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Titre

Fonds se compose de

3 description(s) de niveau inférieur

Structure du classement

Acquisition

Collection Norman Robertson [documents iconographiques]

Date(s)

1915-1981

Lieu de création

Sans lieu, inconnu ou indéterminé

étendue

Langue du document

Anglais

Portée et contenu

Fonds consists of the following series: Personal correspondence, 1915-1968; Department of External Affairs files, 1920-1941; Memorabilia, 1957. Two photographs, ca. 1935-ca. 1960, depict Norman A. Robertson on board the SS Duchess of Richmond, 1935; Norman A. Robertson with three colleagues by the sea, ca. 1960.

Conditions d'accès

Modalités d'utilisation

Photographs: No donor restrictions. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old. Copyright expired on items more than 50 years old. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.

Instrument de recherche

Textual records The finding aid is a list of file titles. MSS0514 90 (Électronique)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001551.pdf

Créateur / Provenance

Robertson, Norman, 1904-1968.

Nom(s) additionnel(s)

Imperial Conference (1930: London, England)
Imperial Conference (1937: London, England)

Biographie / Histoire administrative

Norman A. Robertson, public servant, diplomat, was educated at the University of British Columbia, Oxford and Brookings Institute. He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1929 as third secretary to the Canadian legation, Washington. As well as serving as secretary to the Canadian delegation to the League of Nations, 1930-1931, Robertson served as Canadian delegate to various international conferences and as advisor to Imperial conferences during the 1930s. e was appointed Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs in 1941, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom in 1946. In 1949, he returned to Canada and was appointed Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet.

In 1952 he again became high Commissioner to the U.K., in 1957 Canadian Ambassador to the U.S., and in 1958 was again appointed Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs. Following his retirement from government service in 1965, Robertson lectured on a part time basis in the Department of International Affairs at Carleton University.

See also the Canadian Encyclopedia, 1985, p. 1591.

Information additionnelle

Vedette-matière

1. William Lyon Mackenzie King - Authorship, [1915-1968]
2. Oxford University (Oxford, England), [1915-1968]
3. William Lyon Mackenzie King - Estate, [1915-1968]
4. Bilderberg Conference, [1915-1968]
5. Executors and administrators - Canada, [1915-1968]
6. William Lyon Mackenzie King, [1915-1968]
7. Canada - Foreign relations, [1920-1941]
8. League of Nations, [1920-1936]
9. Canada - Officials and employees - Correspondence, [1915-1968]
10. Wheat Advisory Committee, [1928-1938]
11. Norman A. Robertson - Correspondence, [1915-1968]
12. Interdepartmental Committee on Internment Cases, [1939-1941]
13. Speeches, addresses, etc., Canadian, [1915-1968]
14. Universities and colleges - Great Britain, [1915-1968]
15. International agencies, [1920-1936]
16. Agriculture - Congresses, [1928-1938]
17. Wheat, [1928-1938]
18. Commerce, [1920-1941]
19. Commercial treaties, [1920-1936]
20. Grain trade, [1928-1938]
21. Oxford University (Oxford, England) - Students, [1915-1968]
22. World War II - Internment, [1939-1941]
23. Administrative agencies - Canada, [1930-1940]
24. Canada - Diplomatic and consular service, 1957.
25. Diplomats, Canadian - Selection and appointment, 1957.
26. Letters patents - Canada, 1957.
27. Agricultural administration, 1928-1938.
28. College students writings, Canadian - Great Britain, 19-
29. Prime ministers
30. Canada.
31. Premiers ministres
32. Imperial Conference (1930: London, England)
33. Imperial Conference (1937: London, England)
34. Politique et gouvernement
35. Canada
36. Politics and government
37. Canada. Dept. of External Affairs.

Source

Privé

No de contrôle d'autres systèmes

MAINS22600

No de contrôl reliés

1982-178 NPC

No MIKAN

104027