appendix 3 Digital Copies of Archival Documents

2.1 Text and transcription of Treaty 8 including statement of adhesion of the Chipewyan people of Athabasca River, Birch River, Peace River, Slave River and Gull River, and the Cree Indians of Gull River and Deep Lake. Government of Canada, Treaty No. 8. Made June 21, 1899 and Adhesions, Reports, Etc. [1899]. Reprinted from file the 1899 edition by Roger Duhamel, F.R.S.C. (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer and Controller of Stationary, 1966). https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/25f43867fk83nb613334663t3irs2448.pdf

3.1 Memo from Maxwell Graham to J.B. Harkin, 7 December 1912. LAC RG 85, vol. 665, file 3912, pt. 2. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/l8papc01bj52mxxva35125a3suk6pyj8.pdf

3.2 Report by Maxwell Graham about the creation of Wood Buffalo Park. Maxwell Graham, “Statement as to the Causes That Led up to the Creation Of the Wood Buffalo Park,” For the information of O.S. Finnie, 4 June 1924. LAC RG85, vol. 1390, file 406-13. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/eqr8a45y08mo32tb31fgj506358231k7.pdf

3.3 Article about the importation of the Wainwright bison, 14 September 1925. Maxwell Graham, “Canada’s Repatriation of the Buffalo,” 14 September 1925, LAC RG85-D-1-A, vol. 1391, file 406-13. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/apn0sq8oy63386c27kimlw601uj237p3.pdf

3.4 Order-in-Council that expanded the original Park, 24 September 1926. LAC RG85, vol. 1391, file 406-13. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/ai80a255vfr4kg8ff6ujc20j88swj17x.pdf

4.1 Journal entry of Indian Agent Jack Stewart, recording the transfer of the members of the Chipewyan Band to the Cree Band, 12 June 1944. “Daily Journal,” PAA, Acc 71.11/2d. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/q8fm43t1nav38s1r8vad23n2cqj8x480.jpg

5.1 Consolidated list of laws that governed harvesting in WBNP, September 1945. Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, Northern Administration and Lands Branch, Conservation and Management Services, “Office Consolidation of Regulations governing hunting and trapping in Wood Buffalo Park, Established under authority of O.C. of 14th December, 1933, P.C. 2589” 15 September 1945, LAC RG85-4-C-A, vol. 345, file 5. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/43xiea488c2vfi6i44it33364fcu7y10.pdf

5.2 Letter from Park Warden M.J. Dempsey to J. Milner discussing increased warden surveillance and Chief Jonas Laviolette’s application for a permit to enter the Park, which was denied in 1925, 1 March 1933, LAC RG85, vol. 852, file 7870. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/c8ed16kp0mpp1575653d0eba7y61ldd6.png

5.3 Letter from Provincial Fur Supervisor J.L. Grew to D.J. Allen about warden surveillance, 19 March 1943, LAC RG10, vol. 8409, file 191/20-14-1, pt. 1. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/544i888l08150j4801hj0kx58164r31x.pdf

5.4 Letter from Indian Agent John Melling to Secretary of Indian Affairs detailing the hunger and hardship Indigenous Peoples who had been expelled from the Park were facing, 12 June 1942. LAC RG10, vol. 8409, file 191/20-14/1, pt. 1. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/k4fqr8u88jv71kxae0c0o7x50f3xeo2i.pdf

6.1 Letter from Chief Jonas Laviolette urging Indian Affairs to attend to the struggles the Dene people were facing as a result of the Park’s creation, 20 February 1927. LAC RG10, vol. 6732, file 420-2B. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/807dvtt8128tl2wf12j28sq2610nn26x.pdf

6.2 Memorandum signed by Indigenous leaders protesting the planned expansion of the Park, 16 April 1926. Memorandum from John Wylie, Colin Fraser, James Fraser, ? Marcel, P. Mercredi to Charles Cross, “Re the setting-apart of a New Buffalo Park or the establishing of an annex to the existing Wood Buffalo Park; which is to be situated in the terrain North of the Quatre Fourches River, and on the West shore of Lake Mamiwi, North of Hay River and Lake Claire,” 16 April 1926. LAC RG85, vol. 1213, file 400-2-3, pt. 1A. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/e2h77r66s2f750615n473457vn318eo1.pdf

6.3 Letter from Gerald Card to J.D. McLean about a request from Dene community members for the establishment of protected reserves independent of the Treaty reserves, 6 December 1927. LAC RG10, vol. 6732, file 420-2B. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/6y6cu03g808177ced0m4023ss7yy6v11.pdf

6.4 Letter from S.H. Clark (Game Commissioner) to M. Christianson (Inspector of Indian Agencies) about the 1935 establishment of a large, protected area for local Indigenous harvesters, 12 March 1935. LAC RG10, vol. 6733, file 420-2C. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/ao3olk0vf2o6b83ut712bkcperk1wv13.pdf

7.1 Letter from Park Warden M.J. Dempsey to District Indian Agent J.A. McDougal about the hunger and hardship Indigenous Peoples were facing, 17 February 1931. RG85-D-1-A, vol. 152, file 420-2. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/2oc8a6r275vs25e7qgg76fjbf7xg302g.pdf

7.2 Notes from Wardens’ diaries indicating the frustrations of local harvesters about game laws, 20 April 1938. “Notes from Wardens’ diaries, Wood Buffalo Park, received with letters of 9^th and 25^th March 1938, from the Fort Smith Office,” 20 April 1938. RG85, vol. 153, file 420-2, Warden Patrol Reports 1936–44. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/257j554547wm2nrrmt008jr3166g000h.pdf

7.3 Report by Provincial Fur Supervisor J.L. Grew about the need for registered traplines, 11 March 1943. J.L. Grew to D.J. Allen, Report on Registered Trap Lines in Alberta, p. 6, LAC RG 10, vol. 6733, file 420-2-2 2. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/i44g2vjmnqxqi7ks531712eq1ws25s3r.pdf

7.4 Report on low trapping yields, March 1949. W.A. Fuller (Mammologist), “Monthly Report for March 1949,” LAC RG10, vol. 8409, file 191/20-14-1, pt. 1. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/AssetLink/np761428nvd821au5w44eg1722pqm30v.pdf