Series - Reference Materials

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Reference Materials

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  • 1899 - 1983 (Creation)

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75cm textual records and other materials.

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Materials described here consist of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photocopies of journal articles, catalogues and exhibition flyers, newsletters, periodicals and other reference material pertaining to Canada’s north and collected by George Swinton in the course of conducting research for his books and for his collecting activities. A large amount of materials consist of clippings from newspapers and magazines which deal with topics covering all aspects of Inuit life and culture. Many items have been acquired from a clipping service and most are attributed. Occasionally items of correspondence, notes, and other records pertaining to George Swinton’s curating and collecting activities may also be found here. Items primarily date from the 1960s and 1970s but some items described here are photocopies of significantly older materials.

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An attempt has been made to preserve the arrangement of folders and their contents largely as found. However, many items were found loose and for these items order has been imposed by the arranging archivist(s).

Copies of “Recommendations for Proposed Changes in the Regulations for the Protection and Care of Archaeological Sites in the NWT” and “The US Embargo on Whale Bone Carvings and the Protection of Prehistoric Inuit Archaeological Sites”, of which George Swinton was the joint author have been re-housed as part of the series “Ethnology and Archaeology” elsewhere in this fonds.

The catalogue for “Eskimo Drawings Cape Dorset”, 1970, Isaacs Gallery, Toronto has been re-housed with the George Swinton Library of secondary materials.

A request for a reference for former student Gordon Morrison has been discarded.

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