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Orientation Package

Documents relating to CIWA Board of Directors Orientation Package / New Member Kit, CIWA Board of Directors Orientation Package / New Member Kit November 2006, CIWA Projects and Resources pamphlet.

Organization
Series · 1956 - 2001
Part of Amerikan Laulajat fonds

Records relate to Amerikan Laulajat as an organization throughout the years, including minutes of meetings, correspondence, and financial records.

Ordine d’Onore
File · 1993-1994
Part of Dr. Penny Petrone fonds

Donation "thank-you" from 1994-1995 board of Canadian Italian Business & Professional Association of Thunder Bay. Invitation to Dr. H.A. Fennel to a dinner held in honour of Penny Petrone, Alfred A. Petrone, and A. Mario Caccamo, who were receiving the Ontario Regions "Ordine d'Onore," put on by the National Congress of Italian Canadians. Award acceptance speech notes by Penny Petrone. Copy of correspondence from Penny to Silvio DiGregorio regarding the establishment of a Chair of Italian Studies at Lakehead University. Letter informing Penny Petrone she would be receiving "The Order of Merit" in 1994 from the National Congress of Italian Canadians- Ontario Region.

Orchid Survey
File · 1969-2016
Part of Claude Garton Herbarium fonds

Reports and correspondence concerning the Harvais-Barclay Orchid Reserves, checklists of orchids in the Thunder Bay District by Claude Garton (a.k.a. Orchid Location Report), correspondence concerning the Native Orchid Location Survey and copies of the Survey (1970-1974), mainly with Hue N. MacKenzie, information abut other siting of orchids in North America

File · 1976-1994
Part of Claude Garton Herbarium fonds

Multiple maps of lakes in the Thunder Bay area (mainly Shale Lake and Dorian Lake), Information Package on the Highway 11/17 planning for the four-lane highway (1994), correspondence between Erika North and Dr. Paul Barclay with various people concerning the four-lane highway plan and the study/protection of the orchid reserves, including Richard Alway (Chairman, The Ontario Heritage Foundation), directions for how to get to Shale Lake (1989), the article “Effects of Disturbance by Visitors on Two Woodland Orchid Species in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA” by Susan Power Bratton

Orality in Literacy
File · 1994-1995
Part of Dr. Penny Petrone fonds

This file includes two articles including Renate Eigenbrod's article titled "The Oral in the Written: A Literature Between Two Cultures" from The Canadian Journal of Native Studies (1995) reviewing the differences between orality and literacy, noting that the latter is an extension of the former and suggesting that much contemporary Indigenous literature includes characteristics of oral narratives. This file also includes Peter Dickinson's article titled "'Orality in Literact': Listening to Indigenous Writing" from The Canadian Journal of Native Studies (1994) describing one of the characteristics of Indigenous writing around the world may be the use of oral features as deliberate techniques in literary production.

Oral Tradition, Plains

This file contains a series of photocopied chapters and excerpts on Indigenous Oral Tradition from the various sources including books like Saskatchewan And Its People and History of the Province of Saskatchewan. This file also contains a short account of a battle that occurred between three wounded Cree and approximately thirty RCMP. Additionally, this file contains a series of handwritten notes on lined paper written by Penny Petrone on the "Last Stand" alongside a photocopy of the story, written by William Francis Butler.

The files contains a series of photocopies of traditional stories from Indigenous groups in the Pacific Northwestern region, including "The Origin of Light and Fire," "The Original High-hat Story, or how the Chief's Tall Hat Saved His People from the Flood," "The First Beaver," "The Story of Black Cloud," "How People First Came to Cowichan," and "The Origin of the Cohoe Salmon, a Frazer River Legend of the Yale Tribes" among others. Also includes a booklet containing stories about the origin of deer and the moon. Many of these stories were photocopied from the Archives of British Columbia.

Oral Tradition, Misc.
File · 1979-1987
Part of Dr. Penny Petrone fonds

This file contains a series of handwritten notes by Penny Petrone which include definitions of terms and resources on the Traditional Stories of different Indigenous peoples. Also contains several booklets which discuss broader themes and motifs across the Oral Traditions of different Indigenous peoples. Also contains several photocopied newspaper articles from The Globe and Mail alongside a selected anthology of the Traditional Stories of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Includes the story "How the Indians Obtained Dogs."

Oral Tradition, Loucheux

This file contains a photocopy of a book titled "Journal of American Folk-Lore" chapter titled "Loucheux Myths," pages 249-257, collected by geologist Charles Camsell and prepared for publication by C.M. Barbeau. Charles Camsell's informant Peter Ross, a Loucheux living at Fort MacPherson, spent many hours telling Loucheux Traditional Stories to Charles Camsell, who the next day, wrote down the stories from memory found in this chapter. The stories included are "The Origin of the World," "The Deluge," The Beaver's Tail," "The Culture-Hero," "Tetogolee," "The Crow's Trick," "The Trickster," "The Grizzly Bear and the Crow," "The Crow's Home," The Man in the Moon," Wolverine and the Man," Why the Bears have Short Tails," and "The Old Man, the Bear and the Ermine."

Oral Tradition, Dene

This file contains a typewritten version and a photocopied document by Rev. Father A.G. Morice on Dene Traditional Stories such as the Origin of Light and the Origin of Fire.

This file contains an article by Catharine McClellan about "The Girl who Married a Bear", a story of the Tlingit- and Dene-speaking Indigenous people of southern Yukon Territory. This file also contains an excerpt from an unknown source that describes one of the most popular stories of the southern Yukon Indigenous population, the Inland Tlingit, Tagish, and Southern Tutchone. The appendix includes many versions of the story, each with a brief introductory description of the narrator and the circumstances under which the story was told.

Oral Tradition

This file contains several articles about Indigenous classification of Oral Traditions, the chain of transmission, events, and ownership and right to those stories. Also includes documents which describe the dependability of Oral Tradition and the importance of Oral Tradition as a part of living culture.