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Perry’s Speeches & Memos on democracy, liberty, citizenship, freedom 1940s Speeches, General – ‘43-‘45

File Contains scrapbook with misc textual records, including newspaper pages and clippings re: Northern BC political and economic Development Ex. Alaska Hwy and need for extension of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway..
Scrapbook – contains misc. textual records including newspaper pages, newsclippings, (loose and glued in book) regarding Northern BC political and economic developments c.1920s-50s. Includes letters & reports re building of Pacific Great Eastern Railway (1920s-30s) and need for railway to Peace River Country. Also includes reports relating to the building of the Alaska Highway 1950s. (Loose; fragile). Scrapbook also includes a series of correspondence (within scrapbook) between Perry and John Oliver regarding the proposed completion of the PGE 1920s and issue of Liberal nominations 1920s. Includes typed speech given by MLA H.G.T. Perry in the BC Legislature, 1925

• Bound album – “Oversees Empire Parliamentary Conference, 1935”

? Newsclippings

Newsclippings and typed notes

• Includes history by Perry of the Prince George Fall Fair. HG Perry’s telephone booklet.
• 1 Hall of Remembrance photo and description, Ottawa. And Misc. telegrams and notes (Perry’s poem re PGE issue) from political activities.

newsclippings

? Memorandum to the Industrial Development Committee re Mining in BC

• Folder A: Contents from Black Binder – 2002.7.2.98. Re: Amendments, Motions – Perry – Speaker of the House 1930s, 1940s; loose clippings & correspondence re motions accepted/put forth
• Folder B: Black Binder. “H.G.T. Perry” Contained “Meetings, Speakers of House 1930s” - moved contents out and placed into 2002.7.97 Folder A.

• Clippings of poetry, wit, humour with Perry’s notes

Printed Material within this file are:

• The Canadian Liberal: A Survey of National Affairs, Volume 7, no. 1
• The Choice for Britain: The Liberal Case

Contains a letterhead by Hon H.G.Perry, M.L.A. President “Colgrove- Charnwood Limited” but on the left hand upper side it has a quote “Developing the ‘Cottonwood Group’ at Hixon, B.C.”

? Newsclippings
? Supreme Court of Labour Relations notes
? Correspondence

• Personal Correspondence - to/from Perry: Karl Anderson; correspondence to/from other PG residents 1950s –

Published material within file are:

• Charter of the United Nations: Statute of the International Court of Justice
• The Democratic Way : My Share and Yours
• The New Relationship With Soviet Russia
• International Economic Collaboration
• The Nations Have Declared: The Documents Issued by the United Nations
• Separation Sheet, items originally were in International Empire: Pamphlet and Clippings file found in Box 16.

• Electric Power. Chap: 27 " An Act to provide for improving the Availability and supply of Electrical Power
• A Farm Electrification Programme: Report of Manitoba Electrification Inquiry Commission, 1942

? Correspondence to/from Gray Turgeon re proposal of appointment of H.G.T. Perry to the Senate. Turgeon wrote to W.L.M. King trying to get Perry a seat in the Senate.
? Correspondence to/from James Sinclair (Minster of Fisheries, April 16, 1956) re: putting Perry’s name forth for a Senate seat.

• newsclippings

Scrapbook – binder re HGT Perry – MLA 1925-1928.

Folders A-D

• Includes Montreal Trust financial statements; Release & Discharge for Beneficiary;
• Correspondence & legal documents, indenture concerning sale of land “Pringle” lots in Prince George;
• Montreal Trust Co docs Mr 30, 1960

HGT Perry – Re Archibald and Wilkes Land sale agreement

• Cariboo District Lot Wilkes) 1950s and quit claim deed; includes notes between lawyer and client [restrictions pending]
• Correspondence - Letters – personal from Harry Perry from /to son Frank Perry 1950s [Appraisal required; restrictions on access]
• news clippings during Perry’s political tenure.
• Mortgage & Wilkes Issue

? “HGT Perry History – Post War Planning Info”
? “Microfilming – Fort George Tribune 1947” - File also includes correspondence re permission to microfilm the Fort George Tribune paper at the Provincial Archives in 1947.

? “Terms of Reference – Dominion Provincial Conference on Construction”
? “History – H.G.P – Campaign Ad Post – 1945 (?)” -“Vote for Perry” green campaign ad. It says on it to re-elect Harry Perry, includes the highlights of Harry Perry’s Public Service. Published by Fort George Coalition Organization and Printed by The Citizen Press
? 2 copies of “H.G.Perry, Liberal Candidate for Fort George: Address to the Electors”

• Original speeches by Perry re Education issues in BC. Speeches are typed with hand-written commentary by Perry.
• Includes Radio Address of Vancouver Parent-Teacher Federation on Education Sept 25, 1942; Congregational Address at UBC, May 14, 1943;
• Series of speeches, radio addresses, minutes, correspondence re education issues to be considered for the Dominion-Provincial Conference, August 1944.
• Includes Memorandum to the Premier re Educational Matters Suggested for the Dominion-Provincial Conference, August 14, 1944;

• 2 copies of Farewell dinner invitations
• Announcement
• Right to purchase land D.L. 1542
• Correspondence, etc

• Addresses/ Clippings re Liberals/Social Credit Convention
• Clippings re Liberals

• Remainder of bound journal contains news clippings during Perry’s political life. Includes report on construction of the Alaska Highway.

Speeches, re World War, Commonwealth, United Nations

General Notes: Speeches 1943- 44

• General correspondence, personal 1958-59 (although some letters date earlier.)

• General correspondence, personal 1958-59 (although some letters date earlier.)

• Citizen Ceremony Programme – Fort George Boy Scouts Association 1947

Printed Material, 64 pp.

• Congratulations, clippings, re Election Frank Perry 1956
• “Provincial Election 1956”- Frank S Perry Election Campaign 1956 Plus Liberal – Politics”
• newspapers PG Citizen Sept 17 1956 – p1 & 3

? Correspondence and telegraphs. Ex Re: George M Murray as Candidate for the Federal Liberals
? List of names, duties, numbers and areas
? Programs

? Fort George Provincial Election June 1949 – Coalition Harvey Bowman – correspondence, notes, newsclippings, printed materials

• Prince Rupert Daily News Ltd Financial Report

Contains Newsclippings

Published Material found in file ar? The Saskatchewan Story…

• The Future of the Liberal Party
• Canada House of commons Debates Official Report: Canada's Prosperity
• Canada House of commons Debates Official Report
• A Report to the People of Canada's National Health Program
• The Statesman from Quebec

• Bound album – England 1935 – News-clippings re Empire Parliamentary Conference – 1935 – Printed Materials bound in album. Promotional materials and news paper reports associated with Perry’s attendance as provincial delegate as Speaker of the Legislature and as President of the BC Branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association to the Overseas Empire Parliamentary Conference held in UK, July 1935.

• Receipts and catalogues, letters, etc

• Conference of Delegates of the Empire Parliamentary Association from the Legislatures of the Empire, Report of Proceedings held in Westminster Hall, Houses of Parliament, London, July-August 1935.

• Loose Printed Materials
• Menus
• Table Plan

Printed Material in file are:

• Manifesto of the Coalition Government
• The Road to Serfdom
• The Coalition Government’s Record of Achievement

• Proceedings of the Forty-Second Convention.

Printed Materials found in file are:

• Manifesto of the Coalition Government
• Statement of Government Policy
• The Coalition Government’s Record of Achievement: A Review of the Accomplishments of the Coalition Government 1941-1949

• “Dominion Provincial Conference by T.D. Pattullo” pamphlet
• “Reprinted from an Editorial in the Prince George Citizen, Thursday , February 27, 1941… Canada Needs National Constituent Assembly as Premiers Fail”
• “Extract from Review of Machinery of Economic Control Set up Under War Measures Act in Relation to Post War Administration Exigencies”
• “Dominion –Provincial Conference 1944”
• “Postwar Planning Information: Wartime Information Board, Ottawa” – Aug 11, 1945
• Newspaperclippings
• “Manpower Developments in Canada and other Countries Bulletin No. 91” June 25, 1945

• Cards, letters, telegrams, newsclippings