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Yukon Archives

The Yukon Archives acquires, preserves, and provides access to the Yukon's documentary heritage. Photocopy, map and photograph reproduction services are available.

The Archives can also order reference material for patrons from other institutions through inter-library loan.

If you are unable to visit the Archives in person, reference assistance is available through correspondence. The Archives also offers periodic lecture series, film showings, displays, radio broadcasts, and newspaper articles on selected topics in Yukon history.

What's New

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Bibliographies Now Available Online

Five bibliographies have been added to our finding aids section:

Hydrocarbon Development, A Yukon Perspective (1986 ed.), Hydrocarbon Development, A Yukon Perspective (1988 ed.) and Beaufort Region Bibliography, A Yukon Perspective (1994 ed.) bibliographies provide greater accessibility to the vast amount of published information relating to northern hydrocarbon development.

Our Yukon Land Claims Bibliography lists the many documents held by the Yukon Archives Library associated with the negotiations. It provides a listing of titles produced by Yukon Native Brotherhood, Council for Yukon Indians, Council of Yukon First Nations, and the federal & territorial governments in addition to an inventory of agreements and annual reports.

The Yukon Residential Schools Bibliography lists sources of information available at the Yukon Archives that pertain to Yukon day/residential schools and hostels. The bibliography is a selective listing of archival and published information, with a section committed to photographs.

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Yukon Archives Descriptive Database

The Raup family fonds is a recent addition to the Yukon Archives holdings. Consisting of 779 original nitrate negatives, the fonds has been digitized and the images are now available for viewing on the Yukon Archives Descriptive Database.

Hugh Raup was a well-known American botanist, ecologist and geographer and his wife Lucy was a lichenologist. The photographs were taken by Hugh and his sons David and Karl during field trips the family undertook in Canada's north and Alaska, from 1925 to 1948. The images capture their different modes of travel, camping gear and camp living, communities visited, and people they met and worked with as Hugh and Lucy conducted their studies.

The photographs were donated by David Raup, the youngest son of Hugh and Lucy Raup, who, having travelled with his parents on many of their trips was able to provide additional information to the existing captions.

 

Karl, David, and Lucy Raup and assistant Jim Soper at lunch, N slope of Colonel Mountain - about 4800 ft. - Brintnell Lake, NWT, 28 Jul 1939.
Yukon Archives, Raup family fonds, 2010/12 #357.

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The Legislature Speaks

The Legislature Speaks: Voice Recordings from the Yukon Archives vault 1961-2001 website is a joint project of the Yukon Archives and the Yukon Legislative Assembly. It presents audio clips, biographies and photographs of Yukon Commissioners and members of the Yukon Legislative Assembly (and its predecessor the Yukon Council) from the years 1961 to 2001. The website offers a glimpse into northern governance and is a small example of the archival material held by the Yukon Archives on the Yukon Legislative Assembly.

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Life in Whitehorse -- 1946-1969: Selected photographs from the Rolf and Margaret Hougen Collection at the Yukon Archives

Rolf Hougen first got interested in photography when he was ten years old. Since then he has taken thousands of photos, documenting community events, sports, parades, weddings and daily life. In later years, Rolf and his wife Marg had a darkroom in their home, and he developed, printed and enlarged his own photographs. He took some photographs for commercial clients and sold others in the photo department of the family store. He also had a personal interest in preserving Yukon history.

The successful 3 month run of the Friends of Yukon Archives (FOYAS) sponsored exhibition, Life in Whitehorse, at the Hougen Heritage Gallery in Arts Underground ended on January 28. For those who may have missed it, or wished they had visited it one more time, you are in luck. The exhibit has been installed on the second floor of the Hougen Centre, Whitehorse, for public viewing. The number of photographs exhibited has been expanded to include many more of the other engaging images available in the Rolf and Margaret Hougen Collection.

l-r: Helen Traynor, Rolf Hougen (with his camera), George Milne and a Whitehorse Taxi Service driver in front of a Hudson Bay Mining plane at Whitehorse airport, 1949.
Yukon Archives, Rolf and Margaret Hougen fonds, 2009/81 #85.

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