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Records include letters written by Mary Saich to her parents when she was the schoolteacher at All Saints Mission in Aklavik, between 1940-1942. Approximately half of the acquisition is the original of the manuscript entitled "A Year in Canada's North."

Records consist of two photo albums containing 146 black and white prints of Aklavik and environs and of Mary Saich's trip to Tuktoyaktuk; one scrapbook compiled by Mary Saich; one notebook including historical and geographical notes on the Northwest Territories and curriculum ideas; 145 black and white and colour slides. The photographs are of people in Aklavik and Tuktoyaktuk, images of barges and steamers, buildings such as the hospital, school, and church in Aklavik as well as winter and summer camps.

Miss Manderfelt. Kittigazuit. Summer, 1941.

[Miss Manderfelt holding a human skull at Kittigazuit (Kitigaaryuit), an Inuvialuit site. NWT Archives has chosen not to show this image online because it includes human remains. If you have questions or comments, or would like to access this image, please contact NWT Archives.]

Miss Manderfelt. Kittigazuit. Summer, 1941.

[Miss Manderfelt holding a human skull at Kittigazuit (Kitigaaryuit), an Inuvialuit site. NWT Archives has chosen not to show this image online because it includes human remains. If you have questions or comments, or would like to access this image, please contact NWT Archives.]

This fonds consists of 291 photographs and 6.2 cm of textual material. There are images of Aklavik and the surrounding area, as well as images that document Mary Saich's trip to Tuktoyaktuk. In addition, there is one scrapbook compiled by Mary Saich; one notebook that includes historical and geographical notes on the Northwest Territories, her curriculum ideas and a manuscript entitled "A Year in Canada's North" which includes copies/originals of articles on the north and copies/originals of Mary Saich's correspondence with her parents.

The file consists of a notebook of drawings and handwritten information about Canada's north, which may have been used as teaching material.

The file consists of a scrapbook kept by Mary Saich of her time in Aklavik, 1940-42. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, letters, mementos of her journey north, programs, her employment contract, temperature tracking, and booklets about HBC Mackenzie River Transport and All Saints Cathedral.