Mrs. Diefenbaker greets Native children in Fort Simpson, NWT.
Mrs. Diefenbaker receives a bouquet from a happy child at Whitehorse.
Mrs. Diefenbaker talks with children at Fort Simpson, NWT.
Mrs. Diefenbaker visits with residents of Inuvik at the Official Opening of the Arctic community.
Native Housing - McKay Family
Oil - Drilling - Northwest Territories
Olive Diefenbaker at opening of Inuvik, Northwest
Historical note:
Olive Evangeline (Freeman, Palmer) Diefenbaker; b. 14 Apr, 1902; d. 23 Dec, 1976; second wife of JGD.Olive Diefenbaker receiving flowers from a young girl
Historical note:
Olive Evangeline (Freeman, Palmer) Diefenbaker; b. 14 Apr, 1902; d. 23 Dec, 1976; second wife of JGDOratory Contest Indian School PA
"Our Amazing Visitors": Catherine Cartwright's Account of Labrador Inuit in England
Comments on four letters containing new information regarding a group of five Inuit who travelled to England from Labrador in the 18th century. The four letters discussed are included.
Perehudoff painting, at Batoche Museum.
Perehudoff Painting at Batoche, Riel w/ Cross
Perehudoff Painting (Man with Red River Cart) at Batoche Museum.
Pererhudoff painting 2, Batoche museum
Permission: A Blood Reserve Sourcebook Drawn from Settler Records
Political Parties -- Progressive Conservative Party -- Policy and Public Relations -- Indians
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and his wife Olive enjoying a Drum dance presented to them at Inuvik, NWT.
Public Meeting, Grand Falls, Nfld.
Public Meeting - Prince Albert, SK
[Record Group 10: Documents Relating to Residential and Day Schools]
Digitized versions of originals (1879-1949) mainly relating to day-to-day running of individual schools across Canada such as building maintenance, general administration, teachers' salaries and residences, and supplies. In some cases admissions and discharges (residential schools), death of pupils (residential schools), applications to teach, inspectors' reports, drugs and medical supplies for treatment of students, and vocational training supplies are also mentioned. Some headquarters files are included. Also included is link to indexes to the Indian Affairs School Files.
Report by Lieut. William F. Butler (69th Regt.) of His Journey from Fort Garry to Rocky Mountain House and Back, During the Winter of 1870-71. to Hon. Adams G. Archibald Lieut. Gov. Manitoba, 10th March, 1871.
Excerpt from The Great Lone Land, originally published in 1873.
"Riel Rebellion Scroll Found in Battleford"
Secret Cabinet Conclusions Index
Table of Aboriginal Handicrafts
“This Spurious Philanthropy”: Indian Policy, Food and Canada’s North-West As Discussed in the Senate of Canada in 1886
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."
"To Christianize and Civilize": Settler Motives and Residential Schools
Compilation of primary sources which represent the settler's perspectives on the schools.