Collection C001 - Quinn collection

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Quinn collection

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C001

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  • 1931-1985 (Creation)
    Creator
    Quinn, Herbert Furlong

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2.5 m of textual documents

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(1910-1985)

Biographical history

Herbert Furlong Quinn was born in Montreal in 1910. He received a B.A. degree from Sir George Williams College in 1941. He was noted for involvement in student politics. He joined the Sir George Williams teaching staff in 1942 as a lecturer in the Humanities Division. In 1943, he became a lecturer in the Social Science Division. From 1944 to 1946, he was a lecturer in Political Science. In 1947 he was appointed assistant professor of Social and Political Science. In 1950 he was promoted to associate professor and in 1955 to professor of Political Science. In 1976 he became a part-time lecturer in Political Science.
Herbert F. Quinn died in Montreal in October 1985.

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Scope and content

The Quinn collection was gathered by Herbert Furlong Quinn between the 1930s and 1970s to support his research of political sciences.
The collection mainly presents a dozen Canadian political parties as well as several foreign parties using brochures and political newspapers covering the period from the 1930s to the early 1980s. The Canadian political parties represented are the Parti libéral du Québec, the Liberal Party of Canada, the New Democratic Party, the Progressive Labor Union, the Commonwealth Co-operative Federation, the Progressive Conservative Party, the Confederation of Catholic Workers in Canada, the National Union, the Social Credit Party of Canada, the Bloc Populaire, the Canadian Student Assembly, among others. The foreign parties covered by the collection are mainly the German Christlich Demokratische Union (CDU / CSU), but also the Socialist Workers' Party of America and the League for Industrial Democracy as well as the Republicans and Democrats during the American presidential campaign of 1964. In addition, the collection includes several years of the "Bulletin" (English version), published by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as brochures of the Portuguese government of the 1930s.
The collection also includes complementary material: First, there are articles and publications written by Herbert F. Quinn on multiple political subjects, including a manuscript of the book "L'Union nationale: le nationalisme québécois de Duplessis à Lévesque", published in 1979. Second, there is a selection of Canadian newspapers and clippings, covering the 1949 Canadian federal election campaign on the one hand, and the fascist movement around the world during the 1930s on the other.
Finally, the collection includes court transcripts relating to the occupation of the Sir George Williams University Computer Center in 1969, known as the Sir George Williams Affair.

The Quinn collection contains pamphlets, brochures, statements, newsletters, addresses, policy statements, transcripts, manifests, newspapers and newspaper clippings. An index of brochures is available.

The collection is organized in the following series:

C001/A Political Pamphlet Collection
C001/B Politics in the Media
C001/C Publications by Herbert F. Quinn
C001/D Sir George Williams Affair

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  • German
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