Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
General material designation
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
Level of description
Repository
Reference code
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
-
1962-1970 (Creation)
- Creator
- Nova Scotia. Interdepartmental Committee on Human Rights
Physical description area
Physical description
18 cm of textual records (4 volumes)
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Administrative history
On 19 October 1962 Premier Robert Stanfield announced the creation of the Interdepartmental Committee on Human Rights. Chaired by the Premier, the other members of the committee were the Ministers of Education and Labour, and the Deputy Ministers of Public Health, Public Welfare, Labour, and Education as well as the Chairman of the Nova Scotia Housing Commission. The committee was charged with giving immediate attention to the problems of Blacks in Nova Scotia, reviewing existing provincial services and legal responsibilities in respect to all minority groups, and making recommendations to improve race relations in the province and generally promoting freedom of equality and opportunity. Following a report by C.R. Brookbank in 1967 on the Organization and administration of the human rights program of the province of Nova Scotia, the committee directed the creation of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission. Throughout its existence the committee was chaired by the Premier with F. R. MacKinnon, the Deputy Minister of Public Welfare, as its secretary.
Custodial history
Following the demise of the interdepartmental committee Fred R. MacKinnon, its secretary, arranged for the official minutes to be bound into two volumes which were subsequently lost. Upon discovering this MacKinnon attempted to recreate them and in the process added other materials of interest that he had culled from his files during his tenure as Deputy Minister of the welfare department, (1959-1980). These were bound as four volumes and presented to the archives in 1992.
Scope and content
Forms part of Fred R. MacKinnon and consists of minutes of the interdepartmental committee and related records such as reports, press releases, news clippings and correspondence collected by MacKinnon. The volumes are arranged chronologically and contain many N.S. government documents and reports concerning the situation and status of Blacks and other minorities in Nova Scotia.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Donated by MacKinnon in 1992.