Fonds - Ronald Shearer fonds

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Ronald Shearer fonds

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    • 1946-1995 (Creation)
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      Shearer, Ronald A. 1932-

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    84 cm of textual records.

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    Ronald Shearer was born in Trail, B.C. After completing his B.A. at UBC (1954), he studied economics at Ohio State University, receiving his M.A. (1955) and Ph.D. (1959) there. Shearer taught at the University of Michigan before joining the Department of Economics at UBC in 1964. He served as head of the Department from 1972 to 1976. In his time at UBC he served on several committees that had great effect on the university and economic and constitutional issues in the province and Canada. These are a few: in 1971, Shearer, along with colleague Anthony Scott, prepared a submission for the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance. In 1977, Shearer wrote and distributed a brief to the Canadian Minister of Finance on purposed changes to banking legislation. In 1979 and 1980, Shearer served on the Academic Advisory Committee on Constitutional Changes. Shearer also led the Senate ad hoc Committee on University Organization at UBC, in this position he led the process or reorganizing the university and its departments.

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    Fonds consists of notes, correspondence, reports, and drafts produced by Shearer and others related to his participation in the Standing Committee on National Finance, The Academic Advisory Committee on Constitutional Reform, written briefs on the revision of banking legislation in Canada in 1977 and the Senate ad hoc Committee on University Organization.

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