Nova Scotia Archives Finding Aid - () Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.1 Printed: July 25, 2017 Language of description: English Nova Scotia Archives 6016 University Ave. Halifax Nova Scotia B3H 1W4 Telephone: (902) 424-6060 Fax: (902) 424-0628 Email: archives@novascotia.ca http://archives.novascotia.ca/ https://memoryns.ca/index.php/william-cox-fonds
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Summary information Repository: Title: Nova Scotia Archives ID: Date: Physical description: Dates of creation, revision and deletion: 1939-2002 (date of creation) * 30 cm of textual records * 15 photographs Administrative history / Biographical sketch Note was born on 13 May 1921 at Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Arthur Earle and Anna Beatrice (McGinley) Cox. He attended public schools in Saint John and graduated from Acadia University with a BA in 1942. While at university he served as an officer in the Canadian Officers Training Corps (COTC), and upon graduation was posted to Great Britain. After discharge he studied law at New College, Oxford, before returning to Nova Scotia and entering Dalhousie Law School, graduating with an LL.B. in 1949. He continued to serve in the Canadian Militia, retiring as a Lt.-Colonel. He became a well known trial lawyer and senior partner with Cox Downie from 1963 to 1991. He was a pastpresident of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society (1971-1972), Federation of Law Societies of Canada (1975-1976) and Canadian Barristers' Association (1980-1981). He also served as the President of the Saraguay Club, Treasurer of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party, and Vice-President of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. He chaired the Nova Scotia Committee on Implementation of Legal Aid (1971) that led to the introduction of Provincial Legal Aid in Nova Scotia. He also served as a columnist with the Halifax Chronicle-Herald beginning in 1997. He was married to Margaret Macpherson and they had four daughters. He died in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 8 October 2008. Scope and content Fonds consists of correspondence, photographs, speeches and addresses, radio broadcast scripts, Progressive Conservative Party of Canada documents, articles and essays, biographical information, and newspaper clippings and articles, loose and in scrapbooks, documenting the 1958 federal election and his year as President of the Canadian Bar Association (1980-1981). The fonds also includes correspondence with Progressive Conservative Prime Ministers and party leaders. Nova Scotia Archives Page 3
Notes Title notes Immediate source of acquisition Donated by Mrs. Margaret Cox in 2011. Finding aids "File / item list is attached.":https://novascotia.ca/archives/lists/william-cox-fonds.pdf Other notes Publication status: Published Series descriptions Ref code Title Dates Access status Container 2011-009/001-01 Item - Subject files: Acadia University 1941 work 2011-009/001-02 Item - Subject files: Article entitled "The Romance of the Canadian Railways" 2011-009/001-03 Item - Subject files: Biographical 1971 information 2011-009/001-04 Item - Subject files: Canadian Student 1939 Assembly 2011-009/001-05 Item - Subject files: Certificates and 2002 honours 2011-009/001-06 Item - Subject files: Correspondence 1941 2011-009/001-06a Item - Subject files: Correspondence: 1946 Coffin, T.H. 2011-009/001-06b Item - Subject files: Correspondence: 1957 Diefenbaker, John 2011-009/001-06c Item - Subject files: Correspondence: 1971 Goodfellow, Walter R.E. 2011-009/001-06d Item - Subject files: Correspondence: 1974 (MacDonald, John Michael?) 2011-009/001-06e Item - Subject files: Correspondence: 1976 Meighen, Michael (Progressive Conservative Association of Canada) 2011-009/001-06f Item - Subject files: Correspondence: 1983 Mulroney, Brian 2011-009/001-06g Item - Subject files: Correspondence: 1945 Ogg, David 2011-009/001-06h Item - Subject files: Correspondence: Perry, H.G. 1941 Nova Scotia Archives Page 4
2011-009/001-06i Item - Subject files: Correspondence: 1999 Proudfoot, Gordon F. 2011-009/001-06j Item - Subject files: Correspondence: 1954 Stanfield, Robert L. 2011-009/001-07 Item - Subject files: Nomination for 2002 Robert L. Stanfield - Order of Nova Scotia 2011-009/001-08 Item - Subject files: Progressive 1960 Conservative Party documentation 2011-009/001-09 Item - Subject files: Quite a life so far 1948 (scrapbook containing photocopies of clippings, articles) 2011-009/001-10 Item - Subject files: Radio broadcasts 1947 2011-009/001-11 Item - Subject files: Speeches and 1980 addresses 2011-009/001-11a Item - Subject files: Speeches and 25 August 1980 addresses: Address by the President-Elect of the Canadian Bar Association 2011-009/001-11b Item - Subject files: Speeches and addresses: "A public view of the trial 12 November 1980 process" - response of the President of the Canadian Bar Association 2011-009/001-11c Item - Subject files: Speeches and 15 June 1981 addresses: Address to the meeting of the American Society of Hospital Attorneys - Montreal, Quebec 2011-009/001-11d Item - Subject files: Speeches 10 July 1981 and addresses: Address to the Bar Association of Prince Edward Island 2011-009/001-11e Item - Subject files: Speeches and 31 August 1981 addresses: Presidential address to the Canadian Bar Association - Vancouver, British Columbia 2011-009/001-11f Item - Subject files: Speeches and addresses: Commencement address to the Dalhousie Law School 28 May 1982 2011-009/001-11g Item - Subject files: Speeches and addresses: Remarks of the Past-President of the Canadian Bar Association 2011-009/001-11h Item - Subject files: Speeches and addresses: Address to the Rotary Club of East Dartmouth 2011-009/001-12 Item - Subject files: Miscellaneous clippings and articles 2011-009/002-01 Item - Scrapbooks: Scrapbook about the Federal election of 1958 2011-009/003-01 Item - Scrapbooks: Scrapbook about the Federal election of 1958 2011-009/004-01 Item - Scrapbooks: Scrapbook from the Year as President of the Canadian Bar Association 2011-009/005-01 Item - Published materials: National (Vol. 7, No. 8 - Vol. 8, No. 7) 2011-009/006-01 Item - Photographs: Bill Cox with a trophy (Acadia University?) with two 2 September 1982 15 November 1982 Nova Scotia Archives Page 5 1948 3 February 1958 12 March 1958 1980 September 1980 193-?
unidentified boys and two unidentified men 2011-009/006-02 Item - Photographs: Bill Cox with a group of classmates at (Acadia University?) 2011-009/006-03 Item - Photographs: Progressive Conservative Party event (left to right: David MacKeen, Edmund Morris, unknown (perhaps Don Fleming, Federal Minister of Fisheries), Bob McCleave, Bill Cox) / Maurice Slaunwhite 2011-009/006-04 Item - Photographs: Progressive Conservative Party event (left to right: unknown (perhaps Don Fleming, Federal Minister of Fisheries), Robert L. Stanfield, Bill Cox) / Maurice Slaunwhite 193-? 195-? 195-? Nova Scotia Archives Page 6