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Authority record- CA QUA01865
- Person
- 1883-1962
James Garfield Gardiner, born in 1883 at Farquhar, Ont., received his education from Manitoba College, Winnipeg, B.A. He became a farmer at Lemberg, Sask., and Principal of Lemberg Continuation School. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the electoral division of North Qu'Appelle, 1941-1934, and for Melville, 1934-1935, during which time he held the offices of Minister of Highways (1922-1926), Premier (1926-1929, 1934-1935), Minister of Railways (1926-1927), Minister of Education (1927-1929), and Provincial Treasurer (1926-1927, 1934-1935). Mr. Gardiner was also Leader of the Opposition in the legislative Assembly from 1929-1934. He was a Member of the House of Commons from 1936 to 1958 serving as Member of the Privy Council (1935), Minister of Agriculture (1935-1957), Minister of War Services (1940-1941), and Member of the Imperial Privy Council (1947).
- CA QUA04554
- Person
- fl. 1970
Sandra Gardner was an interviewer who worked on the Oral History Project for the Office of the Dean of Women at Queen's University.
- CA QUA02487
- Person
- 1913-1979
Born in Yorkshire, England on February 22, 1913, Hugh Garner came to Canada in 1919. As a boy he attended various Toronto public schools and Danforth Technical Collegiate Institute. During the depression years he worked at a number of different jobs, and in 1937 went to Spain to fight as a machine-gunner with the International Brigade. He served in the Second World War with the R.C.A. and R.C.N. On July 5, 1941 he married Marie Alice Gallant. From 1949 to 1964 he worked as a freelance journalist and during that time he wrote hundreds of magazine articles, short stories and several books including Storm Below, 1949; Cabbagetown, 1950; Waste No Tears, 1950; Present Reckoning, 1951; The Yellow Sweater, 1952; The Silence on the Shore, 1962; Men and Women, 1966; The Sin Sniper, 1970; Death in Don Mills, 1975, The INtruders, 1976; Murder Has Your Number, 1978.