocracy and The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). The many campaigns he participated in included organization for unemployment insurance, nationally funded health care, and the union movement.
Custodial history
Accessions 98-14 and 2001-160 were donated to the University of Alberta Archives by Doug Tomlinson in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Accession 95-54 was separated from a donation mostly of books made by Mr. Tomlinson in 1995 and transferred to the Archives by the University of Alberta Library Gift Unit.
Scope and content
The fonds consists of predominantly textual material with some original photographs, graphic material and ephemera. The 3.4 metres of records include bulletins, personal correspondence, executive and convention minutes from various social and political groups, newsletters, notes of 1940s radio addresses (CFRN), and photographs. Of particular note, the records document the activities of agrarian protest movements in the 1930s and 1940s. The Tomlinson records also document involvement with many other Alberta political groups from the 1930s to the 1980s. Amongst the groups documented, the records include early minutes of Canadian Commonwealth Federation meetings in Alberta, technocracy, early Alberta Federation of Agriculture documents, original Edmonton Labour Council minutes, newsletters from World War II Canadian internment camps, and meeting minutes and other documents from the Alberta section of the Communist party of Canada dating as early as the 1930s. The latter includes an original Karsh photograph of Tim Buck, former leader of the Communist Party of Canada.
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- The material is in English.
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No finding aid available. An inventory has been prepared for accession 2001-160
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The Technocracy fonds is held by the University of Alberta Archives.
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Further accruals are expected.
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Record No. 95-54, 98-14, 2001-160<br><br>
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- Tomlinson, Doug (Subject)