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Thomas Berger fonds
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Thomas Berger fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1031
  • Fonds
  • 1944-2011

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 Children’s 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 President’s 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.
There are also files related to his resignation from the Supreme Court of Canada in 1981. The files were used by Berger when he wrote his autobiography <em>One Man’s Justice: A Life in the Law</em>.

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.

Berger, Thomas Rodney

Habitual Criminals

Series consists of correspondence, clippings, case law, legal documents and notes related to several cases in which Berger defended persons on trial as habitual criminals, including Daniel Hadden (sometimes spelled Haddon), George Paton, and Margaret “Penny” MacNeill (sometimes spelled McNeil).

Subject files related to party politics

Series consists of subject files related to Berger’s leadership of the New Democratic Party (NDP) of British Columbia and electoral campaign of 1969, arranged by exisiting file classification numbers, together with several scrapbooks and files containing press clippings, arranged chronolgically, related to Berger’s political life and campaigns from 1960 to 1969, as NDP Member of the House of Commons for Vancouver-Burrard in 1962, Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Vancouver-Burrard in 1966-1967, and NDP leader in 1969.

Gee v. Freeman

Series consists of a letter from Thomas Berger to George Gee dated May 28, 1958, regarding the appeal of the Gee v. Freeman case.

Ironworkers Case

Series consists of clippings, notes and legal documents related to the Dominion Bridge v. International Union of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers, Local 97 and Attorney General of British Columbia case related to the Ironworkers strike of 1959.

Battaglia v. Workmen’s Compensation Board

Series consists of legal documents, clippings, and notes related to a case in which, Louis Battaglia, a retired hard-rock miner who had silicosis, sought a pension. The case was heard in the B.C. Court of Appeal in 1960.

R. v. White and Bob

Series consists of correspondence, notes and legal documents related to the R. v. White and Bob treaty rights case heard in the Court of Appeal for British Columbia in 1964 and the Supreme Court of Canada in 1965.

Jones v. Bennett

Series consists of clippings, correspondence, notes, memos and legal documents related to the heard in the British Columbia Court of Appeal in 1966, and the Supreme Court of Canada, 1968 in which George Jones, chairman of the Purchasing Commission for the Province of BC, sued Premier W.A.C Bennett for slander.

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