File 3 - Correspondence with Canadian contacts

6 folders
Paper

From a lever arch file inscribed 'Canada correspondence'

Correspondence with Canadian contacts (1979-1999) and re asbestos in Canada (to 2006), in reverse chronological order. Also papers including research papers, press coverage, news releases, sample death reporting forms. Themes covered include workmen’s compensation in Canada and the Canadian government’s resistance to banning asbestos.

Papers include

• copy of Canadian report on French chrysotile ban (in French, with a summary in English), 1999
• copy of OEDA newsletter (autumn 1998), discussing Canadian attitudes to asbestos
• Canadian regulations on chrysotile, 1998
• photocopies of articles by asbestosis victim and historian Ray Sentes, who had worked as an insulation worker in Canada prior to studying the Canadian asbestos industry and becoming an historian and activist
• Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety press releases 1989-1990, probably incomplete set
• copy of typescript G Atherley and R Whiting (1981) ‘Basic concepts of occupational cancers’, presented to the Canadian Labour Congress Conference on Cancer in the Workplace, Montreal, 23 February 1981
• copy of S Graham et al. [?1974] ‘Cancer in asbestos mining and other areas of Quebec’

One of Nancy Tait's earliest Canadian correspondents was Margaret R Becklake of McGill University. They met during Tait's visit to North America, 1977.

Over time this dossier changed from a correspondence with Canada file into a Canada-themed aggregation in which everything pertaining to the subject of asbestos in Canada accumulated.

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• French