Memento mori: an archival strategy for documenting mortality on the Canadian frontier at Red Lake, Ontario, before 1950

• Main Author: Richthammer, John Erwin Lavallee
• Other Authors: Cook, Terry (History), Nesmith, Tom (History) Blanchard, Jim (Libraries) Hanley, James (History, University of Winnipeg)
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Red Lake; Ontario; archives; frontier; archival; mortality; dying; death; community; Northwestern Ontario; Documentation Strategy; gold rush; gold; gold mining; mining; First Nations; Anishinaape; documenting locality; frontier settlement; archival description; archival appraisal; archival theory; burial; air transportation; gold prospecting; frontierism; metropolitanism; memorialization; memorial; anishina*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3015

Memento Mori, Latin for “remember thy death,” implores us to be mindful that death is both inevitable and inescapable. What of the records created during the process of dying and about death? Based upon wide-ranging archival research into primary documents, this thesis explores the rich sources of b...