February 2012
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The Oujé-Bougoumou First Nations Church
Hello, Marianne here! My second week of the practicum, I have been looking at and processing Douglas Cardinal’s plans for the Oujé-Bougoumou First Nations church. Oujé-Bougoumou is located in Northern Quebec, approximately 740 kms north of Ottawa, with a population slightly over 600 in 2006. While the church was completed in 1996, Cardinal has been a prominent architect in Oujé-Bougoumou. Along...
Feb 17th
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Hello Everyone! I’m Marianne, one of the practicum students working on processing the architectural plans in the Douglas Cardinal Collection this semester. I study Canadian Studies and Art History here at Carleton. I have studied Aboriginal art, but this will be the first time that I will work with Aboriginal architecture. Since I don’t have a background in architecture, some of the...
Feb 10th
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A new and exciting phase of archival processing relating to the Douglas Cardinal Collection held in the Archives and Research Collections (ARC) begins this week. Three practicum students, Kathleen Grindrod-Millar, Marianne Williams and Allison Macdonald from ARTH 3900 will be assisting ARC with the processing Douglas Cardinal Collection architectural plans, photographs and blogging over the...
Feb 6th