Archives Catalogue

Vincent MacDonald's speeches and addresses

Series
29 January 1934 to 31 October 1958

Series contains typed speeches with annotations by Vincent C. McDonald. Speeches include addresses to academic institutions and social cubs as well as lectures on legal topics.

Vincent MacDonald's scrapbook

Series
August 1924 to 6 June 1960

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Series comprises records removed from a scrapbook, including newspaper clippings and social club ephemera.

Vincent MacDonald's review of Justice According to the English Common Lawyers, by F.E. Dowrick

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 28
Item
1951

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an edited manuscript copy of a review that was published in The Dalhousie Review.

Vincent MacDonald's review of Changing Legal Perspectives, edited by R. St. J. MacDonald

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 31
Item
1963

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a lightly edited manuscript copy of MacDonald's review, which is signed from "Halifax Law Courts."

Vincent MacDonald's photographs

MS-2-171, PB Box 11, Folder 88
File
[193-?] to [1950?]

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

File contains photographs of and collected or taken by Vincent C. MacDonald, illustrating his personal life and career.

Vincent MacDonald's offprints, manuscripts and notes

Series
December 1931 to March 1961

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Series contains articles written by Vincent C. Macdonald from 1931 to 1961. Articles are predominantly in the form of reprints from journals such as Canadian Bar Review and Dominion Law Reports.

Vincent MacDonald's correspondence

Series
13 May 1927 to 2 April 1964

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Series contains primarily professional correspondence, including many short notes of congratulations on Vincent MacDonald's appointment to the Supreme Court. There are also newsletters and programs from societies and clubs in which he had an interest.

Vincent MacDonald 's address at the opening of the 1951 Highland Games : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 64
Item
1951

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a typed and annotated manuscript of an address delivered by Vincent MacDonald at the opening of the 1951 Highland Games in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

MS-2-171, Box 1-3
Fonds
August 1924 to April 2 1964

Fonds comprises record created or collected by Vincent MacDonald that primarily document his work as a legal scholar and lecturer. Record types include manuscript and printed copies of his writing and lectures about government, the Canadian Constitution, the British North America Act and other topics. There is also correspondence from colleagues, including letters from former Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King; newspaper clippings; memorabilia; and photographs.

MacDonald, Vincent Christopher

Validity of provincial legislation / By Vincent C. MacDonald

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 19
File
December 1951

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

File contains two offprints from Canadian Bar Review 29 (December 1951).

Two letters from Roland A. Ritchie

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 40
File
1961 - 1962

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Two letters from Paul A. Freund, Harvard Law School

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 20
File
3 April 1952 and 18 June 1961

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Two letters from Arthur L. Goodhart, University College, Oxford

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 22
File
1961

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

The regulation of insurance in Canada / by Vincent C. MacDonald

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 15, item 1
Item
April 1946

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an offprint from The Canadian Bar Review 24.4 (April 1946): 257-75.

The Privy Council and the Canadian Constitution / By Vincent C. MacDonald

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 18
File
December 1951

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

File contains two offprints from The Canadian Bar Review 29 (December 1951).

The Nova Scotia Labour Relations Board : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 53
Item
2 September 1947

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a typed and annotated copy of an address given at the Halifax Rotary Club.

The Negligence Action and the legislature / by V.C. MacDonald

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 5
Item
October 1935

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an offprint from The Canadian Bar Review 13.8 (October 1935). The article is a version of a speech given by MacDonald at the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Canadian Bar Association in Winnipeg.

The motorist and the law : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 70
Item
[19--]

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an undated manuscript copy of an address by Vincent MacDonald relating to the Motor Vehicle Act.

The method of the Common Law : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 68
Item
29 January 1934

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a working manuscript draft of a speech delivered by Vincent MacDonald to the Kiwanis Club on January 29, 1934.

The Massey Report in its relations to universities / by Justice Vincent MacDonald : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 59
Item
4 January 1953

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item consists of a typed manuscript copy of an address given to the Saint Thomas More Society on January 4, 1953.

The licensing power of the provinces / by Vincent C. MacDonald

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 11
Item
April 1939

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an offprint from The Canadian Bar Review 17 (April 1939).

The lawyer-citizen in the New World / by V.C. MacDonald, K.C.

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 14
File
December 1943

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

File contains two offprints from Canadian Bar Review 21.10 (December 1943) of an article originally delivered as a speech at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Bar Association held in Winnipeg in August 1943.

The intangibles in war : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 65
Item
[194-]

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a set of typed notes for a lecture given at the Halifax Rotary Club sometime during the Second World War.

The Constitution in a changing world / by Vincent C. MacDonald, K.C.

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 16
File
January 1948

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

File contains three offprints from The Canadian Bar Review 26 (January 1948).

The Constitution and the courts in 1939 / by Dean V.C. MacDonald, K.C.

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 12
File
March 1940

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

File contains three offprints from The Canadian Bar Review 18 (March 1940); the article contains out-of-date and racist language in reference to Indigenous peoples.

The Commercial Club of Halifax luncheon program

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 77
Item
November 13, 1930

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a program for a luncheon at the Halifax Hotel at which Vincent MacDonald was the guest speaker, giving an address on the St. Lawrence waterway.

The Canadian Constitution seventy years after / by Dean Vincent C. MacDonald

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 9
File
June 1937

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

File contains two copies of an article reprinted from The Canadian Bar Review 15 (June 1937)

The Canadian Constitution seventy years after : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 47, Item 1
Item
June 1937

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a heavily annotated draft.

The Canadian Constitution seventy years after : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 47, Item 2
Item
1937

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a clean draft of MacDonald's speech.

The Canadian Constitution Seventy Years After

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 47
File
17 June 1937

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

File contains two copies of a speech, one heavily annotated. A handwritten note indicates that it was given at the Annual Conference of Canadian Passengers Association and Canadian Travellers Association.

The axioms of democracy : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 62
Item
[19--]

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an undated speech typed on index cards and delivered at a Dalhousie "Refresher Luncheon."

Teaching and learning the law : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 60, Item 1
Item
4 March 1955

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is the final version of an address given by Vincent MacDonald at the Annual Dinner of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, on 4 March 1955.

Teaching and learning the law : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 60, Item 2
Item
4 March 1955

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an early, annotated version of Vincent MacDonald's address at the Annual Dinner, Faculty of law, University of Toronto.

Teaching and Learning the Law

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 60
File
4 March 1955

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

File contains two drafts of an address given by Vincent MacDonald at the Annual Dinner, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, March 4, 1955.

Taxation powers in Canada / by Dean V.C. MacDonald, K.C.

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 13
Item
February 1941

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an offprint from The Canadian Bar Review 19.2 (February 1941).

Statutory conversion of land into goods / Vincent C. MacDonald

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 1
Item
December 1931

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an off print of an article published in the Canadian Bar Review 9.10 (December 1931).

Social problems and the Constitution

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 75
Item
[19--]

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an undated typed lecture.

Scrapbook page and bulletin from the Dalhousie Law Association

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 88
File
August 1924 to 1942

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

File includes scrapbook page with MacDonald's Controller of Ship Loading identification card, MacDonald's business card as Assistant Deputy Minister of Labour, and newspaper clippings. Dalhousie Law Association bulletin is from August 1921 and is volume 1, no. 5.

Royal Society dinner program

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 86
Item
June 6, 1960

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a program for a dinner welcoming newly elected fellows, including Vincent C. MacDonald.

Review of Vincent MacDonald's Legislative Power and the Supreme Court in the Fifties

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 30
Item
1962

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a photocopied clipping of a review by S.A. de Smith that appeared in The Modern Law Review (January 1962).

Report on draft report of Committee on Comparative Provincial Legislation as to Contributory Negligence Act

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 2
Item
1934

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a report written by Vincent C. MacDonald on behalf of the Nova Scotia Commissioners for the Conference of Commissioners on Uniformity of Legislation in Canada.

Publications by V.C. MacDonald

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 22
Item
[after 1960]

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a typed bibliography with penciled additions.

Processes of social reform by legislation

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 72
Item
[19--]

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an undated typed lecture.

Proceedings of the Constitutional Conference of Federal and Provincial Governments

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 23
Item
1950

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a copy of the published proceedings from the Constitutional Conference of Federal and Provincial Governments, January 10-12, 1950.

Problems of the law : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 49
Item
18 November 1941

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a typed and annotated manuscript of an address that begins: "There are many reasons why citizens should be willing to listen to a discussion of matters relating to the law and its problems."

Problems in the administration of justice : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 73
Item
[19--]

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a typed, undated manuscript of an address given by Vincent MacDonald at McGill University.

Parliamentary jurisdiction by declaration / by Vincent C. MacDonald

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 2, Item 2
Item
1934

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an offprint of an article published in Dominion Law Reports 1 (1934): 1-32.

Our Canadian Government / V.C. MacDonald, KC : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 69
Item
[194-]

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an annotated, typed manuscript of an address delivered by Vincent MacDonald to the Mining Society of Nova Scotia shortly after the end of the Second World War.