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Type of entity
Person
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Macdonald, Charles
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Description area
Dates of existence
1923-2012
History
Charles Macdonald was born in 1923 in Cornwall, Ontario. He was a World War II Merchant Marine veteran and a lifelong social activist. In the 1940s he was involved with the Canadian Seamen's Union. Later, as a librarian at Vancouver's Simon Fraser University, he helped to organize and lead the library's section of the faculty union. He died on April 11, 2012 at the Montreal General Hospital.