The fonds relates to the Alaska Highway pipeline project proposed by Foothills Pipe Lines in the 1970s, Dome Petroleum's proposed Beaufort Sea oil development project, and environmental issues and advocacy work. The fonds includes sound recordings of public meetings and panel discussions on potential impacts of an Alaska Highway gas pipeline, the construction of a hydropower facility in the Yukon river system, impacts of the Dempster Highway, and public advocacy. It also includes textual records concerning pipeline and the Beaufort Sea oil development project. The fonds is described in two series: textual records and sound recordings.
The fonds consists of the administrative and race records of the Yukon Dog Mushers Association. There are four series: Correspondence; Minutes and By-laws; Financial Records; and Race Records.
The fonds consists of Yukon Electrical Company Ltd. and the Yukon Hydro Company Ltd. records. The records provide information on a range of the companies' operations. Documents from 1901 to 1949 concern the incorporation of Yukon Electrical and the company's startup. The Articles of Incorporation (1949) and the Certificate of Incorporation of Yukon Hydro (1950) are also included. The remaining records illustrate the expansion of the YECL, particularly between the 1930s and 1960s, from a small operation providing relatively few customers in Whitehorse with electricity to a company seeking other sources of power to supply increased demand. They document some of the business conducted by the Yukon Electrical Co. beginning in 1930 and that of the Yukon Hydro Co. beginning in 1950. The financial records in particular reflect the growth of and changes to the companies. For certain years, the YECL and Yukon Hydro records show: residential and business customers; electrical rates and consumption; how the companies accounted for their spending and revenues; their assets, reserves and liabilities; and suppliers, equipment, and personnel information. Additional information is found in the correspondence, which consists mostly of brief letters and memos between supply companies and YECL referring to ordering and paying for equipment. However, some correspondence gives details about the company and individuals working for it (e.g. about W.L. Phelps in his capacity as a lawyer), about relations between the company and its customers, and about the role of the company in Whitehorse. The operations and financial records created after 1958 illustrate how some of the company's operations changed after being bought by Canadian Utilities. The fonds includes: records documenting the incorporation of YECL and other legal papers; corporate membership certificates; financial records such as ledgers, journals and vouchers; correspondence primarily between the YECL/Yukon Hydro with other businesses; detailed information about the generating power of the hydro and diesel plants; submissions from a wide range of interest groups, including YECL, to a National Energy Board inquiry on electrical rates in the 1980s; and aerial photographs in the Whitehorse area. The fonds is arranged in six series: Corporate Records, Accounting and Financial Records, Correspondence, Operations Records, National Energy Board Submissions, and Aerial Photographs.
This fonds consists of records of the Yukon Fish and Game Association from 1945 to 1970, and includes sound recordings of interviews conducted by the Association in November 1950 with Patsy Henderson about George Carmack's discovery of gold and its impact on native culture; and with Isaac Taylor and William Drury about early trade. The tape cassette is an interview with Grant Lortie, a conservation officer, discussing the Yukon Territorial Government Game Branch and Yukon wildlife, particularly grizzly bears. The interview was conducted by Bill Oppen in March 1978 for the Yukon Archives.
This fonds consists of the records of the Yukon Guild of Needlearts (YGN), dating from 1982 to 2003, including certificate of incorporation, constitution, minutes, membership files, project files, financial records and patterns. It includes a cross-stitch kit developed by Guild members in 1997-1998 entitled "Memories of Klondike Gold" which commemorates the anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush. One hundred kits were prepared for sale at $29.95 per kit. The background material used to develop the kit is also included.
The fonds consists of Yukon Historical and Museums Association (YHMA) textual records, photographs, sound recordings, maps and posters. Some of the early activities of the association, including the formulation of its first constitution, are recorded on sound recordings, in correspondence, minutes of meetings, financial records, bylaws, presidents' reports and project files, and in a written document on the early history of the association. The fonds also includes over 1,200 photographs, including prints, slides and negatives. These images depict: events such as the Annual Yukon Heritage Conferences; historic buildings in Whitehorse and Carcross; and views of the U.S. Army barracks in Whitehorse between 1942 and 1945. Also in this fonds are two documents: a report discussing the Whitehorse walking tour and documentation of historic structures, and the final report of the Yukon Lifestyles Project entitled "Documentation of Historic Buildings in Carcross, Yukon" (1980). The fonds also consists of a microfiche copy of the proceedings of the Borderlands Conference, 1989. The sound recordings contain the proceedings of three annual heritage conferences (1978, 1979 and 1980), and the founding convention of the YHMA in 1977. There are also 4 posters (including two announcing a YHMA conference) and an original drawing. The fonds is arranged in six series: Corporate records; Photographs; Meetings and conferences; Projects; Maps; and Posters and originals.
The fonds consists of the administrative and operational records of the Yukon Hostelling Association, 1972-1973. Included are reports, correspondence, financial records including payroll, personnel records and Daily Registration forms.
The fonds consists of some corporate records of the Yukon Indian Cultural Education Society, created 1973-1975, including a budget proposal, list of Board of Directors and appendices for the budget proposal. There are sound recordings of Tommy McGinty telling native stories and legends, recorded by John Ritter at Pelly Crossing, ca. 1960-1988. Also included are 4 home movies transferred to video tape. The movies, possibly filmed by Clara Schinkel, depict "Indian Days" in Tagish in 1979.
This fonds contains material generated by the Yukon International Storytelling Festival. The fonds is mainly sound recordings of the numerous storytellers and musicians who have performed at the festival since 1988. Performers are from countries throughout the world and stories are in many languages, including aboriginal languages. Other material includes posters and some program notes.
