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1973 - 2006 (Creation)
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- Pope, Alan
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6.35 m of photographic, textual and other documents. The fonds includes 34 boxes: 18 boxes of textual documents and 16 boxes of photographic documents.
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Alan William Pope was the Cochrane South representative (Timmins-James Bay), at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1977 to 1990. Born in Ayr, Scotland on August 2nd 1945, Alan Pope was raised in Timmins, Ontario. He is married to Linda Fillion from Mattice, Ontario and the couple has one son, David. In 1967, he completed a Bachelor of Arts, with a double major in History and in English at Waterloo Lutheran University, now Wilfrid Laurier University. He pursued law studies at the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University and was called to the bar in 1972.
His interest in politics dates back to his undergraduate years at Wilfrid Laurier, where Brian Near, then president of the Progressive Conservative club, recruited him. Alan Pope was very active within the Ontario Progressive Conservative Youth Association and was the national president of the Progressive Conservative Student Federation in 1969-1970. In 1972, he was elected to the Timmins City Council. During the provincial elections of 1975, he ran as the progressive conservative candidate for Cochrane South, but was defeated by NDP candidate, Bill Ferrier. He ran again two years later and was elected as a member for Cochrane South, a seat he held until he retired from politics in 1990.
During his time in politics, Alan Pope was Minister without portfolio (1979-1981), Minister of Natural Resources (1981-1985) as well as Minister of Health and Attorney General of Ontario (1985). During that period, he was also the minister responsible for French services in the province. In 1984-1985, he was a candidate for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. He was known as the "Minister of the North".
After retiring from politics, Alan Pope returned to his law practice. In 2002, l’Université de Hearst awarded him an honorary doctorate in law. He was named Federal Special Representative in consultation towards long-term sustainable solution for Kashechewan First Nation, in 2006.
Alan Pope is now retired.
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Scope and content
The fonds consists of textual documents, photos and objects relating to Alan Pope’s political career as a member of the provincial legislature for Cochrane South and as minister in the Davis and Miller governments. The fonds also contains documents linked to his community involvements after 1990.
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Immediate source of acquisition
Le Centre d'archives de la Grande Zone argileuse acquired the fonds from Alan Pope in 2008, 2017 and in 2018.
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The records, once acquired, were organized by the archivist.
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- English
- French
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2570 digitized photographs, slides and negatives. Part of this digitized material can be viewed in a FileMaker database. The digitized records are not available online.
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No restriction imposed by the donor.
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Copyright Act applies. Reproduction permitted depending on the condition of the documents.
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No further accruals expected.
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Accompanying material: Series of interviews with Alan Pope where he comments the photographs within the fonds. The interviews were realized by Jonathan Bussières as part of his job as an assistant at the Chaire de recherche du Canada en histoire du développement de la Grande Zone argileuse, in 2010.
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