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University of British Columbia Archives Patricia Carney fonds
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Western Accord subseries

Subseries consists of records relating to the signing of the Western Accord, also referred to as the Agreement of Natural Gas Pricing. The sub-series includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a copy of the Agreement on Natural Gas Markets and Prices signed by Prime Minister Mulroney. The sub-series also includes research materials on Carney's participation in the Western Accord, including memoranda, articles and other materials. Four videos on the signing of the Agreement - predominantly nightly television news clippings.

State Functions subseries

Subseries consists of correspondence, official invitations, photographs, slides, and brochures. In addition, the subseries includes programs and menus from the state visits of President and Mrs. Mitterrand and President and Mrs. Reagan. The subseries also contains photographs from various missions by Carney to China and Japan and photographs from the opening ceremony of the Canadian Embassy in Osaka, Japan.

South Pacific Trade Forum subseries

Subseries consists of External Affairs briefing books, correspondence, news releases, travel claims, and tourist brochures from Vanuatu. The materials reflect Carney's participation in the South Pacific trade talks. Although Carney had been appointed to the senate and no longer held the portfolio of Minister of International Trade, at the request of Joe Clark Carney, she attended the talks as a member of the Canadian negotiation team. The photographs in the subseries include shots of Carney in Vanuatu and various views of the island.

Senator Carney series

Series consists of official programs, invitations and correspondence from the first years of Carney's Senatorial career. The series also contains ministerial briefing books relating to Carney's interest in the evolution of Bill C-13, the Federal Environmental Assessment Process. The further accrual consists of correspondence and publications regarding her extended career in the senate, including offshore oil and gas materials, BC unity, fisheries, lighthouses, aboriginal affairs, and education. The series also includes copies of her speeches and speaking notes from 1991 to 2006.

School of Community and Regional Planning Teaching Materials series

Series consists of teaching and administrative records from Carney's position as an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia's School of Community and Regional Planning [SCARP]. The series includes lecture notes, course outlines, guest lecturer biographical notes, student resumes, projects, course readings, and a copy of Carneys Custom Course Materials reprint package for her 589 class for 1997. The majority of the material relates to courses 548 and 589. Original order has been maintained with file titles transferred from original folders. The series also includes one video: Time to Choose: Our Common Future in the Fraser River Basin produced by the Westwater Research Centre. The video is located in the archives vault at UBC VT 931.

Photograph series

Series consists of colour and b/w photographic prints documenting various facets of Carney’s time in politics.

Photographs received as part of the first Carney accession (UBC 145.1/1 – 101) have been left in the boxes and described with the series they formed a part of. Photographs received in 2011 (UBC 145.1/102-309) have been removed and stored with the Archives’ Photograph Collection.

Personal Life series

Series consists of records from Carney's private life. The series includes two diaries, correspondence, materials from a trip to Nairobi, and travel brochures. The diaries contain numerous loose notes and correspondence, including a copy of Carney's resignation speech left in its original order. The series also includes a folder of materials about Pat's mother, Mrs. Dora Carney. The folder contains letters and articles written by Mrs. Carney. The series also provides information about various trips (2003-2006) and a sub-series about Carney's company Gemini North.

Patricia Carney fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1322
  • Fonds
  • 1960-2008, predominant 1980-1993

The fonds consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, minutes, memoranda, personal notes, diaries, photographs, videos and an assortment of ephemera created or collected by Carney over her years in federal politics. The fond consists predominantly of materials reflecting Carney's political life. Records from her years in the Official Opposition (1980-1984) and in government (1984-1988) consist of parliamentary reports, minutes from Neighbourhood Nights and correspondence from constituents. The majority of materials reflect Carney's tenure as Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources (1984-1986), and Minister of International Trade (1986-1988). For dates during the evolution of both the Atlantic and Western Accords, these records include correspondence between Carney and provincial premiers, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and provincial Ministers of Energy. Records from the FTA include a copy of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, correspondence with Simon Reisman, Finance Minister Michael Wilson, Mulroney, and other Cabinet Ministers. FTA materials also include correspondence and newspaper clippings from the tenth anniversary of the FTA. The records also include copious handwritten notes from Carney's participation on the Priorities and Planning Committee of the Cabinet. The fonds also includes records from State Visits of the Prince and Princess of Wales and American Vice-President George Herbert Walker Bush to Expo 86, as well as State Visits by President and Mrs. Reagan of the United States and President and Mrs. Mitterrand of France. The fonds also contains records documenting Carney's career as a Senator, including a series dedicated to the Task Force on Barriers to Women in the Public Service. Also, the records contain a series of Carney's School of Community and Regional Planning teaching materials as well as limited amounts from both her private life and her career as an economic journalist.
The 2011 accrual (Boxes 47-60) consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, personal notes, reports, photographs, tapes and videos created collected by Carney during her time as a Senator. There is also further material regarding the reception of her autobiography and material from the operations of Gemini North.

Carney, Patricia

MP Duties and Progressive Conservative Party series

Series consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, speeches and other records representing Carney's position as an MP and member of the Official Opposition, and her post-cabinet pre-senate activities. The series includes several correspondences and memoranda indexes generated by Carney's automated filing system. The series contains personal notes, correspondence and itineraries from Carney's 1984 federal election campaign for the riding of Vancouver Centre, a copy of her 1980 maiden speech in the House of Commons, and correspondence and notes representing local constituency concerns including minutes from Carney's "Neighbourhood Nights." The series also contains extensive records minutes, correspondence and memoranda of meetings of the B.C. PC Caucus (1985-1988). Additional inclusions are the Progressive Conservative Party records on registration guidelines and the party’s Annual General Meeting resolutions and campaign handbooks.

Miscellaneous series

Series consists of miscellaneous newspaper clippings (filed by year), miscellaneous handwritten notes, correspondence and some ephemera of political satire. There are two audiotapes. One is entitled, side A: "International Year of Housing for the Homeless" Radio Canada International - Side B: "Oil from the edge of the world" CBC 11 September 1985, 60 minutes (UBC AT 2522). The second tape is 60 minutes, "John Bray…Pat Carney April 20th, 1983", Selkirk News Service (UBC AT 2521). Series also includes records from Carney's position on the Pacific Press Board of Directors and materials from a conference she attended at the Banff Centre School of Management. The further accrual contains business cards from people Pat Carney associated with in her professional and personal life.

Minister of International Trade series

Series consists of sub-series relating to Carney's tenure as Minister of International Trade, responsible for the Canada U.S. Free Trade Agreement. The sub-series cover Carney's participation in the evolution of the FTA, her involvement in Expo 86, foreign international trade missions, and her work with the Asia Pacific Initiative. In addition, the series contains records from the South Pacific Trade Talks and FTA events which occurred after Carney's tenure as Minister of International Trade.

General Ministerial Records subseries

Subseries consists of correspondence, speeches, magazines and other materials which reflect Carney’s general activities as Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources. The sub-series also contains notes from the 1985 First Ministers Conference on the economy and Privy Council publications which outline the positions of Minister and Deputy Minister.

Gemini North subseries

Gemini North was a company co-owned by Pat Carney and her brother. The company conducted socio-economic studies in Northern Canada. The sub-series consists of correspondence, publicity, reports and report drafts regarding the application of Orbitel Communications to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission for providing Satellite services to Canadians in non-metropolitan areas.

Foreign Missions and State Visits subseries

Subseries includes personal notes, briefing notes, itineraries and newspapers from official missions to China by Minister Carney. In addition, the subseries consist of materials from Expo 85, Tsukuba, Japan. The subseries also contains programs and menus from official state functions Carney attended as Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources.

Expo 86 subseries

Subseries consists of speaking notes, itineraries, magazines and brochures. Speaking notes and various publications from the Department of External Affairs were created during numerous state visits by foreign dignitaries to Expo 86, held in Vancouver, British Columbia. In addition, the sub-series includes records from visits by American Vice-President George Herbert Walker Bush and the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Economic Journalist series

Series consists of a folder of newspaper columns written by Carney in her career as an economic journalist for the Vancouver Province and the Vancouver Sun.

Canada U.S. Free Trade Agreement subseries

Subseries consist of diaries, personal notes, correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, and videos. The records document Minister Carny’s role in the evolution of the FTA. The subseries includes a copy of the Canada U.S. Free Trade Agreement signed by Pat Carney. The correspondence retained in this subseries contains a dialogue between Minister Carney, Simon Reisman, Canada’s chief FTA negotiator, Joe Clark, Minister of External Affairs, Michael Wilson, Minister of Finance, and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. In addition, the subseries includes a box of materials, a purse, a baby sleeper, a frozen fish box etc., used by Carney while touring the country to promote the FTA. Additional records document FTA and NAFTA events, for example, the 1990 Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations - which occurred after Carney’s tenure as Minister of International Trade. The videos, which can be located in the University Archives Audio-Visual collection, are of nightly television news coverage of the FTA and presentations by Carney on the Agreement. The subseries also includes records from the tenth anniversary of the FTA and consists of the loss and rediscovery of Pat Carney’s documents donated to the National Archives of Canada.

Barriers to Women in the Public Service series

While president of the Treasury Board, Carney initiated the Task Force on Barriers to Women in the Public Service. Taskforce members conducted an extensive study of women’s professional experiences. Taskforce personnel, including Carney herself, conducted numerous interviews. This series contains transcripts of those interviews, including a transcript of an interview with Governor-General Jean Sauve conducted by Carney. In addition, the series contains correspondence, articles, books, speeches, conference materials, newspaper clippings, minutes, and photographs, all generated in the course of task force activities. The series also includes draft chapters of the final task force report and the published four-volume report Beneath the Veneer. Many of the records were received in binders. These records have been transferred to folders with the original order maintained. Some of this material may be duplicated at the National Archives. The original transcripts of the interviews may also be located at the National Archives.

Autobiography series

The series consists of edited and revised drafts and correspondence for Patricia Carney's autobiography, Trade Secrets: A Memoir (2000). The 2011 accrual was minimally reordered on the series and file-level to match the arrangement of the previous archivist. The original order of items and file titles were preserved when possible. This series contains drafts of Carney's autobiography, correspondence and media reactions to the book. Carney accredited the photographers and textual contributors in Photographs, Endnotes, and Bibliography files. Large portions of Carney's research for the book have been salvaged. And publishing touring correspondence with Key Porter, the publishing company, is also included. Finally, publicity and media surrounding the book launch and readers' reactions to the autobiography are present.

Audiovisual series

Series consists of audio cassettes, VHS tapes, and CDs. Topics covered in the material include Fisheries, Lighthouses, Senatorial duties, MP duties, women in politics, BC Unity, federal politics, research on arthritis, etc.

Recordings are stored in the archives vault. Please ask archives staff regarding access.

Atlantic Accord subseries

Subseries consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings and a diary relating to the signing of the Atlantic Accord. The correspondence includes dialogue between Minister Carney and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and Newfoundland’s Minister of Energy William Marshall. The sub-series also consists of a copy of the Atlantic Accord signed by Carney, Mulroney, Premier Brian Peckford, John Crosbie, Bill Marshall and others.

Asia Pacific subseries

Subseries consists of correspondence, minutes, memoranda and reports accumulated by Carney in her work with the Asia Pacific Initiative Advisory Committee and the Asia Pacific Foundation. Subseries also contains one folder of correspondence and brochures from Carney's involvement in the Abbotsford Airshow.