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During the Territorial Government's Yukon 2000 public meetings, communities, industry associations and members of the general public made representations indicating that the high price of petroleum products was a major impediment to economic development in the Territory. As a result, Marvin Shaffer & Associates Ltd. were contracted to conduct a preliminary study into fuel prices in the Yukon. One of the recommendations of the Shaffer Report was the establishment of an independent and public inquiry into fuel prices. In January 1988, the Government established an independent board of inquiry headed by Judge Heino Lilles to investigate factors affecting the prices of petroleum products in the Yukon. The main focus of the Board's mandate was to investigate factors contributing to the setting of retail prices for motor and home-heating fuel products in the Territory. It confined its scope to matters clearly affecting the supply, distribution and pricing of petroleum fuel products in the Yukon. The findings and recommendations of the Board were published in the report Public Inquiry Into Petroleum Fuel Pricing In The Yukon Territory. Function: During the Yukon Government's "Yukon 2000" public meetings, communities, industry associations and members of the general public made representations indicating that the high price of petroleum products was a major impediment to economic development in the Territory. As a result, Marvin Shaffer & Associates Ltd. were contracted to conduct a preliminary study into fuel prices in the Yukon. One of the recommendations of the Shaffer Report was the establishment of an independent and public inquiry into fuel prices. In January 1988, the Government established an independent board of inquiry headed by Judge Heino Lilles to investigate factors affecting the prices of petroleum products in the Yukon. The main focus of the Board's mandate was to investigate factors contributing to the setting of retail prices for motor and home-heating fuel products in the Territory. It confined its scope to matters clearly affecting the supply, distribution and pricing of petroleum fuel products in the Yukon. The findings and recommendations of the Board were published in the report "Public Inquiry Into Petroleum Fuel Pricing In The Yukon Territory".

No information available. Function: The Yukon River Basin Committee was established under the terms of "An Agreement Respecting Studies and Planning of Water Resources in the Yukon River Basin", between Canada, British Columbia and Yukon. The committee consisted of four members, one each appointed by the Minister of the Environment for Canada, the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Canada, the Minister of Environment for British Columbia and the Commissioner of the Yukon Territory, on advice of the Government of Yukon. The committee was chaired by the member from Environment Canada. The scope of the study was broad, specifying "that all significant water-related development alternatives in the Yukon River Basin be evaluated in terms of their social, economic, and environmental effects." The committee first met on March 27, 1981 in Whitehorse. Eight study areas were established: hydrology; water quality; wildlife; tourism, parks and recreation; fisheries; socio-economic; energy; and placer mining. Work groups were formed and were responsible for the preparation of a work plan in their study area, monitoring the progress and results of the studies and preparing a final program report on the subject area. The committee was responsible for the administration and conduct of a three-year study, jointly funded with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, to assess fisheries resources in the Yukon River basin, with a final report to be presented to the ministers. The views, conclusions and recommendations of the report were those of the authors (Horler, Aileen, et. al.) and not necessarily those of the Yukon River Basin Committee or the governments of Canada, British Columbia and Yukon.

Until 1961, nearly all social services in the Yukon were provided by private agencies. In 1961, the Yukon Territorial Department of Social Welfare was created, taking over child care from the Children's Aid Society. The Society was closely associated with a number of independent agencies including Yukon Halfway House, Yukon Family Services Association, Yukon Child Care Association, the Association for the Mentally Retarded and the Association for Children with Learning Disabilities. The Yukon Social Service Society was a volunteer organization with membership open to all interested persons. The society operated under an elected Board of Directors, which consisted of a president, an executive and at least nine other persons. Among the chief officers of the Society were Theresa Paquet, Art M. Pearson, Douglas B. Craig, W. I. MacPherson, John T. Hoyt. Function: The purpose of the organization was to maintain the necessary impetus and involvement from the private sector in the field of social services. The goal of the organization was to research social problems and needs and to develop services for them.

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Catherine (Kay) Louise Russell was born in Toronto August 3, 1935. She graduated with a BA from the University of Toronto in 1958, attended the Toronto Teachers' College the following year, and taught primary grades in North York from 1959 to 1977. On July 1st, 1977 Kay left Toronto, with her partner Edward Garrett Sexsmith (they married July 29, 1981), and headed west and then north, arriving in Ross River May 24, 1978. They built their own cabin in the summer of 1978 and that fall she began teaching kindergarten in Ross River. Known to the children as "Ms. Kay" she held this position until September 1, 1998. Kay was recognized as a "Significant Older Person" by MP Louise Hardy (1997-2000).

The Records Office was a centralized body responsible for maintaining the records of the Government of the Yukon Territory. The records were primarily maintained in a centralized location, however there were a number of sub-stations. The Records Office maintained the files in a duplex-numeric filing system. These include the Commissioner's files, which formed the 1- series, which developed in the early 1920s. The development of other blocks took place after 1953 and were as follows: 10, Administration; 50, Personnel; 60, Finance; 100, Information Services; 400, Territorial Buildings; 450, Operation and Maintenance; 470, Communications; 480, Public Utilities; 500, Roads; 600, Ordinances; and 900, Federal Lands Transferred to the Commissioner. The Records Office maintained files dating back to 1899 (brought forward from earlier records keeping systems). The Records Office maintained the records of the government centrally until the 1970s, when the responsibility for records keeping was decentralized and devolved to the departments. In the 1970s records-keeping functions were devolved to the departments. The Central Registry was a federal office until 1967, when it was transferred to the Yukon Government. The Central Registry provided filing, recording and correspondence services to the Commissioner and his Assistants, federal offices located in the Yukon and the departments of the territorial government. For more details, see the authority file: Yukon. Central Registry Office. Function: The main function of the Central Registry was to provide filing, recording and correspondence services to the Commissioner and his Assistants, federal offices located in the Yukon and the departments of the territorial government.

Clare Stark was a geography student at Yukon College 1979-1980.

Cliff Schroeder worked as a carpenter during the construction of the Alaska Highway in 1943. At the time of donating material to Yukon Archives, in 1992, he was living in Hollister, Montana.

Clifford Weeks was born in 1930. He worked as a winchman on the dredges for the Yukon Gold Consolidated Corporation in the late 1940s. He currently lives in Surrey, B.C.

Copley Amory Jr. was born in 1890, the eldest son of Copely Amory Sr. and Mary Russell Amory. He attended St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island and he received his B.A. degree from Harvard in 1912. He fought in Europe during World War I and may have been in the U.S. diplomatic service in the 1920s. He published a book entitled "Persian Days" (Methuen: 1928). He was also a contributor to Atlantic Monthly magazine. He worked for the American-Canadian Survey in Alaska and the Yukon in the summer of 1912 collecting specimens for the Smithsonian Institute.