Fonds 393 - Terry Foster fonds

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Terry Foster fonds

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Northwest Territories Archives

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393

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  • 1972-2001 (Creation)
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    Foster, Terry

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374 photographs: col. slides; col. and b&w negatives; col. prints

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Foster, Terry

Biographical history

Terrence ("Terry") William Stockbridge Foster was born in Birch Hills, Saskatchewan, on May 31, 1946. After he completed his bachelor studies with the University of Saskatchewan, he worked at its Institute for Northern Studies. In 1975 he decided to move his family to to Yellowknife to pursue work with the newly formed territorial government. The Fosters lived in Yellowknife until 2005, whereupon they retired to Kelowna, British Columbia.

During Foster's career with the GNWT (1975-2004), he worked with the Department of Planning and Program Evaluation, the Department of Economic Development and Tourism (and with its later incarnation as Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development), and the Department of the Executive. By the time Foster retired he was Special Advisor to the Cabinet Secretariat.

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This fonds consists of 374 images comprised of 167 colour slides, 115 colour photograph prints, 5 colour negatives (duplicates corresponding to 5 of the 115 prints in N-2009-006) and 87 b&w negatives. The photographs, taken by Foster, document several NWT communities in the 1970s and 80s, including Snare Lake (Wekweti), Holman, Fort Smith and Lac La Marte (Whati). There are also photographs from what is now Nunavut, including Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet, Lake Harbour (Kimmirut), and an outpost camp just outside Lake Harbour (Kimmirut). There are are 106 print photographs that document changes in Yellowknife's downtown core from 1978 - 2001. There are also several photographs from the Beaufort Sea which were taken while Foster was evaluating the impact of off-shore drilling on the nearby communities. Also included are nine colour photographs of the Lupin and Polaris mines at Resolute Bay, taken in 1980. Overall themes include mining, firefighting and fires, oil and gas exploration, community life, housing, fishing, aerial shots of communities, recovery of a float plane from Back Bay, the 1988 Yellowknife air show, tundra and foliage, and the 1972 solar eclipse in Rankin Inlet.

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      Copyright transferred to NWT Archives by donor.

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