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INFONORTH • 449

NORTHERN NEWS

Energy Award for Nellie Cournoyea Nellie J. Cournoyea, Chair and CEO of the Inuvialuit

Regional Corporation (IRC), was named as Canadian Energy Person of the Year for 2004 by the Energy Council of Canada. As the fourth recipient of this award, Ms. Cournoyea is being honoured for her contributions to the development of the oil and gas industry in Canada' s North.

Before her election as Chair and CEO of the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, Ms. Cournoyea was the Premier of the Government of the Northwest Territories (1991-95). As a member of the Territorial government from 1979 to 1995, she was responsible for several ministerial portfo- lios, including Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources and Health and Public Works. In response to the oil and gas activity in the Mackenzie Delta-Beaufort Sea region, Ms. Cournoyea helped to negotiate the Inuvialuit Final Agree- ment, which established the governance and framework for Inuvialuit control of their traditional lands.

Ms. Cournoyea is a founding member of the Aboriginal Pipeline Group (APG), a member of the Mackenzie Gas Project Co-venture, along with Imperial Oil Ltd., Shell Canada Ltd., ExxonMobil Canada Ltd., and ConocoPhilips Canada Ltd., which recently filed for the main regulatory approvals to construct the $7 billion Mackenzie Valley Pipeline. The APG was formed in 2000 to represent the ownership interest of the Aboriginal peoples of the North- west Territories in the proposed pipeline project.

The William E. Taylor Award The Canadian Museum of Civilization is soliciting

applications for the William E. Taylor Award, established in memory of the CMC's former director and Arctic scholar. The $5000 award is presented each year to recog- nize research or scholarly excellence in the fields of Arctic archaeology, anthropology, or history, including Native studies. As the purpose of the award is to encourage young or new scholars, professional archaeologists or anthro- pologists, university professors or lecturers, museum cu- rators, or other established professionals are not eligible. Attendance at a university is not a requirement, nor is possession of an academic degree. Applicants should be Canadian citizens or residents of Canada.

Letters of application should include a concise curricu- lum vitae and a brief outline (less than 1000 words) of current and proposed research. Letters can be sent, either electronically or by post, to Robert McGhee, Curator of Arctic Archaeology, Canadian Museum of Civilization, P.O. Box 3100 Station B, Hull, Québec J8X 4H2; e-mail: robert.mcghee@civilization.ca. The deadline is January 31,2005

AINA NEWS

KLRS Bibliography and Newsletter Now Available The Kluane Lake Research Station (KLRS) Bibliogra-

phy is now available from the KLRS page of the AINA website. The bibliography describes more than 400 publi- cations based on research conducted at the Institute's research station on the shore of Kluane Lake, Yukon. More than 1000 publications have resulted from research con- ducted at KLRS, and it may take several years to make the bibliography complete. The bibliography is a subset of AINA' s Arctic Science and Technology Information Sys- tem (ASTIS) database.

Also available on the KLRS page is the premier issue of the Kluane Lake Research Station Newsletter, which is intended to foster cross-disciplinary communication among researchers and to inform the public about the research being conducted at KLRS. AINA thanks Ryan Danby and David Hik of the Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, for producing the newsletter.

14th I nuit Studies Conference a Success The 14th Inuit Studies Conference, hosted by AINA at

the University of Calgary on August 11-15, was a great success. The conference was attended by 135 people from Canada, the United States, Greenland, France, Denmark, and Italy. Eighty-one papers were presented, and proceed- ings are in preparation. Our thanks to all who organized and attended the conference.

AIN As Photographic Archives Now Online The September 2004 issue of InfoNorth (Vol. 57, No.

3:317-321) contains an article on the Institute's most recent project, the creation of a database for AINA' s collection of 4000 photographs dating from the 1890s to the mid-twentieth century.

We are pleased to announce that AINA' s Photographic Archives and Research Project (PARP) is now online (http:// inmagic.lib.ucalgary.ca/dbtw-wpd/aina/photoinfo.htm) and can be accessed through AINA' s web page. The project is ongoing and has at present about 140 photographs in the database. Each week, 20 to 30 new images will be added.

Though the collection is very new, we are already receiv- ing inquiries about it, as well as correspondence with viewers who bring us additional information about the material. We wish to direct readers to two items about PARP published in the October and December 2004 issues of UpHere magazine, published in Yellowknife. In the not-too-distant future, we will be receiving a sizable addition to the Walter Wood collection and will be adding this material to the database. We look forward to hearing from all interested readers.

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