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[Yellowknife and Alert]
N-1992-250: 0083 · Item · [1945-1961]
Part of Hugh Ross fonds

Footage of Yellowknife in the 1940s and 1950s (aerial of town, Con and Giant mines. Associated Airways plane, radio towers, McNiven Beach, children playing in igloo, at school, eating with chopsticks. Con Hydro at Bluefish/Prosperous Lakes and wood suspension bridge across river, Boy Scout Jamboree?, family vacations, skating, RCAF Signals houses, Public School on 53 Street, Gerry Murphy Arena, Golf course with airplane clubhouse, bicycles in Dominion Day Parade, flag raising, foot races, Peter Bromey and cub shouts, Old Town hill, Yellowknife Expeditor at dock, children sliding on conveyor belt, fuel tank farm and houses on Jolliffe Island, boating, Back Bay, Yellowknife Bay, Latham Island. New town, theatre, barges, sternwheeler, sawmill?, oil sands?, ground breaking at YK Anglican Church?
As well as aerial footage and the base at Alert Nunavut in the 1960s (stone cairns, heavy equipment and Bombardiers, ‘HMS Alert 1876’ etched on rock, Canso? Airplane, Post Office, outhouse, animals, cemetery and plane wreckage (Boxtop 22/Lancaster 965 from July 31, 1950?); more home videos of family. . https://vimeo.com/447878685/0aca2d7cdd

Hugh Ross fonds
194 · Fonds · [1933-1959?]

This fonds consists of 12 film reels, 1 videocassette (VHS) which is a copy of the film footage, 3 cm of textual material and 83 photographs and negatives. The films show Yellowknife in the 1940s and 1950s including aerial footage and the base at Alert in the 1960s. The textual material consists of letters written by Hugh Ross between 1933-1936 from the Fort Norman Wireless Station to his future wife. In addition, there is a copy of a pseudo newsletter of the Royal Canadian Corps. Of Signals Northwest Territories and Yukon Radio System called "Notes of Interest." The negatives and photographs, which are located in a photo album that was compiled by Hugh Ross, include images of military personnel, wireless stations and the military base at Alert.

Ross, Hugh
[Aviation/airplane]
N-1992-250: 0064 · Item · [1962]
Part of Hugh Ross fonds

Herc C 130 and summer visitor. [Sikorsky S-58 helicopter on floats; Rutair Helicopter Ltd.]

[Correspondence]
N-1992-250: 1-1 · File · 16 July 1933-2 August 1937
Part of Hugh Ross fonds

Folder contains letters written by Hugh Ross addressed to his future wife, Donna Keppel, while station at Fort Norman [now Tulita] as a radio operator with the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals.

Notes of Interest
N-1992-250: 1-2 · File · December 1950-March 1951
Part of Hugh Ross fonds

Folder contains booklet entitled Notes of Interest generated by the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals. Log entries record events and occurances at the signal stations, including at the Fort Norman, Norman Wells, Fort Smith, Fort Resolution, Reliance, and Fort Simpson locations.

Notes of Interest
N-1992-250: 1-3 · File · February 1951-November 1951
Part of Hugh Ross fonds

Folder contains booklet entitled Notes of Interest generated by the Royal Canadian Corops of Signals. Log entries record events and occurances at the signal stations, including at the Fort Norman, Norman Wells, Fort Smith, Fort Resolution, Reliance, and Fort Simpson locations.

[Alert]
N-1992-250: 0090 · Item · [1960]
Part of Hugh Ross fonds

Alert - Summer. Flowers/Grave [1960]

[Yellowknife]
N-1992-250: 0084 · Item · [1948-1951?]
Part of Hugh Ross fonds

Yellowknife from air. Ice in July. General Yellowknife. Beach [McNiven?]

[Alert NU]
N-1992-250: 0079 · Item · May 1963
Part of Hugh Ross fonds

Summer work Alert NWT. May 1963 [Tractor]