Fonds 406 - William C. Noble fonds

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William C. Noble fonds

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Northwest Territories Archives

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406

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  • 1929-1973 (Creation)
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    Noble, William C.

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1.5 metres of textual records
8 photographs : col. transparency
174 photographs : b&w prints
[uncounted] photographs : b&w negatives
8 maps

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Noble, William C.
(1941-2009)

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William Charles Noble was born on May 1, 1941 to William T. Noble (1913-1989) and Lucy R. Noble (1913-2005). After completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, he undertook doctoral studies at the University of Calgary (then the University of Alberta at Calgary), which had established its Department of Archaeology in 1964. He obtained his PhD in 1968.

Noble conducted archaeological research in the Northwest Territories with the support of the National Museum of Man and McMaster University for four consecutive seasons (1966, 1967, 1968, 1969) and acquired the nickname ‘Barren Lands Bill’.

In 1971 he became an assistant professor in McMaster University’s Department of Anthropology (then the Department of Sociology and Anthropology), where he founded the Archaeology section. He conducted research and published studies on sites and First Nations cultures in Ontario. He was married twice, first to Jean MacLeod Slater and then to Jacqueline E. M. Crerar (Noble), and had two children, Gordon William Noble and Elizabeth M. Noble. He retired and became Professor Emeritus at McMaster University in 1996, and died on April 26, 2009.

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This fonds consists of textual, graphic and cartographic materials produced durning Noble's numerous archeological expeditions in the NWT, and includes extensive field notes, original archeology reports, extensive cataloguing and analysis of artifacts found at sites, academic research and academic reports. This fonds also contains two binders of b&w photographs of the construction of Pine Point taken by Jim Cameron in 1929. Additionally, four binders in this fonds contain first flight air covers collected by Noble dating from 1929 - 1991.

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