This fonds consists of miscellaneous personal documents relating to Gilbert Monture, including his family tree and a copy of his birth certificate. Also included are various speeches and articles by Monture, correspondence ranging from 1912-1983, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous photographs, materials relating to Pauline Johnson, correspondence and minutes relating to the Canadian Correction Association project "Indians and the Law", and documents regarding an exhibit at the Indian Hall of Fame, Canadian National Exhibition.
Monture, Gilbert C.Series consists of the correspondence of Gilbert C. Monture.
File consists of more than 25 speeches and articles by G.C. Monture. Many are undated and some are untitled. Topics include Mary (Molly) Brant, Six Nation, mining, Northern Development and Indian Affairs, settler representations of Indigenous peoples, Canadian identity,
Individual titles include the following:
- From Ore to Metal: Coal in Integrated Metallurgy / by G.C. Monture
- The Indians of the North / by G.C. Monture
- The Indians Speak to Canada: a series of broadcasts sponsored by The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in co-operation with the Indian Affairs Branch, Department of Mines and Resources, 1939. Includes "The Iroquois" by G.C. Monture
- Human Problems in the Canadian North: prepared for inclusion in the 1954-55 annual report of the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources
- The Plastic Igloo
- Enfranchisement
- Canada and the Commonwealth
- The Iroquois, 1937
Also includes some speeches by others:
- Critical Mineral Shortages, an address delivered at a plenary session of the United nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources / by H.L. Keenleyside, Deputy Minister of Mines and Resources and Commissioner of the Northwest Territories at Lake Success, August 18, 1949
Also includes an Indian Council Fire membership directory (undated).
Series consists of various personal records, including government records verifying birth date and family information, a family tree, income tax returns (1936, 1942), and records relating to awards such as the Indian Achievement Award and honorary life membership of the Ottawa Branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (1966).
Series consists of a large file of newspaper clippings regarding G.C. Monture and Indigenous issues. Also includes obituaries and a tribute to G.C. Monture "The Rockhound of Jerusalem" by Rev. Enos T. Monture.
File consists of the following newspapers and newsletters
- News, published weekly by Picture News Press, Toronto. Vol. 4, no. 22 (May 27 1944)
- The Printed Word, published monthly by Johnston, Everson and Charlesworth, toronto and Montreal, March 1944, no. 112
- Indian Affairs: News Letter of the American Indian Fund and the Association on American Indian Affairs, Inc. no. 22 (September 1957)
- Canadian Indians of Today, February Bulletin, 1965 (featuring Dr. Gilbert C. Monture) and May Bulletin, 1966 (featuring Miss Annee Meekitjuk)
- Indian Magazine / Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Northern Service - Radio, broadcasts for 30 September 1967, 7 October 1967, 4 November 1967
- Akwesasne Notes, vol. 3 no. 8 (Late Autumn, 1971)
file consists of issues of The Amerindian: American Indian Review, from Chicago, Illinois. Issues include the following:
- Vol. 4 nos. 4, 6, 15 (1956)
- Vol. 5, nos. 1, 2, 4-6 (1956-1957)
- Vol. 6, nos. 1-3 (1957-1958)
- Vol. 7, nos. 3-5 (1959)
- Vol. 8, nos. 1-6 (1959-1960)
- Vol. 9, nos. 1, 2, 5, 6 (1960-1961)
- Vol. 10, nos. 1-4 (1961-1962)
- Vol. 12, no. 2 (1963)
File consists of the following issues of The Indian News, a quarterly newspaper published by the Indian Affairs Branch in Ottawa, Ontario
- Vol. 3, no. 1 (June 1958)
- Vol 5, no. 2 (December 1961)
- Vol. 10, no. 1 (April 1967)
- Vol. 10, no. 2 (August 1967)
- Vol. 13, no. 8 (November 1970)
Series includes project and subject files kept by Monture. More details are provided in file level descriptions.