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Canadian Museum of Civilization
| Website: | www.civilization.ca |
| Address: | 100 Laurier St., PO Box 3100, Station B Hull, Quebec J8X 4H2 |
| Telephone: | +1-819-776-7173 |
| Fax: | +1-819-776-8491 |
| Year of foundation: | 1910 [previously Anthropological Division of the Geological Survey of Canada (1910-27); National Museum of Canada (1927-67); then National Museum of Man (1967-86)] |
| Collections: | The museum contains displays relating to the archaeology, ethnography, history and native peoples of Canada, including much northern material. Artefacts include material collected by numerous expeditions including those of Jenness (1913-18) and Dutilly. The Archaeological Survey of Canada and the Canadian Ethnology Service are based here. Library |
| Publications: | <em>Mercury Series</em> |
Canadian Museum of Nature
| Website: | www.nature.ca |
| Address: | Victoria Memorial Museum Bldg., 240 McLeod St., Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4 |
| E-mail: | enquiries@mus-nature.ca |
| Telephone: | +1-800-263-4433 |
| Fax: | +1-613-566-4763 |
| Year of foundation: | 1842 |
| Collections: | Extensive Arctic collections with excellent dioramas of Arctic and sub-Arctic species. Arctic aquarium. Arctic Odyssey - looking at the Arctic through the eyes of Aboriginal peoples and scientists. The Polar Studies Group carries out detailed, long-term studies on Arctic animals, especially on the behavioural adaptations that allow them to survive in High Arctic environments. Library. |
Canadian Ski Museum / Le Musée canadien du ski
| Website: | www.skimuseum.ca |
| Address: | Canadian Ski Hall of Fame / Le Temple de la renommée du ski canadien 1960 rue Scott St Suite 301 Ottawa, ON K1Z 8L8 |
| E-mail: | info@skimuseum.ca |
| Telephone: | (613)722-3584 |
| Fax: | (613)722-2914 |
| Year of foundation: | 1971 |
| Collections: | Artefacts and records relating to the history of skiing in Canada. |
Dawson City Museum and Historical Society
| Address: | Old Territorial Administration Building, 5th Av. and Mission St., PO Box 303, Dawson City, Yukon Y0B 1G0 |
| E-mail: | can-dcm@immedia.ca |
| Telephone: | +1-867-993-5291 |
| Fax: | +1-867-993-5839 |
| Year of foundation: | 1974 |
| Collections: | Local history. Many exhibits relate to the Klondike Gold Rush for which there is a large photographic archive. Good collection of Beringian fossils. |
Eskimo Museum
| Address: | PO Box 10, Churchill, Manitoba R0B 0E0 |
| Telephone: | +1-204-675-2030 |
| Fax: | +1-204-675-2140 |
| Year of foundation: | 1944 |
| Collections: | Sponsored by the Diocese of Churchill-Hudson Bay and containing many artefacts obtained by members of the Order of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI). Excellent holdings of Inuit art and material culture for the pre-Dorset, Thule and Inuit cultures, also wildlife specimens |
| Publications: | <em>Carved from the land: the Eskimo museum collection</em> (Brandson, 1994) |
Glenbow-Alberta Institute
| Website: | www.glenbow.org |
| Address: | 130-9th Av. S.E., Calgary, Alberta T2G 0P3 |
| Telephone: | +1-403-268-4100 |
| Fax: | +1-403-265-9769 |
| Year of foundation: | Established in 1955 as the Glenbow Foundation, adopting present title in 1966 |
| Collections: | Extensive ethnology collections (ca. 1500 artefacts) of Canadian Inuit groups, Alaska Aleut and Eskimo, Greenlandic and Saami peoples. About 170 artefacts are on display in the Inuit Gallery. The art collection includes prints and soapstone sculptures, primarily from the late 1950s to early 1960s. The Library contains a sizeable Arctic collection including historic works, of which about 2000 formerly belonged to Vilhjalmur Stefansson. The Archives has an extensive photographic collection including the Lomen Collection (3,000 items) and Revillon Freres (200 items), as well as several small collections dealing with mounted police, missionaries, medical personnel, and oilmen in the North. For catalogue of holdings, see www.glenbow.org/lasearch/basic.htm |
| Publications: | <em>Archives Series</em>; <em>Catalogue of the Glenbow Historical Library</em> (1973); <em>Glenbow</em> (1980-, 4pa); <em>Lomen Brothers' photographic collection: Nome, Alaska, 1900-1935</em> (1968); <em>Occasional Papers</em> (1966-); exhibition catalogues. |
Hawthorne Cottage National Historic Site
| Website: | www.parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/nl/hawthorne/index_e.asp |
| Address: | Brigus, Newfoundland |
| Collections: | Home of Captain Robert Abram Bartlett (1875-1946). |
Itsarniiakarvik [Inuit Heritage Centre]
| [Inuit Heritage Centre] | |
| Address: | c/o Baker Lake Hamlet Office, PO Box 149, Baker Lake, NU X0A 0A0 |
| Telephone: | +1-867-793-2598 |
| Fax: | +1-867-793-2509 |
| Year of foundation: | 1998 |
MacBride Museum
| Address: | 1st Av. and Wood St., PO Box 4037, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 3S9 |
| E-mail: | can-mbm@immedia.ca |
| Telephone: | +1-867-667-2709 |
| Fax: | +1-867-633-6607 |
| Year of foundation: | 1951 |
| Collections: | Natural and cultural history of Yukon, including exhibits relating to the Klondike Gold Rush. |
Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature
| Website: | www.manitobamuseum.mb.ca |
| Address: | Centennial Centre, 555 Main St., 190 Rupert Av., Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 0N2 |
| Telephone: | +1-204-956-2830 |
| Fax: | +1-204-942-3679 |
| Year of foundation: | 1970 |
| Collections: | The entire Hudson's Bay Company collection of over 6,000 artefacts, collected over 324 years, most relating to aboriginal cultures and the fur trade, and many of northern interest, was presented to this museum in 1994. |
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
| Website: | www.museum.gov.ns.ca/mma |
| Address: | 1675 Lower Water St., Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1SJ |
| Telephone: | +1-902-429-8210 |
| Fax: | +1-902-424-0612 |
| Year of foundation: | 1982 |
| Collections: | Includes material relating to the history of exploration, sealing and whaling in the Canadian eastern Arctic. |
Museum of Anthropology
| Website: | www.ubc.ca |
| Address: | University of British Columbia, 6393 Northwest Marine Dr., Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z2 |
| Telephone: | +1-604-822-5087 |
| Fax: | +1-604-822-2974 |
| Collections: | Good holdings for the Inuit and northern Athapaskans. Excellent collections and displays for Haida and other Northwest Coast peoples. |
Newfoundland Museum
| Website: | www.nfmuseum.com |
| Address: | 287 Duckworth St. and Beck's Cove, St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 1G9 |
| Telephone: | +1-709-576-2460 |
| Fax: | +1-709-576-2179 |
| Year of foundation: | 1849 |
| Collections: | Natural and cultural history of Newfoundland, including the history of early settlement, navigation, whaling, cod and seal fishing. Some Inuit artefacts. Exhibit relating to V. Campbell, Second-in-Command and leader of Northern Party on last expedition of Robert Falcon Scott |
| Publications: | <em>Archaeology in Newfoundland & Labrador</em> (1980-, annual) |
Northern Life Museum
| Address: | PO Box 371, 110 King St., Fort Smith, Northwest Territories X0E 0P0 |
| Year of foundation: | 1974 |
| Collections: | Natural and cultural history. Substantial ethnographic collections include many artefacts gathered by the Oblate Brothers and Priests. Non-native northern culture is also well-represented. |
Nunatta Sunagutangit Museum
| Address: | PO Box 605, Iqaluit, Northwest Territories S0A 0H0 |
| Year of foundation: | 1969 [formerly Frobisher Bay Museum] |
| Collections: | Major collection for Baffin Region. Aims to maintain and preserve northern artefacts within the culture to which they relate. |
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
| Website: | http://museum.learnnet.nt.ca |
| Address: | Yellowknife, Northwest Territories X1A 2L9 |
| Telephone: | +1-867-873-7551 |
| Fax: | +1-867-873-0205 |
| Year of foundation: | 1979 |
| Collections: | Houses extensive collections and displays relating to the natural history, native peoples and history of the Northwest Territories, the latter including many artefacts from the British Northwest Passage expeditions, particularly from John Franklin's last expedition (1845-48). Licensing authority for NWT archaeological research. No archaeological research may be carried out in the NWT without an Archaeologist's Permit. Also houses the Northwest Territories Archives and the NWT Geographical Names Programme |
| Publications: | <em>Archaeology Reports</em> (1985-, annual) |
Royal Ontario Museum
| Website: | www.rom.on.ca |
| Address: | 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6 |
| Collections: | Extensive ethnographic collections for Inuit and northern Athapaskans |
| Publications: | <em>Life Scences Contributions</em> |
Vancouver Maritime Museum
| Website: | www.vancouvermaritimemuseum.com |
| Address: | 1905 Ogden Av., Vancouver, British Columbia V6J 1A3 |
| Telephone: | +1-604-737-2211 |
| Fax: | +1-604-737-2621 |
| Year of foundation: | 1958 |
| Collections: | The major exhibit is RCMP <em>St Roch</em>, the Arctic patrol vessel, the first vessel to circumnavigate the North American continent, the second to transit the Northwest Passage and the first to make this transit twice. In addition to the <em>St. Roch</em>, the Museum also holds the Inuit collections of Henry Larsen, captain of <em>St. Roch</em>, as well as the Inuit collection of the late Senator Arthur Laing, Minister of Northern Affairs. The W.B. and M.H. Chung Library holds more than 2,000 Arctic images taken by the crew of RCMP <em>St. Roch</em> between 1928-48, as well as the substantial Arctic library of Henry Larsen. The Library catalogue is available on-line through the web. The Museum's collections also contain material from the British exploration of the Arctic and collected by the crew of <em>St. Roch</em> |
| Publications: | <em>Signals</em> (1992-, 4pa) |
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies (WMCR)
| Website: | www.whyte.org |
| Address: | 111 Bear St., PO Box 160, Banff, Alberta T0L 0C0 |
| E-mail: | swanson@borwest.awinc.com |
| Telephone: | +1-403-762-2291 |
| Fax: | +1-403-762-8919 |
| Year of foundation: | 1958 |
| Collections: | Includes a substantial art gallery, heritage collection and archives in addition to maintaining the library of the Alpine Club of Canada |
| Publications: | <em>Cairn</em>; <em>Guide to manuscripts: the fonds and collections of the Archives</em> (1989); <em>Guide to photographs: the fonds and collections of the Archives</em> (Hadley, 1990); <em>Inventory of the Alpine Club of Canada Collection</em> (1986) |
Winnipeg Art Gallery
| Website: | www.wag.mb.ca |
| Address: | 300 Memorial Blvd., Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 1V1 |
| Telephone: | +1-204-786-6641 |
| Fax: | +1-204-788-4998 |
| Year of foundation: | 1912 |
| Collections: | 10,000 Inuit artworks - sculpture, drawings, prints and textiles - collected since 1949, including the collection of Hudson's Bay Company. Holds frequent catalogued exhibitions organized by the Curator of Inuit Art |
| Publications: | <em>Tableau</em> (6pa); exhibition catalogues |