Fonds fonds 216 - R.G. Williamson fonds

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R.G. Williamson fonds

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SCNUSA fonds 216

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  • [ca. 1929]-2000, predominant 1956-1999 (Creation)

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Physical description

21.18 m of textual records
493 photographs

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Custodial history

Scope and content

This fonds contains material created or collected by Dr. Williamson during his varied career as an anthropologist, civil servant, legislator, professor, and as a consultant for various provincial, national and international organizations and governments. Although primarily documenting Dr. Williamson's work for and with the Inuit of northern Canada, this fonds includes material relating to all circumpolar countries, other aboriginal groups in Canada, international affairs, and a very broad range of topics as they relate to the north, including art and culture, physical geography, sport, environment, botany, zoology, economics, defence, etc. It includes his personal and professional correspondence, research data, articles and scholarly writing, as well as a substantial collection of reference publications.

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Dr. Williamson utilized several different filing systems over the course of his career. These included an alpha-numeric as well as a strictly numeric system; but the majority of his files had subject/nominal titles. Pressures of moving, both from various offices and between cities, meant as well that a portion of the records were unfiled and unsorted. As some duplication between the alpha-numeric and subject-nominal files was found, this material was interfiled and put in alphabetical order; the alpha-numeric designations remain listed on the finding aid. Unfiled material was organized using existing file titles wherever possible. Those subject areas containing extensive records - ARTC, INS, NWT Council, etc. - have been separated as specific series; in other instances qualifiers have been added to the titles to assist in keeping similar material together. The majority of publications and photographs have been put together as individual series, unless they were found within existing, titled files. The numeric system was not altered. Cross-references are made within the finding aid, but researchers should be aware that there is considerable interrelated material between both individual files and various series.

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Material in English, French, Inuktitut, and Swedish.

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Restrictions on access

Personal information relating to identifiable individuals is restricted under conditions similar to those in the Local Authority Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Please consult with the archivist. Some personal family correspondence has been closed for a period of 50 years (until 2050). All restricted or closed files have been so designated in the finding aid.

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Finding aids

Finding aid available: file level with descriptions.

Associated materials

Related material: RG 2100, Institute for Northern Studies Records; RG 2068, Centre for Community Studies Records; MG 146, Walter Kupsch fonds; MG 172, Hans Dommasch fonds; MG 92, A.R. Byers fonds; MG 164, C.S. Houston fonds; MG 175, F. Walker Collection; MG 240, Robert Bone fonds. Material relating to BW Currie and Frank Davies' work on aurora can be found in the records of the Department of Physics (RG 2043) and in MG 102, J.E. Kennedy fonds.

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Further accruals are expected.

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legacy ID 216

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  • English

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