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Justice Department correspondence, memorandum, notes, background and conference papers, and reports regarding the relationship between international and national law and the effects domestic, constitutional, and international law have on one another, as well as the implementation of international conventions and treaties. File also contains a chart of the ratifications for the International Labour Conventions.

File · 1961 - 1972
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, memorandum, transcripts of telephone conversations, and research materials regarding a proposed ammendment to the Family Court Act. Also includes 'Standards for Juvenile and Family Courts" booklet published by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

File · 1968 - 1971
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, memorandum, meeting minutes, notes, copies of newspaper clippings, and rules of the Supreme Court of Canada regarding gendered language used in the Government of Canada, Canadian military, medical institutions, and United Nations General Assembly committee minutes. M.E. Ritchie highlights areas where male pronouns and the male gender are used as the default and other instances where men are assumed to be the only people addressed.

File · 1958 - 1960
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, memorandum, notes, historical legal research, copies of newspaper clippings, extracts from complaints made to the Justice Department, briefs of the National Council of Women, and Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as House of Commons routine proceedures and orders of the day regarding the legal status of women. Some mention of property rights, bigamy, and inheritance rights of illegitimate children.

Correspondence, memorandum, newspaper clippings, transcripts of telephone conversations, and parliamentary briefing regarding family law, human rights, corporal punishment, women in government, and the legal status of women. File also includes a 2007 memo regarding a law student who worked for the Justice Department in the 1970s.

File · 1945 - 1956
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, memorandum, notes, and extracts regarding ME Ritchie's work for the Department of Justice on the Reparations and Enemy Assets case for the Ambrican trust of Heinrich Koppers. Includes a 2008 reflection on the Michael Magda vs. the Crown legal case for reparations of wartime imprisonment for refusing to join the military.

CERTIFICATES
File · 1928 - 1990
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, certificates, awards, transcripts, and diplomas awarded to ME Ritchie for her education, service, participation, and contributions. These include service awards for time spent at the Department of Justice, enrollment certificates, university diplomas, acceptance into the Alberta Bar, and student awards.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES
File · 1986 - 2008
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, magazine articles, and newspaper clippings regarding articles ME Ritchie wrote on the expropriation of Nanoose Bay and reprinting various article ME Ritchie has written about women in the law, women's equality, and women and poverty, including "Alice Through the Statutes."

CREDENTIALS
File · 1968 - 1970
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, memorandum, and newspaper clippings regarding work ME Ritchie conducted on the rights of criminal, human rights violations, political rights of women, and translations for the Official Languages Act.

CREDENTIALS
File · 1978 - 2012
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and greeting cards regarding ME Ritchie's accomplishments and things she participated or contributed towards, including the Nuclear Weaponds Convention, Access to Information requests for the plaque for the Famous Five on Parliament Hill, the Human Rights Institute, Persons Case II, and women's rights.

Jews, Israel, Anti-Semitism

The Jews, Israel, Anti-Semitism series contains two subseries, the second of which is an addendum to the first. Materials were created between 1971 and 2011, and also includes research materials dating from 1902. This series predominately contains research materials such as newspaper clippings, newsletters, legal research, reports, articles, legislation, Parliamentary debates, treaties, and United Nations conventions, as well as correspondence. Topics covered include Holocaust deniers, Nuremberg Trials and other Nazi war crimes trials, border disputes and land claims surrounding Israel, conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbours, conflicts and politics involving Israelis and Palestinians, the oil crisis in the 1970s, Israel’s foreign relations with Europe, the Middle East, and North America, anti-Semitism in Europe and Russia, hate propaganda and hate speech laws in Canada, treatment of women in Israel, Israeli economics, and the history of the Holy Land and Jerusalem. Many issues are tracked over multiple decades. Marguerite Ritchie was a strong supporter of Israel and Zionism and had ties to Zionist Jewish organisations in Canada.

JEWS, ISRAEL, ANTI-SEMITISM

The Jews, Israel, Anti-Semitism subseries contains 156 files of research discussing Israeli politics and conflicts, anti-Semitism, Jews, and Zionism, as well as some articles and opinion pieces Marguerite Ritchie wrote on the same subjects. Research files are arranged by source of research and correspondence is arranged chronologically. This subseries contains a variety of document types including newsletters, journals, legal research, book chapters, articles, reports, United Nations reports, encyclopedia articles, maps, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, speeches, House of Commons debates, press releases and statements, conventions, Senate debates, legislation, handbooks, state papers, treaties, law reviews, memorandum, correspondence, research notes, policy papers, Parliament debates from the United Kingdom, resumes, fact sheets, lectures, letters to the editor, timelines, United Nations General Assembly summary and meeting minutes, and a United Nations Charter. Specific topics in this subseries cover a broad range of issues affecting Jews and Israel. They include: land claims and conflicts in the middle east, Palestinian-Israeli conflicts, Palestinian refugees, political and cultural history of Palestinians, discrimination and racism, anti-Semitism, terrorism, oil, skyjacking/hijacking of airplanes, history of anti-Semitism in Europe and Russia, emigration of Jews out of Europe and Russia, peace talks, Palestinian political groups, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), guerrilla warfare, the 1973 Israeli War, Iraq civil war, conditions of statehood, prisoners of war, Zionism, Canada’s relationship with Israel and the middle eastern Arab states, trials of Nazi war criminals, apartheid and racism, boycotts of Israel, Israel‘s international relations and independence, Muslims in Britain, succession of states, partition of India and Pakistan, child soldiers, the Six-Days War, the RCMP being charged with racism, foreign policy of the United States towards Israel and the middle east, hate propaganda and hate propaganda laws in Canada, Israeli economics, women in Israel, public support for Israel, history of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, treatment of Christians in the middle east, the Holocaust, Holocaust deniers, and the Armenian genocide.

RESEARCH
File · 1959 - 1993
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Articles, copies of book chapters, House of Commons debates, and encyclopdeia entries regarding refugees in the middle east as a result of Arab-Israeli conflicts, land ownership in Palestine before the 1948 war, and conditions of living in Iraq as a Jew. Also includes copies of Canadian Middle-East Digest regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts and "Report on the Consultations between Non-Governmental Organizations and External Affairs and International Trade Canada in preparation for the 49th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights" by External Affairs and International Trade Canada.

RESEARCH
File · 1934 - 1988
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Copies of newspaper and magazine clippings (including Elie Wiesel), Reform Judaism volume 11, number 1, Israeli-Syrian general armictice [sic] agreement (bilingual Hebrew-English), "Revolutionary Violence and Canadian Policy" by M.E. Ritchie, Jewish Civil Rights Educational Foundation of Canada president's message, correspondence, Report to the National Conference on Soviet Jewry "Who May Leave: A review of Soviet practice restricting emigration on grounds of knowledge of "state secrets" in comparison with standards of International Law and the policies of other states: A summary" by White and Case, "The Jordan -Negev Project of Israel" by Louis Bloomfield (reprinted from the Canadian Yearbook of International Law 1964), copies of The Handbook of Palestine and Trans-Jordan" by Harry Luke and E. Keith-Roach, information briefs, The Leuchter Report: The end of a myth: An engineering report on the alleged execution gas chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdenek, Poland" by Fred Leuchter, "Canada's Israel Policy: A Brief" by Sabine Luedtke (p. 1-3), lists of reviewed imported material, and reports regarding anti-semitism and Jewish civil rights.

RESEARCH
File · 1948 - 1997
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

"The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Brief Presentation" prepared by the the League of Arab States (New York), "L'Organisation de Liberation de la Palestine: Seul Representant Legitime du Peuple Palestinien" prepared by the Departement de l'Information et de l'Orientation Nationale, speeches, View from Ottawa volume X, number 17, "The Racism of International Organizations" by Jean Pierre Bloch, extracts from the Evening Citizen re: Arab Aggression on State of Israel, "The Middle East Slave Trade" by Adrea Rosenberg (reprinted from the Middle East Review volume IX, number 2), National Broadcasting Corporation's broadcast of "No More Vietnams But: U.S. Intervention in the Middle East" by David Saikaley (volunteer at the Human Rights Institute of Canada), Encyclopedia Brittanica articles, "Israel's mistakes are never forgiven: Amidst a sea of hatred and hypocrisy it is a miracle that Israel is still alive" by Dan Nimrod, and Japan Newsletter volume 1, number 9 regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts.

RESEARCH
File · 1956 - 1970
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

"Questions Concerning the Middle East" chapters from the United Nations Yearbooks 1956, 1964, 1968, "Part One: The United Nations" chapters from the United Nations Yearbooks 1956, 1963, 1964, Commission on Human Rights: Report on the Twenty-Sixth Session" by the United Nations regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts, and human rights in the Middle East.

RESEARCH
File · 1919 - 1972
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

British and Foreign State Papers, handbooks, treaties, and encyclopedia articles regarding British rule over Palestine and Lebanon. Also includes a copy of the treaty of Versailles

RESEARCH
File · 1948 - 1989
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Copies of book chapters, United Nations declarations, and international law regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts, human rights, anti-semitism, nationalism, terrorism, and peace in the middle east.

RESEARCH
File · 1934 - 2001
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, speeches, newsletters, encyclopedia articles, copies of book chapters, and speeches regarding the history of Palestine, international mandates, Libya, Israeli courts, the Holocaust, and social tolerance.

RESEARCH
File · 1934 - 1968
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

"The Middle East Situation: Crisis in Understanding and Truth" speech by Heath Macquarrie, Funny, You Don't Look Christian by Robert Herhold, The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The 1967 Campaign by Keesing's Research Report, "Chapter XVI: From Balfour to Bevin" from Promise and Fulfillment by Arthur Koestler, Cross Currents by Arnold Foster and Benjamin Epstein, extracts from The Palestine Problem Today: Israel and its Neighbours by Carl Voss, Commons debates volume 119, number 175, "Chapter 8: Immigration and Citizenship" from the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, extracts from The SIren Years: A Canadian Diplomat Abroad 1937-1945 by Charles Ritchie, "Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (Geneva 1951)," notes, "The Handbook of Palestine and Trans-Jordan" by Harry Luke and E. Keith-Roach, various book chapters, and encyclopedia articles regarding Arab-Israeli conflict and international relations with the Middle East.

RESEARCH
File · 1947 - 1975
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Commons debates, The Blood of Israel: The Massacre of the Israeli Athletes: The Olympics, 1972 by Serge Groussard, "From Palestine to Suez" from Mike: The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume 2, 1948-1957, and Canada at the United Nations 1947 published by the Department of External Affairs regarding Arab-Israeli conflict and the history of the crisis in the Middle East.

RESEARCH
File · 1952 - 1972
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Palestine: The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Rampart Press Reader edited by Russell Stetler, The United Nations Emergency Force by Gabriella Rosner, "Chapter IV: Territory and Territorial Jurisdiction" from The Law of Nations by Herbert Briggs, encyclopedia articles, The Road to War 1967: The Origins of the Arab-Israel Conflict by Walter Laquer, "The Arab Refugees: Arab Statements and the Facts" published the Israel Ministry for Foreign Affairs regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts.

RESEARCH BY DORIS EDWARDS

Research materials regarding Jews in Arab countries, Arab-Israeli conflicts, anti-semitism, terrorism, the Palestine Liberation Organization, human rights, women's rights, the effectiveness of the United Nations, and sources of research.

CANADA
File · 1976 - 2008
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Newspaper clippings regarding anti-semitism in Canada, criticism of Israel, Canada's human rights record, Harper government of Canada's support of Israel, and public support of Palestine and Israel.

HATE PROPAGANDA
File · 1982 - 1989
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, legislation, memorandum, research papers, and supporting documentation regarding hate propaganda and hate propaganda criminal laws in Canada.

H.A.L. STEPHEN
File · 1974 - 1977
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, transcripts of broadcasts, articles, copies of Dialogue Magazine, and copies of newspaper clippings regarding Harry A.L. Stephen and his views on Israel and the middle east. Also includes copies of ME Ritchie's resume and the incorporation documents for the Human Rights Institute of Canada.

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
File · 1971 - 1972
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Notes, memorandum, Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on board Aircraft (Tokyo), Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (the Hague), International Civil Aviation Organization: Convention to Discourage Acts of Violence against Civil Aviation (Montreal), copies of the Criminal Code chapter C-34, Bill C-2 An Act to amend the Criminal Code, "Legal Aspects of the Middle East Situation" by Quincy Wright, "International Law and the Outbreak of War in the Middle East, 1967" by William O'Brien, "United Nations Action with Respect to the Middle Eastern Conflict" prepared by the United Nations Security Council, correspondence, and a "Report by Canada on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination" regarding foreign policy, law and the Middle East, and Arab-Israeli conflicts.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
File · 2008 - 2009
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Copies of newspaper clippings, "Antisemitism and the Canadian Government," "History versus Arab claims to 'homeland'," and Revolutionary Violence and Canadian Policy" by M.E. Ritchie, and correspondence regarding anti-semitism and Arab-Israeli conflicts

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
File · 1974 - 1982
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Newspaper clippings, copies of magazine articles, pamphlets, and notes regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts, oil, terrorism, skyjacking/airplane hijacking, refugees, boycotts, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), and global effects of unrest in the middle east.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
File · 1969 - 1971
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Newspaper clippings, memorandum, and United Nations General Assembly notes regarding terrorism, the UN Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the history of Israel, and skyjacking/ airplane hijacking.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
File · 1966 - 1972
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, notes, press releases, and copies of newspaper clippings regarding hate speech laws, Arab-Israeli conflicts, Perspectives on Israel and Palestine, and conflicts in the middle east.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
File · 1972 - 2004
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Copies of newspaper clippings regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts, United Nations peace talks in the middle east, Canadian international relations, Canada and the United Nations, and the United Nations conference against racism in Durban.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
File · 1967 - 1968
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Newspaper clippings, United Nations Economic and Social Council reports, and newsletters regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts, anti-semitism, the protection of minorities, the Suez Canal, and the United Nations.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
File · 1970 - 1975
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

The United Nations Charter, notes, memorandum, and newspaper clippings regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts, analogies for refugees, the 1973 Israeli war, and international relations with Israel.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
File · 1969 - 1974
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Newspaper clippings, copies of magazine articles, and supporting documentation regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts, anti-semitism, Canadian opinions on Israel, refugees, skyjacking/ airplane hijacking, zionism,Canadian middle eastern politics, and the 1973 Israeli war.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
File · 1949 - 2012
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Extracts from External Affairs conferences, conventions, and copies of newspaper clippings regarding United Nations policies on genocide, the declaration of human rights, Arab-Israeli conflicts, Palestine, criticism of Israel, support for Israel from the Canadian government, and anti-semitism.

File · 1966 - 2004
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, magazine articles, legislation, copies of newspaper clippings, speeches, House of Commons proceedings, encyclopedia articles, and press releases regarding Quebec separatism, metric conversion, Canada Post logo, the Freedom of Information Act, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, elections, and Canadian Indentity.

File · 1980 - 2011
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Newspaper clippings, quotes, extracts, memorandum, notes, and research regarding the constitution, compromises for Quebec, and the roles played by Quebec Premier Rene Levesque and Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau in negotiations. Also includes a 2006 reflection on the confrontation between Rene Levesque and Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

File · 2007 - 2008
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, public meeting agendas, and press releases regarding support from Canadians for Language Fairness (CLF) for the Human Rights Institute of Canada, public meetings of CLF, historical revisionism, bilingualism in Ottawa and in Canada more broadly, rights for anglophone majorities, and the Official Languages Act.

File · 2001 - 2012
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Newsletters, pamphlettes, publications, correspondence, speeches, copies of newspaper clippings, and memorandum regarding the Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada (APEC) Chairman Ronald Leitch and his wife Pauline Leitch, mutual support between APEC and the Human Rights Institute of Canada, bilingualism, and the death of Ronald Leitch. Also includes "Official Bilingualism: The Sell-out of English Canada," "Constitutions are for People," and "Freedom or Political Slavery" by Ronald Leitch.

Correspondence, speeches, House of Commons debates, notes, and Dialogue Magazine regarding the formation of Heritage Canada, presentations made by the Chateauguay Valley English-Speaking Peoples Association (CVESPA) to the Official Languages Committee, government speeches for the Acadian World Congress, mutual support between the CVESPA and the Human Rights Institute of Canada, and legal action considered by ME Ritchie against the mayor of Chateauguay for innapropriate comments.

File · 1999 - 2005
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, memorandum, meeting materials, and newsletters regarding the Chateauguay Valley English-Speaking Peoples Association (CVESPA)'s work on Quebec's language laws, CVESPA annual meetings, CVESPA Executive Director Janet Hicks and President Maurice King, mutual support between CVESPA and the Human Rights Institute of Canada, and articles in CVESPA's Dialogue magazine.