Northern archives, northern development

The archival records of northern Canada need to be accessible to northern Canada.

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly announces the government's Creative Canada strategy for Canadian content in the digital media market at an Economic Club of Canada luncheon in Ottawa on Sept. 28. Archival records are part of a creative ecosystem that belongs in the next generation of cultural spaces, writes Mark Turner.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MARK DAVID TURNER

October 25, 2017

‘Archives’ runs a gamut of meanings. From the austere and restricted form of government records, which require specialized protocols for use and access, to the ephemeral and public sum total of social media, the idea of ‘archives’ is fuzzy. It is this fuzziness that has prevented any proper ...

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