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An online resource of data and media about the Town of Churchill, its people, Wapusk National Park, and the extensive research supported by the Churchill Northern Studies Centre. This Digital Archive is hosted by the Yorkspace Institutional Repository, York University, Toronto. The first collection in the project celebrates the life and work of Professor Bob Jefferies, who carried out field research in ecology in and near Churchill, for 30 years.

Robert L. Jefferies Collection

How to submit an item: Undigitized items (lke your old Kodachrome slides) can be sent to Ms. Netta Untershats and her team for digitizing.

We will send you a receipt for the items, and send them back to you after they are digitized. Please include any information about the item - in the case of photos, what, where, when and who? And, please remember to confirm in writing in an email or letter, that you are the owner of the image.

QUESTIONS? For items related to Bob Jefferies and other La Pérouse Bay research and to send digitized items, please contact:

Dawn Bazely: dbazely@yorku.ca

Netta Untershats: nettauntershats@osgoode.yorku.ca

For items relating to the broader Churchill community: Mike Goodyear and Leeann Fishback of the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, can advise you about items that do not directly relate to Prof. Jefferies’ life and research, but which do relate to the broader Churchill community, including the Studies Centre.

goodyear@churchillscience.ca

fishback@churchillscience.ca

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What to do with your old Kodachrome slides: Archiving ecological research images in an Open Access Institutional Repository

Ghuman, Rajbir; Abraham, Kenneth F; Bekit, Natan Z; Kim, David; Oliveira, Andre; Bazely, Dawn R (2015-05-19)

This poster was presented at the Ontario Biodiversity Summit held in Niagara Falls, Canada, May 19-22, 2015: http://ontariobiodiversitysummit.ca/ 1. The Churchill Community of Knowledge Digital Archive is an Open Access ...
The Churchill Community of Knowledge: An Open Access Digital Archive

Untershats, Netta; Kosavic, Andrea; Cooke, Fred; Jefferies, Susan; Sivakumaran, Jeevika; Bekit, Natan Z; Bazely, Dawn R (2014-04-06)

This poster was presented at the 7th International Biocuration Conference (ISB2014), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, April 6-9, 2014. The Churchill Community of Knowledge Digital Archive is a YorkSpace Institutional ...
Mast River during flood, 1978.

Abraham, Ken (1978-05-30)
Wawao Creek during flood,1978.

Abraham, Ken (1978-05-29)
Field Research camp, 1978.

Abraham, Ken (1978-05-29)
Tank tracks south of the camp Finney, 1978.

Abraham, Ken (1978-05-19)
Ken Abraham standing in the snow, 1976.

Abraham, Ken (1976-04-30)
Pierre Mineau and Roger Healy on the highway to Thompson, Churchill, Manitoba, 1976.

Abraham, Ken (1976-04)
Joe Schmutz and a male ptarmigan south of camp Finney, 1978.

Abraham, Ken (1978-05-19)
Bruce Rattray and Sue Cargill in the North Elymus Area, 1978.

Abraham, Ken (1978-05-21)
The tallest Tamarack on south shore of Mast River,1978.

Abraham, Ken (1978-05-19)
Paul Johnsgard capturing shorebird chick in churchill community,1967.

Abraham, Ken (1967)
Fred Roetker on Knight's Hill for Canada geese aerial project, Churchill, Manitoba, 1977.

Abraham, Ken (20/06/1977)
Field reseach area coverd with snow in Churchill, Manitoba, 1967.

Abraham, Ken (1967-04)
A windswept areas for the arriving geese to search for food in camp Finney, 1967.

Abraham, Ken (06/05/1967)
Couple of Canada geese flying over south east of camp Finney,1967.

Abraham, Ken (06/05/1967)
South east snow in La Perouse Bay,1967.

Abraham, Ken (06/05/1967)
A plane landing in Churchill, Manitoba, 1967.

Abraham, Ken (1967)
Wannigan at La Perouse Bay being used for observational studies of pre-nesting and incubation behaviour, 1967.

Abraham, Ken (05/06/1967)
A cook Shack at Camp Finney being used for field research, 1967.

Abraham, Ken (1967-04)