The accession consists of records created and/or maintained by the Hazelton District Office of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, and its predecessors. Predecessors include: the Gitskan-Carrier District Office, the Terrace District Office, and the Babine District Office and Agency.
The accession includes, but is not limited to records relating to: organization and administration, including administration establishment, regional office establishment, the Indian Act, inquiries, liaison, headquarters establishment, committees, and plans and planning (programs); medical equipment and supplies, including drugs, prosthetic appliances, and eye glasses; welfare equipment and supplies, including relief food assistance; arts and crafts, including woodwork; farming, including fairs; law enforcement, including burglary and theft, intoxicants, dogs, game and fisheries laws, trading on reserves, pool rooms, dance halls, etc, child maintenance, remission of sentence, taxation, R.C.M.P. detachments, impounding of livestock, juvenile delinquency, traffic control regulations, and loans - lending institutions; economic development, including research and surveys, resettlement, unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, Indian Economic Development Fund loans and/or guaranteed loans, co-operative enterprises, industrial and business development, and Indian Economic Development Fund grants and/or contributions; natural resources, including fishing, timber, and fur marketing; placement of labour, including consultation for employment opportunities, relocation to employment, employment training aids, seasonal and casual employment, employment on special projects, and winter works; office and other miscellaneous expenses, including school janitor services; reports and returns, including counsellors quarterly returns, superintendents semi-annual reports, school inspection reports, regional monthly returns, vocational and professional programs, education statistics, social worker reports, and agricultural supervisors reports; social activities, including sports, boy scouts and girl guides, and brass bands; education, including admission and discharge of pupils - residential schools and residential schools for family allowances, educational assistance, adult education, school committees on reserves, kindergarten classes, and continuing education; transportation, including patients, the destitute, school children, warrants, and air transport; trust funds, including winter works incentive program; welfare, including care of children, children's aid services, care of the handicapped, the deaf, welfare and education assistance to non-indigenous living on reserve, rehabilitation services, and Canada Pension Plan; individual case files, including the mentally incompetent; veterans, including Veterans Land Act; cultural affairs; policy research and evaluation, including data collection system; management information systems, including education, education - in-school student nominal roll, and education - post school students; social development - general, including income support - general.
The records can be consulted in Vancouver, B.C.
