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Attannuaq, Luke, author

This file contains two handwritten notes referencing the work "Beauty of the Land" by Luke Attannuaq published in the newspaper Keewatin Echo, May 1973 p. 11-12.

Atuat (1894-1976)

This file contains four typewritten documents regarding Takornaq and her daughter Atuat's encounter with Ataguttaaluk: an excerpt from the book Intellectual Culture of the Hudson Bay Eskimos. Reports of the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-1924 by Knud Rasmussen, the article "History of a Case of Cannibalism in Baffin Land" by Guy Mary-Rousseliere from the magazine ESKIMO Vol. 81 (Summer 1969), an interview with Takornaq regarding Ataguttaaluk, and a summary of Petrone's work "Atuat's Grim Tale of Cannibalism" from her book Northern Voices: Inuit Writing in English. There is also a handwritten note indicating that Atuat is the adopted daughter of Takornaq. The name Takornaq is spelled as "Tagornaq" several times in these documents.

Atwood, Margaret
File · 1998-2000
Part of Dr. Penny Petrone fonds

This file contains articles and newspaper clippings about Canadian author Margaret Atwood, including an article for Lakehead University Nor'wester magazine: "Margaret Atwood Speaks to the Class of '98" which features the speech Atwood gave at Lakehead when she was given an honorary degree in 1998, and other visits to Thunder Bay that she has made.

Aua (c. 1870)

This file contains a series of documents regarding an Uglulik shaman named Aua. The documents include two typewritten excerpts from Across Arctic America by Knud Rasmussen, a photocopied excerpt from the same book, a typewritten excerpt from the book Intellectual Culture of the Hudson Bay Eskimos. Reports of the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-1924 by Knud Rasmussen, a photocopied excerpt from the same book, a typewritten copy of the poem Reindeer by Aua, and a photocopied excerpt from Shamanic Voices: A Survey of Visionary Narratives by Joan Halifax. This file also contains two handwritten notes regarding the interviews with Aua.

Auden
File · 1964
Part of Douglas Fisher fonds

Correspondence regarding the CPR agency of Auden, Ontario. 1964.

Various meeting minutes of Audio Resources Committee regarding funding, audio library services project and proposal. Letter to George Harrower, President of Lakehead University on Audio Library Services in Lakehead University: duties of program coordinator, booklet Report 77 Lakehead University Audio Library Service. Also includes report on Audio Library Services in Northwestern Ontario: a brief history of the development and concept and booklet on desktop Kurzweil reading machine for the blind.
*File contains documents that are restricted because they contain sensitive personal information

Audio recordings
Series · 1970 - 2006
Part of Cairine Budner fonds

Series consists of oral history cassette interviews with Finnish immigrants in and around Thunder Bay in 1974-79. Themes from the interviews on Finnish immigration to Thunder Bay, 1876-1914 and history of Finnish settlements in the rural Thunder Bay regions. Interviews provided the material and formed the basis of the Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society's (TBFCHS) Bay Street Projects 1-2. Also includes specific interviews by Einar Nordstrom and Roy Mannila on the labour and union activities at the Lakehead with a particular emphasis on the Finnish community and socialist movements. Cassette recordings, once completed, were shared with the Multicultural History Society of Ontario.

Various other recordings include Isku Club sports history, Finns in Sport in Canada, TBFCHS meetings, Raija Warkentin, Multicultural seminar, Finnish Independence, Human Rights Conference. Also a copy of a VHS recording from Mother Tongue Production of Aina Wilen: fighting for the Franchise (Finnish) originally released in 2006. Aina became one of the many Finnish Canadians to fight for enfranchisement.

Audio Recordings
Series · 1999 - 2002
Part of Raija Warkentin fonds

Audio cassette recordings of oral history interviews. All are identified by interviewee name or alias, and are associated with written and edited transcripts.

Audit
File · 1989-1991
Part of Steve Mantis fonds

Memorandum regarding internal controls for WCB investments with related correspondence; Audit Committee Meeting minutes; financial statements for year ended 1989.

Audit Committee
File · 1992-1993
Part of Steve Mantis fonds

Meeting minutes for the Audit Committee with information on the 1992 financial report; report; financial reporting; action points; and financial data.