- Series
- 1973-1985 ; 1979 predominant.
Part of Women's Research Centre fonds
Series consists of records created and used by the Women's Research Centre in the process of researching the social and economic effects of the Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline on the lives of women and their families. The Women's Research Centre communicated with various groups and organizations such as the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada, Community Education consultants in Northern British Columbia, economic development think tanks, New Democratic Party (NDP) Action Groups, and the Ministry of Economic Development. The Women's Research Centre gathered data on Northern women's experiences and reactions to the Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline by conducting extensive interviews with women in Fort Nelson and Whitehorse. Series consists of correspondence, hard-copy presentations to the Ministry of Economic Development, memos, appendixes, handwritten and typed notes, extensive articles and photocopies of articles, Economic Development Conference evaluation forms, a list of resolutions, work plans, extensive drafts and completed copies of various reports about urban expansion, the gendered division of labour, women's role in economic development and the exclusion of women from full economic participation, a Northern perspective on health and social services for women, research into energy development and social institutions impacted by the construction of the Alaska Highway and Northern Gas Pipeline as experienced from the perspective of women in Northern communities, and the socio-economic effects of the Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline on the lives of women and their families. In addition, there are legal reports on forestry and logging, mailing lists, workshop summaries, grant proposals, copies of book chapters, newsletters, lists of publications, agendas, meeting minutes, list of farm tree license renewals, photocopies of Bill 14 - the New Forest Act, Hansard vol. 4, no.20, extensive material about the New Forest Act, maps, extensive Whitehorse and Fort Nelson interview transcripts, social impact assessments, Northern Pipeline Agency Act, conference announcements, newspapers, news clippings, research project proposal, briefs, interview guides, workshop issues list, analytical framework sheets, press releases, project evaluations, charts and spreadsheets, regulations, and project outlines.