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This accession consists of six navigational maps which are of the scale 1:253,440 except for (0003). (0001) is entitled "Map of Slave River: Fort Smith to Resolution". (0002) is entitled "Map of Great Slave Lake: Resolution to Windy Pt.". (0003) is of the scale 1:380,160 and is entitled "Map of Great Slave Lake: Western Sheet" (0004) is entitled "Map of Mackenzie River: Providence to Simpson", (0005) is entitled "Map of Mackenzie River: Simpson to Wrigley" and (0006) is entitled "Map of Mackenzie River Wrigley to Norman".

Records include photographs which are reproductions of federal government issues. Originally, a collection of over 2,000 lantern slides reproduced from various federal departmental sources, the majority of slides did not relate to the Northwest Territories and consequently they were forwarded to the National Archives of Canada in 1990. These colour images document the scenery, town sites and local people, including Dene and Inuit, of the Northwest Territories and includes many images of the Harry Snyder Canadian Expedition (1937).

The records are reproductions of federal government issues. Originally a collection of over 2,000 lantern slides reproduced from various federal departmental sources, the majority did not relate to the Northwest Territories and were forwarded to the National Archives of Canada in 1990. Images include: women at Aklavik (1922); cattle near Fort Smith; Harry Snyder at Nahanni National Park (1937); reindeer on Richards Island (1937); and views of various animals at Wood Buffalo National Park.

This accession consists of a photograph taken by O.S. Finnie in 1929 at Fort McPherson. It may have been taken at treaty payment time. Included in the photograph from left to right are: Simon Dizik, Reverend John Marten, Ben Kunnizzi, Christopher Colin, Corporal Wilson (RCMP), Old Robert, Johnny Kay [Kyikavichik], Fred Tuth, Chief Julius, L.A. Giroux, Old William Vittrewka, Charlie Snowshoe, and Abraham Francis. Identifications provided by Sarah Simon.

The images cover locations in the western arctic and northern Alberta including: Fort Good Hope, Fort McPherson, Fort Smith, Hay River, Yellowknife and King William Land. The photographs are predominantly from the 1920s and illustrate a variety of subjects including: both Anglican and Catholic missions and missionaries, transportation along the Mackenzie River and payment of treaty. Included among the photographers are O.S. Finnie, J.A. Moran, J.F. McDougal, and L.T. Burwash.

This accession consists of one map entitled "Plan of Cameron Bay Settlement" compiled from surveys conducted by M. Meikle D.L.S. on August 25, 1933 and produced by the Department of the Interior. The map is scale: 100 feet to an inch. Cameron Bay was the name of the town that sprang up after Gilbert Labine's discovery of silver and radium. The settlement was officially named Port Radium in 1937 and then renamed Echo Bay in 1965. The locations and identifications of Royal Canadian Mounted Police buildings appear to have been annotated on the original map.

This accession consists of four cartographic sheets which collectively are entitled Map of Great Slave Lake and Hudson Bay. They were originally published by the Federal government in 1900 and reprinted in 1923, to accompany a report by J.B. Tyrell. They are stamped Department of Interior-Yukon and Northwest Territories Branch. They are annotated with the inscription "help yourself". (:0001) is entitled Sheet No. 1 and shows McLeod Bay in the east end of Great Slave Lake, the water route to Artillery Lake, Lac Du Bois, Casba Lake, Campbell Lake and Sifton Lake. (:0002) is entitled Sheet No. 2 and shows the Thelon River. It includes Granite Falls and Hanbury River. (:0003) Sheet No. 3A and 3B shows the Thelon River and includes Beverly Lake and Aberdeen Lake. (:0004) is entitled Sheet No. 4 and shows the lower Thelon River and includes Schultz Lake and Baker Lake. The maps also show Dene and Inuit encampments along the Thelon River. There are no copies of these maps on deposit with either the National Archives of Canada or the National Museum of Civilization.

The records are made up of three files of correspondence and two blue print maps of leased areas documenting applications and maintenance of surveying permits for petroleum and natural gas exploration in the south Great Slave Lake region including, Pine Point and Presquille Point areas.

Subjects include the Mackenzie River, Slave River, Great Slave Lake, Keewatin and Ungava.

Subjects include: Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake, Dismal Lakes, Coppermine River, Mackenzie River, Thelon River, Backs River (Back River), Camsell River, Slave River and Cameron Bay.

This accession consists of correspondence from the files of O.S. Finnie, Acting Secretary. They concern a subscription to a press clipping service.

The textual material comprises an incomplete copy of L.T. Burwash's report entitled, "The Eskimo, Their Country and Its Resources: Economic Survey of the East Coasts of Hudson Bay and James Bay from Richmond Gulf to Rupert House, Including the Belcher and Other Adjacent Islands," Ottawa, Dept. of the Interior, 1927. (Typewritten.) The report contains a diary of the trip taken by Burwash, descriptions of Inuit life, food supplies, clothing, health, the influence of trading posts, housing conditions, and mineral and animal resources in the region. Much of the report focuses on the Inuit in the regions around Little Whale River and the Belcher Islands. Included in this report were photographs of communities along the eastern coast of Hudson Bay and James Bay and eight maps. The mounting of the photographs in this report suggests that this copy was a draft produced before its final publication.