This fonds illustrates the Honourable Iona Campagnolo’s careers as a broadcaster, a theatre producer, community leader, a politician, a feminist, a social activist, a speaker, a lecturer, a Chancellor, an advocate, a consultant and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. Types of records reflective of her various careers include: speeches, correspondence, itineraries, contracts, draft manuscripts, newspaper clippings, background material, photographs and ephemera. The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds has been divided into the following thirteen series:
1) Photographs
2) Theatre & Community Development
3) Political Career
4) Non-political Activities
5) McMaster International Health Centre
6) Women in Power Project
7) University of Northern British Columbia
8) Fraser Basin Council
9) Miscellaneous – First Nations Material
10) National Speakers Bureau
11) Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
12) Honours & Awards
13) Political Papers
The pair stands in unknown room, desk in background.
Empty tables visible in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Mr. V, Mrs. Solomon Doolan, Kincolith”.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “North Coast District Council”.
Champagne bottles sit on table in right foreground. Carved masks and eagle doll can be seen in background.
Unidentified woman can be seen in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “1978, Spt Minister w. Carol Pughese”.
Photograph was taken during a tour of the Skeena riding in the summer of 1978.
The pair stands in unknown room, unidentified individuals in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “with His Grace Donald Coggan Archbishop of Canterbury Sept / 78 (also met him in Rome May 77)”.
Photograph believed to have been taken at the Chetwynd Town Hall.
Image is one of six photographs found with negatives in envelope reading: “‘Campaigning 1979,’ 6 colour negatives enclosed and 2- 4x5 prints (pictured with Bunne Hoffman - editor of Chetwynd Echo (now deceased)), Village of Chetwynd 1949 ?” See also items 2009.6.1.350 - 2009.6.1.354.
Photograph believed to have been taken in the Chetwynd Town Hall. Unidentified individuals seated in background.
Image is one of six photographs found with negatives in envelope reading: “‘Campaigning 1979,’ 6 colour negatives enclosed and 2- 4x5 prints (pictured with Bunne Hoffman - editor of Chetwynd Echo (now deceased)), Village of Chetwynd 1949 ?” See also items 2009.6.1.349 - 2009.6.1.354.
Stage festooned with ‘Liberal’ and ‘Re-elect Iona Campagnolo’ signs. Podium and microphone in foreground.
Canadian flag hangs in background.
Photograph is one of 19 images depicting Campagnolo's announcement of the Green Paper on recreation (giving powers of recreation over to the provinces). See also items 2009.6.1.374 - 2009.6.1.391.
Canadian flag and unidentified man standing in doorway can be seen in background.
Photograph is one of 19 images depicting Campagnolo's announcement of the Green Paper on recreation (giving powers of recreation over to the provinces). See also items 2009.6.1.373 - 2009.6.1.391.
Canadian flag hangs in background.
Photograph is one of 19 images depicting Campagnolo's announcement of the Green Paper on recreation (giving powers of recreation over to the provinces). See also items 2009.6.1.373 - 2009.6.1.391.
Photograph is one of 19 images depicting Campagnolo's announcement of the Green Paper on recreation (giving powers of recreation over to the provinces). See also items 2009.6.1.373 - 2009.6.1.391.
Campagnolo sits behind table between unidentified woman and man. Reporters sit in foreground.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Ottawa News Conference, July 10/80, CUSO - Kab Chesang”.
Photograph is one of 18 images depicting Campagnolo's work with Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO) in collaboration with Foreign Affairs Minister Flora MacDonald on the facilitation and development of a largely Canadian financed refugee camp near Nakorn Rachisima (formerly Korat), to help the refugees coming over the border from Laos and Cambodia. See also items 2009.6.1.440 - 2009.6.1.457.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “October/82 - Reject from Pres. Campaign Photos”.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Halifax N.S. Annual Convention, March/83”; handwritten notation affixed to verso reads: “12 provincial and territorial party conventions a year -- Halifax Nova Scotia Liberals, 1983”.
Handwritten notation affixed to verso reads: “Tree Planting in Cambridge Ontario -- Shoeless as High Heels don’t work with Shovels! 1983”.
Handwritten notation affixed to photographs reads: “Pride of Place on a Young Liberal’s Wall, 1984”; handwritten card from Inniss Photo Service Reg’d, Brockville accompanying the photograph reads: “To Iona Campagnolo, From:- Jan Inniss, My son Scott (+ his mother) attended your recent address in Brockville . . . . I thought you might be interested in seeing what happened to one of your posters . . . A place of honor in his room . . + notice how it takes precedence over the Premier”.
The pair sits at table in large ornate room.
Handwritten notation accompanying photograph reads: “Feb. 28/1992. With 'La Presse' journalist Francine Pelletier readying for PBS T.V. Show 'The Editors' on which I.C. is frequent guest (trans-border U.S.-Canadian issues programme)”.
Signature at bottom right reads: “Thanks for your help, Jean Chrétien”; typed caption at bottom reads: “A victorious Jean Chrétien with his wife Aline wave to Liberal supporters at riding headquarters shortly after midnight, October 26, after confirmation that he will be Canada’s 20th Prime Minister.”
Handwritten annotations on verso read: “Le “Gang” Louis Hebert, Denis Dawson, Lise St. Martin Tremblay,” and “film A”. Photograph taken in the riding of Louis-Hébert, Quebec.
Series consists of correspondence, campaign advertisements and publications, newspaper clippings, itineraries, reports, scrapbooks, speeches, newsletters, poetry, ephemera, memoranda, invitations, commercial publications, party publications, certificates, agendas, press releases, minutes and background information all pertaining to Iona Campagnolo’s political career as M.P. for Skeena; Minister of State Fitness and Amateur Sport, and President of the Liberal Party of Canada; as well as, pertaining to her continued interest in the political state of Canada.
Series consists of correspondence, contracts, manuscripts and a memorandum pertaining to the Honourable Iona Campagnolo's involvement and contribution to a group publication tentatively titled All of Us: Women in Canadian Power and Politics that was scheduled for publication by Random House Canada Ltd. This project was ultimately disbanded and the resulting manuscript was never published.
File consists of correspondence relating to the Women in Power project. Includes:
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo, Associate Director, McMaster International, from Maureen McTeer, November 14, 1989
- Section of original file folder with handwritten label: Women & Power book project, unrealized because publisher wanted ‘personal feelings’
File consists of correspondence, contracts and drafts relating to the Women in Power project. Includes:
- Fax of handwritten letter to Iona Campagnolo from Maureen McTeer re: publisher for Women in Power publication, January 18, 1990
- Letter to The Right Honourable Jeanne Sauvé from Iona Campagnolo re: potential involvement with the Women in Power publication, February 6, 1990
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Ellen (Fairclough?) re: copy of manuscript, March 1, 1990
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from The Right Honourable Jeanne Sauvé re: request for more information on the Women in Power publication and requirements, March 2, 1990
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Maureen McTeer re: payment, book signing, French contract, April 9, 1990 (includes copy of letter to Noona Barlow, Rights Department, Random House of Canada, Ltd. from Maureen McTeer re: contract revisions, March 8, 1990)
- Letter to Maureen McTeer from Iona Campagnolo re: details of project and contact information, April 18, 1990
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Noona Barlow, Rights Department, Random House Canada, Ltd. re: contract for All of Us: Women in Canadian Power and Politics, May 23, 1990 (includes contract and annotated versions)
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Maureen McTeer re: chapter revisions, December 4, 1990
- “Some of Us: Women and Political Power in Canada” text for the Hon. Ellen Fairclough, draft chapter for Women in Power (?)
Subseries consists of correspondence and accompanying informational material related to political parties, especially the Liberal Party of Canada. Records include newspaper and magazine clippings, newsletter, brochures and pamphlets, meeting minutes, questionnaires, reports, news releases, speeches, and lists of election results. Includes correspondence regarding the Progressive Conservative Party, the Communist Party of Canada, the National Liberal Party, and provincial Liberal parties. Most records and correspondence relate to the Liberal Party and include mention of Liberal Party activities and meetings, the official language policy, election strategies, fundraising and donations to the Liberal Party, Campagnolo’s 1979 re-election campaign, political debates, youth caucus events, Liberal appointments, Liberal associations in northern BC, and Liberal conventions.
Young man holds microphone out to Campagnolo, building in background.
Handwritten notation on accompanying piece of paper reads: “Skeena Liberals, Stewart 1st Campaign, John Hanquest ('Midgie' John) + Pals.”
The group stands among unidentified people in crowd.
Handwritten annotations on verso read: “Campaigning with the T’s, 1974, Terrace, B.C. (Margaret + I have almost identical dresses!)”
Photo taken during the election campaign of 1974. Unidentified man crosses his arms behind her and a camera man films the crowd.
Series of pictures of the same political rally, originally affixed together with tape and glue as one contact sheet.
Handwritten annotation originally affixed to verso of collage reads: “‘The great rally, Terrace, 1974, M. + PET Trudeau”.
The three women stand in the Prince Rupert Masonic Temple looking at baby pictures of Selma Murray.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “From Left to Right, Aug/74, Gladys Blyth - Port Ed, Iona Campagnolo - ‘MP Skeena,’ Lil Schuman - Manitoba (‘Mother’ - Aunt) to Selma Murray, Masonic Temple - Pr. Rupert, B.C., Reception for Selma, looking at baby picture of Selma”.
Marcel Roy [?], Iona Campagnolo, Jeanne Sauvé, Yves Demers [?], and an unidentified woman sit at banquet table in front of a stage with musical instruments and a Canadian flag.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “copie pour Mme Campagnolo, 15, 1-5-, Yves Demers, Marcel Roy, Jeanne Sauvé, un discourse en français dan la circonscription de Mme S. (toute l’monde est separatiste et liberal!)”
Everyone in image sits on floor or furniture in living room.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Living Room Speech, Terrace”
Campagnolo and an unidentified man hold hors d’oeuvres while listening to an unidentified individual outside of the frame.
Portable buildings in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Pickering (N.H.B.-P.R.)/Campagnolo, Fairview Sodturning, Prince Rupert, 1/3/75”.
Snow can be seen on ground, and RCMP officer is visible in crowd. Unknown building in background.
Handwritten annotations on verso read: “The Northland mess - Basford + Long - sell out to Bennett”.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “With the boss at Kivsta, Q.C.I.: May 1976, 13,000 yrs. carbondated habitation in the same location-- The real Charlottes and his counter culture protection in the rain, mist, moss and dense forest of the Haida”.