Fonds 224 - Henry Cook fonds

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Henry Cook fonds

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Northwest Territories Archives

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224

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  • 1914, 1938-1979 (Creation)
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    Cook, Henry G.

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80 photographs : b&w and col. prints and negatives
ca. 5 cm of textual material

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Cook, Henry G.

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Henry George Cook was born on October 12, 1906 in Walthamstow, England. At the age of 23, he began his studies for the ministry at Huron College and the University of Western Ontario, where he obtained a degree in theology and a Bachelor of Arts degree. Cook met fellow student Opal May Thompson who became his wife on June 4, 1935 in St. Thomas ON. She passed away in 1987. Cook began his ministry in 1935 in the Northwest Territories at Fort Simpson. He later became archdeacon of James Bay and in 1949 became superintendent of the Indian School Administration in Ottawa, which oversaw Anglican residential schools. The position lasted 15 years and in 1963 Cook was consecrated as the first bishop suffragan of the Diocese of the Arctic with responsibilities for the Athabasca district and later the Mackenzie River area district. After his retirement in 1974, he assisted in establishing the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre. The centre opened in 1979 and the NWT Archives Reading Room is named in Cook's honour. In 1979, Cook finally retired to Stittsville, Ontario. He died in Ottawa, Ontario on October 18, 1995.

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Photographs include images of Inuit constructing igloos, a confirmation ceremony at the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Yellowknife, a plaquing ceremony in Fort McPherson, the visit of Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan) to Aklavik in 1937, the communities of Aklavik, Fort Simpson, Coppermine (Kugluktuk) and Hay River, and images of Chief Johnny Kay [Kyikavichik], Chief Johnny Charlie, Andrew Kunnizzi, Terry Buckle, Robert Simpson, R. P. Malis, Bishop Archibald Fleming, and Bishop Stringer.

The textual material includes a typed manuscript by Henry G. Cook of the prayers, creeds and blessings translated into the Slavey language, dated 1938 and a handwritten dictionary of the Slavey translations of English words, compiled by Bishop J.R. Lucas in 1914, and an 11-page typescript manuscript written by Mr. Cook entitled "Early Education in the North". Also included are ephemera collected by Rev. Cook including a program of a Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaquing ceremony held in Fort McPherson on July 7, 1977; programs, booklets, and correspondence related to Anglican clergy in the NWT; and booklets related to the history of the North, as well as copies of the Captain Al Cohol comic books produced by the Government of the Northwest Territories.

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      N-1979-559 includes material in Slavey.

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      Accession N-1979-059 formerly part of H. Cook fonds transferred to Anglican Diocese of the Arctic fonds.

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