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Historical aerial photography of Indian Residential Schools

To support a wide range of efforts to understand the geographic context and historical conditions of the Indian residential schools sites for a wide range of stakeholders, Indigenous Services Canada has created a Web service to access and visualize historical aerial photography for those sites. The Historical aerial photography of Indian residential schools dataset contains digital scans of aerial photographs that were acquired from 1924 to 1998 over Indian Residential school sites and surrounding areas across Canada, as well as basic information about each photography and depicted site. The digital images were georeferenced, to match ground coordinates, saved in a resampled uncompressed raster format and compiled in a single mosaic layer. The dataset does not include the complete range of aerial photographs of each site. Instead, an attempt has been made to select a single optimal photograph for each site based on good photographic quality and the site's years of operation. In some cases no photograph is available, and in others a photograph was only available after the years of operation. The source scanned prints was obtained from the archives of the National Air Photo Library (NAPL) of Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN).

This dataset should be considered evergreen as new information and photography sources are identified.

It should be noted that this dataset can only be downloaded using ArcGIS and ArcPro software as well as other GIS software.

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Date ( RI_366 )
2023-05-17
Date ( RI_367 )
2023-05-24
RI_409
  Government of Canada;Indigenous Services Canada;Information Management Branch, Geomatics Services - ( )
Terrasses de la Chaudière, 10 Wellington, North Tower , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H4 , Canada
1-800-567-9604
1-866-817-3977
Hours of service
Monday to Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm
Credit
Government of Canada; Indigenous Services Canada
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
daily; quotidien RI_533
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • First Nation
  • Band
  • Aboriginal
  • INAC
  • Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
  • Inuit community
  • Indian Residential School
  • Truth
  • Reconciliation
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Residential schools
  • Indigenous peoples
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
grid; grille RI_636
Metadata language
fra; CAN
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Location
  • Society
  • Geoscientific information
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Begin date
1924-06-29
Reference system identifier
https://epsg.org/home.html / EPSG:4617 / 10.088
Distribution format
  • WMS ( 1.3.0 )

  • ESRI REST ( 10.8.1 )

RI_412
  Government of Canada;Indigenous Services Canada;Information Management Branch, Geomatics Services - ( )
Terrasses de la Chaudière, 10 Wellington, North Tower , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H4 , Canada
1-800-567-9604
1-866-817-3977
Hours of service
Monday to Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm
OnLine resource
Historical aerial photography of Indian Residential Schools ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
Historical aerial photography of Indian Residential Schools ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

OnLine resource
Data Dictionary - Web Services (in French) ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;CSV;fra

OnLine resource
Data Dictionary - Web Services (in English) ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;CSV;eng

OnLine resource
Historical aerial photography of Indian Residential Schools ( ESRI REST: Image Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

OnLine resource
Historical aerial photography of Indian Residential Schools ( ESRI REST: Image Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

File identifier
29595190-b8cd-405d-b04e-9e53981f9476 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2025-02-25T13:47:58
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_409
  Government of Canada;Indigenous Services Canada;Information Management Branch, Geomatics Services - ( Metadata Manager )
Terrasses de la Chaudière, 10 Wellington, North Tower , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H4 , Canada
1-800-567-9604
1-866-817-3977
Hours of service
Monday to Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm
 
 

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