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Description and Finding Aid JOHN W. HOLMES FONDS F2260 Description and Finding Aid JOHN W. HOLMES FONDS F2260 Prepared by Marion Magee 2011, 2014 John W. Holmes fonds JOHN W. HOLMES FONDS Dates of creation [187-] -1991, predominant 1938-1991 Extent 12 m of textual material Approximately 200 photographs Biographical sketch John Wendell Holmes (JWH), diplomat, administrator, educator, and writer, was born in London, Ontario, on 18 June 1910 to William Wendell Holmes and Helen Morton. He received his BA from the University of Western Ontario and his MA from the University of Toronto and thereafter pursued graduate studies at the University of London (England). From 1941 to 1943 he was national secretary of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. In 1943 Holmes joined Canada’s Department of External Affairs. While in the foreign service he was first secretary in London, England, chargé d’affaires in Moscow, acting Canadian representative to the United Nations in New York, External Affairs member of the directing staff at the National Defence College (Kingston), and assistant under-secretary of state for external affairs supervising the work of the Far Eastern, United Nations, and Commonwealth Divisions. In 1960 he left the public service to become president (a title later changed to director general) of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA). He relinquished that position in 1973 but remained associated with the Institute as counsellor until his death. Holmes was a special lecturer (1962, 1963) and a visiting professor of international relations at the University of Toronto (1966-1988), a professor of international relations at Glendon College, York University (1971-1982), and a visiting professor at the University of Leeds (1979, 1985). Holmes was the author of numerous articles and book chapters as well as several books: Some Aspects of Mediation (1970), The Better Part of Valour (1970), Canada: A Middle-Aged Power (1976), The Shaping of Peace: Canada and the Search for World Order 1943-1957 (2 vols. 1979 & 1982), Life with Uncle: the Canadian-American Relationship (1981). In 1969 Holmes was made an officer of the Order Canada. In 1977 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1986 received the society’s Tyrrell medal. He was the recipient of eleven honorary degrees, an honorary fellow of Trinity College (1983), and a member of Pickering College’s Class of 1842. He died on 13 August 1988 in London, Ontario. Scope and content The fonds consists of textual material and photographs. Much of the material relates to articles, speeches, books, book chapters, radio/television scripts, and book reviews written by JWH in the areas of Canadian foreign policy and international organization. As well, there is material relating to conferences and seminars in which he participated and organizations with which he was involved, files on his teaching at Glendon College, the University of Toronto, and Leeds University and his doctoral students, files of business and personal correspondence, material collected for his two-volume work, The Shaping of Peace , family and professional memorabilia. Contains series 1. Articles 2. Speeches 3. Books 4. Book Chapters 5. Radio & Television 6. Book Reviews 7. Conferences, Seminars, Convocations 8. Glendon College, University of Toronto, Leeds University 2 John W. Holmes fonds 9. PhD Students 10. Comments on Others’ Papers/Interviews with JWH 11. CIIA Fellowships 12. Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto 13. Other Organizations & Institutions 14. Miscellaneous Correspondence 15. Papers Collected for The Shaping of Peace 16. Personal Correspondence 17. University Activities 18. Miscellany 19. Death/Memorials 20. Photographs 21. Letters to Family Notes Acquisition history: Most of the papers were stored at Glendon College after Mr. Holmes’s death and transferred to the Trinity College Archives in the autumn of 2001. In 2014 the family transferred to the Archives two sets of material (largely letters). This material is to be found in boxes 88 and 89 and 94 and 95. Arrangement: In general the material in boxes 1-67 were arranged by Gayle Fraser (GF), John Holmes’s executive assistant from 1968 until his death. The balance of the material (unsorted) arrived in boxes and was put into files by an archives volunteer. In 2002-2008, all the material catalogued by GF was checked, where appropriate hitherto unsorted material was transferred to these files, duplicates in the unsorted material were discarded, and new series/files were created for the remainder of the unsorted material. Restrictions on access : Some restrictions apply, as noted in the files descriptions. Terms governing use and reproduction / publication : Various copyright holders. It is the researcher's responsibility to obtain permission to publish any part of the fonds. Provenance access points : Holmes, John Wendell (1910-1988) Associated materials: Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA), minutes; National Archives of Canada, files relating to the CIIA’s activities. SERIES 1: ARTICLES Dates of creation: 1939-1988, predominant 1960-1988 Extent: .65 m Scope and content : This series contains articles written by John Holmes for some 60 journals, magazines, and newspapers. It includes correspondence, notes, drafts, final texts, print versions and associated materials. Note Arrangement : This material was originally arranged and catalogued by Gayle Fraser and the files were largely arranged alphabetically by the name of the publication. This arrangement has been maintained but additional material has been added from boxes of unsorted papers. 3 John W. Holmes fonds Box/file listing FOLDER/UNIT TITLE START END CONTENTS BOX/ DATE DATE FILE # Air Force College 1963 1963 ‘Canada and the Pacific,’ 1963: 1-1 Journal correspondence, including comments by Arthur Menzies, 13 Aug 1963; manuscript notes, typed text. A slightly amended version was published in The Better Part of Valour. Air University 1966 1967 ‘Canada’s role in the United Nations,’ 18:4, 1-2 Review May-June 1967: correspondence, including comments by Barry Tackaberry, 28 Jan 1967; carbon of typed text, printed version. Atlantic Monthly 1964 1965 ‘The diplomacy of a middle power,’ 214:5, 1-3 Nov 1964: correspondence; typed text, printed text. Atlantic Community 1962 1971 ‘Canada and the United States: political and 1-4 Quarterly security issues,’ 8:3, fall 1970; ‘The Atlantic Community – unity and reality,’ 2:4, winter 1964-5 – later published, slightly revised, in The Better Part of Valour : ‘Political implications of the European Community,’ 1:1, 1963. Correspondence only. See also file 6-8. bout de papier 1987 1989 ‘1945: reflections from Canada House,’ 6:3, 1-5 1989: correspondence, photocopy of printed text; ‘Containment: forty years later,’ 5:3, fall 1987: correspondence, typed text; article for same issue by John Halstead. Brookings article 1972 1973 ‘Canada – odd man out in the Atlantic 1-6 Community,’ written in 1973 for Brookings Institution report for a North Atlantic Assembly committee on the future of the Atlantic relationship. Brookings decided not to publish. Correspondence, several typed drafts. Excerpts were published in Canada: A Middle-Aged Power. Canada House 1979 [1981] ‘The changing nature of international 1-7 Lectures organization: the Canadian perspective,’ Canada House lecture series, no 8, Nov 1979: correspondence; printed text [1981]. Canadian Banker 1962 1970 ‘Canada’s role in international organizations,’ 1-8 74:1, spring 1967; ‘A Commonwealth Secretariat – new style,' 72:4, winter 1965. 4 John W. Holmes fonds Correspondence, typescript and offprint of 1965 article; offprints of 1967 article. Canadian Business 1963 1966 'NATO - a peacekeeping agency,' 39:5, May 1-9 1966: correspondence; first draft, mimeo copy. Also includes correspondence about republication of 'Japan charges Canada with discrimination in trade dealing,' which appeared in Canadian Business 34:5, May 1961. See file 89-5, list of publications, for other articles by JWH in Canadian Business . Canadian 1961 1961 'The Commonwealth as idea and prophecy,' 1-10 Commentator 5:5, May 1961: correspondence; printed version. Canadian Forum 1960 1960 'Mr. Krushchev and the UN,' 40(no 478), Nov 1-11 1960: mimeo and printed versions. See also files 5-3, 15-2, 21-2 and 21-4 re other contributions to the Forum by JWH. Canadian High 1965 1967 'The New Commonwealth,' special centennial 1-12 News supplement in Your Canada Series, 1967: correspondence; printed version. Canadian Historical 1981 1983 Correspondence re possible contribution. 1-13 Review Canadian Slavonic 1965 1965 Correspondence with Adam Bromke re 1-14 Papers Gordon Skilling's paper on 'Canada and Eastern Europe,' for Canadian Slavonic Papers , 1965. Includes correspondence with Peter Dobell and A.F. Hart. Centennial Review 1966 1966 'Canada as a middle power,' 10:4, fall 1966: 1-15 printed version only. Century Magazine 1965 1967 'Canada in the world,' Feb 1967: 1-16 correspondence; typed copy, printed version. The Decisive Years 1962 1967 'The necessity of nationalism?' 5, 1967; 1-17 'Opportunities abroad,' 1, 1962. Correspondence, copy of 1967 article. Études 1969 1970 'Les institutions internationales et la politique 1-18 internationales extérieure,' 1:2, juin 1970: correspondence; printed version. See also file 9-16. External Affairs 1968 1968 'The late Norman A. Robertson,' 20:9, Sept 1-19 1968: printed copy only. Foreign Affairs 1982 1983 'North American accord or discord,' possible 1-20 article for Foreign Affairs : correspondence with Bill Bundy; various drafts and suggestions for revision (never published). See also letter to Richard Smith in file 57-5. 5 John W. Holmes fonds Foreign Affairs 1961 1967 'Growing independence in Canadian- 2-1 American relations,' 46:1, Oct 1967: comments from Gordon Smith and Arthur Kroeger and newspapers (clippings), see file 85-2 for a carbon of the final text, an abbreviated version was published in The Better Part of Valour; 'Canada in search of its role,' 41:4, July 1963, including clipping from London Free Press ; 'Canada and the United States in world politics,' 40:1, Oct 1961, including a clipping of an article by William Stevenson quoting JWH.
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