This series contains records arising from J.I. Glick's involvement with local governance in Yellowknife, both as a resident and as a member of the Yellowknife Ratepayers Association and the Town Council. Records include reports submitted to Yellowknife Town Council Meetings (meetings of the Yellowknife Ratepayers Association), meeting minutes, meeting recordings, speaking notes, and correspondence between J.I. Glick and Plains Western Gas and Electric company. The records document a dispute between the Gold Range Hotel Ltd. and Plains Western Gas and Electric Company regarding rates, which Glick brought before the courts and before the Town Council. The records also document a second dispute between J.I. Glick and the Town Council regarding property acquisition through tax sales, including the lots for the Gold Range Hotel.
Glick, Jacob IsaacThis fonds consists of approximately 1.15 m of textual material, 60 maps, 3 architectural plans and 84 photographs generated by the Local Trustee Board, Municipal District of Yellowknife, Town of Yellowknife, and the City of Yellowknife between 1940 and 2005.
The textual materials, which date from 1940 to 2005, include Local Trustee Board/City Council meeting minutes, correspondence files, Centennial Committee records, licenses, Yellowknife Board of Trade records, and by-laws. Subject files also include road construction, hospital construction, health and welfare, taxes, elections, federal funding, lot development, budgets, infrastructure development and the construction of housing. There are records from the Town's Planning Committee including budget information, utility franchise information, and records relating to town planning and zoning. A select number of municipal financial statements can also be found within this fonds.
This fonds also contains a select number of reports commissioned by the city and presented to council on issues such as the Yellowknife School District and water and sewage systems. Also included are reports delivered by the City of Yellowknife Heritage Committee, a committee funded directly by the City of Yellowknife. These records include "Policy for the Preservation and Development of Yellowknife's Heritage Resources," prepared by the Yellowknife Heritage Committee (1986), and a copy of the pamphlet entitled "Four Walking Tours of Yellowknife Old Town" (1987). As well, there are several reports authored between 2001-2005 documenting abandoned or demolished Yellowknife buildings as well as an inventory of New Town Historical Buildings.
The cartographic materials consist of maps of Yellowknife, development plans for Frame Lake and the capital site, street lighting plans, plans for water and sewage services, and zoning plans.
There are also architectural plans documenting the renovation of City Hall in 1969.
The graphic content, dating from 1920-1973, depicts meetings of the Municipal Council, municipal buildings, houses and businesses in the town. Buildings depicted include the Gerry Murphy Arena, the Municipal Town Hall, City Hall, the Bellanca Building, St. Patrick's High School, William McDonald High School and Mildred Hall Elementary School. Several photographs feature airplanes operated in Yellowknife by local transportation companies. There are also photographs taken during a dinner attended by Commissioner Stuart Hodgson and Bishop Henry Cook to mark the unveiling of Pilot’s Monument in Yellowknife.
Yellowknife (NT)Records consist of the Tlicho Constitution, a 39-page booklet describing the political workings of the Tlicho (Dogrib) people. The second item is 'Recognition Day: Effective Date for the Tlicho Government'. The final item is a schedule of events for the Dogrib Treaty 11 Council and Tlicho Government Annual Gathering.
This block contains the following series:
- [500-510] Administration of the N.W.T. - Council
- [520-529] Municipal Administration - N.W.T. & Y.T.
- [530-539] Ordinances - N.W.T.
- [540-549] Justice - Police Services
- [550-559] Health
- [560-569] Welfare & Social Services
- [570-579] [Territorial Secretariat] Misc.
- [590-599] Liquor, N.W.T.
The records comprise correspondence by Judge J.H. Sissons concerning changes to the adoption ordinance in 1961 and work of the courts on adoptions.
Records include copies of Private Member's Public Bill 32, An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, No. 2, correspondence between Charles Dent and legal counsel regarding the revision of Bill 32 which provided a legislative mechanism to remove Members of the Legislative Assembly who are convicted of Criminal Code offences where violence was involved. Records also include letters of support and congratulations for the Private Member's Bill from local non-government organizations and communities.
Records are comprised of a proclamation published on the occasion of changing the status of Pine Point, Northwest Territories, from a village to a town.
This accession consists of records from the Safety Advisory Committee of the Workers' Safety and Compensation Commission relating to consultation with stakeholders on the Safety Regulations. The records include correspondence and submissions.
Please note that the Inuit are referred to as "Eskimos" in these records.
This accession consists of one file of correspondence between Commissioner H. A. Young and administrators of the Department of National Health and Welfare, concerning pensions for the old and the blind. Also included in the file are copies of the Ordinance, regulations pertaining to the ordinance and application forms.
The textual material relates to the Commissioner's Tours of communities and regions within the Northwest Territories. The audiocassettes contain sound recordings of Hamlet Council meetings, Town Council meetings, public meetings and speeches made by the Commissioner Stuart Hodgson.
This accession consists of files from many different GNWT departments, including Education, Social Services (and predecessors), and Local Government, relating to the operation, administration, and closure of the community of Port Burwell. The records were collected by the Office of the Commissioner after the community was abandoned. The records include settlement manager monthly reports and correspondence, settlement council minutes, school records (including enrollment and attendance and student files), financial records (including aircraft tender documents, operations funding, cheque books and banking records, and ledgers), fishery plant records, building and public works records, health and welfare records,employment records, and a guestbook. The accession also includes several files from the Department of Local Government which relate to the Baffin Region more generally or to other communities, including Pond Inlet, Arctic Bay, Grise Fiord, Nanisivik, Eskimo Point (Arviat),
This accession consists of records from the Clerk's Office of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories. The records include meeting materials for the Legislative Assembly's Senior Management Team, the GNWT's Deputy Minister Senior Management Committee, and task forces and joint working groups on the Division of the Northwest Territories particularly relating to legislative issues. The accession also includes records relating to amendments to the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act (2010-11), the 2004 Circle of Northern Leaders meeting, and Protocols for Communication: Legislative Standing Committees and Government Departments and Agencies.
The bulk of the textual records are made up of official records from the Legislative Assembly dated between 1951-2023 from the 1st through the 19th Legislative Assemblies/Councils of the Northwest Territories. Included in this material are Hansard (including indices and appendices), Tabled Documents, Motions, Written Questions, Return to Written Questions, Petitions, Committee Reports, Bills, Budget Addresses, Speeches, Debates (including some indices), Sessional Papers, Appropriations, Recommendations to Council, References for Advice, Information Items, Monthly Letters, Supplementary Notes, Legislation, a selection of Commissioner's Opening Addresses, and Votes and Proceedings summaries. There is also a copy of the Hay River-Enterprise Corridor Development Regulations from 1986.
The textual records are also comprised of signed minutes from the Northwest Territories Council (1921-1951), minutes from the Yellowknife Board of Trustees, bound minutes, ordinances and session papers from the Northwest Territories Council (1922-1950) and Orders in Council (1883-1932). Textual records also include correspondence, letters, biographical sketches of members of the Legislative Assembly, as well as promotional material collected by the Public Affairs Office concerning the 1979 election.
In addition, there are textual records related to the Advisory Committee on the Development of the GNWT, work of the Special Committee on Constitutional Development, the Special Committee on the Division of the NWT, Special Committee on the Northern Economy (SCONE), Standing Committee on Public Accounts, Special Committee on Housing and Standing Committee on Agencies, Boards and Commissions. There is also a small amount of textual records, including planning committee material, that deal with the opening of the Legislative Assembly building in 1993. Other records deal with special events and conferences hosted by the Legislative Assembly, including swearing-in ceremonies, the Circle of Northern Leaders, and 23rd Canadian Presiding Officers' Conference.
There are also pamphlets and brochures from the late 1970s-early 1980s and early 1990s on a variety of topics, including the Legislative Assembly's operations, symbology, projects, interest in the pipeline, talks of forming a new territory (Nunavut), and construction of the Legislative Assembly building. There are published reports on priorities for the North, administrative structure for Nunavut, a spousal assault task force report, and a Denedeh government proposal for restructuring of the Government of the Northwest Territories. There are also rules of the preceding body, the Council of the Northwest Territories, as well as the rules of the Assembly from 1984 to 1991. Also included in this accession are ordinances dated 1888 and 1895 and bound ordinances dating 1950 through 1981. There is also a book of statutes from 1985.
The textual records from the Elections NWT office includes material concerning electoral boundaries, as well as guidelines, correspondence, poster and press releases related to the Nunavut Capital public vote and the public vote on the Guaranteed Equal Representation of Men and Women in the Nunavut Legislative Assembly. There are also Reports of the Chief Electoral Officer and the Official Voting Results reports for the 2003 and 2007 General Elections, Returns to the Writ from the 2003, 2007 and 2011 General Elections, Proclamations and Grants of Poll from the 2007 General Election, polling boundary descriptions from the 2003 and 2007 General Elections, and the original tallies of votes from the polling districts and boxes from the 2007 General Election.
The textual records from the office of the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly includes materials related to conflict of interest and the Conflict of Interest Commissioner, the Senior Management Team, the standing committee on legislation, task forces and working groups related to the Division of the Northwest Territories, a strategic planning workshop for MLAs regarding the government organization after division, a Circle of Northern Leaders meeting, communications protocol, and amendments to legislative Acts. Some meeting material for the GNWT Deputy Ministers' Senior Management Committee is also included.
The textual records from the NWT Human Rights Commission includes meeting agendas and minutes of the Commission Members, as well as notes from a strategic planning session, and an informational package given to stakeholders that outlines the mission, structure, processes and function of the Commission.
The bulk of the photographs and slides are dated between 1968-1993 and cover topics such as Legislative Assembly Opening Ceremonies, Sessions, Elections, Committees, Plebiscite on Division, Tours of Communities, Special Events, Conferences, Health Services and Scenery. The remaining photographs depict members of the Northwest Territories Council, the Legislative Assembly and Commissioners of the Northwest Territories from 1905-1975, as well as the activities of the Office of the Languages Commissioner, which date from 2002-2004.
The VHS videocassette entitled "One Land, Many Voices" - making the new NWT Mace" was produced by Lone Woolf Productions in 2000.
The audio reels contain recordings of the 7th and 8th NWT Council and the 9th and 10th Legislative Assembly.
The microfiche consists of a complete record of Tabled Documents, Committee Reports and Petitions from the 10th Legislative Assembly which covered the years 1984-1987 and a Tabled Document from the 8th Council, 56th Session. The 7 microfilm reels contain copies of the Northwest Territories Council Minutes from 1921-1951 and an index to the Minutes.
The scroll was presented by David Welch, Ontario's Minister of Citizenship, on behalf of Premier John Robart to the Commissioner and Council of the Northwest Territories to commemorate the Northwest Territories Centennial in 1970.
Northwest Territories. Legislative Assembly (1905-present)This accession consists of the records produced by the 19th Assembly, 2nd Session. Records include Hansard, Votes and Proceedings, Ministers' Statements, Bills, Committee Reports, Motions, Petitions, Written Questions and Return to Written Questions, Tabled Documents, Budget Addresses, and the Opening Address given by Commissioner Margaret Thom.
The records include Votes and Proceedings, Ministers' Statements, Written Questions, Motions, Bills, and Tabled Documents.
Records include Votes and Proceedings, Ministers' Statements, Bills, Committee Reports, Motions, Petitions, Written Questions and Return to Written Questions, Tabled Documents, and the Opening Address by Commissioner Margaret Thom. They were produced by the 18th Assembly, 3rd Session.
Records include Hansard, Tabled Documents, Return to Written Questions, Return to Oral Questions, Petitions and Committee Reports. They were produced by the 13th Assembly, 3rd Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.
Records include Hansard, Tabled Documents, Return to Written Questions, Return to Oral Questions, Petitions and Committee Reports. They were produced by the 13th Assembly, 6th Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.
Records include Tabled Documents, Motions, Petitions, Bills, Hansards, Written Questions, Return to Written Questions, Committee Reports and a consolidated index of the 14th Legislative Assembly, all Sessions. They were produced by the 14th Assembly, 6th Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.
Records contain recordings from the 7th NWT Council (51st session), 8th NWT Council (58th session), 9th Legislative Assembly (2nd session) and 10th Legislative Assembly (1st session).
Records consist of the Hansard Index. They were produced by the 17th Assembly, 4th Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.
Records consist of Bills, Motions, Committee Motions, Tabled Documents, Committee Reports, Speeches, Budget Addresses, Questions, Return to Questions, Votes and Proceedings summaries and Hansard. They were produced by the 9th Legislative Assembly, all Sessions.
Records include Tabled Documents, Budget Addresses, Territorial Leadership Committee files, Written Questions, Motions, Bills, Petitions, Return to Written Questions, Committee Reports, Hansard, Hansard Index, and Hansard Appendix (Legislation). They were produced by the 15th Assembly, 3rd Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.
Records include Hansard, Tabled Documents, Return to Written Questions, Return to Oral Questions, Petitions and Committee Reports. They were produced by the 13th Assembly, 4th Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.
Records include Hansard, Tabled Documents, Return to Written Questions, Return to Oral Questions, Petitions and Committee Reports. They were produced by the 13th Assembly, 5th Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.