Interviews: Grace McCarthy, Gordon B. Shrum, Arthur Erickson
- F-31-2-1-0-0-13
- Item
- 1985
Part of Gordon Shrum collection
Interviews: Grace McCarthy, Gordon B. Shrum, Arthur Erickson
Part of Gordon Shrum collection
Part of SFU Archives reference and display materials collection
Sub-series consists of photos, documents, and notes about Honorary Degree Recipients from SFU from 1965-2002. For a list of Honorary Degree Recipients associated with the sub-series, see access points.
Fonds consists of 89 scrapbooks relating to Grace McCarthy and her career as a politician within the British Columbia Social Credit party. Scrapbooks contain photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, press releases, ephemera, and other material dating from 1960 to 1991.
The scrapbooks document the political landscape of British Columbia from 1968 to 1991, in particular the activities of the Social Credit party; events, initiatives, and causes in Vancouver and provincially; state visits; McCarthy's viewpoint on particular issues; her political and charitable activities; leadership campaigns; and her personal and political relationships. They also document McCarthy's most notable accomplishments, including bringing Expo '86 to Vancouver, establishing SkyTrain as a rapid transit system, driving the construction of the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre, and the lighting of the Lions Gate Bridge. Includes correspondence with other politicians at the provincial, national and international level, including W.A.C. Bennett and Margaret Thatcher; her constituents, residents of British Columbia, and party members; and the business community.
McCarthy, Grace
Interviews: N.A. "Larry" MacKenzie, Robert Bonner, Hugh Keenleyside, Grace McCarthy
Part of Gordon Shrum collection