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Blacks in Saskatchewan
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1984-07-19 (Creation)
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- Wilson, Ruth Dyck, 1947-
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1972 (Creation)
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- Tropper, Harold Martin
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1970 (Creation)
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- Sessing, Trevor W.
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1959, 1965-06-22 (Creation)
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- Turner, Allan Reaman
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1959-07 to 1959-10 (Creation)
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- Winks, Robin W., 1930-2003
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195-? to 197-? (Creation)
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- Saskatchewan Archives Board
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after 1946 to 1972 (Creation)
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0.010 m of textual records
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Between 1972 and 1977, Ruth Dyck Wilson served as the folklore archivist at the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies in Ottawa. Wilson next worked as a manuscripts and reference archivist at the Saskatchewan Archives Board from 1977 to 1986. She then briefly worked as a contract archivist at the University of Toronto Archives in 1987 and in the fall of that year she became Chief Assistant Archivist at the United Church of Canada/Victoria University Archives.
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Robin William Winks was born on December 5, 1930 in Indiana. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Colorado, Winks became a Fulbright Scholar in New Zealand where he earned a master's degree in Maori studies from Victoria University. He returned to University of Colorado and received a second master's degree in ethnography, and followed this with a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1957. After teaching for a year at Connecticut College, he was hired as a professor at Yale University in 1957 where he would remain for much of his career, apart for some brief periods as a visiting professor at a few institutions and taking leave from 1969 to 1971 to work as US Cultural Attache to the American Embassy in London.
In addition to his work at Yale, Winks participated in several organizations, such as the American Historical Association, the Canadian Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Royal Historical Society, and he Royal Commonwealth Society. His interest in the outdoors, led him to become an advocate for the protection of the environment, and serving as chair of the National Parks System Advisory Board. It is claimed that in 1998, he became the first person to have visited all of the United States National Park Service units, and in recognition of his support of the Parks system, the National Parks Conservation Association not only established an award for contributions to public education on behalf of the national parks with him as its first recipient they named the award in his honour (Robin W. Winks Award for Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks).
Winks died in New Haven, Connecticut on April 7, 2003.
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Information about James H. Dickson likely compiled by staff of Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan (at the time known as Saskatchewan Archives Board) from homestead file in the Saskatchewan Archives. [195-?-197-?].
Copy of letter from A. R. Turner, Provincial Archivist, to A. I. Bereskin, Controller of Surveys, Department of Natural Resources, regarding information about James H. Dickson and his history in Saskatchewan, dated June 22, 1965. Date copied June 22, 1965.
Copy of letter from Ruth Dyck Wilson, Staff Archivist, Saskatchewan Archives Board, Regina, Saskatchewan, to Mr. Michael L. King, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, U.S.A., regarding information about the settlement of black persons in Saskatchewan. July 19, 1984. Date copied unknown. [2 copies].
One page of handwritten notes regarding the history of black Canadians in Saskatchewan. Creator of notes unknown, [after 1949].
Photocopy of chapter fourteen from the book entitled Many Trails, by R. D. Symons, Copyright 1963 R. D. Symons, Windjammer edition 1970. Chapter fourteen is entitled Dixie Transplanted, and describes a visit to a black settlement in northern Saskatchewan. Date photocopied unknown. [2 copies].
Articles from various sources regarding immigration and homesteading by black persons in Saskatchewan and Alberta. [after 1946-1972]. Some copies included, date copied unknown.
Copy of article entitled The Creek-Negroes of Oklahoma and Canadian Immigration, 1909-1911, by Harold Martin Troper, The Canadian Historical Review, Vol. LIII No 3 September 1972. Date copied unknown.
Correspondence between Allan R. Turner, Provincial Archivist, Regina, Saskatchewan, and Mr. Robin W. Winks, Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, regarding the history of black Canadians in Saskatchewan, with particular interest in a settlement near Maidstone, dated July-October, 1959. Letters sent from Turner are copies of originals, copied the same date as the letters were written.
Article entitled How they kept Canada almost lily white: The previously untold story of the Canadian immigration officials who stopped American blacks from coming to Canada, by Trevor W. Sessing, printed in Saturday Night, September 1970.
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Letters from A. R. Turner to A. I. Bereskin and Mr. Robin W. Winks are copies of originals, produced on the same date the original letters were written. Reproduction dates for other copied items in file are unknown.
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- Mayes, Martha Jane (Subject)
- Dickson, James H. (Subject)
- Liddell, Ken, 1912-1975 (Subject)
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Saskatchewan Archives. Archival Description Manual 2004.
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Final
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Full
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- English
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- Latin