Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
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25 March 2017, 3pm
Port Hope in the Age of Nuclear Waste
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Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
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AP149.S2.SS3.079
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Contains two numbers of the serial "Tawow: Canadian Indian Culture Magazine".
1970s
Documentation on canadian First Nations
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AP149.S2.SS3.079
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Contains two numbers of the serial "Tawow: Canadian Indian Culture Magazine".
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1970s
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Plans and details for the First Nations plaque, Canadian Tribute to Human Rights, Ottawa, Ontario
DR2012:0012:130:024
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File containing documents in English, including drafts, a sketch of plans and photocopies thereof related to the indigenous plaques of the Canadian tribute to human rights. Original folder inscribed in graphite: CANADIAN TRIBUTE TO HUMAN RIGHTS : FIRST NATIONS PLAQUE - INSCRIPTIONS
1992-1993
Plans and details for the First Nations plaque, Canadian Tribute to Human Rights, Ottawa, Ontario
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DR2012:0012:130:024
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File containing documents in English, including drafts, a sketch of plans and photocopies thereof related to the indigenous plaques of the Canadian tribute to human rights. Original folder inscribed in graphite: CANADIAN TRIBUTE TO HUMAN RIGHTS : FIRST NATIONS PLAQUE - INSCRIPTIONS
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1992-1993
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A.D. Thacker fonds
AP004
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The A.D. Thacker fonds is comprised of project proposals and documentation dating from around 1913-1938, depicting structures designed by Thacker. Much of Thacker's work was completed in Quebec, but he also completed projects in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Thacker designed many churches for religious institutions that were directly involved in the oppressive, colonial assimilation policies and systems of the Canadian government towards indigenous people. The fonds contains 33 drawings, 16 reprographic copies, 12 photographs and 8 textual documents.
1913-1944
A.D. Thacker fonds
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AP004
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The A.D. Thacker fonds is comprised of project proposals and documentation dating from around 1913-1938, depicting structures designed by Thacker. Much of Thacker's work was completed in Quebec, but he also completed projects in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Thacker designed many churches for religious institutions that were directly involved in the oppressive, colonial assimilation policies and systems of the Canadian government towards indigenous people. The fonds contains 33 drawings, 16 reprographic copies, 12 photographs and 8 textual documents.
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1913-1944
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CD047
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The May Cutler collection comprises Expo'67 material assembled by May Cutler for a never-realized publication. The collection contains 862 photographic records, 32 textual records and 1 phonograph record related to Expo 67 (1963-1967). 10 additional photographs on other world's fairs, and 1 phonograph record and 1 textual record on the 1968 exhibition 'Man and His World' are also included. The documents were primarily produced between 1963 and 1967, but also include documents from 1914-1915, 1958 and 1968.
1963-1967
May Cutler collection on Expo 67
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CD047
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The May Cutler collection comprises Expo'67 material assembled by May Cutler for a never-realized publication. The collection contains 862 photographic records, 32 textual records and 1 phonograph record related to Expo 67 (1963-1967). 10 additional photographs on other world's fairs, and 1 phonograph record and 1 textual record on the 1968 exhibition 'Man and His World' are also included. The documents were primarily produced between 1963 and 1967, but also include documents from 1914-1915, 1958 and 1968.
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1963-1967
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AP075
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The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds documents Oberlander's professional activities as a landscape architect. It contains over 203 projects that span from 1954 to 2009 predominantly in Canada and in the United States, but also in Germany. The fonds is a complete record of Oberlander's work, and comprises her playground projects, roof gardens, and public space landscapes, as well as landscape designs for private residences, as well as administrative records from her practice, her professional engagements, and her research materials. The material in this fonds is dated from 1939 to 2019.
1936-2019
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds
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AP075
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The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds documents Oberlander's professional activities as a landscape architect. It contains over 203 projects that span from 1954 to 2009 predominantly in Canada and in the United States, but also in Germany. The fonds is a complete record of Oberlander's work, and comprises her playground projects, roof gardens, and public space landscapes, as well as landscape designs for private residences, as well as administrative records from her practice, her professional engagements, and her research materials. The material in this fonds is dated from 1939 to 2019.
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1936-2019
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The First Nations Longhouse : our home away from home / Verna J. Kirkness and Jo-ann Archibald.
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xii, 100 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 x 28 cm
Vancouver : First Nations House of Learning, ©2001.
The First Nations Longhouse : our home away from home / Verna J. Kirkness and Jo-ann Archibald.
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xii, 100 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 x 28 cm
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Vancouver : First Nations House of Learning, ©2001.
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19, 21 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Ottawa : The Task Force = Le Groupe, 1992.
Turning the page : forging new partnerships between museums and First peoples / [Task Force on Museums and First Peoples] ; a report jointly sponsored by the Assembly of First Nations and the Canadian Museums Association = Tourner la page : forger de nouveaux partenariats entre les musées et les Premières nations / [Groupe de travail sur les musées et les Premières nations] ; un rapport parrainé conjointement par l'Assemblée des Premières nations et l'Association des musées canadiens.
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19, 21 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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Ottawa : The Task Force = Le Groupe, 1992.
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19, [7], 21 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Ottawa : Task Force on Museums and First Peoples = Groupe de travail sur les musées et les Premières nations, 1992.
Turning the page : forging new partnerships between museums and First peoples / [Task Force on Museums and First Peoples] ; a report jointly sponsored by the Assembly of First Nations and the Canadian Museums Association = Tourner la page : forger de nouveaux partenariats entre les musées et les Premières nations / [Groupe de travail sur les musées et les Premières nations] ; un rapport parrainé conjointement par l'Assemblée des Premières nations et l'Association des musées canadiens.
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19, [7], 21 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
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Ottawa : Task Force on Museums and First Peoples = Groupe de travail sur les musées et les Premières nations, 1992.
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vii, 77 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Halifax, N.S. : Cities & Environment Unit, Faculty of Architecture, Dalhousie University, c2000.
First nations community planning model / project team, director, Frank Palermo ; principal investigators, Patricia Cuttell, Beata Dera ; research assistants, Tracy Bealing ... [et al.] ; First Nations community liasons, John James Gould ... [et al.] ; Joint Community Planning Steering Committee (JCPC), Brian Arbuthnot ... [et al.].
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vii, 77 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Halifax, N.S. : Cities & Environment Unit, Faculty of Architecture, Dalhousie University, c2000.