Accession consists of records created and/or maintained by the Yukon District Office of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
The accession includes but is not limited to records relating to: organization and administration, including the Indian Act, and ethnological, anthropological and historical research; band management, including elections, separations, minutes of council, band council resolutions, and complaints and petitions; Indian Agents' residences; buildings and projects, including community halls, sawmills, food freezing units, craft centres, and community washhouses; engineering services, including water supply services, flood and water control, government contracts and specifications, electrical power services, roads, wharves, radio stations and telephone communications, water licenses, sewage disposal systems, and physical planning of communities; welfare equipment and supplies, including hunting, fishing and trapping equipment, and fire fighting equipment; triennial clothing; finances, including audits, estimates for capital planning program, and special investigations; health services, including sanitation and hospital accounts; traffic control regulations; economic development, including socio-economic studies, specific projects, revolving fund loans, Indian Economic Development Fund, and band economic development committees; natural resources, including fishing, hunting, mining petroleum, timber, trap lines, tourist outfitting and guiding, wildlife, and energy consumption and conservation; placement of Indian labour, including employment on special project, Band Work Program, and Community Employment Program; reports and returns, including public census, reports on housing, band membership returns, and program evaluations; Indian associations such as the Yukon Native Brotherhood; Indian education, including education policy, group homes, and band training; transport, including band owned vehicles and transportation of school children; trust funds, including annuities, budgets and authorities, band property insurance, Winter Works Incentive Program (LIP), management of band funds under section 69 of the Indian Act, and band audits; welfare of Indians, including housing, off reserve housing, funerals, community development, family allowances, rent assistance, and the Work Opportunity Program; Tourism and Recreational Facilities sub- Committee; rights of way for logging and milling, telephone lines and foreshore rights; leasing; individual land holdings; sale of land; land matters, including land use permits, maps and plans, agency land, school land, cemetery sites, range and pasture land, band buildings sites, Inuit administration; Veterans' Land Act; property damage and protection, including fire protection, fire loss and forest and prairie fires; statistics, including census, vital statistics, and annual statistical reports; policy research and evaluation, including implementation of Indian policy, meeting of band chiefs, meetings of associations and band members, meetings of association and Department, parliamentary committee, special projects, and pipeline committee; research into Indian rights and treaties, including Indians of Quebec association, Union of Ontario Indians, Federation of Saskatchewan Indians, Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, land claims, and the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories; and management information systems.
The accession also includes records relating to capital projects including, but not limited to, wells, water and sanitation systems, housing, roads, band administration and community buildings; washhouses; group homes, sawmills, schools, electrical systems, vehicles, fishing and wildlife, fire protection, bridges, relocations, and telecommunications equipment.
The accession also includes records relating to pipeline research, adult education (economic development), traditional pursuits, economic development contribution case files, contributions to bands, and other financial records.
The records can be consulted in Vancouver, B.C.
