The Algonquin Provincial Park Oral History Transcription Pilot Project 

Auteurs-es

  • Hannah McElgunn
  • R. Alexander Hunter
  • Emily Welsh

Résumé

This communication details an emerging partnership between the collections coordinator of the Algonquin Provincial Park Archives and Collections (APPAC), and anthropologists at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. This partnership offers students at Queen’s practical experience in working with oral histories, including transcription and basic discourse analysis, by engaging directly with recordings accessioned at the APPAC. In this article, we reflect on the collaborative process that gave rise to this project, outline what worked well, suggest ways to improve upon our pilot efforts, and provide a working model for other interdisciplinary partnerships focused on archival collections. We also suggest ways that archival collections can be used in interdisciplinary pedagogy and reflect on how these kinds of collaborations can be fruitful for academic researchers, archival users, students, and museum visitors.

Bibliographies de l'auteur-e

Hannah McElgunn

Hannah McElgunn is a linguistic anthropologist interested in issues of information sovereignty. Since 2014, she has been visiting Hopi, an Indigenous homeland in northeastern Arizona. Working in reciprocity with friends and colleagues, she studies the appropriation of Hopi language, knowledge, and other intangible materials and the various ways they might be reclaimed in the present. In addition to this longer-term work, she has done research with French-speaking communities in Eastern Canada and more recently began a partnership with the Algonquin Provincial Park Archives and Collections in Ontario. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Queen’s University.

R. Alexander Hunter

R. Alexander (Sandy) Hunter is an anthropologist and historical archaeologist. While conducting the work described in this article, he was a Voss Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute at Brown University for Environment and Society; he is currently a lecturer in anthropology and archaeology at Stanford University. Hunter researches the political ecology of colonialism, focusing on the long-term legacies of colonial land management. His work in Algonquin Park examines how the labour of lumbering remade the space of the park in the 19th and 20th centuries and queries the connections between timber extraction and contemporary understandings of Algonquin Park as a place for wilderness recreation. He also has research projects in the Peruvian Andes.

Emily Welsh

Emily Welsh is the Collections Coordinator for the Algonquin Provincial Park Archives and Collections (APPAC) and is employed by the Friends of Algonquin Park (FOAP), a Canadian registered charity for people passionate about Algonquin Park. She is a graduate of Queen’s University, with a Bachelor of Sciences degree specializing in life sciences and classical studies. Emily explored her passions for collections management and exhibition design through completion of the Master of Museum Studies program at the University of Toronto. As an emerging museum professional, she developed her collections management skills through work at the Ontario Science Centre, Royal Ontario Museum, and Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute (KCVI) and values the collaborations and experiences shared by working with others in the heritage sector.

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2025-05-07

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McElgunn, Hannah, R. Alexander Hunter, et Emily Welsh. 2025. « The Algonquin Provincial Park Oral History Transcription Pilot Project  ». Archivaria 99 (mai):120-40. https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/14025.

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Archivaria 99 (Spring 2025)

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