Joseph Vincent Jacobson and family fonds [multiple media]

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Joseph Vincent Jacobson and family fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1938-1983.

Reference:

R4922-0-3-E, MG31-D153

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Sound recordings, Objects (including medals and pins), Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103974

Context of this record:

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Joseph Vincent Jacobson and family fonds
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Fonds includes:

61 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1938-1983.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

70 cm of textual records.
1,370 photographs chiefly col.
4 buttons bronze.
1 atlas.
10 audio reels.
4 audio discs.
1 film reel (4 min, 13 s).

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of textual records related to Joseph Vincent Jacobson's career as an educator and to Natalie Jacobson, née Rattai, with files on Northern education, Language School Centennial Towers, personnel training courses, and personal papers of Joseph Jacobson, and a copy of Looking back: Lydia (Buckholts) Rattai, by Natalie Jacobson.

Fonds also contains 1,370 photographic positives and negatives, ca. 1950-1973, related to education and training in the Indian and Inuit schools of northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland; views of Mount Edgecombe; a picture of Mr. and Mrs. J.V. Jacobson with Governor-General and Mrs. Roland Michener. photographs by UPI, Studio Marcel and Yellowknife Photo Studio.

Fonds also contains sound recordings of French and German language lessons; English writing lessons; Yellowknife Curriculum Broadcast; German language course manuals.

Also included is a film of Northwest Territories Summer School for Teachers, 1953.

Fonds also contains four buttons emblazoned with the crest of the Northwest Territories, taken from the jacket worn by John Vincent Jacobson as Superintendant of Education in the Northwest Territories from 1951 to 1960. A Macmillan school atlas by Ronald C. Daly is also included.

Provenance:

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Jacobson, Joseph Vincent, (1913-1983) family

Biography/Administrative history:

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Jacobson, Joseph Vincent, (1913-1983) family : Joseph Jacobson (1913-1983), born in Iowa, immigrated to Alberta with his parents while still a child. He attended the universities of Alberta and Syracuse graduating with the degree of Master of Education. He taught for 20 years in Alberta as a teacher, principal and assistant superintendant. He was appointed Superintendent of Education in the Northwest Territories in 1951 and served in the post until 1960. He had previous experience in the North during World War II while working on the Canol Project. During his term of office as Superientendent he travelled over Northern Canada inspecting schools. He also visited schools in Greenland and Alaska to study their systems as 80% of his students were Inuit or Indian. During the summer he operated a summer school for teachers in Yellowknife. In 1960 he was appointed Personnel Research Officer in the Department of Indian and Northern affairs. From 1963 to 1967 he was Principal of the Department's Language school where he helped to establish methods of language training for adults. He has written 3 books on such topics as teaching in the North and on adult education, including The Eskimo: a unit for elementary grades, ca. 1961, Adapting the school curriculum to the community, 1962, and Community Schools: Northern style, 1960. Natalie Rattai (b. 1922) married Mr. Jacobson in 1940. Her family emigrated from the Ukraine to Mannville Alberta in 1910. She wrote a family history entitled "Looking Back" which concerns her family's life as pioneers in Alberta. In 1966 she was awarded a C.K.P.M. Citizen of the Week award by the Mayor of Ottawa for her help to foreign students in Ottawa.

Finding aid:

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Textual records: (Paper) The finding aid is a descriptive file list. MSS1496

Buttons: (Paper) Medal inventory cards: 12073, 12074, 12075, 12076.

Buttons: (Electronic) Item level descriptions online.

Moving images: (Electronic) See MISACS for item level descriptions.

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General Note:

Received in 1983 from Mrs. J.V. Jacobson of Ottawa, Ont.

Associated material note:

Publications on education in the Canadian North, the Philipines, etc.; language education, personnel manuals, etc.; courses in how to answer a phone, write a letter, etc. were transferred to Government Documents.
Subject heading:

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Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc., - Yukon Territory, [1951-1973] Summer School for Northern Teachers (Yelowknife, N.W.T.), 1951-1973

Education - Yukon Territory, [1951-1973] Canada. Dept. of Indian and Northern Affairs, 1964-1966

Education - Northwest Territories, [1951-1973] Dealing with People, 1969-1970

Indians of North America - Northwest Territories - Schools, 1951-1973 Meeting the Public by Telephone, 1969-1970

Indians of North America - Northwest Territories - Education, 1951-1973 University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alta.), [1938-1968]

Indians of North America - Yukon Territory - School, 1951-1973 Ottawa (Ont.), [1938-1968]

Indians of North America - Yukon Territory - Education, 1951-1973 Looking Back: Lydia (Buckholts) Raltai, 1983

Inuit - Yukon Terrritory - Schools, 1951-1973 Kiev (Ukraine), n.d

Inuit - Yukon Territory - Education, 1951-1973 Ukraine, n.d

Inuit - Northwest Territoties - Schools, 1951-1973

Inuit - Northwest Territories - Education, 1951-1973

Teachers - Canada, 1938-1983

Educators - Canada, 1938-1983

Manville (Alta.) - Farms, n.d

Manville (Alta.) - Farmers, n.d

Jacobson family, 1938-1983

Raltai, Natalie - Manuscripts, 1983

Baptismal records - Ukraine, n.d

Lutheran Church - Ukraine, n.d

Teachers - Training of - Northwest Territories, [1951-1973]
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1983-12-06)
1983-058 MED
1983-225 NPC
1984-0003 MISA
MG31-D153

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-D153

Other accession no.:

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84502/574 CA
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Conditions of access:

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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG31 D 153] 1--4

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1496] 117

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.
Sound recordings and moving images: reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the copyright holder.
Buttons: No restrictions. Copyright is unknown. Credit: National Archives of Canada.

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Joseph Vincent Jacobson and family fonds [multiple media]

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