Records include minutes and reports from the Language Bureau's Keewatin regional office, minutes of departmental language coordinators' meetings, and minutes and correspondence from Community Education Committees in Trout Lake, Fort Providence, and Wrigley.
The sound recordings consisted of lectures delivered as part of the "Science History and All That" lecture series. :0001 - In December 1979, George Calef, part of the Government of the Northwest Territories Game Branch lectured on the topic of caribou. :0002 - In February 1980, Dr. Walter O. Kupsh spoke on the topic of "Discovery and Mining of Uranium." Dr. Kupsh, a member of the Carruthers Commission from 1965-1966, also served as a member of the Science Advisory Board. :0003 - In September 1980, Constable M.J. (Joe) Olsen lectured on the topic of the "St. Roch." Joe Olsen was a crewmember of the "St. Roch" in the 1920s. :0004 - Photographer and historian Richard Finnie lectured on "The Truth about the Canol Project". Richard Finnie was employed as the northern advisor and historian to the United States Army Engineers constructing the Canol Project from 1940-1942. :0005 - In January 1981, Doug Heard of the NWT Wildlife Services spoke on "Caribou: Sex and Death Where the Nights are Long". :0006 - In February of 1981, Dr. Otto Schaefer lectured on "Native Food Resources and Traditional Dietary Habits: Their Value from a Nutritional and Medical Viewpoint and the Effect on the Health Picture of Native Populations Observed Consequent to Rapid Change of their Traditional Dietary Habits." Dr. Schaefer was a physician in Aklavik, Pangnirtung and the Yukon prior to founding the Northern Medical Research Unit in Edmonton. :0007 - In April 1981, Anne Gunn lectured on "Men and Musk ox". Anne Gunn, a member of the Canada Wildlife Service from 1973 to 1978, joined the NWT Wildlife Service in 1978.
Northwest Territories. Department of Justice and Public Services. Museums and Heritage divisionThe slides depict the following communities: Inuvik (Series 1); Trout Lake (Series 2); Jean Marie River (Series 3); Snare Lake (Series 4); Yellowknife (Series 5); Fort Wrigley (Series 6); Rae Edzo (Series 7); Tuktoyaktuk (Series 8); Tungsten (Series 9); Fort Franklin (Series 10); Coral Harbour (Series 11); Pelly Bay (Series 12); Coppermine (Series 13); Pine Point (Series 14); and Hay River (Series 15). The images are dated between 1980-1985. In addition, there are 80 slides with an accompanying audiocassette and manual from a unit entitled "Our Students, Our Future: Shaping Education in the NWT" (Series 16). This unit was developed in 1990 and included images that depicted students and education related activities in the Northwest Territories. A manual and audiocassette, produced by the Student Support Division, to help assist in the slide presentation is included with this accession. There is also 1 cm of textual material consisting of descriptions for the slide presentations on Pelly Bay and Yellowknife.
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.
Great River Cultural Resources CommitteeIt contains the programme for the musical "Two Hands and For Ever", which was produced and written by Robin Beaumont and Graham Hall in 1979, with music and lyrics by Robin Beaumont. The programme contains short biographical sketches on many of the workers and performers of this musical.
St. Pat's Society for Musical TheatreThe photographs are images of College events, classes, staff, and students. The bulk of the textual records were created by the offices of the President and Vice-President (Aurora Campus, Inuvik) and include Board records, correspondence, reports, program files, committee files, policies, strategic plans, organizational charts, job descriptions, marketing files, and newsletters. There is also a series of minutes from the Board of Governors of Thebacha College and Arctic College as well as several committees reporting to the Board.
Northwest Territories. Arctic CollegeThis accession consists of a photocopy of an essay entered in the national essay contest "Know Your Heritage" on Norman W. Byrne (includes black and white photograph photocopies).
Knutsen, HeatherRecords include:
- 7 cassettes related to a sealing conference from 1978 (:0001-:0007);
- 9 cassettes from the Legislative Assembly Special Committee on Education entitled Learning: Tradition and Change in the NWT (appear to be the same tape in various Indigenous languages) (:0008-:0016);
- 1 cassette marked Laco Hunt Interview (:0017);
- 7 cassettes related to a Nunavut Mining Symposium held in Cambridge Bay in 1998 (:0018-:0024);
- 9 cassettes that appear to related to an Economic Prospects Conference held in Hay River in 1978 (:0025-:0033);
- 1 cassette marked Former Commissioners Sept. 1979 (:0034);
- 1 cassette marked The Drums – Jim Greene (:0035);
- 1 Reel labelled: CBC Drumming / Peter Liske Drumming (:0036);
- 1 Reel labelled Master Mixed Impulse version (:0037);
- 1 Reel labelled: Recreation 1980 (Box says moose hide tanning) (:0038);
- 1 Reel labelled: Expo Walk (:0039);
- 1 Reel – no label but box marked: Travel Arctic – Explore Canada’s Arctic duplicate pulsed soundtrack (:0040).
Records date from 1977-1995, and consist mainly of ministerial correspondence and chronos of various departments, including Finance, Education, Renewable Resources and Transportation, as well as chronos from the Office of the Premier. This accession also includes one file from the Pine Point Closure Committee, several files from the Office of Devolution, and files related to Forestry and the transfer of Forest Fire Services in the NWT.
Records include meeting minutes from the Apprenticeship and Trade Qualification Board, Electrician Trade Advisory Committee, Industrial Warehousing Advisory Committee, Millwright/Machinist Trade Advisory Committee and the Small Equipment Mechanic Trade Advisory Committee.
Northwest Territories. Department of Education. Advanced Education divisionThe records consist of correspondance, drawings and specifications relating to the construction of the Northwest Territories Pavillion that was part of Expo '86. In addition, there are correspondance and drawings dated between 1977-78 relating to the construction of the Trout Lake log school.
Northwest Territories. Department of Public Works and Highways. Project Management divisionRecords date from [1976]-1979 and include population estimates, family allowance statistics, evaluations of a drug and alcohol council, and two evaluations of Frobisher Bay after closure of a liquor store. There are also a number of program evaluations covering topics such as apprenticeship, daycare, subsidized term employment, rehabilitation of disabled persons, operations of a student residence in Fort Smith and in-service training.
This accession consists of Volume 1, October 22, 1975, of the Akaitcho Hall newspaper and six editions of "The New John" (Oct. 1975 to Dec. 1975), the student paper of Sir John Franklin School.
Sir John Franklin High School (Yellowknife, NT)This accession consists of a document related to an educational program on government and elections. The document, entitled "Position of the Legislative Assembly on Constitutional Development in the Northwest Territories" contains twelve lessons explaining the processes of government and the procedure of elections. It was designed to be used as part of a larger program by community educators on "Government and Elections" prior to the 1975 Territorial election.
Records include minutes and reports regarding the Social Agenda working group, as well as records from the former Aboriginal Rights and Constitutional Development Secretariat regarding GNWT and federal policies on Aboriginal rights and claims.
Northwest Territories. Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations. Intergovernmental Relations divisionRecords date from 1973-1993 and consisting of published reports, curriculum resources, teaching guides, newsletters, magazines, pamphlets, published anthologies, manuals, education kits, storybooks, workbooks and handbooks created by the department. The material covers a wide range of topics including teaching aides for elementary school children (workbooks, storybooks, teaching guides, kits, etc.), a large collection of Pik magazines, brochures and kits on child abuse, sexual assault and alcohol and drug awareness, apprenticeship brochures, nutrition guides and a children's cookbook, curriculum guides on science, civics, social studies and health, a needs assessment report on alternative programs for special needs, a review of Akaitcho Hall and many aboriginal language storybook readers.
Records consist of curriculum material and are divided into two series: 1) material generated by the Programme Development Division and later the Linguistic Programmes Division of the Department of Education and 2) material generated by other sources. Series 1 consists primarily of workbooks, dictionaries and readers in Dene and Inuit languages. Some of the workbooks and readers are the result of work undertaken in 1974 to establish a common alphabet for the Dene languages. The material has been arranged chronologically to show the relationships between workbooks and readers whenever possible. Series 2 consists of a small portion of material gathered by the Department of Education from other sources including the Council for Yukon Indians and the Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc. in Calgary.
Records date from 1972-1983 and relate to GNWT policy and program development, land claims issues, park development, Constitutional development, decentralization and natural resource projects.
Northwest Territories. Department of the Executive. Priorities and Planning SecretariatRecords are comprised of the first issue (volume 1 number1) of a 1972 newsletter, "Think News", which was published by students and staff at the Gordon Robertson Education Centre. The newsletter contains items of news about students at the school. It also contains stories, letters to the editor, and some news pertaining to the community.
Gordon Robertson Education Centre (Frobisher Bay, NT)This accession consists of records from the Language Bureau library. Most of the records were created by ECE and its predecessors, the Department of Education and the Department of Culture and Communications, but the accession also includes records created by the Department of Information, the Department of Justice, and various workshops and literacy programs hosted or coordinated by ECE and its predecessors. Records include reports on bilingual education, the curriculum from the Inuit perspective, interpreting in the NWT Courts, and literacy and language projects, including the Dene Standardization Project, the Arviat Language Research Project, and the Rae-Edzo Literacy Project; an operational review of the Language Bureau; curriculum guides, teacher’s manuals, kits and posters for K-12 language teaching, including the Dene Kede curriculum and other materials in Inuktitut, Gwich’in, North Slavey, South Slavey, Dogrib (Tłı̨chǫ), Chipewyan, and Cree; a classroom assistant training manual; the Language Bureau’s newsletter, Dene Yati; teacher’s and student’s manuals for the Language Bureau’s Cree Language Program; a syllabus for teaching Dene languages literacy; audio cassettes and a course outline from a North Slavey course produced by Arctic College; training manuals, terminology lists, and program review materials from the Interpreter/Translator Program; Chipewyan and Dogrib (Tłı̨chǫ) language lessons from the Teacher Education Program; and training materials for legal interpreters.
Northwest Territories. Department of Education, Culture and Employment. Language Bureau