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Title

Roy Carless fonds [graphic material]. 

Fonds consists of

964 lower level description(s)

Arrangement structure

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Accession

1. Roy Carless collection [graphic material] (118-080327-2)
2. Roy Carless fonds (120-080017-6)
3. Roy Carless collection [graphic material]
4. Roy Carless collection [graphic material]
5. Roy Carless fonds [graphic material] (2002-00484-6)
6. Roy Carless fonds [graphic material] (2009-00735-2)

Date(s)

1972-2008

Place of creation

Ontario

Extent

1,541 drawings : pen and ink with developer on self-toning paper.
0.001 m. textual

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Fonds comprises original editorial works by Roy Carless, dating 1972-2008. The majority of the works deal with issues relating to union workers in Canada. Many of the cartoons were syndicated to union papers across the country, primarily to that of the United Steelworkers. Subjects of interest include: wage and price controls, back-to-work legislation, inflation, food prices, budgets, recessions, the economy, the falling dollar, oil prices, unemployment rates, government cut-backs, Constitutional debates, railroad policy and the crow rate, farming, and the auto industry. Politicians of note include Joe Clark, Jean Chrétien, Bill Davis, Robert Kaplan, Marc Lalonde, Otto Lang, Donald Macdonald, Flora MacDonald, Brian Mulroney, John Munro, Jean-Luc Pepin, David Peterson, Robert Stanfield, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, John Turner, and Michael Wilson. An accrual in 2009 added cartoons relating to the governments of Paul Martin, Stéphane Dion and Stephen Harper. Most contemporary issues include the Gomery Inquiry, the Iraq War, Canada-U.S. relations, environmental concerns, dollar devaluation, health care and the auto industry. Also donated were two personal typescript letters to roy Carless - one from Tommy Douglas dated July 10th, 1968 and a second one from Premier William Davis, dated April 6th, 1976.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
90: Open
Item no. assigned by LAC
from 1 to 24
90: Open
Graphic (art)
90: Open
Volume
26 Item no. assigned by LAC 25 -- 175
90: Open
Graphic (art)
90: Open
Volume
27 Item no. assigned by LAC 176 -- 350
90: Open
Graphic (art)
90: Open
Volume
28 Item no. assigned by LAC 351 -- 475
90: Open
Graphic (art)
90: Open
Volume
29 Item no. assigned by LAC 476 -- 629
90: Open
Graphic (art)
90: Open
Volume
30 File number 1
99: Closed pending processing
Archival reference no.
R9359-0-4-E

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada; Copyright: Estate of Roy Carless until 2059.

Finding aid

1 90

Creator / Provenance

Carless, Roy, 1920-2009.

Additional name(s)

Artist: Carless, Roy, 1920-2009.

Biography / Administrative history

Cartoonist.

Additional information

Location of originals note
Note that the two textual items have been stored with the cartoons in Volume 26,

Source

Private

Related control no.

1. 1974-046 PIC
2. 1987-042 PIC
3. 1991-037 DAP
4. 1992-472 DAP
5. 118-080327-2
6. 120-080017-6
7. 2002-00484-6
8. 2009-00735-2

MIKAN no.

192826