Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Título
Fecha(s)
- 1950-1963 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Fondo
Volumen y soporte
0.31 m of textual records and other material.
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
Canadian medical doctor. Educated at Oxford University, England. Zone Superintendent of several regions, including the Mackenzie, Foothills and Northern Alberta regions, for the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare in the 1950s and 1960s. As Zone Superintendent, he was in charge of five medical surveys of the western Arctic between 1956 and 1960. In 1971 Dr. Davies was Area Director, Vancouver Medical Services of Canada, Department of National Health and Welfare. Died in 1972 or 1973.
Institución archivística
Historia archivística
Donated by Cherry Davies in 1987.
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
Fonds consists chiefly of material relating to medical surveys in the western Canadian Arctic. Includes correspondence and memoranda, 1950-1960; reports of medical surveys, 1956-1960; travel diaries; and hospital reports of Inuit tuberculosis cases. Also includes copies of L.E.C. Davies's The medical history of the Western Arctic Eskimo, 1771-1960 (typescript with mounted black and white photographs); script for a talk on tuberculosis; illustrated report of communities flooded near Hay Lake, 1963; and slides of the Yukon and Northwest Territories.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
No restrictions on access.
Condiciones
Idioma del material
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Text in English.
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descripción
File level inventory available at repository.
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
Existencia y localización de copias
Unidades de descripción relacionadas
Área de notas
Notas
Title based on contents of the fonds.
Notas
Includes ca. 800 colour slides.
Notas
Collection is part of the Arctic Institute of North American rare books collection.