Fonds MS-2-171, Box 1-3 - Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

The Canadian Constitution Seventy Years After : [draft speech] The Canadian Constitution Seventy Years After : [final draft speech] Address to Graduates Commencement Day : [speech] Problems of the Law : [speech] Functions of the Legislature in a Democracy : [draft speech] Functions of the Legislature in a Democracy : [final speech] Address to Graduates: Convocation : [speech] A National Asset : [speech] The Nova Scotia Labour Relations Board : [speech] Address to the Graduates of the Secretarial School, Mount St. Bernard College : [speech] Address to Harvard Legal Aid Bureau : [speech] Constitutional Law [speech] : Validity of Provincial Legislation Opening of Halifax Memorial Library November 12, 1951 : [draft speech] Opening of Halifax Memorial Library November 12, 1951 : [final speech] Opening of Halifax Memorial Library November 12, 1951 : [draft speech, annotations] Government and the Law : [draft annotated speech] Government and the Law : [final speech] The Massey Report in its relations to universities : [speech] Teaching and learning the Law : [final speech] Teaching and learning the Law : [draft speech] Donald Alexander MacRae : [speech] The Axioms of Democracy : [speech] Elements of Canadian Government: [speech] Address at the Highland Games of Antigonish 1951: [speech] The Intangibles in War : [speech] Legislative Jurisdiction as to Transportation : [speech] Address to the Lunenburg Board of Trade : [draft fragment] Address to the Lunenburg Board of Trade : [draft speech] The Method of the Common Law : [speech] Our Canadian Government : [speech] The Motorist and the Law : [speech] Address to graduating class of Mount St. Vincent : [speech] Processes of Social Reform by Legislation : [speech] Problems in the Administration of Justice : [speech] Address at St. Michael's College : [speech] Social Problems and the Constitution : [speech] Address given to the Victorian Order of Nurses : [speech]

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Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

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MS-2-171, Box 1-3

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26 cm of textual records
25 photographs : b&w ; 8.25 x 10 in. or smaller

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Vincent Christopher MacDonald was born in Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, in 1897 to Archibald and Clara MacDonald. He was educated at Dalhousie University where he received a B.A. (1930) and LL.B. (1920). In 1927 MacDonald married his first wife, Emily O’Connor, with whom he had three children, David, Peter, and Paul. After Emily’s death in 1937, MacDonald married Hilda Durney in 1938 and had two children, Brian Henry and Alan Hugh.

MacDonald led a career as a lawyer, educator, and civil servant. Called to the bars of Nova Scotia and Ontario in 1920 and 1927 respectively, he practiced law in both provinces; worked as a law clerk in the Nova Scotia Legislature; was a research assistant to the Royal Commission on Maritime Claims; served as secretary to Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1927; and lectured law at Dalhousie from 1920-1926 and Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto from 1929-1930. In 1930 he returned to Dalhousie to teach law and in 1934 became Dean of the Law School. He also served as Assistant Deputy Minister of Labour of Canada from 1942-1944. He remained at Dalhousie until 1950 when he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. MacDonald worked with numerous boards and commissions throughout his career, and even served as an advisor to the Newfoundland government on union with Canada in 1948. He published numerous papers, frequently on topics related to constitutional and labour law, and edited a variety of publications, including the Dominion Law Reports and Canadian Criminal Cases (1924-1934). He also served on the board of governors of Dalhousie University and received honorary degrees from St. Francis Xavier, British Columbia, Dalhousie, and Columbia. MacDonald died in 1964.

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Material received in five accessions from 1972 to 1978 from Vincent C. MacDonald’s son Alan MacDonald.

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Fonds consists of law publications and print materials relating primarily to government, the Canadian Constitution, or to Newfoundland joining confederation; copies of speeches; correspondence with family, friends, and professional associates, including some from former Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King; newspaper clippings and memorabilia and photographs.

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Materials do not circulate and must be used in the Archives and Special Collections Reading Room. Materials may be under copyright. Contact departmental staff for guidance on reproduction.

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Other records about MacDonald can be found in the Faculty of Law fonds (UA-13).

Additional records about Alan MacDonald and Vincent C. Macdonald can be found in the Alan H. MacDonald fonds at the University of Calgary Archives: https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/dr-alan-macdonald-fonds

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Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Vincent C. MacDonald fonds, MS-2-171, Box [box number], Folder [folder number], Dalhousie University Archives, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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