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    229 Archival description results for Human settlements

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    Helene Caufield Collection
    N-2020-002 · Collection · [ca. 1950]-1963

    The collection consists primarily of slides taken by Helene Caufield during her time working as a nurse stationed in the Northwest Territories. Photograph locations include: Aklavik, Fort McPherson, Reindeer Station, Inuvik, Fort Simpson, and Yellowknife. Topics include scenery and community views, Anglican churches, hospitals, and hostels, students and patients, and activities including sewing, harvesting ice, making dryfish, picnics, and walks. The collection also includes a portrait of Helene during her training and a two page list of photograph captions.

    Caufield, Helene
    N-2017-014 · Accession · [1967-1969]

    The text and approximately half of the images were kept as a scrapbook recounting travels with Commissioner Stuart Hodgson, and life in Yellowknife as written by Mary Ellen Davies. The remaining images document the same time period and events, but were not included in the scrapbook.

    Davies, Mary Ellen
    N-2017-007 · Accession · [1934-1967]

    The records, created by the Pappas family and their relations, document settler life in Yellowknife and Outpost Island mine.

    Pappas, George
    N-2016-002 · Accession · 1980

    Records include photographs of the community of Tungsten. Most of the images depict the Cantung mining and milling operations; there are also images of the townsite.

    The photographer of these images is unknown. They were produced by Bush Edit House and may have been taken by the firm's owner, Burt Bush, who was a film producer in North Vancouver and was often contracted by resource companies for their corporate presentations.

    Bush, Burt
    N-2015-009 · Accession · 1963-1969

    The majority of the slides depict community life and residents of the communities of Fort Rae (Behchoko), Fort Providence, and Fort Simpson. There are also a few images from other communities in the NWT and several images depicting Dene children visiting Calgary on a field trip called "Operation Dogrib" organized by Emile and Evalyn Gautreau.

    Gautreau, Emile
    N-2015-008 · Accession · 1927-1930

    The photos were created between 1927 and 1930. Most of the images depict the day-to-day life of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers in and around the communities of Fort Norman (now Tulita), Fort Good Hope, Fort Franklin (now Deline), and Fort Simpson. There are also a number of images of scenery along the South Nahanni River.

    N-2015-006 · Accession · 1930-1945

    Records include photographs featuring residents and activities in Fort Norman (Tulita) and Fort Smith in the early 1930s.

    Howell, Richard E.
    N-2015-005 · Accession · 1958-1959

    Records include images of Inuvik, including photographs of construction work, the original town and power station and two community dances.

    Neish, Alexander
    Elfie Lafargue collection
    N-2014-010 · Accession · 1955-1959

    Records include photographs of people and places in Yellowknife between 1955-1959. Includes images of the paving 50th Street in Yellowknife, Yellowknife's 21st birthday celebration, the Ingraham Hotel, the movie theatre and local social events.

    Lafargue, Elfie
    Janice March collection
    N-2014-008 · Accession · 1961

    The images mainly feature Fort Good Hope, but there are also photographs of the town of Inuvik, fishing camps, hide preparation and tanning, and Fort Good Hope Sports Day. The photographs were taken by Janice March, who visited Fort Good Hope in the early 1960s as a graduate student of anthropology.

    March, Janice
    Gladys Vear photographs
    N-2013-023 · Accession · 1955-1968

    The photographs were taken by Gladys Vear during her residency at Discovery Mine, Northwest Territories, between 1955-1968. Mrs. Vear was an active member of the Discovery Mines chapter of the Women's Institute, and she travelled to various arctic communities (Tuktoyaktuk and Coppermine) to speak with Aboriginal women and instruct them on electric sewing machines.

    Vear, Gladys
    Terry Keim collection
    N-2013-020 · Accession · 1964-1967

    The film was shot in Inuvik and the Mackenzie delta region circa 1964-1967. The filmmaker is Terry F. Keim. The film features the [196? and 1967] Inuvik Muskrat Jamboree, aerial views of Inuvik, various buildings in the townsite, airplanes and the Inuvik airport, and extensive footage of drum dancers in traditional costumes. A complete shot listing is located in the accession file.

    Keim, Terry
    N-2013-018: 1-1 · File · [2015]
    Part of Ernest Jarman collection

    Item consists of one 54 page self-published memoir, "Through Dr. Jarman's eyes - going north in 1956: featuring Dr. Ernie Jarman's photographs and slides of Fort Rae and surrounding area, Northwest Territories, Canada" by Dr. Ernie Jarman and Marney Jarman Bethell. The text includes many black and white and colour photographs taken in Fort Rae [Behchoko] detailing Dr. Jarman's work at the Faraud hospital from 1954-1956, as well as family and community life.

    Ben Hall collection
    N-2013-015 · Accession · 1932-1993, predominant 1963-1978

    The textual records consists of one letter describing the audiocassette. Most of the photographs date from between 1963 and 1978, although there is one from 1932 and several from 1993. The photographs document the Reverend Ben S. Hall's life in Hay River from 1963-1970, as well as a 1978 Boy Scouting trip to Coppermine and Pine Point. They also depict images of public events, the local "Indian village," aircraft, clergy, and Yellowknife. The audio cassette narrates the series of colour slides of the Boy Scout trip to Coppermine and Pine Point.

    Hall, Ben
    N-2013-014 · Accession · 1945-1947

    The photographs primarily document Yellowknife, including the town, residents, and surrounding mine sites; shipyards and docks of Waterways, Alberta; the fish camp operated by McInnes Products Corporation, Limited, at Gros Cap on Great Slave Lake; and the town, residents, and shipyards of Fort McMurray, Alberta. Other locations documented include Peace River and Fort Fitzgerald, Alberta, as well as Fort Chipewyan, Rocher River, and Fort Resolution, NWT.

    Kettlewell, Eric
    N-2013-013 · Accession · 1920?-1951

    The photographs were originally housed in an album. Most of the prints have no accompanying information such as dates or identifications. The album contains images of mines and mining camps, fishing, hunting, fur trading, dog sledding, the Largent family and the city of Yellowknife. Most of the photographs were likely taken in the 1940's.

    The cover page of the album reads: "This album was put together by Bill Largent. Bill spent from 1920 to 1951 in the Yellowknife and Hay River area. His parents were fur traders or supplied trading posts in these areas. Bill passed away in Nanaimo in 1981, July 25th."

    Largent, Bill
    N-2013-010 · Accession · [1928-1932]

    20 of the photographs document mineral exploration at Great Bear Lake 1928-1932; the remaining 11 photographs feature Baker Lake and Chesterfield Inlet in 1928.

    Nayler, Norman
    Nicholas Tuele collection
    N-2013-008 · Accession · [1981-1983]

    Photographs relate to Nicholas Tuele's work at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre. Images were taken in his role to travel to NWT communities as Museum Advisor in the early 1980s. Images depict several communities and trips that he took including visits to Kugaaruk (Pelly Bay), Tulita (Fort Norman), Délı̨ne (Fort Franklin) and Behchokǫ̨̨̀̀̀ (Rae-Edzo). Some photos are documentation of the Tłı̨chǫ Music Project.

    Tuele, Nicholas
    N-2013-002 · Accession · [192-?-1971]

    Records include photographs and postcards from two photo albums of the Ingraham family. These photo albums were likely compiled by Victor Ingraham's son Leonard in the early 1980s and comprise of family photographs spanning the 1920s through to 1971. Subjects include Victor and Florence Ingraham, their children Leonard and Louisa, and other friends, family and associates of Vic Ingraham, including Gerry Murphy. Mining activities in the Great Bear Lake region, Vic Ingraham's hotels in Yellowknife and other northern scenic photographs are also featured. Communities depicted in the photographs include Fort Chipewyan, Fort Smith, Cameron Bay and Eldorado mine on Great Bear Lake, and Yellowknife. Also included are a 'Souvenir Folder' and two colour hotel postcards.

    Ingraham, Vic
    N-2012-004 · Accession · 1963-1968

    Records include photographs from the Sahtu region, including Deline (Fort Franklin) dating from approximately 1963-1968.

    Kramer, Elizabeth