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Fonds A 17 - A.T. Hill fonds
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A.T. Hill fonds
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CA ON00318 A 17
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1937-1977 (Creation)
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37 cm of textual records
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Hill, A.T. (1898-1978)
Biographical history
A.T. Hill (b. in Finland 12 Oct. 1898-d. 1978) arrived in Port Arthur in 1917 and was a leading young Communist and secretary of the Finnish Organization of Canada from 1921-1924 and 1926-1929. He became secretary of the Young Workers' Party of Canada in 1922 and attended the fifth Comintern Congress in Moscow in 1924. From that point onward he was a Communist Party organizer serving as a liaison between the Party and the Finnish community in Canada.
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Fonds consists of A.T. Hill's manuscripts, files, published material, miscellaneous textual records and photographs dealing primarily with the union and labor movements in Canada and at the Lakehead, and Communist Party activities, as well as Hill's own interest in the U.S.S.R. and other communist countries. Arranged by record type into six series. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Series A 17/1/1-11 - Manuscripts - 114 fol - 1948-1974 Series A 17/2/1-16 - Miscellaneous files - 17cm - 1973-1977 Series A 17/3/1-11 - Pamphlets, Reports and Magazines - 7cm - 1944-1948, 1966, 1970, 1974-1977 Series A 17/4/1-6 - Documents - 1cm - 1944-1950 Series A 17/5/1-12 - Miscellaneous - 8cm - 1909, 1912, 1937-1976 Series A 17/6/1-6 - Photographs - 162 items
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- Hill, A.T. (1898-1978) (Creator)
- Finnish Organization of Canada (Subject)
- Young Workers' Party of Canada (Subject)