Correspondence with Michael Wardell : February 1963-June 1963. 1963 Feb. 27 - June 18.

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Correspondence with Michael Wardell : February 1963-June 1963. 1963 Feb. 27 - June 18.

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Letters, telegrams, soundscribers and memo concerning: federal election--predictions and results; provincial election in New Brunswick--predictions and results, cost of election for the PC Party, Wardell's plea for financial assistance from Lord Beaverbrook and Lady Dunn for the party and Beaverbrook's rebuke to this request insisting that he is a "non-party man", ballot recounts in Saint John, Restigouche County and Moncton City; Atlantic Development Board--changes to the make-up of the Board, rumours to the effect that Wardell may lose his Chairmanship and his speech to the Maritime Board of Trade (June 4, 1963); Robert N. Thompson and his views on future changes to the Social Credit Party; Wardell's and Beaverbrook's health; Beaverbrook's gift of Churchill's and Lord Rosebery's walking sticks to Joey Smallwood; K.C. Irving's assessment of the roof problems at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery; arrangements and opening of the Dunn International Exhibition; (CONTINUES). (CONTINUED) Playhouse (Fredericton, N.B.)--funding and Wardell's suggestion that the theatre be named "The Sir James Dunn Playhouse", that the Sir James Dunn Foundation pay the entire cost of it and endow it; Canada Council--its support for the Neptune Theatre and other Canadian theatres and the possibility of the Playhouse receiving funds and the future of the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation, according to Beaverbrook.

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University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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