File comprises documents related to the Newfoundland Railway, including extracts from the report of government members of the railway commission (which reported on the railway before it was transferred to Newfoundland Government ownership in the early 1920s) giving details of the construction of the railway, its traffic and financial situation.
File comprises newspaper cuttings related to Lord MacDonald's life, career and interests including coverage of his appointment as BBC Governor for Wales, his time in Newfoundland, reviews of his autobiography "Atgofion Seneddol" and his political career.
File comprises loose newspaper cuttings related to Lord MacDonald's career and interests.
File comprises newspaper cuttings related to Newfoundland, reports on Lord Macdonald's memoirs, speeches etc.
Newspaper cuttings related to a visit to New Zealand
File comprises newspaper cuttings related to a visit to New Zealand by Lord MacDonald.
Notes for a speech at Chatham House
File comprises notes for a speech on Newfoundland given by Lord MacDonald at Chatham House on 21 June 1949.
Notes for a speech entitled "The world we want"
File comprises typed and handwritten notes on automation and typed notes for a speech given by Lord MacDonald at the Workers' Education Association at Ammanford on 10 October 1951 entitled "The world we want"
Notebook containing notes on Psalm104. Only 1 page has been used.
Official Record of the United Nations General Assembly
The Official Report of the United Nations General Assembly 5th Session containing speeches given by Lord MacDonald on children, human rights, committee machinery, freedom of information, refugees, and prisoners.
Typescript entitled 'Pit Boy to Governor' by David White on the career of Gordon MacDonald up to his appointment as Governor of Newfoundland.
The file comprises ephemera relating to Lord MacDonald's political career including event programmes and orders of service for funerals and memorial services of friends and colleagues.
File comprises notes on economic development in South East Asia and papers related to the final communique for British Commonwealth Consultative Committee in Sydney conference.
Newfoundland press cuttings and articles collected by Gordon MacDonald including a special edition of the Daily News of St Johns on Confederation and some clippings from Y Cymro.
Copy of the Daily News dated 31 March 1949 marking confederation and a copy of the Atlantic Guardian magazine with articles on how Newfoundland voted.
The file comprises press cuttings, some from Australian and New Zealand newspapers, relating to the Sydney Conference in 1950 along with related ephemera.
Correspondence and supporting documents relating to the pay of Newfoundland Civil Servants and the status of the Bowater company on confederation.
Publication of 'We Love Thee Newfoundland'
File of correspondence regarding the publication of a collection of speeches which Gordon MacDonald gave while Governor of Newfoundland under the title 'We Love the Newfoundland'.
The file comprises correspondence expressing strong public objection to confederation with Canada and a copy of "The Ensign" with a leading article by the Catholic Bishop of Harbour Grace, the Most Rev. J. M. O'Neil.
The file comprises a copy of the official government newspaper, the Newfoundland Gazette dated 7 May 1948 containing a Royal Proclamation announcing the initial 3 option referendum on 3 June 1948 along with with copies of the Terms of Union with Canada.
Report by the Responsible Government League of Newfoundland
File comprises a copy of report by the Responsible Government League of Newfoundland to the Conference on Commonwealth Prime Ministers in London in 1949 and associated correspondence with Philip Noel Baker, Commonwealth Relations Office and the Commission of Government objecting to confederation and the conduct of the referendum which endorsed confederation with Canada.
Responsible Government League of Newfoundland