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Royal Commission on Aboriginal People [textual record]

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Date:

1989-1993.

Reference:

R5497-362-2-E

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3722286

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Gordon Robertson fonds

Post Retirement Career

Royal Commission on Aboriginal People
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Sub-series includes:

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Date(s):

1989-1993.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

0.06 m of textual records

Language of material:

English

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The sub-series consists of documents concerning the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People, in particular regarding the case of the relocation of Inuit from Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay to Ellesmere and Cornwallis Islands in 1953 and 1955. Gordon Robertson was appointed Deputy Minister of the Department of Resources and Development and Commissioner of the Northwest Territories three months after the first relocation in the summer of 1953. The sub-series includes correspondence, transcripts of the testimonies of different people called on by the Royal Commission in 1993, among them the testimony of Gordon Robertson, documentation and press clippings.

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