Arquivo F1237 - H. Carl Goldenberg fonds

Carl Goldenberg was born in 1907 at Montreal, Que and attended McGill University where he received a M.A. Economics and Political Science 1929, and a B.C.L. 1932. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1932, and he lectured at McGill (1932-1936, 1944-1948). He has served on many federal, provincial and municipal commissions of inquiry and has arbitrated many labour-management disputes in Canada and the West Indies. He was Special Counsel for British Columbia, 1950-1956, for Newfoundland, 1957-1965, and for New Brunswick, 1960-1961, at Federal-Provincial Constitutional and Financial Conferences. He was Special Counsel to the Prime Minister of Canada on the Constitution 1968-1971. He was also a Member of the Senate, from 1971 until his retirement in 1982. He was Chairman of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Chairman of the first and second Tri Level Conferences of Federal-Provincial and Municipal Government, 1972-1973, Chairman of the First Conference on Multiculturalism, member of the Special Joint Committees of the Senate and the House of Commons on Employer-Employee Relations in the Public Service, 1975, and on the Constitution, 1971-1982.