Fonds 371 - Mildred Young Hubbert fonds

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Mildred Young Hubbert fonds

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Northwest Territories Archives

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371

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  • [194-] - 1984 (Creation)
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    Hubbert, Mildred Young

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639 photographs : b&w prints, col. prints and col. Slides

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Hubbert, Mildred Young

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Mildred Josephine Young was born in Toronto in 1924. A schoolteacher, at age 20 she went to the Yukon, and later Moose Factory, Ontario and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories at the age of 23 in 1947. She left Yellowknife for Southern Ontario in 1950. She later became a school inspector (classroom consultant), living in Winisk, Ontario where she met her husband George Hubbert. Millie Hubbert travelled to Fort Good Hope in 1969. Ms. Hubbert published three books in the 1990s, "Since the Day I Was Born", about her life growing up in depression-era Toronto and "Into Canada's North: Because It Was There", recalling her adventures teaching in the North. The third book, recalling her time in Winisk, was entitled "Winisk: On the Shore of Hudson Bay". The manuscript was completed shortly before her passing in March, 1997.

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This fonds consists of 564 b&w and colour prints and 75 colour slides taken and collected by Mildred Young Hubbert while living in the Northwest Territories first as a schoolteacher, 1947-1950, and later as a school inspector in the late 1960s. The prints were originally part of photo albums created by then Mildred Young while a Yellowknife schoolteacher in the 1940s. The photographs include scenes from the schoolhouse on School Draw, students in classrooms, public health inoculations, blood donor clinics, Christmas pageants, and fashion shows. Photographs of Yellowknife include the construction of the Gerry Murphy Arena, the opening of the golf course, and scenes at the gold mines. A number of photographs were taken at Indian Village (Dettah), and feature Yellowknives Dene elders and youth. Photographs of the Kugluktuk (Coppermine) area identify Father Ebner and Inuit hunters. Many of the colour prints date from 1984 when Ms. Hubbert returned to Yellowknife for the city's fifty-year reunion celebration. The slides, taken in 1969, are of Fort Good Hope, and include photographs of school children and the community.

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      Mildred Young Hubbert fonds, Archives of Ontario.
      Dates of Material: [19--?]-1970, 1991
      Physical Description: 992 photographs; 5 audio cassettes
      Reference Number: F 4369
      Includes photographs of Northern Ontario and the Yukon.
      Note: sent the Archives of Ontario 598 colour slides from the NWT Archives' acquisition. These will be reflected in their physical description record at a later date.

      Also in Durham, Ontario, the Grey County Archives' reading room is named for Hubbert. The archives has a reference library of local and social history materials, but many of Hubbert's books concern early Ontario education and may not be suitable for the archives' permanent collection. For the moment they are housed where the public can browse among the old textbooks.

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      Original four photo albums have been photocopied onto acid-free paper and their original order kept. The photo albums were subsequently dismantled, with the prints being rehoused in acid-free archival envelopes and assigned item numbers. A folder of prints identified as Yukon/N. Ontario were not rehoused and were not given item numbers. They are stored with the oversized prints and slides.

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