This accession consists of one menu from the Wildcat Cafe dated 1944.
This fonds consists of approximately 10 cm of textual material containing five diaries or journals and one trade ledger belonging to Ole Andreasen, who was a trader at Shingle Point in the Richardson Islands. The dairies date from June 1931 to November 1935. The diary entries include detailed observations about the weather, daily activities and visitors to the Shingle Point post. The trade ledger lists the prices and goods purchased from the trading post. In addition, there are typewritten transcripts of the diaries.
Sans titreThis fonds consists of one ledger of 'Indian Accounts' kept by A.N. Blake. The ledger documents the accounts of native traders in the Fort McPherson area.
Sans titreThis accession consists of nine issues of "Communicate", published by the Northwest Territories Teacher's Association. The newsletter highlights Association business, information on Association policy, and new ideas and trends in teaching.
Sans titreRecords include images of various settlements across the NWT. The photographs, primarily aerial photographs, appear to have been collected by the Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources from a number of sources. The majority of the images are of Yellowknife, but the collection also includes images depicting Fort Rae (Behchoko), Tukotyaktuk, Aklavik, Inuvik, Paulatuk, Rocher River, and Shingle Point, Yukon.
Sans titreThis fonds consists of approximately 3280 photographs in both slide and print format, 18 audiocassettes, 1 audio reel, which was copied to 1 sound CD, 6 cm of text and 2 film reels in 8 mm format. The records document Frank Gonda's life in various northern communities. The cassette recordings appear to be interviews with elders or carvers from Pelly Bay. The textual files document Gonda's attempts to create curriculum for art to be used in schools in the Northwest Territories and his efforts to obtain a Masters degree from the University of Alberta.
Sans titreThis fonds consists of By-law No. 11/85, dated 7 March 1985, to regulate the use and development of land within the municipality.
Sans titreThe first cassette contains an interview with Norma Stedman and Wyn Manifold who taught in the North during the 1950's and 1960's. The second cassette is an interview with Norman Simmons who discusses teaching school in Cape Dorset between 1948-1950. The third cassette contains a discussion about education in the North during the 1960s. The interviewer and subject are unknown. The fourth cassette contains a narration by Cathy McGregor about moose hide tanning in Nahanni Butte.
This fonds consists of minutes of two meetings, a proposal for an oral history project, a press release, a newsletter and correspondence from Father Posset O.M.I., indicating his support for the Committee.
Sans titreThe original audio cassette was copied to DAT circa 1988. The recording consists of an interview with K. Vaydik, a freelancer under contract with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Yellowknife. The discussion covered McDonald's early life, his activities as a geologist and prospector, travel to Yellowknife during the 1930s, a meeting with Jack Hornby, McDonald's opinion on developing a wilderness park at the east end of Great Slave Lake, trading posts, and his naturalist activities.
This fonds consist of approximately 7.40 m of textual records and 156 photographs from the Department of Health.
The bulk of the material relates to various committees in which the Department of Health was the lead agency. There are records from the Pharmacare Formulary Advisory Committee, Medical Advisory Committee, Health Coordinating Committee, Committee on Medical Legal Concerns, Minutes from the Certified Nursing Assistants Committee, Health Facilities Planning and Construction and the Community Health Advisory Committee. In addition, there is material that was generated by the Management Services Division. The records, dated 1982-1990, are primarily administrative records including minutes and reports from various committee and secretariats.
In addition there is material which was generated by the Mackenzie Regional Health Board and dates between 1988-1993. The files relate to Nursing Conferences and Committees, St. John Ambulance Committee, Maternal Prenatal Committee, Community Health Committee and Senior Management Meetings. There are also records from the Department of Social Services relating to Social Services Management Committee Meetings and Health and Social Services Training Programs.
There are records from the Legislation and Policy division, including relating to the amalgamation of the departments of Health and Social Services, as well as records relating to the transfer of Baffin region health assets from the federal Department of Health as well as records relating to the Medical Patient Search Project (MPSP).
The MPSP project was undertaken between 1988 and 1991 to search for the location of medical patients who were sent south for treatment and subsequently lost to their families.
Material from the Health Promotions and Education Division includes published reports, brochures and newsletters from the Department of Health dating from 1977-[1995]. The material includes reports on health conditions, ambulance services and poison control. There are also information pamphlets on a wide variety of topics for public information, career promotion within the Department, an interpreters handbook, the internal departmental newsletter N.W.T Healthbeat, as well as one large information kit on northern cuisine published in French.
Also included within the fonds are 140 colour slides and 16 colour photographs from the Legislation and Policy division. The slides were part of the Information Services section's slide library. The images include photography of health services, staff, infrastructure and programs offered by the Department of Health and date between 1960 and 1981. The colour photographs are related to the Medical Patient Search Project, and feature cemeteries where northern patients were known to have been buried.
Sans titreRecords include photographs of Mary Murphy, who was the matron nurse at the Red Cross Hospital in Yellowknife from 1947 to 1959.
Sans titreThis fonds consists of 271 photographs, 6 audio reels, 3 sound cassettes and 2 cm of textual material. The photographs were taken and collected by the Buffum Family and depict the covers or interior images of personalized Christmas cards from bush pilots and other people who stayed with the Buffum family. The textual material is made up of the diary of Louise Buffum dated from 1939 to 1945. The sound recordings contain an interview conducted by the Territorial Archivist, David Rudkin with Lyn Orchuk in 1985.
Sans titreThis accession consists of documents relating to oil exploration and development in conjunction with the Canol Project. The records relate to the Canol Project and include blank weekly time reports for Imperial Oil Limited, operating instructions for flares, and material cost records.
Sans titreThis accession consists of photographs showing seismic operations conducted during the winter of 1945 along the banks of the Mackenzie River by the Imperial Oil Company. The images include views of the camp site, much of the equipment used, and many of the crew members.
Sans titreRecords consist of two issues (June 1975 and June 1976) of "The Beaufort Seer", a newsletter published by Pallister Resource Management, Ltd. For the member companies of the Arctic Petroleum Operators' Association. The newsletter contains articles on environmental impact studies, and oil drilling activities in the Beaufort Sea.
Sans titreThis accession consists of the renewal surface lease #27, issued on 9 January 1940 to Alexander Ernest Sutherland, concerning a claim at Port Radium Lot 13, Block 15.
Records include a map of the Yellowknife River and photographs of prospecting activities in the Yellowknife area. The photographs document scenes of prospecting camps and prospectors including Tom Hanson, Bill Larsen, Ben Sutherland, C. J. Baker and Hughie Muir.
Sans titreThe fonds consists of 11.8 cm of text and 37 photographs (25 b&w prints, 8 col. prints, 2 b&w negatives and 2 col. slides) documenting the life of Jake Woolgar. The bulk of the text consists of correspondence, both personal and relating to Jake's work in the mining industry, his service in the Air Force, and his and Didi's facilitating a visit to the Arctic for Sherman Haight. Other documents in the accession include share certificates, legal paperwork, a log of Jake's prospecting activities in 1938, and samples of his poetry and prose writing. The photographs depict Jake at various stages of life as well as members of his family, prospecting activities, and signs and monuments beside Highway 1.
Sans titreThis fonds consists of 22 cm of text, 113 black and white and colour photographs, and 19 audiocassettes related to the life and activities of George Magrum, a noted barrenland trapper active in the Northwest Territories from the 1900s to the 1970s. The text includes diaries, correspondence, poetry, creative writing, and records related to trapping and prospecting. There are also 18 audiocassettes which appear to relate to Mr. Magrum's diaries. The photographs, which relate to trapping as well as his family, are both negatives and prints and do not appear to be copies of each other.
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