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| Fonds/Collection Number: | F0562 |
| Title: | Giles Endicott fonds |
| Dates: | 1961, 1963-1973 |
| Extent: | 0.18 m textual records |
| Biographical Sketch/ Administrative History: | Giles Endicott, a trade unionist and a member of the Canadian Food and Allied Workers Union at the time, played a significant leadership role in the early days of the Ontario wing of the Waffle party. He was one of four individuals responsible for attending New Democratic Party constituency meetings to encourage them to endorse what become known as the Waffle Manifesto that was to be brought forward at the NDP convention in Winnipeg in October 1969. Endicott became disillusioned with the Waffle on the arrival of Western radicals into the movement. |
| Scope and Content: |
Fonds consists of Endicott's Waffle records and includes such items as correspondence pertaining to, and seeking support for, the position paper "For and Independent Socialist Canada," a chronological survey of documents dealing with the Waffle and public reaction as created by the Canadian Labour Congress, documents leading to the Waffle Manifesto, financial documents, supporting material, news clippings, resolutions, and so on. |
| Restrictions on Access and Use: | No restrictions on access apply. |
| Finding Aid: | File list available. |
| URL of Finding Aid: | http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000562.pdf |
| Accruals: | The fonds comprises the following accessions: 2009-047. No further accruals are expected. |
| 2009-047 |
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| Related Records: | Related records may be found in the James Laxer fonds (F0166), Gordon Laxer fonds (F0561), Kim Malcolmson and Paul Barber fonds (F0546), and Hilary Armstrong fonds (F583). |
| Immediate source of acquisition: | Donated by Giles Endicott on the occasion of a Waffle 40th anniversary reunion gathering in 2009. |
| Subject Access Points: | New Democratic Party. Waffle Movement. |
| Provenance Access Points: | Endicott, Giles |
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Date of creation: 2010/01/06 Date of last revision: 2011/03/31 |
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