Accession consists of records created and/or maintained by the Yukon Regional Office of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, and its predecessors. Predecessors include: the Yukon Agency, Stikine Agency, Yukon Student Residence, Coudert Student Residence, and North West Territories.
The accession includes, but is not limited to records relating to: organization and administration, including the Indian Act, treaties, operating staff, residential schools, committees, plans and planning; band management, including elections, minutes of council, and complaints and petitions; school buildings, including staff residence, farm buildings, auditorium and gymnasium, school workshops, survey, and school building requirements; miscellaneous buildings and projects, including council or community hall, and churches; engineering services, including irrigation, electric power services, roads, and wharves; medical equipment and supplies, including drugs, prosthetic appliances, and eye glasses; welfare equipment and supplies, including fishing and hunting equipment, relief food assistance, camping equipment, canoes and boats, household equipment and supplies, fire fighting equipment, and relief fuel; equipment and supplies - farming, construction and industrial machinery, including machinery and wagons; arts and crafts, including woodwork, leathercraft, and clothing manufacture; farming, including fairs, gardens, livestock, band farms, and insect and parasite control; finances, including audit reports, capital management, and claims against the Crown; health services; law enforcement, including accidents, drownings, manslaughter, assault, burglary and theft, intoxicants, drugs, indebtedness, trespassing on reserves, trading on reserves, immorality, child maintenance, remission of sentence, taxation, registration of firearms, truancy, divorce, separation and annulment, juvenile delinquency, and employment of counsel; economic development, including resettlement, unemployment insurance, Indian Economic Development Fund loans and/or guaranteed loans, co-operative enterprises, garden and home improvement competitions, industrial and business development, Indian Economic Development Fund grants and/or contributions, band economic development - committees, and economic development projects; natural resources, including fishing, hunting, mining, oil and gas, timber, commercial recreation development, fur conservation, traplines, fur marketing, fur conservation projects, tourist outfitting and guiding, and wild life; placement of labour, including consultation for employment opportunities, relocation to employment, employment training aids, seasonal and casual employment, employment on special projects, Winter Works, employment - national parks, and employment - mineral oriented; reports and returns, including superintendents' semi-annual reports, counsellors quarterly returns, school inspection reports, principals' monthly reports, inspection reports, reports - social worker, quarterly returns residential schools, annual reports, House of Commons statutory, and employment and relocation reports; social activities, including associations, homemakers' clubs, sports, brass bands, and social leaders - activities; education, including admission and discharge of pupils, residential schools, practical arts, educational assistance, joint schools, student residence, high school education, non-Indian pupils in Indian schools, adult education, pupil guidance, school committees on reserves, kindergarten classes, in-service training of teachers, education research, native cultural educational centre, education and cultural development projects, and mineral training course; transportation, including the destitute; trust funds, including trust account statements, and savings; welfare, including housing, funerals, care of children, aged allowances, needy mother's allowance, family allowances, the blind, children's aid services, care of the handicapped, welfare and education assistance to non-Indian living on reserves, rehabilitation services, Canada Pension Plan, and family support services; surveys and reserves; rights-of-way, including road right-of-way; islands; individual case files, including the mentally incompetent, and prospectors; veterans; statistics, including public assistance; policy research and evaluation, including interdepartmental liaison committee on Indian and Inuit policy, data collection system, and social support project; administration buildings; medical buildings and installations, including departmental hospital, nursing station, nurses' quarters, and health centre; and miscellaneous land matters, including maps and plans, agency land, church sites, and cemetery sites.
The records can be consulted in Vancouver, B.C.
