Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1950-1963 (Production)
Niveau de description
fonds
Étendue matérielle et support
0.31 m of textual records and other material.
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
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.
Histoire archivistique
Donated by Cherry Davies in 1987.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
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.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
No restrictions on access.
Conditions de reproduction
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Text in English.
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
File level inventory available at repository.
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Unités de description associées
Zone des notes
Note
Title based on contents of the fonds.
Note
Includes ca. 800 colour slides.
Note
Collection is part of the Arctic Institute of North American rare books collection.