One folder consisting of various mementos of Stuart Hodgson. It includes awards, menus, invitations, colour printouts of photographs and a 1982 Annual Report of the Government of the Northwest Territories.
This series consists of various resumes and lists of accomplishments by Stuart Hodgson, as well as an unfinished manuscript for an autobiography that details his life from birth until the early days of being Commissioner of the Northwest Territories and bringing the seat of government to Yellowknife. The series also includes 30 microcassette and 1 audio cassette recordings of Stuart Hodgson recounting on significant events throughout his career. Accompanying the cassettes are copies of correspondence compiled by Stuart Hodgson in 1994, to provide evidence and documentation of rationale and decisions he made as Commissioner. Correspondence is annotated with references, and additional contextual notes have been provided by Stuart Hodgson.
This fonds consists of approximately 14 metres of textual records, 1226 b&w and colour photographic prints and slides, 31 audio recordings, and 1 film. Records detail the period just before and inclusive of Stuart Hodgson's term as Commissioner of the Northwest Territories (1967 to 1979), the move of government to the Territory, and the changes in government overtime, including the decentralisation of Territorial Government and the move to Local Government. The fonds also includes some documentation in his later work as Chair of the Canadian Section of the International Joint Commission, BC Ferries, and BC Transit. Records include professional and personal chronos including his entire tenure as Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, as well as correspondence specific to relations with the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (and its later iterations), personal correspondence, public and legislative addresses, issue files during his tenure as Commissioner, planning for Royal visits, Commissioner and Legislative Balls, the NWT Centennial, Arctic Winter Games, community tours, day timers and diaries.
Sans titreOne folder consisting of a draft autobiography of Stuart Hodgson.
One folder consisting of correspondence from Prime Minister Trudeau and from Windsor Castle & Clarence House.
One folder consisting of sections and timelines for Stuart Hodgson's draft autobiography.]
One folder containing a curriculum vitae or resume of Stuart Hodgson.
One folder consisting of meeting materials and correspondence regarding Stuart Hodgson's attendance at a symposium on northern issues.
This series consists of interest and issue files collected by Stuart Hodgson during his tenure as Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, as well as a few from later in his life. Topics include the Carrothers Commission report, government structure and province-like responsibilities, Task Force on Personnel Policy and Management, division of the Northwest Territories, COPE (Committee for Original Peoples Entitlement), Aboriginal land claims, the Berger Inquiry, Travel Arctic, Arctic Winter Games, 1970 Centennial reports, diplomat and dignitary visits, Mace Coffey's "Territorial Review Study," constitutional development, the Territorial Government Reorganization, and later decentralisation of the Territorial Government, the Fort Smith Medical Situation, the Game Management Inquiry, the CBC production of "The Fourth World", and the Senator Laing Assignment, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples -- both Stuart Hodgson's feedback and B.G. Sivertz's research, files on the construction and collection of the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, the expeditions known as the Franklin Probe to search for Franklin's lost ships, ANIK satellites, as well as travel documents of Stuart Hodgson's travel to Vancouver, Edmonton, Bathurst Lodge, Greenland, Le Havre, Soviet Union and a European tour in 1978. It also includes meeting notes of the True North Living History Society symposium where Stuart was invited to participate in 2002.
This series consists of approximately 8.9 metres of textual records. The correspondence includes the full chronos of Stuart Hodgson's tenure as Commissioner of the Northwest Territories. There are also specific chronos files for Commissioner Hodgson's correspondence with the Minister and Deputy Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (later Indian and Northern Affairs). There are also separate files for correspondence with the Governor General, Privy Council, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the Deputy Commissioner, Council Members and many other individuals related to the Northwest Territories. The series also includes correspondence regarding the move to and establishment of government in the Northwest Terrtories. There are also several files of personal correspondence from Stuart Hodgson's tenure as Co-Chair of the the International Joint Commission, and during his time as chairman of the board with the BC Ferries Corporation.
One folder consisting of personal correspondence between Bob Engle and Stuart Hodgson.
One folder consisting of correspondence and clippings sent between Stuart Hodgson and Bern Will Brown.
One folder consisting of miscellaneous outgoing correspondence from Stuart Hodgson.
One folder consisting of miscellaneous correspondence to and from Stuart Hodgson.
One folder consisting of personal correspondence between Stuart Hodgson and Bryan Pearson.
One folder consisting of a reference copy of bound letters written and collected by B.G. Sivertz on the issue of the relocation of Inuit in 1953-1955 in regards to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
One folder consisting of correspondence and clippings sent between Stuart Hodgson and Ben Sivertz.
One folder consisting of a letter from Stuart Hodgson to the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs in regards to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
This series consists of greeting cards, menus and invitations from various gala events and correspondence collected by Stuart Hodgson, mostly during his tenure as Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, but up to and after his retirement in 1992. There are also Cross Border, Arctic Circle certificates, a Sourdough Council certificate from the Yukon, and an information booklet on Cambridge Bay.
One folder consisting of Stuart Hodgson's correspondence and mementos from his career such as colour photo printouts, a March 1973 copy of Norpinion, programs from various ceremonies, and a blueprint for an addition to his residence in Yellowknife.