DOCSLIB.ORG

My Past Is Now: Further Memoirs of a Labour Lawyer

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
My Past Is Now: Further Memoirs of a Labour Lawyer My Past Is Now Further Memoirs of a Labour Lawyer Copyright © 1994 Canadian Committee on Labour History All rights reserved Canadian Committee on Labour History Department of History Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's ISBN 0-9695835-2-4 Manuscript was prepared for the printer by the staff of the Canadian Committee on Labour History Printed and bound in Canada Cover Design by Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Stanton, John, 1914- My Past Is Now Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-9695835-2-4 1. Stanton, John, 1914-. 2. Lawyers — British Columbia — Biography. 3. Labor laws and legislation — British Columbia — History. I. Canadian Committee on Labour History. II. Title. KE416.S83A31994 344.711'018'092 C94-950032-1 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE Bryan D. Palmer vii CHAPTER I My Early Life 1 CHAPTER II A Political Education Begins 16 CHAPTER III Changing Times in Canada 40 CHAPTER IV The Coe Case (1940) 50 The McKean Case (1941) CHAPTER V A Case of Criminal Libel. 67 CHAPTER VI Danny and the Man from Headless Valley 89 CHAPTER VII An American Aggressor 100 CHAPTER VIII The Sell- Out of Mine-Mill 118 CHAPTER IX Again the Family 136 CHAPTER X Rights and Freedoms 151 SOURCES 165 v ABBREVIATIONS AFL American Federation of Labor CAW Canadian Autoworkers CBRE Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees CCF Co-operative Commonwealth Federation CCL Canadian Congress of Labour CCU Confederation of Canadian Unions CI Communist International CIA Central Intelligence Agency CIO Congress of Industrial Organizations CLC Canadian Labour Congress CNTU Confederation of National Trade Unions COMINCO Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Limited CPC Communist Party of Canada CPR Canadian Pacific Railway FLQ Front de Liberation du Quebec IWA International Woodworkers of America MLA Member of Legislative Assembly NDP New Democratic Party OSS Office of Strategic Services PQ Parti Quebecois RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police SOE Special Operations Executive TLC Trades and Labour Congress UBC University of British Columbia UMA United Mineworkers of America USWA United Steel Workrs of America WFM Western Federation of Miners YCL Young Communist League vi PREFACE Lawyers have a deservedly bad name. Fortunately there are some who step outside of the norm, exceptions that prove the rule. John Stanton is one of them. I have known John Stanton for a decade. This is but a small fragment of a life that began, in 1914, with the capitalist powers scrambling to partition the globe. Coming to intellectual maturity in the 1930s, living, as many thinkers did, in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Stanton graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1933 and was called to the bar in 1936. War was again on the horizon, years of economic dislocation and depression lay behind him. But ahead of Stanton lay decades of involvement in the legal struggles of the Canadian, and especially, British Columbian, working class and its unions. In other writings, and in these new memoirs, Stanton provides us with evidence of how labour history is a record of brutality and battle, a constant clash of opposing interests and values. As he did throughout his life, Stanton speaks for workers, be it in his history of the Canadian Seamen's Union, published in 1978, his 1983 exploration of how arbitration affects labour, or his own recollections, of which this text forms the second instalment. From 1936 to his semi-retirement in 1976, Stanton represented most of the unions on the west coast, and he lived through the momentous conflicts that helped to consolidate industrial unionism in the western resource-extractive sector of the economy. When I moved to British Columbia in 19831 met John Stanton, largely through mutual friends, some of whom were in the left-leaning Law union, and also through connections that I had forged independently with his family. He had a reputation as "a grand old man" of labour, and in the years to come I enjoyed his abilities as a raconteur, learning from an insider's knowledge of the personalities and practices that were something of a magnetic field ordering the legal history of class relations. Stanton taught me about J.L. Cohen and Hal Banks, making such figures come alive in tales of triumph and tragedy. He could tell these stories not only because he lived through the period, had access to the records before they became vii historical documents, and knew intimate details long since airbrushed out of official accounts, but because he cared about what happened to workers and unions and he remembered what is so easily forgotten and banished from mainstream accounts of the past. For all interested in the history of the working class Stanton's past is now. Our present, if we want to make a new future, is never separate from those who have fought our fight before we came along. This doesn't hold for many lawyers. John Stanton happens to be a different matter. His history is one to learn from, as these recollections of a labour lawyer show. Bryan D. Palmer President, Canadian Committee on Labour History Professor of History, Queen's University Newburgh, ON 20/1/94 viii CHAPTER ONE My Early Life That summer day in 1988 seemed brighter as I read a letter from the University of Victoria Law School. It requested an interview with me as part of a Legal History Project.1 The plan was to "ensure that the memories of those who made a major impact on the practice and development of law [in British Columbia be recorded] in a vital form for future generations." Such a possibility had not occurred to me. However, I did feel pleased that colleagues remembered enough of my 40 years in labour law to think that parts of them were worth recording for the public in permanent form. The interviewer was a young woman, Maryla Waters, who patiently conducted three long, friendly and informal discussions, a word I prefer to interviews. One particular question she asked, set me thinking: "How did a nice middle-class boy like yourself turn into a passionate advocate for unions?" I was able to pinpoint the Battle of Ballantyne Pier in 1935 as one event that gave me a powerful motive to become a labour lawyer. Later, a brief arrest on a picket line, and realizing the need of unions for legal counsel when few lawyers relished such work, were also factors. My family background didn't have anything to do with labour law or the working class. My dad, Frederic, was born in India to Church of England missionaries, Herbert and Ellen Weitbrecht. Despite their German surname Herbert was an Englishman and Ellen was an American. They were an unusually handsome couple. I never met either grandparent, but we carried lrrhe BC Aural Legal History Project is conducted by the Law Faculty, University of Victoria. It is funded by the Law Foundation of BC, the University, and the Provincial Archives of BC. The voices are captured on high quality equipment, and the tapes are transcribed at the archives. After review and correction by the interviewer and interviewee, the transcripts are typed and placed in various law libraries. A copy, and the tape itself, become part of the Archives' own collection. Public access is assured unless restricted by the person interviewed. 2 My Past Is Now on correspondence for some 30 years. It was our way of keeping family ties alive, especially because my dad and I were our parents' only sons, and visits between poor people in England and far Western Canada were out of the question. I still have letters in my grandparents' elegant handwriting. Herbert and Ellen Stanton, my paternal grandparents. In 1906, Herbert received from King Edward VII of England, acting on the advice of the Archbishop of Canterbury, an honourary degree of Doctor of Divinity. It was in recognition of his services as a missionary and his translation of the New Testament into Urdu, the language of the upper classes of the area (now a part of Pakistan) where he was stationed. The degree is represented by an impressive parchment document bearing the Great Seal of England. I will always be grateful to my grandparents for modest financial help during one very tough year after my dad died, the year when I was just starting law practice. Economically, this is a low point in the career of not a few young lawyers. My Early Life 3 Ellen Stanton 4 My Past Is Now Dad suffered from asthma all his life, and died of it in 1936, shortly before I was called to the Bar. When he was two, his parents sent him to England to be cared for and educated. From then on he saw very little of his parents because missionaries were only given furloughs for six month periods every five years. My father attended a number of English "public" schools, not top- drawer places like Eton or Harrow but less well known institutions. He was academically inclined and eventually became a teacher of languages: English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. In this respect he was like my grandfather. Like many young Englishmen around the turn of the century, dad toured Europe. He stayed in France, Switzerland and Germany including the town of Worms on the Rhine, the famous place where Martin Luther had challenged the Pope in 1531. While in Worms, my father met a young woman, Klara Dieffenbach (Claire, in English), who later became his wife and my mother. Claire and Fred Stanton, my parents. My mother's father, who was German, owned a leather factory, and had contracts to supply saddles and the like to some of Kaiser Wilhelm IPs cavalry.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Novosti Press Agency Photograph Collection 21 Mirror Images: the Novosti Press Agency Photograph Collection*
    The Novosti Press Agency Photograph Collection 21 Mirror Images: The Novosti Press Agency Photograph Collection* JENNIFER ANDERSON RÉSUMÉ La collection de photographies de la Novosti Press Agency, conservée aux Special Collections and Archives de l’Université Carleton, est une ressource rare et fascinante. Les 70 000 photographies et les textes d’accompagnement, qui datent de 1917 à 1991, appartenaient autrefois au Bureau de la Soviet Novosti Press Agency (APN), situé sur la rue Charlotte à Ottawa, mais le personnel de la bibliothèque Carleton a dû récupérer ce matériel rapidement vers la fin de l’année 1991 avec la dissolution de l’Union soviétique et la fermeture du Bureau à Ottawa. Fondé en partie pour encourager les Occidentaux, en particulier les Canadiens, à voir l’URSS d’un meilleur œil, l’APN d’Ottawa distribuait ces photographies et ces communiqués de presse aux médias, aux or ganisations et aux individus à travers le Canada. La collec- tion offre aux historiens un aperçu de la construction de l’image que se donnait l’Union soviétique, les points de vues soviétiques of ficiels sur les relations interna- tionales pendant la Guerre froide et les ef forts pour adoucir les opinions anti-sovié- tiques au Canada. Dans son texte « Mirror Images », Jennifer Anderson soutient que la collection mérite d’être mieux connue des historiens de la Guerre froide au Canada et des historiens qui s’intéressent aux relations internationales et que le grand public pourrait aussi être intéressé par une exposition conçue autour de l’idéologie, de la perception et de la construction de l’identité pendant la Guerre froide.
    [Show full text]
  • Canada's Greek Moment: Transnational Politics, Activists, and Spies During
    CANADA’S GREEK MOMENT: TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS, ACTIVISTS, AND SPIES DURING THE LONG SIXTIES CHRISTOPHER GRAFOS A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY GRADUATE PROGRAM IN HISTORY YORK UNIVERSITY TORONTO, ONTARIO DECEMBER 2016 © CHRISTOPHER GRAFOS, 2016 ABSTRACT This dissertation examines Greek immigrant homeland politics during the period of Greece’s military dictatorship, 1967 to 1974, in Toronto and Montreal. It carefully considers the internal dynamics of anti-junta activism in Canada’s Greek populations, but it also contemplates the meanings of external perceptions, particularly from the Canadian state and Canadian public discourse. The study acknowledges the dominant paradigm of Greek immigrants as unskilled workers, however, it demonstrates that this archetype is not monolithic. In many ways, it is challenged by a small number of Greeks who possessed skills to write letters to politicians, create petitions, organize public rallies, and politically mobilize others. At the same time, this dissertation carefully considers Canada’s social and political environment and shows how uniquely Canadian politics ran parallel to and informed Greek homeland politics. Transnationalism is used as an analytical tool, which challenges the meaning of local/national borders and the perception that they are sealed containers. The main argument expressed here is that environments shape movements and migrant political culture does not develop in a vacuum. Each chapter deals with specific nuances of anti-junta activism in Toronto and Montreal. Chapter One examines the organized voices of the Greek community’s anti-dictatorship movement. The chapter’s latter section looks at how the Panhellenic Liberation Movement (PAK), led by Andreas Papandreou, consolidated itself as the main mouthpiece against Greece’s authoritarian regime.
    [Show full text]
  • Communist Party of Canada
    Communist Party of Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Communist Party of Canada Active Federal Party Founded May 1921 Leader Miguel Figueroa President Miguel Figueroa Headquarters 300 - 279 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5J9 Political ideology Communism International alignment Solidarity Network Colours Red, Yellow Website http://www.communist-party.ca/ The Communist Party of Canada is a communist political party in Canada. It is a minor political party without elected representation at present in either the federal Parliament or in any provincial legislature. Contents [hide] • 1 History o 1.1 Origins o 1.2 Expulsion of factions o 1.3 Great Depression o 1.4 Labour-Progressive Party o 1.5 Collapse of the Soviet bloc and party split o 1.6 Reconstituted party o 1.7 2005 split • 2 General Secretaries of the CPC • 3 Central Executive Committee • 4 Election results o 4.1 By-elections • 5 See also • 6 External links [edit] History [edit] Origins The Communist Party was organized with great secrecy in a barn near the city of Guelph, Ontario, in May 1921. Many of its founding members had belonged to groups such as the Socialist Party of Canada, One Big Union, the Socialist Labor Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and other socialist, Marxist or Labour parties or clubs. The party was founded as the Canadian section of the Comintern, and was thus similar to Communist parties around the world. The party alternated between legality and illegality during the 1920s and 1930s. It was initially illegal, and created the Workers' Party of Canada in 1922 as its public face.
    [Show full text]
  • Comitetul Central Al PCR Relații Externe 1984-1986 Inv 3491
    ARHIVELE NAŢIONALE SERVICIUL ARHIVELOR NAŢIONALE ISTORICE CENTRALE BIROUL ARHIVE CONTEMPORANE FOND COMITETUL CENTRAL AL PARIDULUI COMUNIST ROMÂN RELAȚII EXTERNE INVENTAR ANII: 1984 – 1986. 1.924 u. a. 1 Prefață Documentele prezente în inventarul de faţă, Fond CC al PCR – Relaţii Externe (1984– 1986), au fost preluate de Arhivele Naţionale de la Ministerul Apărării Naţionale în perioada 1993–2006. Deşi parte dintre ele au fost prelucrate arhivistic de creator, respectiv CC al PCR, după schimbarea de regim politic, survenită în decembrie 1989, o parte dintre instrumentele de evidenţă au fost pierdute, iar cele regăsite şi-au pierdut utilitatea, dat fiind că între timp arhiva a suferit schimbări majore de ordonare a documentelor. Documentele privesc, pe de o parte, ansamblul raporturilor României cu alte state, fie că este vorba despre relaţiile politice, economice sau culturale, cu statele socialiste ori cu cele necomuniste. Pe de altă parte, documentele au în vedere relaţiile PCR cu partidele comuniste, socialiste ori de orientare ideologică apropiată, sau cu alte partide ori persoane și personalități străine. Criteriul de ordonare este structural-cronologic. Genurile de documente sunt, în principal: stenograme, note, rapoarte, telegrame, informări, documentare. Unele dintre ele sunt și în copie, situație indicată la caracteristici. Prelucrarea arhivistică a fost realizată de arhivarul Floarea Dinu și de arhiviștii Ioana Mihai și Mircea Stănescu. Inventarul conţine 1.924 u.a., care reprezintă 8,55 m.l. (57 cutii), din care: 624 u.a., care reprezintă 3 m.l. (20 cutii) pentru anul 1984; 659 u.a., care reprezintă 3 m.l. (20 cutii) pentru anul 1985; 641 u.a., care reprezintă 2,55 m.l.
    [Show full text]
  • Canada”, the Current Canadian a Potentially Explosive Debate National Anthem
    Council action endorsed by students By Frank BRAYTON * What could have been a major President Ron Moores explained The council had given very council at this time was.” Is it A noisy discussion of this motion crisis in the field of student affairs the reasoning behind council's careful consideration to the up to the individual to join UGEQ then began. The discussion was was averted at an open meeting of decision to join UGEQ (Union question of joining and felt unani­ or do we join as a student body?” earmarked by several students the SUS la st Wednesday when a Generale des Etudiants de Quebec) mously that the benefits to be the reply was that we join as a trying to speak at the same time decision of council to join UGEQ During the course of his speech, derived from membership in UGEQ student body. We are in fact already and violent outbursts from the was upheld by a slim margin of he was interupted several times were very worthwhile. members of UGEQ. floot. The result was that most 6 votes. by hecklers and, conversly, cheers Another question that was pre­ students could not unerstand what “UGEQ is a dynamic force in As a result, council will not be of support. sented for discussion was that was taking place and order was not this province to-day and it is going forced to resign as they indicated of the cost of joining UGEQ. It restored until the vote was taken. to advance the position of the to the Georgian last week and the The open meeting was called as was revealed at this time that student in Quebec whether we are Several points that were raised university’s 4,000 students will a re su lt of a petition signed by 150 membership fees are $1.00 per part of it or not.” during the discussion period, howe­ remain members of the Quebec students that was presented to student.
    [Show full text]
  • Reviews/Comptes Rendus
    REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS Bruce Curtis, Building the Educational State: Canada West, 1836-1871 by Phillip McCann / 269 Marta Danylewycz, Taking the Veil: An Alternative to Marriage, Motherhood, and Spinsterhood in Quebec, 1840-1920 by Chad Gaffield / 271 Bruce S. Elliott. Irish Migrants in the Canadas: A New Approach by J.I. Little / 272 Lynne Bowen, Tliree Dollar Dreams by William J. Burrill / 275 Conseil des travailleuses et travailleurs du Montréal métropolitain, Cent ans de solidarité. Histoire du CTM1886-1986 by André E. LeBlanc / 276 Claudette Lacelle, Urban Domestic Servants in 19th-century Canada/Les domestiques en milieu urbain Canadian au XIXe siècle by Bettina Bradbury / 278 William Eklund. Builders of Canada: History of the Finnish Organization in Canada, 1911-1971 by J. Donald Wilson / 280 Gilbert Van&sse, Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs du papier et de la forêt (CSN). Tome 1 (1907-1958) by Camille Legendre / 282 Thomas P. Socknat, Witness Against War: Pacifism in Canada, 1900-1945 by Robert Malcolmson / 286 Sandra Djwa, The Politics of the Imagination: A Life ofF.R. Scott by Michael Gauvreau /288 Norman Penner, Canadian Communism: The Stalin Years and Beyond by David Akers /290 Centre populaire de documentation de Montréal, Le choc du passée. Les années trente et les sans-travail Bibliograpliie sélective annotée by Jocelyn Saint-Pierre / 292 Cyril W. Strong, My Life as a Newfoundland Union Organizer: The Memoirs of Cyril W. Strong, 1912-1987 by Eric W. Sager / 296 Wallace Clement, The Struggle to Organise: Resistance in Canada's Fishery by Anthony Davis/297 Constance P. deRoche and John E.
    [Show full text]
  • Canadion Political Parties: Origin, Character, Impact (Scarborough: Prentice-Hail, 1975), 30
    OUTSIDELOOKING IN: A STUDYOF CANADIANFRINGE PARTIES by Myrna J. Men Submitted in partial fulnllment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia September, 1997 O Copyright by Myrna Men Nationai LiBrary Bibliothèque nationale du Canada Acquisitions and Acquisitions et Bibliographie Services sewices bibliographiques 395 WelJiiStreet 395. nie Wellington OtEawaON KIAW -ON K1AûN4 canada canada The author has granted a non- L'auteur a accordé une Iicence non exclusive licence allowing the exclusive permettant à la National Library of Canada to Biblioihèque nationale du Canada de reproduce, ioan, distribute or sell reproduire, prêter, distniuer ou copies of this thesis in microform, vendre des copies de cette thèse sous paper or elecîronic formats. la forme de microfiche/film, de reproduction sur papier ou sur format électronique. The author retains ownership of the L'auteur conserve la propriété du copyright in this thesis. Neither the droit d'auteur qui protège cette thèse. thesis nor substantial extracts Eom it Ni la thèse ni des extraits substantiels may be printed or othewise de celle-ci ne doivent être imprimés reproduced without the author's ou autrement reproduits sans son permission. autorisation. As with any thesis, there are many people to pay tribute to who helped me with this effort. It is with this in mind that 1 mention Dr. Herman Bakvis, whose assistance, advice and patience was of great value. Thanks also to Dr. Peter Aucoin and Dr. David Cameron for their commentary and suggestions. FinaLiy, 1 wish to thank my family and fnends who supported and encouraged me in my academic endeavours.
    [Show full text]
  • The Stalinist Image of Canada the Cominform and Soviet Press, 1947-1955
    RESEARCH REPORT/ NOTE DE RECHERCHE The Stalinist Image of Canada The Cominform and Soviet Press, 1947-1955. J.L. Black DURING MEETINGS IN Szlarska Poreba, Poland, 22-27 September 1947, the Information Bureau of Communist and Workers Parties was established. It had nine founding parties, from the USSR, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Roma­ nia, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, and France. The Cominform, as the organization came to be called, held only five conferences for public record. Subsequent meetings were held in Belgrade (January 1948), Bucharest (June 1948), Budapest (November 1949), and finally in Warsaw where, in April 1956, it was formally dissolved. The occasion of the meeting in September 1947 was a striking shift in the fortunes of communist parties in Western Europe. Until early 1947 Com­ munists had access to power within coalition governments in France, Italy, and Belgium, a fact which had augured well for the united front policies which J.V. Stalin resurrected from the pre-1939 Comintern platform. After the war, he had recommended a continuation of the united front for Chinese Com­ munists, restrained from contributing seriously to the communist side in the Greek civil war, and forebore from intervention in Czechoslovakia. He also tolerated the various idiosyncracies of Yugoslavian communism. By the sum­ mer of 1947, however, the atmosphere had changed dramatically. The Tru­ man Doctrine and Marshall Plan had been announced, and the powerful J. L. Black, "The Stalinist Image of Canada: The Cominform and Soviet Press, 1947-1955," Labour/Le Travail, 21 (Spring 1988), 153-171. 153 154 LABOUR/LE TRAVAIL French, Italian, and Belgium parties were removed from coalition govern­ ments.
    [Show full text]
  • United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union
    British Lotumbia Archival rntormation Network Display rage i or 1 Help Feedback Home BCAUL => Results => Item Display - British Columbia Archival Union List (BCAUL ) *Access the previous result entry "'Access the next result entry Provenance: United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Unio n United Fishermen's Federal Union Pacific Coast Fishermen's Union Fish, Cannery and Reduction Plant and Allied Workers Unio n Title: United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union fond s Dates: 1934-1979 Physical desc.: 90 m of textual records 10 plan s Bio/Admin The United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union was established in 1945 through the merge r History : of the United Fishermen's Federal Union and the Fish, Cannery and Reduction Plant an d Allied Workers Union . It survived strong competition from the B.C. Gillnetter's Association i n 1952 and the Seafarers' International Union in 1953. The UFAWU was suspended by the Trades and Labour Congress in 1953 for alleged communist activities . It was not until 1972 when the Union's application for affiliation with the Canadian Labour Congress was accepte d that its right to represent the majority of B.C. fishermen was recognized . The Union has strengthened the bargaining position of its members and it has undertaken to improve wage s and working conditions in the industry . Scope/Content : The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, reports, legal documents, financial records , plans, sound recordings, published and printed material generated by the UFAWU, its local s and predecessor organizations including the United Fishermen's Federal Union, the Pacifi c Coast Fishermen's Union, and the Fish, Cannery and Reduction Plant and Allied Worker s Union, as well as office files from former Presidents William Rigby, Homer Stevens, and Jac k Nichols.
    [Show full text]
  • Some Sidelights on Canadian Communist History
    Some Sidelights on Canadian Communist History On Karen Levine’s 1977 Interviews During the summer of 2020 I happened to mention the Kenny oral history project to my friend Russell Hann, a labour historian with an encyclopedic memory and a well-organized personal archive. He immediately recalled a 1977 essay by a UofT undergraduate, Karen Levine, on the impact of the 1956 Khrushchev revelations on Canada’s Communists. He also recollected that she cited interviews she conducted with some important figures in the movement, including Robert Kenny. Russell promptly forwarded a copy of “The Labour Progressive Party in Crisis: 1956-57”i to me and after reading it, I contacted Karen, to find out if the recordings she made 43 years earlier still existed. Luckily, Karen kept them (with the unfortunate exception of J.B. Salsberg, a pivotal figure in the 1956 events) and generously agreed to add them to the other interviews in the Kenny oral archive. In her essay Karen also cited information gleaned from earlier recordings done by David Chud, one of several students who, in the early 1970s, recorded over 100 “interviews with individuals involved with [Canada’s] labour and socialist movements.” Don Lake, at that point associated with the left-nationalist Waffle wing of the New Democratic Party, was one of the graduate students who did these interviews. Today Don and his partner Elaine operate “D&E Books,” one of Toronto’s premier antiquarian bookstores. Their business was originally launched in 1977 as “October Books” after they purchased a stock of radical (and other) books and pamphlets from Peter Weinrich who was then in the process of winding up his partnership in Blue Heron Books.
    [Show full text]
  • The CANADA Philes
    Appeal/Counter Application No C45333, M34053, M34044, 34079, M34080, M34070, M33872(A), M33872 (B) M34103 ETC. Ex-parte Motions (x2) Court file No.: 05-FA-013780 and 01-FA-10663, and C11178/04-A1, and file no. C42332 Sending start date: Sept. 2006 New No. M34561 Dec. 20, 006 THE COURT OF APPEAL FOR ONTARIO 130 Queen St. W. Toronto, Ontario M5H 2N5 PH: 416-327-5020 & FX: 416-327-5032 If this information is important to you, save it independently. UPDATED FEB RUARY 02 , 2007 OF The CANADA Philes copy right for the public of the world INTERNATIONAL PEDOPHILE TRACING I rely on freedom of expression of my experiences & views of those experiences in light of the risk to my daughter & lack of police protection to post this site. This sight explains an overview of my position & circumstances that are long awaiting relief. I am requesting public assistance in investigating the abduction of my daughter, 6 year old, Annie Ivy- Lee Aviado. She was abducted by a "cult" like group of pedo & or necrophiles that are imposters in positions of authority in Ontario. The children of the public belong to the public & we all have the legal & innate right to investigate & enforce the Charter section 7., we are a family of human beings. Please provide any factual information regarding these issues & forward to [email protected]. with names, dates, locations and leads on where to locate any possible supporting evidence. Be the police of pedophiles as our most important purpose & possessions beside the environment issues. The authorities appear to have formed a "cult" in "Criminal Breach of Trust" section 336.
    [Show full text]
  • Raichman Canadian Communist Pamphlet Collection (C0002)
    Mount Royal University Archives and Special Collections Finding Aid - Raichman Canadian communist pamphlet collection (C0002) Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.4.1 Printed: January 21, 2020 Language of description: English Mount Royal University Archives and Special Collections Room EL4330, Riddell Library and Learning Centre, 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW Calgary Alberta Canada T3E 6K6 Telephone: (403) 440-5197 Fax: (403) 440-6758 Email: [email protected] http://library.mtroyal.ca/searchandfind/ourcollections/archivesandspecialcollections https://archives.mtroyal.ca/index.php/6hfg-kafq-td62 Raichman Canadian communist pamphlet collection Table of contents Summary information ...................................................................................................................................... 4 Scope and content ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Notes ................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Access points ................................................................................................................................................... 5 Collection holdings .......................................................................................................................................... 5 C0002-0015-01, Who wants war? ([ca. 1950]) ...........................................................................................
    [Show full text]