Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
General material designation
Textual record
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
Level of description
Reference code
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
Physical description area
Physical description
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Judy Godfrey (1940-) is a researcher and writer from Toronto, Ontario. In the late 1970s, Judy became actively involved in raising awareness of the issue of acid rain, particularly in the Muskoka area of Ontario, and lobbying the governments of Ontario and Canada for action on the issue of acid-rain causing emissions. As a member of the Muskoka Acid Rain Petition Committee, she played a key role in raising support for a petition for action on acid rain. Judy and her husband, lawyer Sheldon Godfrey, have been inovlved in several charitable, environmental, and civic initatives over the years, including the preservation of Ontario's architectural heritage, and have co-authored books and articles about the history of Canadian Jews. (Source: http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000435.htm, and content of the fonds.)
Custodial history
Scope and content
File consists of correspondence from politicians in response to letters and petitions from the Muskoka Acid Rain Petition Committee. Letters are addressed to the committee, Ruth Miller, or Judy Godfrey. Includes letters from:
- Ontario Premier William Davis, Ontario Minister of Natural Resources (James A.C. Auld),
- Ontario Provincial Secretary for Resources Development (Rene Brunelle),
- Ontario Minister of Energy (Robert Welch),
- Ontario Minister of the Environment (Harry Parrott),
- Parry Sound-Muskoka MP Stan Darling, Office of the Prime Minister,
- Minister of Environment Canada (John Fraser),
- Minister of National Health and Welfare (Monique Begin) and the
- Office of the Leader of the NDP (Canada and Ontario).
File also includes copies of speeches by Harry Parrott and John Fraser, news releases from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and the Ontario NDP, a copy of a House of Commons debate on acid rain, a copy of a draft order to Inco Limited from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, and other photocopied documents.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Arrangement
Language of material
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
Associated materials
Accruals
General note
File number is original.
Alternative identifier(s)
Standard number
Standard number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Davis, William G. (Subject)