This accession consists of records from the Corporate Affairs division of the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs relating to strategic planning, job action contingency planning, audit response, and Fire Prevention Week. The records include 2003 draft strategic plan, 2009/10 Business Plan, MACA Youth Strategy, MACA Organizational Impact Analysis in the Context of the NWT Lands and Resources Devolution Agreement, MACA Establishment Policy, A Clear Path Forward... Municipal and Community Affairs' Strategic Plan 2010 to 2015 and draft action plan, Accountability Framework Summary Report draft, "Accountability, Capacity and Compliance An Assessment Matrix for Community Governments", draft Core Services Inventory Reporting Requirements, Reflections of the past..."Celebrating the Successful Path", "People on a Clear Path: A Human Resources Plan for MACA" 2012-2016, Focus Group and Interview Summary Report, 2013-14 MACA Strategic Priorities, 2016 Employee Engagement & Satisfaction Survey Report & Guide (MACA), staff training and development guidelines, Fire Prevention Week information, Report of the Auditor General of Canada to the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly – 2016: Support to Communities for Municipal Services in the Northwest Territories – Municipal and Community Affairs, Action Plan and Progress Report, Job Action Contingency Plans, Contingency Plans for the Provision of Essential Services, critical functions listing, Essential & Emergency Services Proposal, 48 Hour Checklist, draft communications plans, workshop and facilitator training material, committee records, meeting materials, presentation slides, correspondence, and work plans.
These records were created by Walter Slipchenko during his time as Chief of DIAND's Circumpolar Affairs Division, Director of Circumpolar Affairs with the GNWT, and as a consultant on circumpolar affairs, from 1977 to 1994. The records consist primarily of reports on GNWT engagement with circumpolar affairs, particularly with exchanges to the USSR and joint projects. Copies of the various cooperation agreements and photographs of some exchanges are also included.
Slipchenko, WalterRecords are comprised of the original English and French bound copies of the Tlicho Agreement. This agreement constitutes a land claims and self government agreement between the Tlicho (Dogrib), the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Government of Canada. Both copies were signed and dated August 25, 2003 in Rae-Edzo, Northwest Territories.
Canada. Department of Indian and Northern AffairsRecords consist of briefing binders prepared for the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations.
Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, plans, and other materials related to the implementation of the Nunavut Final Agreement and the creation of the territory of Nunavut. Many of the records relate to boards and agencies involved in the implementation of the agreement, including the Nunavut Implementation Panel, Nunavut Implementation Training Committee, and Transition Teams for the Nunavut Planning Commission, Nunavut Water Board, and Nunavut Impact Review Board.
Records include terms of reference for Committees-of-Cabinet and associated Deputy Minister committees and an agenda, minutes, and meeting materials from the Deputy Ministers' Devolution Committee.
Northwest Territories. Department of the Executive. Cabinet SecretariatRecords include committee files that the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs (MACA) was responsible for. The records primarily include interdepartmental committee files, particularly those of the New Deal Management and Oversight Committee. Also included is one file from a Deputy Minister committee.
Northwest Territories. Department of Municipal and Community Affairs. Corporate Affairs divisionThis accession consists of "Self Government Negotiations Framework: Negotiated Primarily Through a Partnership Government" and "Self Government Negotiations Framework: Negotiated Primarily Through an Aboriginal Government", which were developed, distributed, and updated by the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs.
Records include an annual report, legislation files, and self-government files. The annual report is from the Fort Smith Health and Social Services Authority. The legislation files include details regarding the drug interchangeability formulary, grandfathering under the Social Workers Act, and a discussion paper related to the Health and Social Services Professions Act. The self-government files document the role of the Department of Health and Social Services in self-government negotiations, including but not limited to presentations given by the department during self-government discussions, and actions taken by the department related to implementation of the Tlicho Final Agreement.
Northwest Territories. Department of Health and Social Services. Policy, Legislation and Communications divisionThe records were created by the Aboriginal Rights and Constitutional Development Secretariat and the Ministry of Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs during the negotiation and implementation of the Nunavut claim. There are files related to the development of the agreement-in-principle and planning for the establishment of Nunavut, as well as the establishment and operation of boards and agencies involved in the implementation of the agreement, including the Nunavut Implementation Panel, Nunavut Implementation Training Committee, and Transition Teams for the Nunavut Planning Commission, Nunavut Water Board, and Nunavut Impact Review Board.
Records date from 1974-1988 and relate to land claims, including the Inuvialuit (COPE) land claim, the Dene/Metis land claim, and the creation of Nunavut, from the Aboriginal Rights and Constitutional Development Secretariat of the department. Also included are records relating to the creation of the Western Arctic Region Municipality (WARM). The records in this accession consist of primarily correspondence, meeting minutes, and copies of reports from federal government, territorial government and Aboriginal government representatives.
Northwest Territories. Aboriginal Rights and Constitutional Development SecretariatRecords include Premier's chronos; files from the departmental Senior Management Committee and from interdepartmental committees related to the NWT's participation in the 2010 Olympics; and reports, decision papers, briefing materials, and correspondence on a variety of topics.
Northwest Territories. Department of the Executive. Cabinet SecretariatRecords include publications related to devolution, reports on brainstorming sessions of the Joint Project Management Team, meeting packages of the Devolution Deputy Ministers' Steering Committee, minutes and meeting packages from meetings between the GNWT and the federal government, and other materials related to the implementation of devolution.
Northwest Territories. Department of the Executive. Office of DevolutionRecords include briefing materials related to intergovernmental meetings; briefing notes and reports related to energy policy, the NWT Innovation Strategy, and the GNWT's role in several intergovernmental groups; files related to Memoranda of Understanding with Alberta and BC; departmental policies; documents related to a proposed reorganization of intergovernmental affairs functions; and a file from the Social Envelope Committee.
Northwest Territories. Department of the Executive. Intergovernmental Relations and Strategic Planning divisionRecords include Ministerial and Deputy Minister's chronos; decision papers, correspondence, briefing materials, drafts, and reports related to negotiation and implementation of land, resources, and self-government agreements, devolution of responsibilities from the federal government to the Government of the Northwest Territories; meeting materials from departmental senior management meetings; reports and plans related to the Intergovernmental Forum; and drafts and correspondence related to the negotiation of a socio-economic agreement with BHP Diamonds.
Northwest Territories. Ministry of Aboriginal AffairsThis accession consists of a photograph taken by O.S. Finnie in 1929 at Fort McPherson. It may have been taken at treaty payment time. Included in the photograph from left to right are: Simon Dizik, Reverend John Marten, Ben Kunnizzi, Christopher Colin, Corporal Wilson (RCMP), Old Robert, Johnny Kay [Kyikavichik], Fred Tuth, Chief Julius, L.A. Giroux, Old William Vittrewka, Charlie Snowshoe, and Abraham Francis. Identifications provided by Sarah Simon.
Records include decision papers, briefing notes, Minister's speeches, mostly related to land claims and self-government negotiations and agreements; correspondence between the GNWT and the Aboriginal Summit, much of it relating to the development of electoral boundaries after the creation of Nunavut; files from interdepartmental and intergovernmental committees, including the Committee on Aboriginal Rights, the Intergovernmental Forum, and the Economic Development Advisory Forum; and drafts and correspondence relating to an early version of the Ministry's website.
Northwest Territories. Ministry of Aboriginal AffairsAccession consists of Northern Rental Housing Program Operations & Maintenance Costs from 1969 to 1972. There is also a Regional Income Analysis of Northwest Territories Fishing Lodges released by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in 1982. The accession also consists of Policing Agreements in the Northwest Territories dating from 1975. Additionally, there is a 1987 report of the Canada/USSR Arctic Science Exchange Programme documenting the visit by Soviet Delegation in 1987 with Ethnography and Education as the theme and Contemporary Social Change as the topic. There is also an Interdepartmental Committee on Federal-Territorial Financial Relations Report on the Northwest Territories from 1967.
This accession consists of textual records relating to the Aboriginal (Indigenous) affairs function of the Department of the Executive. The records document Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) involvement in various land claims, including those with the Dene-Metis, Sahtu, Gwich'in, Inuvialuit (COPE), Tunngavik Federation of Nunavut (TFN), and Makivik organizations, intergovernmental interactions on the federal/provincial/territorial level, and the interactions of the Aboriginal Relations and Constitutional Development division with other GNWT departments. The records include policies and directives, agreements (including drafts), comments and responses, legal opinions, implementation worksheets and plans, briefing material, financial records, Financial Management Board submissions, meeting materials, correspondence, proposals, applications, discussion, decision and option papers, land use planning records, records of recommendation and decision, court documents, reports, communications plans, a job description, maps, speaking notes, news releases, and reference material.
Records include correspondence, reports, and meeting minutes on topics related to constitutional development and land claims, including devolution of powers from the federal government to the GNWT, GNWT participation in First Ministers' Conferences, the Northern Energy Accord, the Dene/Metis land claim, the Committee for Original Peoples Entitlement (COPE/Inuvialuit) land claim, and Division of the NWT.
Northwest Territories. Aboriginal Rights and Constitutional Development Secretariat