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Correspondence, notes, speeches, and a biography regarding John Humphrey, a presentation he made to Parliament, and his books "The Practice of Freedom: Canadian Essays on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms" and "Human Rights and the United Nations: A Great Adventure." Also includes "Leadership in Law: John P. Humphrey and the Development of the International Law of Human Rights" by St. J. MacDonald.

Correspondence, memorandum, notes, transcripts, and legal research regarding the divorce, family court, and child custody case of ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and his wife Audrey Ritchie.

Copies of briefs (number 202, 302, 273, 193, 178, 32, 309, 239, 99, 437 (French)) regarding the Royal Commission on the Status of Women and labour equality. Many briefs includes apprendices.

Provincial court documents on various divorce cases.

Copies of briefs (number 300, 402 (French), 198, 164), submissions, recommendations, and appendices (A and C English, B and D French) regarding support by various Canadian organizations of the Royal Commision on the Status of Women, childcare, and the education of women.

Correspondence, memorandum, notes, and legal research regarding a trade mark registration for Perm-O-Seal and subsequent law suit involving ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and father, Allan I. Ritchie.

Copies of book chapters, newspaper clippings, and newsletters regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts, Israel after the Six-Days War, refugees, and the oil crisis.

Newspaper clippings regarding Arab-israeli conflicts, Israeli-American relations, and the history of Israel.

Newspaper clippings regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts, peace talks, the 1973 Israeli war, Israeli-American relations, terrorism, and the succession of Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir.

Newspaper clippings regarding terrorism and guerrilla warfare in the middle east and in Europe.

Correspondence, notes, legal research, and court documents regarding the divorce, family court, and child custody case of ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and his wife Audrey Ritchie.

Correspondence, notes, legal research, and court documents regarding the divorce, finances, family court, and child custody case of ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and his wife Audrey Ritchie.

Copies of newspaper clippings and correspondence regarding the direction of the government, the Trudeau government, and Parliamentary government in Canada.

Access to Information requests and Cabinet documents regarding the Cabinet meeting held January 14, 1969 wherein Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau presented his proposal for the Official Languages Act and documents following up on this proposal.

Memorandum from the Attorney General of Saskatchewan, Darrel V. Heald, to Minister of Justice John Turner regarding the Official Languages Act and critiques of it from the government of Saskatchewan.

Correspondence and copies of newspaper articles regarding Pat Carney's term as a Senator, Nanoose Bay, and newspaper articles written by Pat Carneyon arctic tanker ships.

Correspondence, memorandum, presentations to Senate, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and supporting documentation from the National Action Committee (N.A.C.) on the Status of Women for research and a presentation to the Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Also includes fundraising and representation of women in government through a special council of women.

Provincial court documents on various divorce cases.

This Magazine is about Schools magazine, volume 3, issues 1-4. Including the articles "The Liberation of Women" by Laurel Limpus and "Sugar 'n Spice" on socializing girls by Sarah Spinks.

Event invitations for various galas, awards ceremonies, talks, dinners, government events, the Senate, and celebrations.

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 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.

Correspondence, memorandum, and notes regarding the interdepartmental committee on human rights, Canadian conference on human rights, a human rights prize, and international year for human rights.

Family Court transcripts and legal research regarding the divorce, family court, and child custody case of ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and his wife Audrey Ritchie.

Memorandum, action request forms, extracts from Acts, correspondence, summaries, transcipts of telecasts, copies of journal articles and pleas, proposals, meeting minutes, records of committee decisions, and papers regarding gendered language, child welfare, women in science, law, and academe, and the Federal Status of Women Council. Also includes a full transcript of the 1971 Canadian Broadcasting Council's telecast of Suzuki on Science: Women in Science.

Correspondence, transcripts of telephone calls, court documents, and memorandum regarding the implementation of equal pay legislation.

Addresses by Sylva Gelber, Director of the Women's Bureau of the Canada Department of Labour, correspondence, newspaper clippings (including photos), reports, recommendations, "The New Role of Women" by Sylva Gelber, presented at New Morality: Challenge to Old Values Symposium, Toronto (1969), and notes regarding the status of women and labour, social, and political equality.

Justice department correspondence, memorandum, notes, reports, newspaper clippings, and legal research and reference materials regarding offshore mining, federal exploration rights for offshore oil and gas, treaty making, territorial waters and fishing zones. File also includes a 2009 reflection of the events of the Offshore claims by Dr. Ritchie.

Copies of newspaper clippings regarding modernisation of the middle east, child soldiers, oil, and international relations with Israel.

Newspaper clippings regarding conflicts in the middle east and middle eastern politics.

Newspaper clippings regarding terrorism, guerrilla warefare, peace talks, and Arab-Israeli conflicts.

Newspaper clippings regarding guerrilla warefare, peace talks, and Arab-Israeli conflicts.

Copies of newspaper clippings, House of Commons debates, correspondence, open letters, reports, and notes regarding bilingualism, the reorganisation of civil service, and the direction of the government.

Family Court transcripts, correspondence, notes, and supporting documentation regarding the divorce, family court, and child custody case of ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and his wife Audrey Ritchie.

Correspondence, memorandum, notes, transcripts, court documents, and legal research regarding a trade mark registration for Perm-O-Seal and subsequent law suit involving ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and father, Allan I. Ritchie.

Correspondence, excerpts, and House of Commons debates regarding Access to Information requests for the positions taken by Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau on Quebec separatism.

Speeches, recommendations, memorandum, advance copy of Status of Women in Canada - 1972, progress charts, reports, comparative analyses, Interdepartmental Committee meeting minutes, essays, notes, newspaper clippings (with photos), Commons and Senate debates, and Bill C-206 regarding the Royal Commission on the Status of Women and labour equality.

Correspondence, brochures, memorandum, copies of newspaper clippings, interview transcripts, and House of Commons debates regarding proposed aborition legislation Bill C-43 prohibiting aboritions performed by anyone other than a medical doctor, the Supreme Court case of Daigle vs. Tremblay that held that the father could not stop a women from having an abortion, and various examples of abortion and birth control legislation.

Correspondence, memorandum, notes, informational booklets and press releases regarding a variety of issues M.E. Ritchie dealt with at the Justice Department. These include women's rights, female laywers and judges, youth programmes, travel, and a variety of day to day issues.

Memorandum and correspondence regarding violations of human rights.

Justice department correspondence, memorandum, notes, reports, newspaper clippings, and legal research and reference materials regarding offshore mineral and jurisdiction for resource rights in coastal provinces following the Supreme Court decision on offshore rights. This decision stated that the Federal government of Canada rather than the provinces, is permited to exploit offshore minerals, lands, and other natural resources. Some discussion of international territorial waters in Canadian waters and specifically in the Canadian Arctic. File also includes a 2009 reflection of the events of the Offshore claims by Dr. Ritchie.

Newspaper clippings, law reviews, and House of Commons debates regarding attacks on Israeli civilians by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), international recognition of the PLO, United Nations Peace Keepers in middle east conflicts, United Nations peace talks, foreign aid, and conflicts in Lebanon.

Newspaper clippings regarding terrorism and skyjacking/ airplane hijacking.

Newspaper clippings, House of Commons debates, International Law Association report, and United Nations General Assembly meeting minutes regarding terrorism and skyjacking/ airplane hijacking.

Newspaper clippings, British State Papers, conference papers, United Nations General Assembly notes, and United Nations papers, regarding the oil crisis, terrorism, the UN Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the history of Israel, and skyjacking/ airplane hijacking.

Women's Bureau, Canada Department of Labour publications of papers and facts and figures regarding women in the work force, child care for working mothers, and women's employment.

Newspaper clippings and transcripts regarding abortion legalisation.

House of Commons debates and Senate debates regarding proposed aborition legislation Bill C-43 prohibiting aboritions performed by anyone other than a medical doctor.

Correspondence, memorandum, reports, notes, and background documentation regarding status rights of aboriginal women and the Supreme Court cases and subsequent appeals over the status of married aboriginal women.

Correspondence, memorandum, promotional materials an annual report on Swedish ombudsman ("justitieombudsman"), regarding Minister Turner's visit to Sweden to investigate having an ombudsman in Canada. Also includes British statutes and press materials on Constitutional law.

Law dictionary entries, conventions, copies of newspaper clippings, press releases, and United Nations general Assembly studies regarding international relations, agreements, and declarations, succession of states, release of books in Israel and International Relations, Canada's recognition of Palestine, violence in middle eastern countries, and the partition of Pakistan and India.

Newspaper clippings regarding war in Lebanon, United Nations aid, relations between Israel and the United Nations, wars between Arab nations, and oil.

Newspaper clippings regarding Israeli-Russian relations and Jews in Russia.

Newspaper clippings regarding terrorism in the middle east, the Irish Republican Army (IRA), and the emigration of Jews out of the Soviet Union.

Correspondence, notes, legal research, memorandum, transcripts of telephone conversations, and court documents regarding the divorce, finances, family court, and child custody case of ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and his wife Audrey Ritchie.

Copies of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and Senate debates regarding Access to Information, Privacy Acts, redacted documents, and government secrecy as a result of censoring documents.

Copies of newspaper clippings regarding bilingualism, the Official Languages Act, anglo-Quebecois history, and comparisons between bilingualism in Belgium and Canada. Also includes "Language Standards, Ethnicity and Discrimination" by Teresa Scassa and "The Writing's on the Wall (Quebec Separatist movement may lead to violence)" by Robert Lecker.

Correspondence with Muriel McQueen Fergusson, notes, summaries, and transcripts of telephone conversations regarding ME Ritchie accepting the position of vice-chairman of the Anti-Dumping Tribunal, nomination ME Ritchie for the position of Human Rights Commissioner, the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, equal pay, gender discrimination in government appointments, and women on juries for criminal cases.

Correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, greeting cards, magazines, and court documents regarding Marjorie M. Bowker receiving the Order of Canada, the Meech Lake Accord, the North American Free Trade Agreement, divorce law and Marjorie M. Bowker's work as a family court judge, and the status of women.

Personal correspondence to ME Ritchie from various family, coworkers, and friends.

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.

Memorandum and correspondence regarding the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and human rights conventions on race base discrimination.

Correspondence, notes, legal research, memorandum, and transcripts of telephone conversations regarding the divorce, finances, family court, and child custody case of ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and his wife Audrey Ritchie.

The Indian News newspaper, sporatic editions from volumes 13, 14, and 15.

Correspondence, memorandum, notes, court documents, and copies of newspaper clippings from the Department of Justice regarding the Yvonne Bedard case over gender discrimination in the Indian Act with respect to aboriginal women losing band status if they marry a non-aboriginal man or someone from a different band. Includes correspondence with the Six Nations Iroquois about band regulations about women losing status upon marriage to a white man and references to the Jeanette Corbiere Lavell case over the same issue.

Senate debates regarding women sitting on juries for criminal cases, girls being Parliamentary pages, promoting the film industry in Canada, and the status of women.

Voice of Women (V.O.W.) newsletter number 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, and 19. Correspondence, conference programs, and newsletter special editions regarding VOW operations and activism, including war efforts, communism, Vietnam war, and nuclear disarmament.

Correspondence, memorandum, brochures, copy of a money order, copies of newspaper clippings, copy of a speech given by Elsie MacGill for the British Columbia Federation of Labour (1971), transcript of a Canadian Broadcast Council's telecast of "Suzuki on Science; Women in Science" (1971), and a copy of an article by Patricia Graham, "Women in Academe," published by Science (1970) regarding the editorial management of Women Speaking, and women in the workforce and education.

Correspondence, newspaper clippings (and copies, including photos), copy of M.E. Ritchie's Canadian Who's Who article (2003), annual reports, notes, copies of press releases, brief on the Constitution Amendment 1987 (Meech Lake Accord), invitations, memorandum, newsletters, receipts, completed form, curriculum vitae, copy of an article by Mollie Gillen, "A lawyer: Divorce isn't fair to women," published by Chatelain (1971), and Constitution and Bylaws regarding the continued functioning of the club without M.E. Ritchie as president, and the club's preliminary involvement with the Human Rights Institute, including Persons Case II.

"Status of Women in Canada" published by the Minister Responsible for the Status of Women, the Advisory Council on the Status of Women annual reports,"Status of Women Alberta," "The Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada" report, "It's Your Turn: A Handbook for Canadian Women" by the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, and "Status of Women Canada: Yesterday and Today" poster.

Articles, law journals, and reports regarding women's liberation, women in academia, female lawyers, equal rights amendments, the status of aboriginal women, prostitution, and equal pay.

Correspondence, memorandum, dictionary exerpts, reports, and copies of articles regarding foreign embassies in Canada related to Expo '67, bar associations, Royal Commissions, gendered language and the inclusion of women, and women's rights. Also includes personal correspondence with Laura and John Harder.

Newspaper clippings regarding the history of Israel, terrorism, international relations between Israel and Egypt and Russia, and skyjacking/ airplane hijacking.

Newspaper clippings regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts. Also includes Jewish National Fund (JFN) Illustrated magazine.

Newspaper clippings regarding Israeli-Russian relations and Jews in Russia.

Newspaper clippings regarding peace talks, Jordan's civil war, and international relations between middle eastern countries and the United States and Soviet Union.

Correspondence, memorandum, and service records regarding M.E. Ritchie's employment at the Justice Department and promotion to vice-chairman of the Anti-Dumping tribunal.

Correspondence, notes, legal research, memorandum, and transcripts of telephone conversations regarding the divorce, family court, and child custody case of ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and his wife Audrey Ritchie.

Archibald Report to the Public Service Commission "Sex and the Public Service" by Kathleen Archibald, regarding equal career opportunities without regard to sex.

Women Speaking Journal, published by Paxman Press Ltd., volume 2, number 21-32; volume 3, number 1-4.

Dominion Law Reports and court documents from the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia on various divorce cases.

Correspondence, memorandum, copies of legislation and Supreme Court rulings, and legal research regarding the Official Languages Act including implications, difficulties in enforcing the act, and discussions of translation Supreme Court decisions.

Newspaper clippings regaring Arab-Israeli conflicts, France's support of Arab nations, terrorism, Israel's defence policies, conflicts in Cyprus, Israel's relations with China and Egypt, China gaining a seat at the United Nations, and Christians in the middle east.

Harvard law Review, United Nations General Assembly report, regarding the law of the sea, international law, succession of states, war in Lebanon, neo-Nazis, and anti-semitism.

Newspaper clippings regarding guerrilla warefare, peace talks, sale of arms to middle eastern countries by the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, and Arab-Israeli conflicts.

Speeches and press releases by Pierre Elliott Trudeau regarding bilingualism, the constitution conference, the future of Canada, the position of Quebec in the constitution, and Quebec's evolution.

Recommendations, correspondence, presentations, memorandum, press releases, transcripts of telephone conversations, and progress reports from the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women regarding the proposed federal Human Rights Commission and the Human Rights Act, the status of women, and abortion.

Correspondence, notes, memorandum, legal research, and court documents regarding the divorce, finances, family court, and child custody case of ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and his wife Audrey Ritchie.

Correspondence, notes, memorandum, legal research, and court documents regarding the divorce, finances, family court, and child custody case of ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and his wife Audrey Ritchie.

Correspondence, memorandum, notes, transcripts, court documents, and legal research regarding a trade mark registration for Perm-O-Seal and subsequent law suit involving ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and father, Allan I. Ritchie.

Court documents tracing the challenge made by Jeannette Vivian Corbiere Lavell from the first Notice of Protest to the Registrar of the Indian Act up to her appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada regarding gender discrimination in the Indian Act with respect to aboriginal women losing band status if they marry a non-aboriginal man or someone from a different band.

Correspondence, notes, memorandum, legal research, minutes from the House of lords in England, copies of newspaper clippings, Senate debates, House of Commons debates, transcripts, and departmental agreements regarding the government's treatment of female employees after the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Also includes a copy of the Archibauld Report, "Sex and the Public Service" by Kathleen Archibald, regarding equal career opportunities without regard to sex.

Provincial acts, notes, correspondence, memorandum, and notes regardings Deserted Wives' and Children's Maintenance Acts (DWCMA).

Personal correspondence, greeting cards, and postcards to ME Ritchie from various family, coworkers, and friends.

Newspaper clippings regarding summaries of Arab-Israeli conflicts and Israel, the death of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, international relations with Egypt throughtout the 1950s and 1960s, image of Muslims in America, oil, Arab-Israeli conflicts, and proposed peace talks in the middle east.

Copies of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and journal articles regarding the middle east, Russian immigration to Israel, conflicts, terrorism, and international politics.

Newspaper clippings regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts, terrorism, the Bengladesh Liberation War, the 1973 Israeli war, prisoners of war, Iraq civil war, anti-semitism, and peace talks.

Copies of newspaper articles, encyclopedia entries, and acts of Parliament regarding the October Crisis, the Front de lib

Correspondence, notes, memorandum, legal research, and court documents regarding the divorce, finances, family court, and child custody case of ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and his wife Audrey Ritchie.

Correspondence, press releases, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples reports, and submission made to the Commission regarding historical government documentation on life in the arctic and the perspective of Inuit Tapirisat of Canada on the relocations of Inuit peoples to the High Arctic in the 1950s.