Correspondence, House of Commons issue number 5 Minutes and Proceedings and Evidence of the Special Committee on Participation of Visible Minorities in Canadian Society, notes, "profound statements," news releases, objectives, "The Ottawa Institute of Human Rights - Proposal," HRIC fact sheets, summaries, youth employment openings, Toronto Symphony Business Sponsorship Program, North-South Institute statement of revenue, expense, and unexpended balance 1971, "Statement re Involvement in Chile" by Alfred Powis, Young Canada Works Program applications, correspondence, memorandum, Secretary of the Treasury Board, letters patents, benefit posters, Executive Development leave plans, Department of Justice Human Rights Law Fund objectives and procedures, and Misgivings catalogue of funding sources regarding Human Rights Institute of Canada's requests for funding from various organizations.
Human Rights Education and Promotion Program "Projects Funded in 1986-87," memorandum, correspondence, basic employer information, Challenge '87 Summer Employment/Experience Development (SEED) applications, notes, newspaper clippings, "Preliminary Information about Funding for Proposed Confrence [sic]" conference plans, Secretary of State Women's Program funding guidelines, news releases, and brochures regarding the Human Rights Institute of Canada's requests for funding from various organizations.
Memorandum, correspondence, notes, copies of newspaper clippings, and promotional materials regarding raising awareness, training, making documentaries, and fundraising for Persons Case II and the Human Rights Institute of Canada. Also includes chart of research on various grant programs.
Correspondence, memorandum, grant applications, and newspaper clippings regarding applying for grants for job training programmes and job equity from the city of Ottawa and the Department of Employment and Immigration.
Correspondence, memorandum, applications, and supporting documentation regarding a SEED money grant from the City of Ottawa for the Charlotte Whitton Memorial Lectures as well as other city funding for training and employment programmes.
Copies of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and memorandum regarding articles written by Greg Weston on the implementation of bilingualism, government funds spent on language training, and auditors reports on misappropriation of funds.
Correspondence, memorandum, and copies of newspaper clippings regarding Air Canada being required to abide by bilingualism laws and a letter to the editor ME Ritchie wrote to the Ottawa Citizen.
Correspondence, memorandum, and newspaper clippings regarding letters to the editor ME Ritchie published in the Ottawa Citizen on women's rights, Persons Case II, women's rights and racial discrimination, and a newspaper article on the relocation of Inuit peoples to the High Arctic in the 1950s.
Correspondence with the Alberta Press Council regarding a case brought by ME Ritchie against The Alberta Report, the Meech Lake Accord, women's rights and gendered language in legislation, and representation of the Human Rights Institute in newspaper articles.
Correspondence regarding letters to the editor ME Ritchie wrote for Persons Case II.
Correspondence, notes, copies of newspaper clippings, and memorandum regarding interviews, publicity, and media representation of the Human Rights Institute of Canada and the work of the Institute specifically in reference to Persons Case II, the Meech Lake Accord, the Oka Crisis, and bilingualism and the Official Languages Act. Also includes lists of contact information for various media outlets and journalists.
Correspondence, notes, press releases, copies of newspaper clippings, and memorandum regarding interviews, press conferences, and media representation of the Human Rights Institute of Canada and the work of the Institute specifically in reference to Persons Case II, a video produced on Persons Case II, and Canadian history.
Correspondence, notes, press releases, and memorandum regarding interviews, press conferences, and media representation of the Human Rights Institute of Canada and the work of the Institute specifically in reference to Ottawa bilingualism, Quebec as a distinct society, Persons Case II, among other issues.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum and reports for the annual meeting regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum, summaries, and notes regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum and a submission to the Parliamentary committee dealing with Bill C-43, an act respecting abortion regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum, notes, and newsletters regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum and notes regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum, notes, and copies of newspaper clippings regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum and notes regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum and transcripts of telephone conversations regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum, notes, and an article ME Ritchie wrote for Dialogue magazine regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum and notes regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum, notes, copies of newspaper clippings, and transcripts of telephone conversations regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum and promotional materials regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum, notes, and trascripts of telephone messages regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum, notes, and copies of newspaper clippings regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum and notes regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum and notes regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum, meeting notes, and copies of newspaper clippings regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum and notes regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum and notes regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum and an open letter regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum, notes, and newsletters regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum and open letters regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum and notes regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum, notes, and copies of newspaper clippings regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Predominately outgoing correspondence as well as memorandum regarding the activities of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, the positions taken by the HRI on political and human rights issues, and communications with HRI members.
Memorandum, correspondence, by-laws, information kits, and applications regarding the organization of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, its rules, proceedures, and regulations.
Correspondence, memorandum, fact sheets, budgets, and narratives regarding the founding of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, its stated purpose, and original staff and board members.
Contracts, memorandum, and pay scales regarding paid research work conducted for the Human Rights Institute of Canada.
Memorandum and notes regarding volunteers and members of the Human Rights Institute of Canada and HRI projects they helped with.
Correspondence, memorandum, and newspaper clippings regarding examples of successful cases and positive changes the Human Rights Institute of Canada has brought to the federal government.
Senate and House of Commons joint committee minutes, House of Commons minutes, and submission from the Human Rights Institute of Canada regarding submissions to the Committee for Equality Rights for womens appointment to the Senate and women in the armed forces and to the committee on Senate reform.
Correspondence, proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, and submissions from the Human Rights Institute of Canada to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on stalking legislation, to the Nanoose Bay Expropriation Hearings, and to the Charter Challenges program on the appointment of women to the Senate.
Correspondence, questionaire, programme, memorandum, and newsletter regarding ME Ritchie speaking at a Sikh conference and answers to a questionaire from the Sikh community on equality and immigration.
Memorandum, correspondence, programmes, newsletters, and promotional materials regarding speeches by ME Ritchie on bilingualism, the Meech Lake Accord, and women's rights.
Articles written by ME Ritchie for Dialogue magazine on various topics including bilingualism, women's rights, and the expropriation of Nanoose Bay.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, press releases, memorandum, notes, and articles regarding the fallout from the Human Rights Institute of the University of Ottawa renaming and confusing between the two institutes after the University of Ottawa renamed their institute the Human Rights Centre.
Correspondence, memorandum, and a cirriculum vitae regarding a student project conducted by Mary Jane Jones for the Human Rights Institute of Canada on the implications of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on the Indian Act.
Meeting documents and supporting documentation from the Annual Board of Directors meeting of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, including meeting minutes, financial statements, budgets, by-law amendments, staff changes, audit reports, and activity reports.
Meeting documents and supporting documentation from the Annual Board of Directors meeting of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, including meeting minutes, financial statements, board member list, staffing changes, and activity reports.
Meeting documents and supporting documentation from the Annual Board of Directors meeting and a conference held by the Human Rights Institute of Canada, including meeting minutes, auditors reports, transcripts, conference planning, and agendas. Conference entitled "Towards Justice in Canada: Politics as a Barrier."
Meeting documents and supporting documentation from the Annual Board of Directors meeting of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, including meeting minutes, financial statements, and a board member list.
Meeting documents and supporting documentation from the Annual Board of Directors meeting of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, including meeting minutes, financial statements, award nominations, and membership regulations.
Meeting documents and supporting documentation from the Annual Board of Directors meeting of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, including meeting minutes, financial statements, and promotional materials.
Correspondence and periodicals regarding legal deposits of periodicals written and published by the Human Rights Institute of Canada to the National Library of Canada and being assigned ISBN numbers. Periodicals include "Conflicting Guidelines: The Women's Program, Department of Secretary of State," "Equality in Canada: Two Examples of Women's Inequality," "Women and Citizenship: The History of a Lost Right Regained," "Women and Appointment to the Senate: Submission to the Special Joint Committee on Senate Reform," and "The Practicalities of Senate Reform: Substance of a Speech by Honourable Eugene Forsey, to a Section of the Canadian Bar Association."
Photo album of Human Rights Institute of Canada annual meetings with annotations to name the people in the photographs. Also includes correspondence regarding photograph licensing.
Correspondence, memorandum, notes, and a will regarding the Hamilton Family Trust from the estate of Mary Hamilton and taxation issues.
Correspondence, memorandum, and financial statements regarding the Hamilton Family Trust from the estate of Mary Hamilton and her husband Thomas David Clark Hamilton.
The Addendum – Board Members subseries contains 6 files discussing the activities of board members. Files are arranged by Board member. This subseries contains a variety of document types including correspondence, memorandum, notes, press releases, newspaper clippings, newsletters, and contact information. The specific topics this subseries covers are details on the work conducted by Human Rights Institute of Canada Board Members and their support for the Human Rights Institute of Canada.
Correspondence, memorandum, notice of hearing, and legal research regarding the divorce and child custody case of ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and his wife Audrey Ritchie. Also includes documents regarding the legal case fought by Robert H. Ritchie over Perm-O-Seal.
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.
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.
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.
Correspondence, notes, legal research, memorandum, court documents, 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.
Correspondence, financial records, and notes regarding an investment dispute with the Ministry of Financial Institution between ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and Patricia Bishop over legal name changes.
Correspondence, affadavits, notes, memorandum, court documents and financial records regarding a property dispute between ME Ritchie's brother, Robert H. Ritchie, and Patricia Bishop over a condominium.
Correspondence and copies of newspaper clippings regarding family court, child abuse, and family court lawyers.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, and copies of websites regarding publically announcing parents who defaulted on child support, family court's bias towards mothers, a letter to the editor ME Ritchie wrote about family court, and responses to ME Ritchie's letter to the editor. Also includes "Report on the effects on Support Recipients and Support Payers as a result of the application of Canada's Federal Child Support Guidelines in various family situations" by the Family Justice Review Committee and Chairman Dorian A. Baxter.
Correspondence, memorandum, 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.
The Lawyers and Courts subseries contains six files discussing the legal field and the work of lawyers and courts more broadly. Files are arranged by subject. This subseries includes a variety of document types including correspondence, memorandum, newspaper clippings, law society hearing panel decisions, briefs, bulletins, magazines, newsletters, handbooks, pamphlets, press releases, reports, and documents from the Supreme Court of Canada. Specific topics in this subseries are profession conduct for lawyers including the first lawyer to be held in contempt of court; specific cases of disbarment and professional misconduct; issues faced by the deaf and women in the legal system; discrimination faced by women working in the legal system; and legal fees being too high for average or middle class people to afford.
Copies of newspaper clippings, memorandum, correspondence, and briefs regarding lawyers, the high cost of legal fees, law societies, and issues deaf people have had in the legal system.
Copies of newspaper clippings, bulletins, correspondence, memorandum, and magazine articles regarding legal fees, malpractice against lawyers, pro bono work, complaints against lawyers, and the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Correspondence, memorandum, pamphlettes, submissions, notices, press releases, reports, bar review articles, and newspaper clippings regarding the Canadian Bar Association, women in legal professions, violence against women, women's rights, aboriginal rights, Senate reform, and human rights.
Copies of newspaper clippings and Supreme Court documents regarding Lewis Duncan, Q.C., being the first person to be held in contempt of court in the Supreme Court and his suicide.
Newspaper clippings regarding aboriginal rights, specifically a demand for an apology for the move of Inuit families to the northern arctic in the 1950s, compensation for relocation, and arguments that claims of exile were exaggerated.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper clippings, copies of magazine articles, copies of book chapters, and copies of journal articles regarding Inuit life, culture, and aboriginal rights.
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and supporting documentation regarding aboriginal rights, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Northwest Territories' commissioner Bent Gestur Sivertz's experience with Inuit relocations, the move of Inuit families to the northern arctic in the 1950s, compensation for relocation, and arguments that claims of exile were exaggerated.
Memorandum, correspondence, and reports copied from archival records regarding relocation of Inuit families to the northern arctic, employment, trade, economic issues, education of children, and treatment of Inuit people by the government and Northern Administration.
Correspondence, memorandum, notes, reports, copies of newspaper clippings, interview transcripts, and supporting documentation regarding the practices of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People, relocation of Inuit people in the 1950s, the experiences of Mary Carpenter and her activism for aboriginal women's rights, and accounts of Inuit relocations.
Correspondence, press releases, newspaper clippings, notes, resumes, and transcripts regarding Mary Carpenter's experiences with Inuit relocation and debate and media coverage around Gerard Kenney's book "Arctic Smoke and Mirrors" about Inuit relocation in the 1950s.