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Description found in Archives

Title

Canada. Health and Welfare Canada collection [graphic material]. 

Arrangement structure

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Date(s)

ca. 1900-1977

Place of creation

Canada

Extent

ca 10,060 photographs b&w
ca 450 photos col.
ca 50 negatives: b&w, col.

Scope and content

Activities, personnel, and facilities across Canada of Medical Services Branch, Indian and Northern Health Services; Immigration Medical Services including facilities at Lekhaven, Germany, 1922 and Gdynia, Poland, 1938-1939; Quarantine Services including smallpox, ca. 1906 and leprosy victims, 1921-1927; reports on northern sanitation, hospitals, nursing stations, community health workers, Indian, Eskimo and Inuit patients and their homes. Photographs by National Film Board photographer Richard Harrington, Val D'or Photograph Studio, Norman Studio, Chilliwack B.C., Photogelatine Engraving Co., Toronto., , A.L. Kirkby, in Lac La Ronge, Saskatchewan., John A. Rodriguez, Sept. Îles, P.Q., Ralph Bower, Foto-Hernried, Hans Hammarskiold (Swedish), Swetnam & Grier (Missouri), James V. Sproat, Joe Stone Photographers, Fredericton, N.B., Foto-Strauss-Rutterdam.

Conditions of access

Graphic (photo)
90: Open
Box
from 05130 to 05136
2000944460
90: Open
Graphic (photo)
90: Open
Box
SC 0040
90: Open
Other accession no.
1983-120 NPC
Local class no.
SC0040
05130 to 05136

Terms of use

Nil
Copyright: Photos less than 50 years old: Library and Archives Canada; photographs more than 50 years old (expired).
Graphic (photo): Nil
Graphic (photo): Copyright: Library and Archives Canada

Finding aid

Graphic (photo): Preliminary inventory prepared by Federal Archives

Graphic (photo):Photographic material See "Photographic inventories, indexes, and caption lists arranged by accession number." RS FA-500 99 (Other)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002521.pdf

Creator / Provenance

Canada. Dept of National Health and Welfare. Health Protection Branch. Western - British Columbia Regional Office .

Additional name(s)

Canada. Health and Welfare Canada. Health and Welfare Canada.

Additional information

Physical description note
Graphic (photo): 21, 23, 25, 26b, 31

Custodial history
Previously in the possession of the Department of Health and Welfare Canada, the Medical Services Branch. This branch was formerly part of the program of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, under which most of the photographs were created.

Subject heading

1. Gdynia (Poland)
2. Harrington, Richard.
3. Lekhaven (Germany)
4. Quarantine.
5. Smallpox.
6. Leprosy.
7. Sanitation - Canada, Northern.
8. Nurses and nursing - Canada, Northern.
9. Hospitals - Canada, Northern.
10. Public health - Canada, Northern.
11. Indians - Medical care.
12. Inuit - Medical care.
13. Canada. Medical Services Branch.
14. Canada. Dept. of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
15. Canada. Health and Welfare Canada.

Source

Government

Other system control no.

DAPACC9805

MIKAN no.

13853