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CA ON00093 73/1223-3-X · Subseries · 1953-1963
Part of Robert Lewis Raymont fonds

Subseries consists of minutes of meetings of the Advisory Committee on Northern Development. Includes Files 1800 to 1804. File 1800 serves as a subject index.

Canada. Advisory Committee on Northern Development
CA ON00093 99/7; 85/320; 112.3M2 (D570)-1 · Series · 1950-1962
Part of Directorate of Military Operations and Planning fonds

Series contains files on infrastructure development in the North, which was done to better equip the region to respond to enemy threats. Topics include Canadian sovereignty over Arctic waters and Soviet economic aspects in the North. Includes meeting agendas and minutes from the Advisory Committee on Northern Development. Also contains annual government reports on Northern Canada such as: Progress Report on Federal Government’s Building Programme in Northern Canada, Proposed Building Programme in Northern Canada, and Report on Army Activities in the North.

Canada. Advisory Committee on Northern Development
CA ON00093 112.2M2 (D655) · Fonds · 1952-1956

Fonds consists of five volumes of various documents pertaining to the Advisory Committee on Northern Development (ACND). This includes minutes of meetings, correspondence, memoranda, maps, graphical records, numerical summaries and interdepartmental committee reports. The third volume includes a translation of a Russian document, entitled “In the Heart of the Arctic”, that was prepared by the Defence Scientific Information Service of the Defence Research Board in 1955. Among others, items discussed at the ACND meetings include the following: Inuit settlement, the Northwest Highway System, petroleum in the Arctic, proposed pipelines, oil exploration, arctic expeditions, US hydrographic operations, arctic re-supply, United States Air Force (USAF) activities, the Distant Early Warning Line, the Mid-Canada Line, airstrips in the Far North, navigation in the Hudson Strait and hydroelectric developments in the Yukon.

Canada. Advisory Committee on Northern Development