Identificatie
referentie code
Titel
Datum(s)
- 1950-1963 (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Archief
Omvang en medium
0.31 m of textual records and other material.
Context
Naam van de archiefvormer
Biografie
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.
archiefbewaarplaats
Geschiedenis van het archief
Donated by Cherry Davies in 1987.
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
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.
Waardering, vernietiging en slectie
Aanvullingen
Ordeningstelsel
Voorwaarden voor toegang en gebruik
Voorwaarden voor raadpleging
No restrictions on access.
Voorwaarden voor reproductie
Taal van het materiaal
Schrift van het materiaal
Taal en schrift aantekeningen
Text in English.
Fysieke eigenschappen en technische eisen
Toegangen
File level inventory available at repository.
Verwante materialen
Bestaan en verblifplaats van originelen
Bestaan en verblijfplaats van kopieën
Related units of description
Aantekeningen
Aantekening
Title based on contents of the fonds.
Aantekening
Includes ca. 800 colour slides.
Aantekening
Collection is part of the Arctic Institute of North American rare books collection.