Title and statement of responsibility area
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- Source of title proper: The title is based on the contents of the series.
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Edition area
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Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
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Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
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[1940]-1987 (Creation)
Physical description area
Physical description
0.01 m textual records
283 audiocassettes
909 audio reels
14 phonograph records
5 magnetic audio
324 audio disks
Publisher's series area
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Archival description area
Name of creator
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Scope and content
The series consists of recordings created in Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories and beyond the geographical limits of the Oblate Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan. The recordings were created primarily at institutions the Oblates established or were involved in: churches, missions, and Indian Residential Schools in Western Canada, at the Charles Camsell Hospital or at the francophone CHFA Radio station based out of Edmonton. The recordings were created, collected or acquired by the Oblates of the Province in the course of their administrative and evangelization activities, and therefore the themes of the recordings are wide-ranging. The records include a number of religious themes and document the personal thoughts and viewpoints of a number of Oblates and highlight First Nations cultures and languages.
Specifically, the records consist of educational and historical themed material, masses, ceremonies, lectures, sermons and Gospel commentaries, as well as personal memoirs and recordings broadcast on CHFA Radio. The masses and ceremonies are often in First Nations languages, and English and French. There are programs from the schools and hospitals in Cree, and numerous Indigenous traditional songs as well as religious hymns and carols. Records are both created by amateurs, and professionally produced.
Notes area
Physical condition
Items 393 and 422 in accession PR1974.0156 are defective.
Immediate source of acquisition
Arrangement
Prior to the implementation of the Rules for Archival Description, the records in the Oblate holdings were physically accessioned primarily by format and intellectually arranged in the same manner, often regardless of provenance and original order. This series has maintained this arrangement by format for the most part, although when possible, records of identifiable provenance and function have been intellectually re-arranged in their respective levels of description.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script note
The records are in English, French, Slavey, Cree, Inuktitut, Algonquin, Latin, Navajo, and Spanish.
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
Recordings must be digitized prior to use.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
Finding aids
File list is available.
Generated finding aid
Associated materials
Accruals
Further accruals are not expected.
General note
PR1974.0156, PR1980.0050, PR1986.0142, PR2016.0001, PR2018.0050