Series 7

Societies, Associations, etc.. -- 1910; 1940-1969. -- 215.9 cm (17 cases).

Throughout his long and distinguished career, Dr. Bailey was affiliated with many organizations and learned societies, both as a member and as an active participant on executives and committees. He was involved in several new groups which were founded during the nineteen forties and fifties, and which grew in national prominence. Interest in the social sciences, the humanities, and the cultural arts within Canada grew during this period, and was further encouraged by the publication of the report of the Massey Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters, and Sciences in 1950. Dr. Bailey assumed a proactive role in encouraging the development of social sciences and humanities research in Canada.

The Canadian Social Science Research Council was established in 1940 to encourage and assist research in the social sciences. During the nineteen forties and fifties, Dr. Bailey served on the Indian Research Committee of the Council.

In 1950, the Humanities Research Council, which was founded in 1943, established the broader based Humanities Association of Canada to foster interest in the humanities and to promote effective teaching in languages, literature, history and philosophy. Dr. Bailey served on the Humanities Research Council in 1952 and on its Committee on Grants-in-aid, and was active on the executive of the Humanities Association of Canada in 1957.

From 1946-1959, Dr. Bailey served as Honourary Librarian and chief executive officer of the library at the University of New Brunswick. Consequently, he became involved in the Canadian Library Association, and in 1949, he was appointed to the National Library Advisory Committee, which offered advice concerning the building, collections, and services of the new National Library of Canada, which was established by an act of Parliament in 1952. The committee was replaced in 1952 by the National Library Advisory Council, and Dr. Bailey continued to serve on this council throughout the nineteen fifties.

The Champlain Society was formed in 1905 with a mandate to publish valuable and inaccessible material relating to the history of Canada. Dr. Bailey was elected to the Society's Council in 1948 and again in 1954.

The Canada Foundation was established in 1945 as a non-profit, voluntary association of people interested in fostering the national cultural life of Canada and in promoting public interest in the arts. Dr. Bailey served as a trustee of the Canada Foundation in the early nineteen fifties, and served on its Creative Writing Committee.

Established in 1882, the Royal Society of Canada began as a learned society devoted to the reading and discussion of papers to promote arts, literature, and sciences in Canada. Dr. Bailey was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1951, and in 1957, he was elected to the committee responsible for selecting new fellows. In 1961, he served on the General Nominating Committee.

Dr. Bailey also was active as the New Brunswick representative on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada from 1950 to 1960. The Board was first established by Order in Council in 1923 to act in an advisory capacity regarding the preservation of historic sites of national interest. The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada was established on a statutory basis on 30 March, 1953. Dr. Bailey also served on the New Brunswick Historic Sites Advisory Board, which was established in 1954 to advise the government on the establishment of historic and anthropological sites and to regulate the granting of permits for excavation or alteration.

Dr. Bailey served as assistant director and associate curator at the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John from 1935 to 1938. He maintained close ties with the Museum following his appointment as Head of the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick in 1938. In 1945, he was elected a member of the Advisory Council of the New Brunswick Museum, and during the nineteen fifties, he served on the Supervisory Committee of the Department of Canadian History.

The Carnegie Foundation, established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge among the people of the United States and the British dominions and colonies, provided a large grant to Dr. Bailey to develop anthropological studies at the University of New Brunswick during the nineteen fifties.

In 1954, Canadian born Cyrus Eaton, steel and mining magnate and chair of the Board of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, converted his ancestral home at Pugwash, Nova Scotia into a thinkers' lodge or vacation place for visiting authors, scholars, and statesmen. In 1958, Dr. Bailey was invited to be a delegate at Cyrus Eaton's Pugwash Conference.

Generally, the series comprises correspondence, telegrams, membership cards and forms, newsletters, minutes and agendas of annual meetings, black and white photographs, legislation, newspaper clippings, press releases, blueprints of the Newcastle Town Square, receipts and expense accounts, and a 1951 colour map of Canada. A small portion of the material is written in French.

A major portion of the series (cases 22-29) relates to the activities of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, particularly during the nineteen fifties. Agendas and minutes for board meetings throughout the nineteen fifties form a part of this series. Also included in the materials are black and white photographs of monuments and plaques, primarily of historic sites and houses which were marked throughout New Brunswick during Dr. Bailey's involvement with the board. Written correspondence documents information about historic sites such as the UNB Old Arts building, the La Coupe dry dock, Campobello Island, and the ancient Indian portage route at Frosty Hollow. "Shadows on the Rock: Willa Cather at Grand Manan," an article written by L.K. Ingersoll, is located in case 23 file 3. A listing of historic sites in New Brunswick is contained in case 29 file 9. Cases 22-29 also contain information about historic sites throughout Canada, including Fort Langley, Fort York, and the Alexander Graham Bell Museum in Baddeck, Nova Scotia.

Material related to the Canada Foundation contains correspondence concerning prominent Canadian authors, including Mordecai Richler, Alice Munro, Adele Wiseman, and Eli Mandel, and newspaper articles on Elizabeth Brewster and Fred Cogswell. An unpublished essay on the Canada First Movement leader William Alexander Foster is located in Case 18 file 1.

The series also includes annual reports of the Canadian Social Science Research Committee during the nineteen forties and fifties, together with 1949 and 1951 reports of the organization's Indian Affairs Committee, and correspondence with anthropologist T.F. McIlwraith, with whom Dr. Bailey had studied at the University of Toronto.

Annual reports of the Champlain Society, ranging from 1907 to 1951, are located in Case 20 file 6, along with minutes of the 1949 council meeting of the society. 1951, 1956 and 1957 minutes of the executive meeting of the Humanities Association of Canada, and the association's 1956 and 1957 annual reports also form a part of this series. A copy of the address "Fiction in the Age of Science," delivered by Canadian author Hugh MacLennan at the first annual meeting of the Humanities Association of Canada at McGill University on 1 June, 1951, is found in case 21 file 10.

Activities of the Humanities Research Council are documented in minutes of meetings from 1952 to 1956 and annual reports from 1949-1956. 1953 and 1956 reports of the National Librarian of Canada are found in case 30 file 9.

Reports of the New Brunswick Museum's Department of Canadian History from 1953 to 1957, together with 1951-1957 minutes, are found in case 32 file 1. Correspondence, primarily with Dr. John Clarence Webster, a Shediac surgeon and historian, during the late nineteen thirties documents the unrest evident in the New Brunswick Museum during Dr. Bailey's employment, and clashes with the director, William MacIntosh.

Royal Society of Canada materials contain by-laws, reports of the council ranging from 1953 to 1960, and materials relating to Malcolm Ross, whom Dr. Bailey nominated as a Fellow in the society. Dr. Bailey served briefly on the New Brunswick Tree Commission until 1959, and documents relating to the commission's activities, primarily centred around combating the dutch elm disease, are located in case 33 file 4.

Also contained in this series is information relating to Dr. Bailey's securing of a large grant from the Carnegie Foundation in 1954 to establish a program of anthropology courses at the University of New Brunswick. Other files (case 31 files 6-11) document Dr. Bailey's efforts to collect New Brunswick archival and historical material, with the assistance of grants from the Rockefeller Foundation in the early nineteen forties.

Case 31 file 4 contains material relating to the Pugwash conferences, including a 1959 letter from Nikita S. Krushchev, chair of the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R., discussing a Pugwash conference of scientists meeting to discuss the problems of biological and chemical warfare, and a copy of a paper written by Eaton in 1959 on "Canada's Quandary: An Economic Policy to Match Her Mineral Wealth."

Material relating to the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada also is located in series 9, case 41 file 3.

Arrangement of the series is alphabetical, by society or organization.

Originals of all photographs have been transferred to case 114 and have been replaced by photocopies in the series' files.

The title for the series is supplied based on the contents of the files.

Series 7 File listings

Case 17 File 1      Bennett Papers - Correspondence with Miss A.
                    Millar, Col. Daly, etc. -- 1947-1950
Case 17 File 2      Brussels Universal and International
                    Exhibition, 1958. -- 1956-1958
Case 17 File 3      1949-1955 Canada Foundation. -- 1949-1955
Case 17 File 4      1956 Canada Foundation. -- 1946; 1955-1956
Case 17 File 5      1957 Canada Foundation. -- 1952-1969;
                    predominant 1957
Case 17 File 6      Canadian Historical Association. -- 1946-1958

Case 18 File 1      Canadian Library Association. -- 1954-1958
Case 18 File 2      Canadian Library Association 1944-54. -- 1944-
                    1958

Case 19 File 1      1949-51 Canadian Social Science Research
                    Council. -- 1949-1951
Case 19 File 2      Canadian Social Research Council Indian
                    Committee. -- 1949-1954
Case 19 File 3      1948-51 Correspondence - C.S.S.R.C. - J.E.
                    Robbins. -- 1946-1958
Case 19 File 4      1945-47 Reports / C.S.S.R.C.. -- 1945-1949

Case 20 File 1      1946-49 Canadian Social Science Research
                    Council - J.E. Robbins. -- 1946-1949
Case 20 File 2      Canadian universities. -- 1946-1948
Case 20 File 3      Carman Memorial Service. -- 1929
Case 20 File 4      Canadian Social Science Research Council 1940-
                    44. -- 1940-1944
Case 20 File 5      Canadian Social Science Research Council 1952-
                    54, 55-56. -- 1950-1956
Case 20 File 6      Champlain Society. -- 1907-1958
Case 20 File 7      Carnegie Foundation. -- 1943-1946
Case 20 File 8      Carnegie grant for Anthropology. -- 1955-1957

Case 21 File 1      Civil Service Commission. -- 1950-1958
Case 21 File 2      Dafoe Foundation Fellowship. -- 1946-1947
Case 21 File 3      Ducharme, Librairie. -- 1943-1946
Case 21 File 4      Fellowships and scholarships. -- 1948-1955
Case 21 File 5      Films. -- 1949
Case 21 File 6      Foreign universities project. -- 1948
Case 21 File 7      Gleaner and other newspapers. -- 1945-1948
Case 21 File 8      1953-54 Grolier Society 1955-56, 57-58. --
                    1953-1958
Case 21 File 9      Guggenheim Foundation. -- [n.d.]
Case 21 File 10     Humanities Association of Canada. -- 1951-1957


Case 22 File 1      1953-54 Historic Sites and Monuments Board
                    correspondence. -- 1952-1954
Case 22 File 2      1955-57 Historic Sites - Correspondence (other
                    than Ottawa). -- 1910, 1944, 1953-1957
Case 22 File 3      Historic sites - Expense accounts. -- 1954-
                    1956
Case 22 File 4      Historic sites - Telegrams. -- 1954-1956
Case 22 File 5      1957 Historic Sites and Monuments Board. --
                    1957-1958

Case 23 File 1      1959 Historic Sites & Monuments Board of
                    Canada (other than Ottawa). -- 1956-1960
Case 23 File 2      1958 Historic Sites & Monuments Board. --
                    1951-1958; predominant 1958
Case 23 File 3      1950-52 Correspondence - Historic Sites and
                    Monuments Board. -- 1950-1952
Case 23 File 4      Historic Sites & Monuments Board -
                    Correspondence 1960-61. -- 1959-1961

Case 24 File 1      1950-54 Historic Sites - Correspondence (other
                    than Ottawa). -- 1950-1954
Case 24 File 2      N.B. Historic Sites Advisory Board. -- 1954
                    -1958
Case 24 File 3      1955-56 Historic Sites & Monuments Board
                    (Correspondence). -- 1951-1956
Case 24 File 4      Historic Sites & Monuments Board information
                    about historic sites in N.B. and inscriptions.
                    -- 1950-1955

Case 25 File 1      Historic Sites and Monuments Board agenda for
                    meeting / 55. -- 1955
Case 25 File 2      Agenda 1955 Historic Sites & Monuments. --
                    1954-1955
Case 25 File 3      Historic Sites & Monuments Board agenda for
                    meeting / 56. -- 1956
Case 25 File 4      Historic Sites & Monuments meeting - agenda &
                    minutes. -- 1957-1958

Case 26 File 1      For meetings of Historic Sites and Monuments
                    Board, May 1952, 1950. -- 1950-1952
Case 26 File 2      Historic Sites & Monuments Board - Agenda
                    1951. -- 1951
Case 26 File 3      Historic Sites and Monuments Board. -- 1953-
                    1954

Case 27 File 1      Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
                    agenda for annual meeting for 1958. -- 1958
Case 27 File 2      Historic Sites and Monuments Board - Agenda,
                    May 1959, Nov. 1959. -- 1959
Case 28 Binder      -- 1959-1960
Case 28 File 1      Historic Sites + Monuments - Correspondence
                    1951-1958. -- 1951-1958
Case 28 File 2      Historic Sites + Monuments misc. /
                    administration + legislation. -- 1950-1959
Case 28 File 3      '58-'59 Historic Sites and Monuments Board of
                    Canada (members' addresses). -- 1960
Case 28 File 4      Expense accounts H.S. & M.B.. -- 1958-1960.

Case 29 File 1      Historic Sites + Monuments - Various
                    commemorations. -- 1960
Case 29 File 2      The Eastern Algonkians + the Balance of Power.
                    -- [n.d.]
Case 29 File 3      1959-60 Historic Sites & Monuments Board of
                    Canada biographical inscriptions. -- 1959-1960
Case 29 File 4      Fort langley 1954. -- 1954-1955
Case 29 File 5      Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
                    (Forts). -- [n.d.]
Case 29 File 6      1955-59 Historic sites - Turnbull. -- 1955-
                    1959
Case 29 File 7      1958-60 Historic Sites & Monuments Board of
                    Canada (inscriptions) buildings & construction
                    and sites. -- 1958-1960
Case 29 File 8      Historic Sites and Monuments Board - Booklets
                    pertaining to. -- 1934-1959
Case 29 File 9      New Brunswick. -- 1958
Case 29 File 10     Historic Sites & Monuments Mis. events, areas,
                    achievements. -- 1949-1958
Case 29 File 11     Duplicates. -- 195?; 1960

Case 30 File 1      Humanities Research Council. Prof. A.S.P. 
                    Woodhouse. -- 1946-1956
Case 30 File 2      Institute of Public Administration of Canada
                    (P.T. Clark). -- 1947-1951
Case 30 File 3      International Student Service. -- 1948-1951
Case 30 File 4      Lady Davis Foundation. -- 1948-1949
Case 30 File 5      Lord Bennett memorial. -- 1952-1953
Case 30 File 6      Maine Historical Society. -- 1943-1944
Case 30 File 7      Milwaukee Public Museum. -- [n.d.]
Case 30 File 8      National Film Society, the - G. Adamson -
                    executive secretary. -- 1947
Case 30 File 9      National Library Committee - 1949-1956. -- 
                                        1948-1955

Case 31 File 1      National Library Committee 1955/56. -- 1953-
                    1956
Case 31 File 2      New Brunswick Library Association 1954-55, 58.
                    -- 1954-1958
Case 31 File 3      Public Archives of Canada. -- 1930; 1955-1958
Case 31 File 4      Pugwash, N.S.. -- 1958-1962
Case 31 File 5      Roberts Memorial Service. -- 1944-1947
                    (predominant 1944)
Case 31 File 6      1942-44 Rockefeller Foundation correspondence.
                    -- 1942-1944
Case 31 File 7      1944-46 Rockefeller Foundation correspondence.
                    -- 1944-1946
Case 31 File 8      1943-44 Rockefeller project. -- 1943-1944
Case 31 File 9      1944-46 Rockefeller project June '44-46. --
                    1944-1946
Case 31 File 10     1946-47 Rockefeller Foundation correspondence.
                    -- 1945-1947
Case 31 File 11     Rockefeller Foundation 1949-50 correspondence.
                    -- 1949-1955
Case 31 File 12     Royal Commission on Arts, Letters & Science. -
                    - 1949-1950
Case 32 File 1      N.B. Museum Dept. of Canadian History minutes
                    & reports etc. -- 1950-1957
Case 32 File 2      1953-54 New Brunswick Museum 1955-56-57-58. --
                    1953-1957
Case 32 File 3      New Brunswick Museum 277 Douglas Avenue. --
                    1943-1958
Case 32 File 4      New Brunswick Museum. -- 1935-1938

Case 33 File 1      Royal Society of Canada. -- 1957
Case 33 File 2      Royal Society of Canada. -- 1957-1967
Case 33 File 3      Royal Society of Canada. -- 1951-1956
Case 33 File 4      1958-59 Tree Commission - unfinished. -- 1958-
                    1959
Case 33 File 5      University of Toronto (Press). -- 1943-1946

Correspondence

Correspondence comprises a large portion of the Dr. Bailey Papers. The principal organizer of the papers arranged the bulk of the correspondence into three distinct groupings. The first group of materials contains correspondence which is arranged alphabetically by correspondent, in which separate files are maintained for each individual correspondent, and the cases are labelled as "individual correspondence."

A second set of correspondence is labelled as miscellaneous. There are no separate files for each individual correspondent; rather, the letters are arranged in files according to alphabetical order by surname, with the exception of cases 111-112. These cases form a part of the collection which was received by the UNB Archives without any formal arrangement. The correspondence files in cases 111-112 were arranged in chronological order in 1994, with the exception of correspondence between Dr. Bailey and former UNB President Colin B. Mackay, which forms a separate file due to Dr. Bailey's request to restrict access to this personal correspondence with Dr. Mackay.

Finally, there is a separate set of correspondence relating to Lord Beaverbrook.

Given the physical organization of the Dr. Bailey correspondence material into these three distinct categories, it was decided to treat this material as three separate series rather than combining all correspondence into one large series.

In addition to these separate correspondence series, many of the other series also contain substantial correspondence, including case 96 file 7 of the literary works series number 3 and series 7 on societies and organizations. A researcher searching for correspondence between Dr. Bailey and Malcolm Ross, for example, would need to examine other cases in addition to material contained in the distinct correspondence series.



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