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The material was amassed in the course of developing the Nanisivik town site near Arctic Bay on Strathcona Sound and consists of correspondence, minutes, agreements, plans and charts.

Records consist of one copy of the agreement between the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada and the Bennett and White Construction company to build a hydroelectric power plant. The photographs, topographical plans, map and architectural drawings depict the proposed site and proposed power plant.

The material consists primarily of administrative records relating to the maintenance of the post at Tsiigehtchic (Arctic Red River) and the duties of the officer. The records include: patrol diaries (1927-1953, 1944-1948 missing); patrol reports (1926-1934); some annual reports (1927-1931); financial records (1926-1943); requisitions (1926-1954, with gaps); shipping invoices (1929-1933); ledgers; fur export tax receipts and returns (1929-1943); hunting and trapping permits and returns (1926-1943); game licenses (1926-1942); trading post permits (1929-1942); radio receiving license receipts and returns (1927-1953); crown timber returns (1926-1943); liquor permits (1929-1939); income tax returns (1929-1942); marriage licenses (1951-1953); vital statistics records (1926-1943); some hunting and trapping records pertaining to the Yukon (1929-1954); administrative records such as instructions of various kinds (192?-1950); correspondence (1926-1953); a file on the administration of estates (1926-1948); and two maps containing hunting and trapping information.

Records include copies of articles, manuscripts, books, correspondence, maps and black and white photographs about Father Emile Petitot.

This accession consists of two town plans dealing with land use and development in the municipality of Fort Good Hope. One plan (:0001) contains the text for the Fort Good Hope Community Plan. The second plan (:0002) indicates zoning and focuses on the Jackfish Creek Redevelopment.

One of the images is a reproduction of a map of the Richardson Islands that Dr. Hadwen used in 1939. The images are the result of numerous trips to the circumpolar north during the 1920s and 1930s when he was studying the potential for reindeer herding for both the Canadian and United States governments. The images cover communities in Alaska and northern Quebec. Traditional Yupik villages and clothing are also documented.

Records include a certificate of incorporation, by-laws, meeting minutes, annual reports, correspondence regarding the Society, museum, and other projects, building plans for the Museum of the North, museum opening records, including a speech and guest book, a brief and agreement with the Territorial government, and information about various artifacts and archives held by the Society.

The material reflects several facets of John Anderson-Thomson's life in the Northwest Territories, including his geological and surveying business, his and Janet's personal and leisure activities, and his role as commanding officer of No. 7 Company Canadian Rangers, Magistrate and Justice of the Peace, and commissioner on the Great Slave Railway Royal Commission. The records include financial records, correspondence, field notes, survey and reference plans, survey instructions, photographs and scrapbooks, certificates, and articles.
The records have been arranged by the Archivist, usually in topical, then roughly chronological order where the original order was not apparent. File divisions and titles, where apparent, have been mostly retained.

Textual records include handwritten and typewritten correspondence that relates to Archie Jamieson and his family as well as his employment at Slave Lake Gold Mines at Outpost Island and the mining industry generally. The map is of the Northwestern part of Canada and identifies the location of Outpost Island, and the distances from Outpost Island to Fort Resolution, Yellowknife and Edmonton.

Photographs depict Northwest Territories communities and activities. The colour slides, taken at Fort Smith, Tulita, Pine Point and Inuvik, are of the communities. Some relate to mining and pipeline development. The prints include enlargements of aerial photographs of Fort Smith, a paddle steamer at Fort McPherson, a residential school in Fort Providence, gardens at Fort McPherson, a view of Arviat from the water, and the Cambridge Bay RCMP police detachment. The community planning sketches were drawn by J. Lewis Robinson in 1945.

The photographs include three taken at Fort Providence in 1945 which depict the community and what appears to be early attempts at commercial agriculture. The fourth image is an aerial view of Fort Simpson and the Mackenzie River, taken in 1967. The sketch maps, of Fort Providence and Fort Simpson, were both completed by J. Lewis Robinson in 1945. The Fort Providence map was drawn at a scale of roughly 1.5 inches : 500 feet, while the Fort Simpson map was drawn at a scale of roughly 1.5 inches : 1000 feet. Each map shows the relative locations of the communities' buildings including: hotels, RCMP stations, hospitals, churches, Signal Corps buildings, post offices, Hudson's Bay Company buildings, retail stores, private homes, and fuel tanks.

Records include operational manuals, operational directives, implementation plans, regulations, policies and procedures, meeting minutes correspondence and contract agreements.

One map was published in 1827 and drawn by Jehoshaphat Aspin in 1826. It is entitled "Recent Discoveries in the Arctic Regions." The 1919 map was published in "Harmsworth's New Atlas" and the 1924 map was published by the Edinburgh Geographical Society.

This accession consists of 25 maps which indicate the electoral boundaries of the NWT as asssented to on October 27, 1978. All 22 electoral regions are represented, and in addition, there is one large map of the NWT which shows each of the 22 districts.

The first map (0001) is entitled "Erebus Bay". It was originally surveyed by Commodore W.J.S. Pullen in 1854 and published by the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty in the same year. Corrections were made in 1925 and it was re-published in 1939. The second map (0002) is entitled "Plans in Arctic America" with inserts of Winter Harbour, Port Bowen, Elizabeth Harbour, Port Leopold, Northumberland Sound, Batty Bay, Victoria Harbour, and Port Neill. It was published by the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty May 21, 1912 and a new edition was published July 24, 1912.