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N-1999-056: 1-10 · File · 9 June 1942-22 June 1942
Part of Mary Saich fonds

[Letters written by Mary Saich to her parents throughout the month of June 1942 in her second year acting as a teacher at the All Saints Anglican Residential School in Aklavik. Includes details of her work as a teacher and the operations of the school, as well as community activities and social life. Subjects include boat/barge schedules and Ms. Saich’s travel plans for leaving Aklavik]

N-1999-056: 1-11 · File · 28 June 1942-20 July 1942
Part of Mary Saich fonds

[Letters written by Mary Saich to her parents throughout the month of July 1942 in her second year acting as a teacher at the All Saints Anglican Residential School in Aklavik. Includes details of her work as a teacher and the operations of the school, as well as community activities and social life. Subjects include a speech delivered by Bishop Renaissson in Aklavik and Ms. Saich’s journey south on the Radium King, the Confirmation church service in Aklavik, a fellow passenger whom she refers to as Mr. Clarke, and her arrival in Negus Mine]

N-1999-056: 1-12 · File · 21 July 1942-28 July 1942
Part of Mary Saich fonds

[Letters written by Mary Saich to her parents throughout the month of July 1942 in her second year acting as a teacher at the All Saints Anglican Residential School in Aklavik. Includes details of her work as a teacher and the operations of the school, as well as community activities and social life. Subjects include her stop in Yellowknife and Outpost Island on her journey about the Radium King back down south and forest fires along the river]

N-1999-056: 1-2 · File · September 1941
Part of Mary Saich fonds

[Letters written by Mary Saich to her parents throughout the month of September 1941 in her second year acting as a teacher at the All Saints Anglican Residential School in Aklavik. Includes details of her work as a teacher and the operations of the school, as well as community activities and social life. Subjects include the wedding ceremony of two school teachers, Miss Saich’s frustrations at the delayed arrivals of cargo boats and planes, and the difficulties of living and working in the far north]

N-1999-056: 1-3 · File · October 1941
Part of Mary Saich fonds

[Letters written by Mary Saich to her parents throughout the month of October 1941 in her second year acting as a teacher at the All Saints Anglican Residential School in Aklavik. Includes details of her work as a teacher and the operations of the school, as well as community activities and social life. Subjects include a canine attack, Ms. Saich’s work with Brownies, racial segregation, community Halloween festivities, tuberculosis]

N-1999-056: 1-4 · File · 19 November 1941-25 December 1941
Part of Mary Saich fonds

[Letters written by Mary Saich to her parents throughout the months of November and December 1941 in her second year acting as a teacher at the All Saints Anglican Residential School in Aklavik. Includes details of her work as a teacher and the operations of the school, as well as community activities and social life. Subjects include the food offered at the school, anecdotes concerning the school children, growing anxiety in the community as the United States declares war on Japan and Germany, community tension over an inter-racial marriage, the souvenirs which she has acquired in Aklavik, her frustration over the delay of the supply planes from the south, and Christmas activities]

N-1999-056: 1-5 · File · 26 December 1941-5 January 1942
Part of Mary Saich fonds

[Letters written by Mary Saich to her parents throughout the months of December 1941 and January 1942 in her second year acting as a teacher at the All Saints Anglican Residential School in Aklavik. Includes details of her work as a teacher and the operations of the school, as well as community activities and social life. Subjects include town Christmas activities]

N-1999-056: 1-6 · File · 7 January 1942-26 February 1942
Part of Mary Saich fonds

[Letters written by Mary Saich to her parents throughout the month of January and February 1942 in her second year acting as a teacher at the All Saints Anglican Residential School in Aklavik. Includes details of her work as a teacher and the operations of the school, as well as community activities and social life. Subjects include details of life in the residential school and mention of a plane crash near Coppermine which resulted in the death of Paddy Gibson, the Western Arctic superintendent of the Hudson’s Bay Company]

N-1999-056: 1-7 · File · 15 March 1942-1 April 1942
Part of Mary Saich fonds

[Letters written by Mary Saich to her parents throughout the month of March 1942 in her second year acting as a teacher at the All Saints Anglican Residential School in Aklavik. Includes details of her work as a teacher and the operations of the school, as well as community activities and social life. Subjects include daily life in the residence at Aklavik and Ms. Saich’s introduction to Dr. Tooney]

N-1999-056: 1-8 · File · 6 April 1942-10 May 1942
Part of Mary Saich fonds

[Letters written by Mary Saich to her parents throughout the months of April and May 1942 in her second year acting as a teacher at the All Saints Anglican Residential School in Aklavik. Includes details of her work as a teacher and the operations of the school, as well as community activities and social life. Subjects include a flu epidemic at the school, a manhunt for an escaped prisoner, and a visit with Mrs. Cast, the proprietor of an Aklavik hotel, the return of trapper Andy Hay, and spring break up on the Mackenzie River]

N-1999-056: 1-9 · File · 21 May 1942-1 June 1942
Part of Mary Saich fonds

[Letters written by Mary Saich to her parents throughout the months of May and June 1942 in her second year acting as a teacher at the All Saints Anglican Residential School in Aklavik. Includes details of her work as a teacher and the operations of the school, as well as community activities and social life. Subjects include a muskrat hunting trip and a June snowfall]