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ELUC Administrative records and subject files

  • GR-1002
  • Series
  • 1972-1980

This series contains administrative and subject files relating to natural resource development and environmental policies. Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, briefs, etc. The records were created by the Environment and Land Use Committee Secretariat, the administrative and support staff assigned to the Committee. The records were created from 1972-1980 and relate to all aspects of business conducted by the Committee, including land use decisions across the province.

British Columbia. Environment and Land Use Committee. Secretariat

Gerald Grattan McGeer papers

Gerald Grattan McGeer was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on January 6, 1888. Shortly afterwards, his parents, James and Emily McGeer, moved to Vancouver, where his father ran a dairy business in the Fairview district. McGeer attended school in Vancouver, leaving high school to apprentice as an iron moulder. When he completed his apprenticeship, he decided to become a lawyer. He articled as a law student in Vancouver and then attended Dalhousie University and was called to the bar of British Columbia in 1915. In 1917 he married Charlotte Spencer, the daughter of David Spencer of Victoria. They had two children, Michael and Patricia. In 1922 he was appointed King's Counsel. McGeer first ran for election in 1916, when he was elected Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly [MLA] for Richmond electoral district. He did not run in 1920; between 1925 and 1930 he contested three federal elections unsuccessfully: Vancouver Centre in 1925, Vancouver North in 1926 and Fraser Valley in 1930. In 1933 he was elected MLA for Vancouver Burrard. He resigned from the legislature in September 1935 to run in the riding of Vancouver Burrard in the federal election of that year. He was successful, and was re-elected in the same riding in 1940. He sat until the dissolution of the nineteenth parliament and was appointed senator on June 9, 1945. McGeer was also active in civic politics, twice being elected mayor of Vancouver, in December 1934 for the years 1935 and 1936, and in December 1946 for the years 1947 and 1948. McGeer made a name for himself in the early 1920s as counsel for the government of British Columbia during the province's attempt to have freight rates equalized. In the 1930s, he became interested in economics and monetary reform and wrote a book, The Conquest of Poverty, and a number of pamphlets and articles on the subject. He died in Vancouver on August 11, 1947.

The records include correspondence, subject files, speeches, manuscripts, published material and clippings. The correspondence files, which cover the years 1927 to 1947, are arranged in four groups: letters filed chronologically; letters filed by the name of the sender; letters received as mayor, 1935 and 1946-1947; and letters relating to the McGeer family. The chronological group contains a number of letters relating to McGeer's interest in economic reform, including some from Maynard Keynes. The letters relating to the family consists mainly of letters of condolence written to Mrs. McGeer at the time of McGeer's death. Additional correspondence will also be found in the subject files, which are generally composed of memos, reports, clippings and letters.

About 300 photographs were transferred to Visual Records accession 198207-007. Cartographic records, including maps of the Ripple Rock area, were removed from Box 13, Folder 6 and transferred to the map collection, Map Accession M89-029, map registration numbers 24105B, 24106B, 24107A, 24108A, 24109A and24110A. A number of books and pamphlets received with the records were transferred to the Legislative Library, and a list of pamphlets is in volume 22, folder 7. The Legislative Library transferred some of these pamphlets back to the BC Archives in 1994 and 1996.

McGeer, Gerald Grattan, 1888-1947

Webster! : 1987-02-23

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Western Canada Steel; jobs; Mexican steel imports. John Wilson, President and CEO, Western Canada Steel; free trade; protectionism; 7% tariff on imports; Twig Island; melt shop; re-bar; Korea; Brazil; volunteer restraint agreement USA; losses; recycling. Borys Lessy, President CAIMAW Local 6; Ernie Bayer, Trustee, CAIMAW Local 6; Adolf rolling mill. Cathy Walker, Staff Representative, CAIMAW Local 6; dump steel. Jim Pasman, Acting Manager of Enforcement, Immigration Department of CEIC, BC and Yukon. Vera Radio, Executive Director, Mosaic Immigration Services non-profit society; refugees; immigration policy clamp down; waiting in the USA; process and procedure; landed immigrants; visas; transit visas; medical services; Vietnam; economic migrants; Turkey; Portugal; jobs. Otto Jelinek, Minister of State for Fitness and Amateur Sport; hockey; Soviet Union amateur hockey; reduction of tax burden; Sport Marketing Counsel for Amateur Sport, private sector support; 1988 Calgary Winter Olympic ticket sale scandal; International Ice Hockey Federation; Soviet counterpart’s joint appeal for better international officiating; doping and steroids policy, and random testing.