699 Day Schools
A map of Federal Indian Day Schools in Canada with a corresponding RG-10 file for each location.
A map of Federal Indian Day Schools in Canada with a corresponding RG-10 file for each location.
Arranged under general information, laws and treaties, education, and culture and history.
Historical note:
Transcript of House of Commons (United Kingdom) debate about the conflicts between the Lord Selkirk's colony and the North West company.
An examination of the conflict between Canada's information management regime and Indigenous data sovereignty rights, suggesting the need for Indigenous sovereignty recognition and to treat Indigenous data with the same respect as data received from other nations.
Designed to assist researchers and archivists by cross-referencing field offices to names of bands and the duration of their responsibility.
Investigation into whether there was a Métis presence in the Wood Buffalo region uses descriptive narrative records from the Geological Survey of Canada and the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, census data, surnames of enumerated individuals in Fort Chipewyan, Fort McMurray, Lac La Biche, and North West Halfbreed Scrip applications.
Historical note:
In 1876, the first consolidated Indian Act reflected the Canadian government's preoccupation with land management, First Nations membership and local government, and the ultimate goal of assimilation of Canada's Aboriginal population.Finding aid lists Record Group no., vol., number of microfilm reel, names of individuals requesting land, number of the electronic copy, and dates. Affidavits were made by Métis families living in Manitoba to support their claim to the land set aside for Métis children and heads of families under the Manitoba Act (33 Vic., c. 3). Finding aid lists Record Group no., vol., number of microfilm reel, names of individuals requesting land, number of the electronic copy, and dates.