Events and gatherings

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  • Here are entered works relating to times of celebration, commemoration, and special events or ceremonies. Events may be of a serious or festive nature.

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  • NWTA

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    Events and gatherings

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      Events and gatherings

      • UF Special events
      • UF Community celebrations
      • UF Carnivals
      • UF Jamborees
      • UF Music festivals
      • UF Ceremonies
      • UF Commemorations

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      Events and gatherings

        81 Archival description results for Events and gatherings

        N-2023-003 · Collection · [ca. 1955-1966]

        This collection contains a variety of material relating to the Kinette Club of Yellowknife, ca. 1961-1966, including a large wooden scrapbook ("Kinsmen - Kinette - Yellowknife"), which includes photographs and signature pages from Kinsmen events in the 1960s. Also included are a number of Kinsmen/Kinette newsletters, clippings and loose photographs.

        Maxine Colbourne
        N-2021-006 · Accession · 1959-1973

        Records include photographs taken by Maxine Colbourne during her time as a teacher in Aklavik and Inuvik, documenting Christmas celebrations, domestic scenes, her students and classrooms, outdoor activities (picnics, boat rides, sledding), views of buildings in Aklavik and Inuvik, and social and cultural activities (curling, dances, festivals and parades). Many of the images feature children who were likely her students. Also included are photographs of Daniel Norris, a 1963 trip to Fairbanks, Alaska for a curling tournament, visits to Duck Lake Reserve (possibly Beardy's and Okemasis Cree Nation, Duck Lake, Saskatchewan) in 1961 and 1964, a visit to Yellowknife, photographs of her young sons, and photographs from her time teaching. The photographs also document her classroom and students at Lower Post Residential School in British Columbia in 1968.

        Colbourne, Maxine
        N-2018-008 · Accession · 1968-1974

        Records consist of a report and booklet about the T.E.S.T. Ski Program, a booklet and program for the Top of the World Ski Championships, a booklet for the Northern Games, and a program for Caribou Carnival. They were collected by Lorna Clement during her time in various communities of the Northwest Territories.

        Clement, Lorna
        N-2017-007 · Accession · [1934-1967]

        The records, created by the Pappas family and their relations, document settler life in Yellowknife and Outpost Island mine.

        Pappas, George
        Terry Keim collection
        N-2013-020 · Accession · 1964-1967

        The film was shot in Inuvik and the Mackenzie delta region circa 1964-1967. The filmmaker is Terry F. Keim. The film features the [196? and 1967] Inuvik Muskrat Jamboree, aerial views of Inuvik, various buildings in the townsite, airplanes and the Inuvik airport, and extensive footage of drum dancers in traditional costumes. A complete shot listing is located in the accession file.

        Keim, Terry
        Ben Hall collection
        N-2013-015 · Accession · 1932-1993, predominant 1963-1978

        The textual records consists of one letter describing the audiocassette. Most of the photographs date from between 1963 and 1978, although there is one from 1932 and several from 1993. The photographs document the Reverend Ben S. Hall's life in Hay River from 1963-1970, as well as a 1978 Boy Scouting trip to Coppermine and Pine Point. They also depict images of public events, the local "Indian village," aircraft, clergy, and Yellowknife. The audio cassette narrates the series of colour slides of the Boy Scout trip to Coppermine and Pine Point.

        Hall, Ben
        N-2007-011 · Accession · 2003, 2005

        Records consist of the Tlicho Constitution, a 39-page booklet describing the political workings of the Tlicho (Dogrib) people. The second item is 'Recognition Day: Effective Date for the Tlicho Government'. The final item is a schedule of events for the Dogrib Treaty 11 Council and Tlicho Government Annual Gathering.

        N-2006-014 · Accession · [197-]

        Records include photographs related to the annual Canadian Championship Dog Derby, the spring dogsledding race held in conjunction with Caribou Carnival in Yellowknife, and the Matt Murphy trophy, the prize awarded to the winner. The photographs depict sled dogs in racing scenes, fans and dogs preparing for the start of the race, a musher holding a handful of awards, and the trophy itself.

        N-2004-017 · Accession · [199-?]

        Records are comprised of an unpublished manuscript by Margaret Scott called "Treasures of the North". It describes the author's three years spent in the north, 1941-1944, first at Ptarmigan Mine, then Whitehorse and Prince Rupert. The section on Ptarmigan mine (approximately 26 pages) provides anecdotal account of her trip to Yellowknife, including her wedding ceremony, and the year she spent at Ptarmigan mine where her husband was an employee of Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company.

        Scott, Margaret
        N-2003-039 · Accession · [198-]

        Records include photographs relating to musical events in Yellowknife in the early 1980s. Subjects include the Womenfolk group performing at Folk on the Rocks and the Society for the Encouragement of Northern Talent (SENT). Other identified people include Susie Edmonds, Miriam Wideman, Moon Joyce, and Jim Green.

        N-2003-016 · Accession · 1970-1972

        Records are comprised of two invitations addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Jean Chretien, the first March 9, 1970 for reception in honour of then Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau at the highrise (Fraser Tower) in Yellowknife. The second, dated March 8, 1970 to attend an Arctic Winter Games function in honour of Member of Parliament John Munro, Minister of National Health and Welfare at the Hoist Room in Yellowknife. The accession also includes an Armed Forces Day North program of events dating from May 13, 1972.

        N-2002-025 · Accession · 1992-2001

        Records are comprised of program guides and promotional brochures for the Great Northern Arts Festival, an annual summer event held in Inuvik. The event features fine arts, arts and crafts and music by northern and southern artists.

        Great Northern Arts Festival
        Caribou Carnival collection
        N-2002-024 · Accession · 1978-1995

        Records are comprised of program guides for the Caribou Carnival annual spring festival in Yellowknife. The guides, which vary from newsprint to full-colour, date from 1978 to 1995. The Carnival, which began in the mid-1960s, was famous for hosting the Canadian Championship Dog Derby dogsledding race. The last Caribou Carnival took place on Frame Lake, Yellowknife in 2009.

        N-2002-023 · Accession · 2000

        The record is 40 minutes long and documents a 'healing walk' for residential school students. The march was held in Yellowknife on June 1, 2000 to raise awareness of the legacy of residential schools in the NWT. With funding from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation and the Department of Education, Culture and Employment, the Trauma Treatment Training Program for community caregivers of the NWT coordinated the event. The march stopped at various Yellowknife locations to acknowledge the impact and responsibility different organizations played in the legacy of residential schools. These included: Akaitcho Hall, St. Patrick's Catholic Church, the Gold Range Bar, the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development building (the Bellanca Building), and the NWT Legislative Assembly. The end of the march featured a sharing circle at the Legislative Assembly building and a drum dance ceremony. The video includes a speech by Robert (Bob) Overvold of DIAND and Sister Dora Durand of the Roman Catholic Church. The video also includes individual interviews with participants and organizers of the march. Production staff included Dennis Allen (Camera/Editor), Chris Rodgers (Second Camera), Peter Squirrel (Titles), Delphine Elleze (Producer) and the Native Communications Society (NCS-TV).

        N-2000-012 · Accession · [1959?]-1976

        Photographs depict people, places, and events which took place in Fort Good Hope from 1959-1976. Most of the photographs depict church functions, including the interior/exterior of the church, murals, the altar, communions, weddings, funerals, and baptisms/christenings. Photographs also depict the Mackenzie River and the ramparts, barges and freight, wildlife, aerial photographs, seasonal camps, hauling wood, traditional garments and gloves, school photographs, and construction projects.

        N-1993-024 · Accession · 1963-1966

        This accession consists of four programmes for Christmas concerts produced by the students of the Federal Day School in Nahanni Butte. The programmes are for the 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1966 concerts. They contain Christmas carol sheets and the text from plays produced by the students during the concert.

        Federal Day School (Nahanni Butte, NT)
        Dillon, Barb
        N-1992-179 · Accession · 1983

        This accession consists of 22 colour negatives of Inuvik's 25th anniversary celebration, held July 18, 1983.

        Dillon, Barb
        Hewitt, Mike
        N-1979-566 · Accession · 1964-1965

        Records include sound recordings of Dogrib (Tlicho) chants and drum dances recorded at Fort Rae (Behchoko). All three reels contain the same content.

        Hewitt, Mike
        Totzke, A. F.
        N-1979-544 · Accession · 1950

        This accession consists of a menu of a dinner held in honour of A.F. Totzke signed by him and guests.

        G-2004-009 · Accession · 1992

        Records include sound recordings from the Parish Council of Rae-Edzo's Dogrib Literacy Workshop, also known as the Dogrib Writer's Project, held in late August and early September 1992. The recordings were created as part of the reporting requirements for funding received under the Language Enhancement Program. The purpose of the project was to bring together Tlicho (Dogrib) literate people from the six communities of the North Slave Region to discuss the present state of the Tlicho written language and to develop ways to strengthen culture and identity through the Tlicho written word. Another aim of the project was to bring young people, who use Roman orthography, and elders, who use syllabics, together to identify those words not in common use and to ensure that they are recorded. The original proposal also called for the development of scripted stories to be read on local radio in Tlicho. One of the cassettes identifies Joe Erasmus as the interviewee.

        Parish Council of Rae-Edzo