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Northern Administration and Lands Branch [textual record, cartographic material, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Series

Date:

1892-1986

Reference:

R216-117-X-E, RG85M 934022, RG85-D

Former BAN no.:

114-000008-X, 114-000007-1, 116-000082-8

Type of material:

Textual material, Maps and cartographic material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

135010

Context of this record:

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Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development fonds

Northern Affairs Program sous-fonds

Northern Administration and Lands Branch
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Record information – Details
Series includes:

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

1892-1986

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

218.76 m of textual records
12060 index cards
7201 maps
ca. 54 photographs

Language of material:

English
Accession:

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NORTHERN ADMINISTRATION BRANCH - MINERAL CLAIMS [textual record]

Administrative and operational records of Northern Affairs Program [textual record]

Central registry files of Northern Administration and Lands Branch [textual record]

Central registry files of Northern Administration and Lands Branch [textual record]
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Series consists of records created and maintained by the Northern Administration and Lands Branch. The series includes records from the Northern Administration Branch, the Lands Division, the Office of the Administrator of the Arctic, the Resources Division, the Northern Coordination and Research Centre.

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Canada. Northern Administration and Lands Branch

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Canada. Northern Administration and Lands Branch : The Northern Administration and Lands Branch was established in 1951 as the main federal agency for the extensive northern development that was to occur in the 1950s and 1960s. Far more than had been the case with its predecessor agencies, the Mining Lands and Yukon Branch, the Mining Lands Branch and the Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch, the Northern Administration and Lands Branch was actively involved in many aspects of northern development. The Northern Administration and Lands Branch, under its new Director, G.E.B. Sinclair, again combined all northern administrative functions in its two divisions: Lands and North Administration. Regional offices of the Northern Administration and Lands Branch were maintained at Fort Smith, Hay River, Yellowknife, and Aklavik in the Northwest Territories and at Whitehorse, Dawson and Mayo in the Yukon. There were also subagencies at other northern locations. The Branch also supervised the work of numerous other federal departments in the North: Health and Welfare, Transport, Mines and Technical Surveys, Fisheries, RCMP, Agriculture, and so forth.

To aid in carrying out the wider scope of the federal government's northern functions in the post-war era, the Northern Administration and Lands Branch discarded the old, straight-numerical filing system begun in 1922 by the Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch and substituted a duplex-numeric system of files based on subject blocks or subject categories. This survived until the late 1960s. RG85 General Inventory

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Cartographic material (Electronic) Finding aids are available. See lower level descriptions or consult ArchiviaNet. Paper finding aids are available in the main reference room. (96: Restrictions vary)

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Source of title:

Title is based on the contents of the series.

Accruals:

Further accruals are expected.

Source:

Government

Related control no.:

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120-000026-9
1980-81/046 GAD
1992-93/026 GAD
1998-01715-X
2000/015
2003-00208-1
2003-02300-3
204576
78/032
RG85
RG85-A-1-a

Former archival reference no.:

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RG85M 934022
RG85-D
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