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William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds
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Where are the children?

Subseries contains records related to the <i>Where are the Children?</i> exhibit held by MOA. Curated by Jeff Thomas, and circulated by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in Ottawa, this exhibition presented a series of historical photographs documenting the history of residential schools in Canada. The records include correspondence related to exhibit loans, temporary exhibit preliminary and finalized designs and a reference manual for setting up the exhibition.

Where are the children?

File contains information pertaining to the <i>Where are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools</i> exhibit. This information includes background information about residential schools in Canada, a copy of the exhibit's preliminary design report, photocopies of images, and a copy of the exhibit's "Reference Manual: For Setting up Exhibition (floor plans, wall elevations, text, captions, etc."

William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1956, [197-?] - 2013

Fonds consists of records created by McLennan during his employment at the Museum. Fonds has been arranged into six series. The first series is titled Exhibits and relates to McLennan’s role first as a designer and photographer of exhibits and later as a curator of exhibits. Each exhibit is arranged into a separate subseries. Some of the photographs were taken by staff who worked for McLennan.

The second series is titled Projects and events. This series relates to McLennan’s role as photographer. He has recorded many events and documented projects through the use of photography. On some projects he also took on the role of designer.

The third series is titled Multiversity galleries and contains materials related to the creation of the Multiversity gallery space which occurred as part of the Partnership of Peoples Renewal project from 2007-2010.

The fourth series is titled general research and contains materials related to McLennan’s research in art on the northwest coast of British Columbia. The research series has been sub-divided into four sub-series: museums, archives and subject files, artist files, culture photographs and books.

The fifth series is titled Bill Reid and contains materials created and collected about Bill Reid and his work by McLennan.

The sixth series is titled Administration, public relations and correspondence and relates to McLennan’s administrative role at MOA, containing administrative records.

Additional digital records from this fonds are still being processed and will be added to this finding aid at a later date.

William McLennan

Willie White

File contains images of the exhibit My Ancestors are Still Dancing. In addition are textual records relating to the exhibit such as budget and outlines.

Working set [photographs]

File contains photo-copies of images of First Nation community members in Alert Bay and at St. Mike's Residential School. The photographs were taken to community elders who had been at the residential school so that they could annotate the photographs. Not all of the images in the file were used in the exhibit.

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