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Tim Birmingham collection - Greenpeace Amchitka scrapbooks
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1969-2008 (Creation)
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0.13 m of textual materials
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Tim Birmingham is the son of Dave and Deeno Birmingham; Dave Birmingham was a crew member of the original Greenpeace vessel, the Phyllis Cormack, and an organizer of the protest campaign to stop the Amchitka nuclear bomb test, off the coast of Alaska in 1971. The scrapbooks were compiled by Deeno Birmingham.
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The four scrapbooks consist of press clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, bumper stickers, etc., and document Greenpeace's first campaign to stop the United States government's Amchitka nuclear bomb test off the Alaskan coast in 1971. Most of the clippings are from September to November, 1971, but also include retrospectives published in 1991, 2001, and 2008, as well a special supplement to the Vancouver Sun, 1969, "Special Decade Edition." The clippings are identified as coming from the following newspapers and publications: Vancouver Sun, Province, Prince Rupert Daily News, Nanaimo Daily Free Press, Toronto Star, Ottawa Journal, Victoria Daily Colonist, Parksville Progess, Georgia Straight, Newsweek Magazine, Toronto Globe and Mail, Vancouver Free Press, Calgary Herald, Victoria Daily Times, Calgary Albertan, Western Producer, Montreal Star, Parksville-Qualicum Beach Progress, Campbell River Courier, Lions Gate, Salmon Arm Observer, Pacific Tribune.
There is also one file of photocopied articles, from various papers, and one photograph of members of "B.C. Voice of Women," featuring Deeno Birmingham (undated).
Correspondence includes letters from Dave Barrett, M.L.A., Leader of the Opposition (B.C.); T.W. Trousdell, Correspondence Secretary, Office of the Prime Minister (P. E. Trudeau); Robert Stanfield, federal Leader of the Opposition; David Lewis, Office of the Leader of the New Democratic Party (federal); R.W. Lawson, Principal, Qualicum Beach Secondary School, as well as a few items of peronal correspondence.
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Donated by Tim Birmingham in July, 2011.