FNIGC CGIPN - A FIRST N A TION S GU IDE

About First Nations reserve and Traditional Lands, Waters, Resources, and the Environment WHAT IS THE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES OF CANADA ACT? Adopted in 2004, the Library and Archives of Canada Act is intended to provide “easy and integrated access to Canada’s knowledge, information, and documentary heritage.”1 This Act brings together two pre-existing federal institutions, the National Library of Can. [...] The objectives of LAC are: to make that heritage known to Canadians and to anyone with an interest in Canada and to facilitate access to it, to be the permanent repository of publications of the Government of Canada and of government and ministerial records that are of historical or archival value, to facilitate the management of information by government institutions, to coordinate the library se. [...] Once submitted, the copies of the publications or recordings belong to the Crown and form part of the collection of LAC (s.10(3)). [...] All government records pertaining to First Nations that the Chief Librarian and Archivist deems to be of interest to Canada can be considered as “documentary heritage” and therefore become part of the permanent record with the intention of making it public. [...] The ways and means by which collections of First Nations data and information are held by LAC are contrary to the First Nations principles of OCAP®.