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Farley Mowat fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1966.

Reference:

R4835-0-4-E, MG31-D168

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102247

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Farley Mowat fonds
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Date(s):

1966.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

7.5 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of typed transcripts of tape recordings which Farley Mowat made during his trip across the Canadian North in 1966. He interviewed Inuit, Indians, fur traders and government workers in Ungava Bay, around Hudson Bay, Baffin Island and most other communities along the coast west to the Mackenzie Delta. Several interviews cover the Mackenzie river valley and the Yukon on his trip south. The only major area of Inuit settlement not covered in the interviews is the Labrador coast. The interviews discuss education, the future of the North and the Inuit, Inuit handicrafts, health care, mining, hunting and trapping and archeology such as the Norse ruins in the Payne river region.

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Mowat, Farley, 1921-2014

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Mowat, Farley, 1921-2014

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Mowat, Farley, 1921-2014 : Farley McGill Mowat, author, born in 1921 at Belleville, Ont., the son of Angus Mowat Writer, moved with his family to Saskatoon at age twelve. His service in World War II was recounted in his books And No Birds Sang, 1979, and The Regiment, 1955. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1949. His book, Never Cry Wolf, 1963, reflects his employment with the Dominion Wildlife Service as a biologist. The book was made into a film by the National Film Board in 1981.

His themes concern the North, native peoples, survival in hostile environments and animals. He had published 25 books which include books for adults and children and some 123 articles and short stories by 1980. His books have been translated into 23 languages and have been published in over 40 countries. Some of his titles include, People of the Deer, 1952, Lost in the Barrens, 1956, The Dog Who Wouldn't be, 1957, The Serpents Coil, 1961, Westviking, 1965, Canada North, 1967, The Siberians, 1970, A Whale for the Killing, 1972 and The Snow Walker, 1975. The book The World of Farley Mowat, 1980, contains excerpts from his works and biographical information on his life.

See also: The Canadian Encyclopedia, 1985, and The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, 1983.

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General note:

Transferred in 1984 from the Dominion Archivist's office.
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Arctic regions - Description and travel, 1966 Payne River (Quebec), 1966

Indians of North America - Canada, 1966 Yukon Territory, 1966

Inuit - Canada, 1966 Mackenzie River Valley (N.W.T.), 1966

Mackenzie Delta, 1966

Canada - Officials and employees - Arctic regions, 1966 Hudson Bay, 1966

Education - Canada - Arctic regions, 1966 Baffin Island (N.W.T.), 1966

Inuit - Canada - Industries, 1966 Ungava Bay (Quebec), 1966

Inuit - Canada - Material culture, 1966

Inuit - Canada - Health and hygiene, 1966

Mines and mining - Canada - Arctic regions, 1966

Inuit - Canada - Hunting

Inuit - Canada - Trapping

Archeology - Arctic regions, 1966

Architecture, Norse, 1966

Inuit - Interviews, 1966

Fur traders - Interviews, 1966

Authors, Canadian, 1966

Canada - Officials and employees - Interviews, 1966

Indians of North America - Canada - Interviews, 1966

Fur trade Canada 19th century
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Private

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MG31-D168
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http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000581.pdf

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Volume [MG31 D 168] 1

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