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Percy Wilkins Arkle fonds [graphic material, textual records, moving images]

Niveau hiérarchique :

Fonds

Date :

1939-1970s.

Référence :

R13770-0-2-E

Genre de documents :

Documents photographiques, Documents textuels, Images en mouvement

Trouvé dans :

Archives / Collections et fonds

No d'identification :

4063201

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Percy Wilkins Arkle fonds
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Date(s) :

1939-1970s.

Lieu de création :

Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador

Étendue :

52 photographs : 45 b&w and 7 col.
43 photographs : 13 col. and 30 b&w negatives.
77 photographs : 77 col. slides ; 35 mm.
363 photographs : b&w nitrate negatives.
2 cm of textual records.
21 film reels : 16mm. (1 h, 37 min, 19 s).
Négatif - Film - N/B - nitrate de cellulose

Langue du document :

anglais

Langue du document additionnelle :

anglais, cree

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The Fonds consists of photographs documenting Dr. Percy Wilkins Arkle's trips as a dentist for the Grenfell mission with the Cree Indians in the James Bay area from approximately 1939 to 1943, preparing for his degree of Bachelor of Science in Dentistry. The locations include Moose Factory, Rupert's House, Factory River, Attawapiskat, Whale River, North West River, Battle Harbour and Hopedale, Labrador. He visited the Nascapi Indians at Davis Inlet, Labrador in 1939 and summer 1943 to conduct Indian dental survey and dentistry activities. The negatives show Indians, children, adults and elderly men and women, General Mission views and portraits of Fathers Rennison and O'Brien, Inuit or Indian dental occlusions, school activities, dog sled, Husky dogs, boiling seal fat, churches (interior and exterior views), canoeing, fishing, Hudson's Bay Co. buildings and activities, summer and winter scenic views of Labrador coast. In addition, some negatives are related to trips to Britain - possibly before the WW II - and British Columbia in the 1970s, some views areas in Southern Ontario in the 1960s or 1970s (?).

The textual material consists of the type script of Dr. Percy W. Arkle's thesis entitled "The Dental Condition and Foods of the Indians of James Bay, Northeastern Canada", 194 pages, submitted to the University of Toronto in 1944. In his thesis for a licence he used photos of the teeth of the Indians. There where 15 black and white and 7 colour photographs used in the thesis. The 7 colour photographs were transferred to the colour material.

The fonds also contains 21 reels of motion picture film of home movies shot by Doctor Percy Wilkins Arkle. The footage consists of travels for his dentistry field work in Northern Labrador and Newfoundland, James Bay region of Northern Ontario - Attawapiskat, Albany Post, Moose Factory, and Fort George in Northern Quebec; and a University of Toronto convocation with General Montgomery and Vincent Massey in attendance.

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Percy Wilkins Arkle, 1904-1996

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Percy Wilkins Arkle, 1904-1996 : Percy Wilkins Arkle was born on October 8, 1904 in Rutherglen, Scotland. He attended the University of Glasgow and received his Doctor of Dental Science degree in 1927. In 1934, he married Isabelle Muir, also of Rutherglen.

From 1939 - 42, he and Isabelle were based at the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador. From the Grenfell Mission, he provided dental services to aboriginals and Innu throughout Labrador. Similarly, Isabelle taught in Newfoundland and Labrador. At the University of Toronto (1942-1951), Percy received his BSc and taught Dental Anatomy. During the summers, he did research for his degree and provided dental treatment to the James Bay / Hudson Bay aboriginals. A son Walter, was born in Toronto in 1946. In Ontario, he was one of the first dentists to realize the value of fluoride in drinking water as a result of observing children's teeth in Brantford. In 1951, the family moved to Nanaimo B.C. Percy was one of the few dentists for preschool children in Canada, and was directly responsible for Central Vancouver Island. Following Isabelle's death in 1954, the B.C. Health Department sent Percy to California where he obtained a MPH degree frrom the University of California at Berkley in 1956. There, he met Marjorie, his second wife. They were married in Qualicum Beach, B.C. in 1957. The wedding was attended by Walter, and Marjorie's son, Ernie - both aged 10.

The family moved from Nanaimo to Tasmania, Australia in January 1960. In Tasmania, Percy was the School Dental Officer for the western part of the island. On his own time, he gave dental care to crew members of Antarctic research vessels, as well as to crews of other ships visiting the west coast. In 1962, the family moved to the state capital, Hobart, where Percy became the Senior dental Officer for Tasmania. There, he designed and supervised the building of a new dental clinic and extension of dental services throughout institutionalized handicapped children. In October, 1968, Percy returned to Ontario, Canada (followed by Marjorie and Ernie 3 months later) where he was the District School Dental Officer for Leeds, Lanark, and Granville counties. The federal government sent Percy and a colleague to the NWT in1972, to establish a dental training school for aboriginal students.

When he was 69, Percy retired for the first time; he and Marjorie moved to Oregon. However, at 72, he returned to practice and serve in the downtown community clinic in Vancouver, B.C. He retired for a second time two years later, moving to Vancouver Island in 1978. Following two small strokes in 1987, he entered a home for elderly. He was later transferred into extended care at Central Park Lodge, where he died peacefully on the 22nd of June, 1996 at the age of 91 years. Percy was a Fellow of both the Canadian and Royal Australian Dental Associations, as well as a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers).

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(Électronique) See MISACS database for 21 item-level descriptions. (90: Ouvert)

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Note générale :

Ernest Maunder was photographer for most of the images. He was John E. Maunder's father.

Note sur la langue :

The 21 reels of home movies are silent.

Vedette-matière :

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Home movies

Source :

Privé

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2002-00781-0
2002-0116 VSA
2010-00401-9
ROG 3242 (1998-03-25)
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Documents iconographiques (photo)

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Volume [R13770] 1--3

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Documents textuels

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Images en mouvement (film)

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Open for consultation

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Moving images: Open for consultation. Reproduction with permission of donor.

Graphic material: Reproduction with permission of copyright owner.

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