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This is a list of archives in Canada. These archives , for the purposes of this list, are entities in Canada that work to acquire, preserve, and make available material as documentary evidence about a person, community, business, government, municipality, etc., for future generations. [ 1 ]
With headquarters in Ottawa, the ACA's mandate is to provide leadership to the archival profession and to increase an understanding and appreciation of Canada's archival heritage. The ACA evolved from the Archives Section of the Canadian Historical Association . [ 1 ]
This is a list of Canadian archives associations, ... National Trust for Canada [31] National Ottawa, ON: Built heritage: Northwest Territories Archives Council [32]
The Public Archives of Canada building in 1923, prior to its 1925 expansion. The institution was housed at 330 Sussex Drive from 1906 to 1967.. The Dominion Archives was founded in 1872 as a division within the Department of Agriculture tasked with acquiring and transcribing documents related to Canadian history.
William Bernard Ready (pronounced Reedy) was born on 16 September 1914 in Cardiff, Wales to James Ready and Nora Hart.He obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wales in 1937, a Master of Arts from the University of Manitoba in 1949 and a Master of Library Science from the University of Western Ontario in 1970, in addition to several diplomas related to archives and library ...
Terry Cook was instrumental in the development of archival theory at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. His scholarship covered archival appraisal, theories of the archive, total archives, postmodernism, community archives, the fonds and series systems of arrangement and description, the contrast between analogue and digital thinking and relations between archivists and ...
An exceptional example of 19th-century cemetery design, containing a concentration of mausolea, monuments, and markers of significant importance to the history of Canada, Ontario and Ottawa; the cemetery was declared the national cemetery of Canada in 2009. It has served as the national military cemetery since 1944 and the RCMP's national ...
He was the first president of the University of the Toronto Homophile Association (1969), was a co-organizer of the first large-scale gay rights demonstration in Canada, We Demand (1972), [6] and became president of Gays of Ottawa the same year, until 1975. [12] His portrait hangs in the National Portrait Collection of The ArQuives.