Title: Nick Ternette fonds.

Dates: 1969-1987.

Extent: 1.6 m of textual records.

Biographical sketch: Born in 1945 in Germany, Nick Ternette immigrated to Canada with his parents at the age of ten. He attended Daniel McIntyre Collegiate and the University of Winnipeg where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology. In 1969, he was an Instructor for the Department of Education on the up-grading of programs for Aboriginal Peoples. In 1970, he was a volunteer for the Company of Young Canadians and a coordinator of the Community Affairs Centre in Winnipeg in 1972. In 1976, Ternette was appointed Executive Director of the Winnipeg Council of Self Help Inc. He was active in several Aboriginal Peoples associations and the New Democratic Party.

Custodial history: The fonds was donated to University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections by Nick Ternette in 1979 and 1992.

Scope and content: The fonds contains limited correspondence, political action papers, briefs, complaints, convention proceedings, promotional and conference literature, scrapbooks, newsclippings, and resource files concerning Winnipeg city core activities and radical, left-wing politics of the 1970s and 1980s.

Restrictions: There are no restrictions on this material.

Accruals: Further accruals are expected. 

Finding aid: A printed finding aid is available in the Archives reading room and an on-line finding aid is available at the link below:

MSS 26 (A.79-23, A.92-16).