Thomas Berger fonds. 1944-2002.

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Berger, Thomas R., 1933-. Thomas Berger fonds.

Thomas Berger fonds. 1944-2002.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606469289

The fonds consists of thirteen series of records pertaining to the activities of Thomas Berger, including two series of files arranged with reference to file classification schemes, related to party politics and to the Sardar Sarovar Projects Independent Review, as well as eleven series of subject files generally arranged alphabetically, related to the Royal Commission on Family and Childrens Law, the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, the Advisory Commission on Indian and Inuit Health Consultation, a proposed United Nations Environmental Programme inquiry on whales and whaling, Japanese Canadians redress, the Alaska Native Review Commission, the Canadian Judicial Council and its investigation concerning Berger, the University of British Columbia Presidents Ad Hoc Committee on British Columbia Native Indian People and Communities, the Simon Fraser University J. S. Woodsworth Chair committee, speeches given by Berger (arranged by event in subseries of two to seven year periodic groups), and subject files related to aboriginal peoples, the Arctic and the north in general. The arrangement by the records creator of series and file order within series has been respected. Several series contain files housed in multiple folders, indicated by notes where applicable. An addendum to the fonds consists of case files created by Berger during his activities as a lawyer including the Calder v. Attorney General of British Columbia land rights case heard in the Supreme Court of B.C. in 1969, the B.C. Court of Appeal in 1970 and the Supreme Court of Canada in 1973. The case files were used by him when he wrote his autobiography entitled "One man's justice : a life in the law".

14.46 m of textual records.

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