Records are comprised of files generated by the predecessor organizations of the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre and include the following series: (a) Northwest Territories Historical Advisory Board - Permanent Secretary - Outgoing Correspondence, 1969-1974; (b) Northwest Territories Heritage Council - Coordinator of Historical Programs - Outgoing Correspondence, 1974-1978; (c) Territorial Central Museum - Outgoing Correspondence, 1976-1977; and (d) Territorial Central Museum - Subjects, 1976-1977.
Records date from 1979-1982 and consist of published reports. Records include reports multiple topics, including the objectives of the Board, population studies, imported foods to the Northwest Territories, wind energy, aquatic resources, arctic marine mammals, dietary habits of native populations and animal management.
Northwest Territories. Science Advisory Board of the Northwest TerritoriesRecords include photographs of former Commissioners of the Northwest Territories and members of the NWT Council from 1905 to 1967.
Northwest Territories. Legislative Assembly. Office of the ClerkRecords include photographs of members of the Northwest Territories Council, predecessor to the Legislative Assembly. The images include individual portraits of members of the Council, as well as group photos of the members in session and staged group photos. Contained in the collection are portraits of many Commissioners, including John H. Parker and Stuart M. Hodgson.
Records include photographs of various members of the Northwest Territories Council (predecessor to the Legislative Assembly) from the 1920s through the 1960s. Included among the images are portraits of council members such as John H. Parker, Merv Hardie and O.S. Finnie.
The records detail the regular and special meetings of the Council of the Northwest Territories from 1921 to 1951 (sessions 1 to 201). There are several parallel series containing minutes, agendas, and attachments, including reports, Orders in Council and Ordinances, correspondence, and occasionally photographs or maps, relating to the agenda items. products of meetings (Orders in Council, Ordinances) of the NWT Council. The first series contains the "official" set of files, including signed minutes for most meetings. Other record sets that cover some the same meetings, but may include different and more attachments, are found in the second and third series: Records of Council Members and Secretary's Files and Session Papers. The Records of Council Members series also includes records of the Advisory Board on Mining Regulations (1922-30). The last two series contain Ordinances and Orders in Council related to the Northwest Territories and associated indices.
Please note that many of the Council minutes contain outdated and pejorative terms; paternalistic, racist, ableist, or otherwise offensive attitudes; and/or discussions of sensitive topics. We have reproduced these terms and comments in the digitized documents because they are a part of the original historical record.
It consists of one letter dated 17 January 1956 from the Council of the Northwest Territories to the Governor General of Canada, regarding the territorial mace.
Records include interim and final reports from the Special Committee on Housing and recordings of the public and other community hearings. The DAT cassettes were copied from the original audiocassettes in October 1995; the recordings are in a variety of native languages and contain simultaneous translations. The transcripts of the recordings are grouped as follows: Baffin/High Arctic Tour, June 1984; Western Arctic Tour, July 1984; Southern Mackenzie Tour, August 1984; Yellowknife/Kitikmeot Tour, September 1984; and the Keewatin Tour, October 1984. The November 1984 interim report is available in both English and Inuktitut syllabics.
This accession consists of records created by and for the Legislative Assembly's Special Committee on the Northern Economy, including several background studies, a summary of public hearings, and the SCONE Report.
Records include copies of the NWT Council Minutes from 1921-1951 (M00811 to M00815) and an index of the minutes (M00809 and M00810). This microfilm copy was created in 1965 from the minute books (Volumes 1 to 20) accessioned as G-1979-042.
Please note that many of the Council minutes contain outdated and pejorative terms; paternalistic, racist, ableist, or otherwise offensive attitudes; and/or discussions of sensitive topics.
Records include Debates, Bills, Sessional Papers, Appropriations, Supplementary Appropriations, Recommendations to Council, Information Items, Monthly Letters, Tabled Documents, Motions, Questions and Returns (Oral and Written) and a selection of Commissioner's Opening Addresses. They were produced by the 1st through the 67th sessions (1st to 8th Councils) of the Council of the Northwest Territories, the predecessor to the Legislative Assembly.
The photographs depict activities of the unit from 2002-2004 as well as other cultural and political events attended by unit staff. Some of these events included Language Advisory Board Meetings, the Weledeh School Multicultural Festival, the 50th anniversary of CBC Television, Assembly of First Nations' meetings, Dene Nation meetings, the NWT Native Women's Association Annual General Meeting, Yellowknife's francophone radio station Radio Taiga's events, the initialing of the Tłı̨chǫ-Akaitcho agreement, the Midway Lake Music Festival, a CD launch for performer Leela Gilday, Mary Effie Snowshoe's retirement party, the Living History Society's Website Launch, and official visits by staff to Fort McPherson including a visit to the Elders Healing Lodge, and to Fort Simpson.
Northwest Territories. Office of the Languages CommissionerRecords include the rules and procedures for the NWT Council (predecessor of the Legislative Assembly), a bound report from 1983 entitled "Proposal for the Legislative Building" and committee files including minutes and research material from the Special Committee on Constitutional Development and the Special Committee on the Division of the NWT.
Northwest Territories. Legislative Assembly. Corporate Services divisionRecords include research material, correspondence and discussion papers surrounding NWT Constitutional Development and the work of the Advisory Commmittee on the Development of the Government of the Northwest Territories.
Northwest Territories. Legislative Assembly. Corporate Services divisionRecords include material related to the opening of the Legislative Assembly building in 1993, such as speeches, planning committee files, correspondence, and invitations. The bulk of the records include correspondence, briefing notes and community transcripts from meetings or hearings held by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, Special Committee on Housing and Standing Committee on Agencies, Boards and Commissions.
Northwest Territories. Legislative Assembly. Corporate Services divisionRecords include photographs of the opening of the 1968 Territorial Council, predecessor to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories. The photographs depict the Council as headed by Commissioner Stuart Hodgson. The setting appears to be the original gymnasium at Sir John Franklin School in Yellowknife.
Records consist of business plans for the Legislative Assembly, including descriptions of functions and roles of various offices and committees of the Assembly.
Records include Commission Members' meeting minutes, notes from a strategic planning session, and an informational guide to the Commission distributed to stakeholders.
Northwest Territories. Human Rights CommissionThis accession consists of records relating to the administration of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, including meeting materials for the Board of Management and Senior Management, Election Year Guidelines, education materials, and plans for division of the Legislative Assembly's retirement plans with Nunavut.
This accession consists of Council of the Northwest Territories records and Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories records which fill gaps in current holdings. The records include Tabled Documents, Sessional Papers, Information Items, Recommendations to Council, Requests for Reference, Committee Reports, Petitions, Responses to Petitions, Responses to Written Questions, and miscellaneous related documents.