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1941-1993 (Creation)
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- Whitelaw, Marjory, ca. 1919-
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- 1.6 m of textual records
- 25 audio cassettes
- 2 audio reels
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Marjory Whitelaw, broadcaster and author, was born in Moncton, N.B., ca. 1919. From 1939-1944, she was employed by the federal Department of Fisheries and the Children's Hospital in Halifax, N.S. She spent the next five years as administrative and editorial assistant with the International Labour Office [ILO] in Montreal and later, Geneva. From 1955-1973, Whitelaw was a writer and broadcaster for CBC and BBC, and lived in London, England, Halifax, N.S., and Toronto. She received two Ohio Awards in the early 1960s for documentaries, CBC Radio Soundings: Phoenix Halifax and CBC Radio Soundings: Tree of Peace. Her publications include a re-writing of Helen Joseph's Tomorrow's Sun: a Smuggled Journey from South Africa (1966), The Life and Times of Thomas McCulloch (1985), and First Impressions: Early Printing in Nova Scotia (1987).
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Consists of records documenting Whitelaw's activities as a writer and radio broadcaster. Contains personal and business correspondence, draft manuscripts, transcripts, interview notes, newspaper clippings, research notes, copies of newspaper and magazine articles, press releases, sound recordings, and other miscellaneous material relating to her various publications and CBC Radio projects. Subjects covered in the records include: Lord Dalhousie journals, Acadian women, Billy Joe McLean, Helen Joseph and South African politics, and Hugh MacDiarmid. Also includes material relating to the Nova Scotia Women's Oral History Project for which Whitelaw was recruited in 1990 to conduct interviews.
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Donated by Marjory Whitelaw in 1981 and 1994.
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Microfilm 14889 available for MG 1 Volumes 3606-3608.
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See also related material in the CBC Radio collection.
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Published works by Marjory Whitelaw available in the Nova Scotia Archives Library.