Library of Parliament Exhibition of Some Chicken! Some Neck! Speech Pages

March 26, 2013
Six of the 22 pages of the actual text used by Churchill to deliver his "Some chicken! Some neck!" speech in the Canadian House of Commons on December 30, 1941 were displayed in the Library of Parliament in the Spring of 2012. (While relatively unobtrusive, the pages of that speaking text can be seen in Churchill's left-hand suit jacket pocket in the iconic Karsh portrait of the Prime Minister taken following his address to Parliament.) The opening of the Exhibition was hosted by the Hon. Andrew Scheer, Speaker of the House of Commons, on March 26, and Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre (at Churchill College, Cambridge University) was on hand to introduce the display. The British High Commissioner Andrew Pocock and Mrs. Julie Pocock, Members of Parliament, and members of the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Ottawa were present for the occasion.

British High Commissioner Pocock and guests

SWCSO member Doug Ward et al.

SWCSO members Dr. Simon McCall and Ms. Trudy Samuel

SWCSO members Kyle McRobie, Jocelyn Comtois and Monica Olney

Churchill Archives Centre Director Allen Packwood

The Hon. Andrew Scheer, Speaker of the House

The Hon. Andrew Scheer, Speaker of the House

Speaker Scheer and Allen Packwood

SWCSO member Alan Boyce

SWCSO member Bob Plamondon et al.

The Exhibition

Speaker Scheer, MP Pierre Poilievre et al.

The Exhibition

CSAPD member John Plumpton, Churchill Archives Centre Director Allen Packwood, et al.

Prime Minister Churchill leaving the Canadian Parliament Buildings

The Exhibit in the Library of Parliament

SWCSO President Ron Cohen, U of T student Alexander Cohen, and SWCSO Director Andrew Cohen

Six original pages from the December 30, 1941 speech

A frame from the video recording of the speech

Two of the pages up close

The Exhibit is dismantled for its return to the Churchill Archives Centre - I

The Exhibit is dismantled for its return to the Churchill Archives Centre - II

The speech pages carefully packed and ready to head home

A lovely day for the December 30, 1941 speech to depart Canada's Parliament