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Fonds illustrate the many facets of David McDonalds life including personal, legal, judicial, and political interests. Material included in this fonds are: personal and professional correspondence, appointment books, reasons for judgment, committee and commission papers, and published legal material. Papers document in particular McDonald's work on behalf of the University of Alberta, 1957-1996, the Liberal Association of Alberta, 1959-1973, his judicial career, 1973-1996, and his chairmanship of the Royal Commission on Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1977-1981. The fonds is divided into eight series and thirty-two sub series. The following series of records are included:;
1) Personal papers, 1944-1996; 2) Education related material, 1957-1996; 3) Professional papers, 1958-1996, predominant 1958-1974; 4) Liberal Party Association of Alberta records, 1959-1973; 5) Judicial affiliations; 6) Judicial papers, 1974-1996; 7) Royal Commission Concerning Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police records, 1977-1995, predominant 1977-1981. 8) Photographs and memorabilia;
These records have been arranged according to subject matter, with attempts; made to follow McDonald's file inventory as listed prior to his death. The David Cargill McDonald fonds details the interests and works of one of Alberta's most influential jurists.