Reminiscences of Gordon Kidd, 1973.

Biographical Note

Civil engineer

Scope and Contents

Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II; water resources in British Columbia, 1950; Columbia River Treaty, 1954-70: International Columbia River Engineering Committee, International Joint Committee of United States and Canada, meetings and reports, 1957 Boundary and Water Treaty, legal status of Canadian negotiators, negotiations and protocol, international political and technical teams, economic and energy resource impact of Columbia, Kootenay and Peace Rivers development on British Columbia; role of Premier Bennett; hydro vs. thermal generating capacities; Portage Mountain and Arrow Lake controversy; impressions of Premier Bennett and E. Davie Fulton

Subjects

• Burg, Maclyn, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Canada--Foreign relations--1945-
• Civil engineers--Interviews.
• International obligations.
• International rivers.
• Interviews.
• Kidd, Gordon, 1898-1986--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Treaties.
• United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.
• Water--Law and legislation.

Access Conditions

Interview is in public domain, 1975