Series 6 - U of T Sioux Lookout Program

0.07 m of textual records (0.5 boxes)

Series relates to Dr. Baines’s involvement with the University of Toronto Sioux Lookout Program as the Faculty of Medicine’s Vice-Dean of Education and later as acting Program Director following the retirement of F. W. Baker in 1997. The Sioux Lookout Program was established in the 1960s through a collaboration with the Hospital for Sick Children and the Medical Services Branch of Health and Welfare Canada. The program aimed to improve the access and delivery of health care to Indigenous communities across the Sioux Lookout region in Northwestern Ontario. It operated out of the Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital and served over 18,000 individuals from 28 First Nations until the University of Toronto severed its ties with the program in 1998. The records span from 1996 – 1999 and document the activities of the Sioux Lookout Program and the series of events, decisions, and financial crises that led to the collapse of the program. Additionally, several of the records provide insight into the negative impacts that these events had on the Indigenous communities and Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital staff.

Materials predominantly consist of correspondence between various U of T faculty and administrators, Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital staff, and members or representatives of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation, Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority, Northern Chiefs Tribal Council, Ad Hoc Chief’s Committee, Shibogama Tribal Council, Independent First Nations Alliance, Ontario Ministry of Health, and Medical Services Branch of Health and Welfare Canada, including: Arnold Aberman, Fred W. Baker, Donna Barnaby, Sheila Brown, Delores Cheena, Sheree Davis, Joe Dooley, Michelle Farlinger, Janet Gordon, Tom Hawke, Daisy Hoppe, Phil Jackson, Marjorie Y. Johnson, Mae Katt, David Keeling, Barb Lacalmita, Carol Maxwell, Dermot McLoughlin, Kim Meyers, Donny Morris, James Morris, Yvonne Murphy, Lynda Roberts, Walter W. Rosser, Nancy Roy, Adel Sedra, Grace Teskey, Debbie Toppozini, Peter Toth, Judith Wright, and Donna Barnaby. Other materials include activity reports, financial reports, budgets, recovery plan proposals, notes, notices, discussion papers, agendas, Doctors Services Working Group meeting minutes, Four Party meeting minutes, and news clippings.

Files are arranged chronologically.

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