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English citations of committee rooms
- 1878, Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada: Fifth Session—Third Parliament[1], Ottawa: MacLean, Roger & Co., page 154:
- “We supported Mr. Jones on our own account, on our own responsibility, and without reference to his supporters in any way ; paying our own bills, never entering once his committee room, or advising with his party. […]”
- 1907, Borough and County Council Elections (Excluding Metropolitan Borough Councils): Being Practical Notes Alphabetically Arranged, with an Appendix of Statutes and Forms for the Use of Candidates, Agents, Clerks, Canvassers and Other Workers at Such Elections[2], London: William Green & Sons, →OCLC, page 7:
- Where it is possible to have more than one committee room, either by reason of the numbers of the electorate or through kind loans by supporters, it should be clearly understood which committee room is headquarters, so that there may be no confusion nor delay in communications.
- a. 1946, The Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers Journal[3], International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers:
- Hats were thrown in the air at the west end committee rooms when when victory seemed certain and the crowds surged up and down the stairs in the west end committee rooms to offer congratulations to the victorious candidate.
- 1946, Herbert F. Quinn, The Quebec Provincial Election of 1944: An Analysis of the Role of the Election in the Democratic Process[4] (master’s thesis), Montreal: McGill University, →OCLC, retrieved December 7, 2022, page 44:
- One of the factors in the success of the party in Verdun in polling a sizable vote was the role played by these voluntary workers in canvassing, distributing literature, and staffing committee rooms.
- 1959 June 20, Murdo Martin, Report on Ontario 1959 Election Campaign; quoted in Gad Horowitz, Canadian Labour in Politics, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1968, →LCCN, page 143:
- Our candidate was X a Steelworker, President of the McIntyre local, who up until a year ago … stood very high in the esteem of the local union leadership. […] we received no assistance whatever … from the Steelworkers throughout the campaign. On election day they never came near the committee rooms, and in fact worked actively and vocally against X throughout the whole campaign.
- 1964, T. Peterson, I. Avakumovic, “A Return to the Status Quo: The Election in Winnipeg North Centre”, in John Meisel, editor, Papers on the 1962 Election: Fifteen Papers on the Canadian General Election of 1962, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, →JSTOR, pages 94–95, 100:
- With the party candidate in Winnipeg North, he shared a cramped committee room in the northern district, across the street from the Conservative auxiliary office. […]
By twilight, both the Conservative and the New Democratic committee rooms were thronged with well-wishers, many of whom had appeared seldom if at all during the campaign.
- 1964, Léon Dion, “The Election in the Province of Quebec”, in John Meisel, editor, Papers on the 1962 Election: Fifteen Papers on the Canadian General Election of 1962, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, →JSTOR, pages 117–118:
- About 40 per cent of the total advertising was devoted to such items as the announcement of party conventions, the location of committee rooms, and the place of meetings.
- 1965 November 17, William Cumptsy, quotee, Oshawa Times; quoted in Myron Momryk, Mike Starr of Oshawa: A Political Biography, Gatineau, Quebec: Canadian Museum of History, 2017, →ISBN, page 174:
- I started work here seven weeks before the last election with no organization, no committee rooms, and no funds. We ended up with NDP representatives in 156 of the 195 polls. That was good but we need a better organization to win the riding.
- 1971, James Lorimer, Myfanwy Phillips, Working People: Life in a Downtown City Neighbourhood, Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, →ISBN, page 94:
- He and Bud Price were close personal friends, and he had done a lot of work for Price and the party. They had, for instance, hired him to put the lights into Price’s committee rooms on Parliament Street.
- 2019 October 7, Kevin Weedmark, “Canadian Politics Is No Longer Right Versus Left, It’s Urban Versus Rural”, in The World-Spectator[5], Moosomin, Saskatchewan, retrieved December 6, 2022:
- When I came to Moosomin 30 years ago, the Liberals, NDP and Conservatives all had active local constituencies, all had well known supporters, all would set up committee rooms during the election, get their lawn signs out and work for their candidate.
- 2021 July 17, Roberta Lexier, “Can Avi Lewis Carry on the Success of His Family’s Electoral Tradition?”, in Canadian Dimension[6], Winnipeg, Manitoba, retrieved December 6, 2022:
- “My earliest memories,” Lewis reflected in 2017, “are of committee rooms, shop floors, prop planes, and election day boards. Campaigns with six events a day. Plates of sandwiches with amputated crusts, festooned with neon pickles. […]”