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The file consists of notes from an oral history interview with Father Pat Mercredi in Edmonton on December 1, 1977. The interviewer was Ray Price.

Interview notes from 1992 Index: Apparently, the name Mercredi as far as he's concerned comes from his father's father's side of the family who was a McCarthy. A Priest who was a French speaking Priest in Chip couldn't handle the th in that and altered the word to Mercredi. His mother was a McDonald and his father a Mercredi and there are Tourangeau in his family tree as well as McDonald and McCarthy. He states that he is a mixture of French and Cree and Irish and Scottish. "The Priests have failed to really live with the native
people, they have lived among them but have not lived with them. He says, this is the basic failure of the Church. He says, he hears constantly from the Church that what are we going to do we're losing the native people, they're leaving us. We would never have lost them if we went there to evangilize [evangelize] and not civilize. We'd never lose them if we lived with them not just among them." (p.6) "One of the things that came out constantly is that he has been discriminated against all his life, discriminated against by fellow priest, discriminated against by the Brothers in the service of the priesthood, discriminated against in College and in semenary [seminary]. And it was explicitly at one time that he was sent to France for 4 years in order to Frenchify him, to make him a cultured man and to turn him into a Frenchman. They haven't been able to succeed and the older he gets the more he goes back to his roots, and he feels it is in Fort Chipewyan and in the North American Indian culture, a culture that was dependent directly upon the land for survival." (p.l) Father Mercredi has translated over 320 hymns into Cree but he can't get them published.

[Please note that the PDF contains discussion of anti-Indigenous racism and reports some racist comments that Father Mercredi had heard.]

This file contains pages pages 101-150 of a photocopied draft version of Jock McMeekan's Yellowknife Blade, edited and abridged by G. McC. Gould. This portion of the autobiography of Jock McMeekan spans his time editing The Northern Miner in Montreal in 1929, and time working at various mines and prospecting in Quebec, through to his early Yellowknife days circa 1935. Page 120 coincides with page 4 of the published book, page 150 coincides with page 27 of the published book.

Please note that this interview contains an outdated and derogatory term historically used to refer to persons of Chinese ancestry.

The file consists of an oral history interview with Cliff Mabbitt & John Evans in January 1977 in Fort Smith. The interviewer was Joanne Overvold.
Interview notes from 1992 Index: Cliff was born in Manitoba in 1898. His father was· from England and his mother was from Scotland. They settled in Newdale in Saskatchewan in the 1800's. His mother died in 1904. Cliff had 5 brothers. Cliff married Ernestine (Babe) Tourangeau. They have 10 children. Cliff owned a restaurant for about a year in Fort Smith.

Please note that this interview contains an outdated and derogatory term historically used to refer to persons of Chinese ancestry.

The file consists of an oral history interview with Laura Loutitt on February 14, 1977 in Fort Smith. The interviewers were Ray Price and Joanne Overvold.
Interview notes from 1992 Index: Father's name, Fred McLeod. He was born in Fort Franklin and died around 1964. Mother's name, Margaret Firth. She died in 1932. Laura's father was remarried in 1936 to Rose Lafferty. There were 15 children in Laura's family. Laura's maternal grandfather was John Firth from Fort McPherson. Her paternal grandfather, Murdoch McLeod, was born in Scotland but lived in Fort Franklin. Her paternal grandmother was Mary Taylor from Edmonton. Laura was born in Fort Nelson in 1904, but lived most of her life in Fort Liard. She married Colin Henry Loutitt from Fort Chipewyan in 1926. They had 11 children in total. One boy died at age 10 of pneumonia in 1932. Colin's mother's name was Helen Flett. His father's name was Peter Loutitt from Scotland. Colin was born in 1894.
A cousin of Laura Loutitt has been collecting information on the McLeod family. His address in 1977 was: Bud McLeod in Edmonton, Alberta. Laura recounts the story about what she knew about the murder of her father's two brothers, William and Frank McLeod in the Nahanni area, while they were prospecting for gold in 1902 [1906?]. Laura spent 8 years in school in Hay River. From there she went to Fort Providence for 3-4 months. Then she moved to Fort Smith to work as a housekeeper and cook for Billy Lion [Lyle] in 1923. In the fall of 1925, she was a housekeeper and cook for room and board and $25/month. She married in 1926 and moved to Fort Chipewyan for 4 years. She moved back to Fort Smith in 1930 and worked again as a housekeeper and cook until she got a job as cook for the NTCL Company. She worked in the summer and got laid off in the winter. Worked in between having 10 kids and cooking. Also worked on the boats for 10 years: on the Distributor for 2 years as cook, left that, had children and then worked on the Radium King. In the wintertime, when she wasn't working on the boats, she was cooking at the hotel, at the DOT and She had her own cafe called "DO DROP IN .. 11 Laura also worked for the police for 17 years as a cook in Inuvik (10 years) and Fort Smith (7 years). There was a book written about Mickey Ryan called the "Link to the North. 11 Collin Henry Loutitt' s · regimental number was 3214784.

Please note that this interview contains an outdated and derogatory term historically used to refer to persons of Chinese ancestry.

The file consists of an oral history interview with John Evans in Fort Smith on January 12, 1977. John's wife, Saraphine Mercredi, also makes a couple of comments. The interviewers are Ray Price and Joanne Overvold. The file also includes additional notes made by Ray and a family history summary.
Interview notes from 1992 Index: John was born in Fort Chipewyan. John's father, David Evans, was from Winnipeg. (Originally Welsh?). He died when John was 16. John's mother, Helen Gibot, was a Cree woman from Fort Chipewyan. She died when he was 11. John had 4 brothers (eg. Morris and Philip) and 1 sister. John lived with an old widow, Adelle Flett, for about 2 years after he left the convent (1924-25) at the age of 14. She was somewhat crippled and didn't have anyone to do chores for her. "But she used to do her own living, you know. No welfare them days, no nothing. So she used to do all the laundry from town, lace snowshoes, and do any kind of work. She couldn't read or write. And yet, people asked her to make a tent so big, a tent 12' by 14' or something like that, she'll tell them how much canvas it needed and she made it." Plane crash in winter of 1930 in Fort Chipewyan·killed·4·children. Plane was piloted by Monkey Sherlock [Captain W.N. Sherlock]. Salt River in the 1920's & 1930's (?). " ... there was still quite a few people there. At one time they had two stores there Hudson Bay and private outfit. Cause all the trappers used to pull in there, especially in the fall and again in the spring after they quit hunting because it was a good place to fish and feed their dogs. That's what they used to be there for. And then celebrate too, I guess."

Please note that this interview contains an outdated and offensive term historically used to refer to persons of Chinese ancestry.

This file contains pages 51-76, and pages 83-100 of a photocopied draft version of Jock McMeekan's Yellowknife Blade, edited and abridged by G. McC. Gould. This portion of the autobiography of Jock McMeekan spans his early years in Rouyn in northwestern Quebec between 1925-1927, to his time editing The Northern Miner in Montreal in 1929, and is not included in the final published book.

[Please note that this autobiography contains a pejorative term used to refer to persons experiencing joblessness and/or homelessness.]

[File consists of one copy of the Yellowknife Public School yearbook for the 1967-1968 school year.]

[Please note that this yearbook contains a pejorative term used to refer to persons experiencing joblessness and/or homelessness.]

Captain Al Cohol. Book four: featuring Al Foils the Mackenzie Raiders, plus: Battle at Big Delta with the Demon Man / Alcohol Education Program, Department of Social Development. - [Yellowknife] : Department of Information, 1973. [Captain Alcohol - Bound comic book (ca. 30p.)]

[Please note that this publication contains a pejorative term used to refer to persons experiencing joblessness and/or homelessness.]

Captain Al Cohol. Book three: and introducing Firey Fritz in Burn Baby Burn; special feature Liquor Doesn't Make Heroes / Alcohol Education Program, Department of Social Development. - [Yellowknife] : Department of Information, 1973. [Captain Alcohol - Bound comic book (ca. 30p.)]

[Please note that this publication contains a pejorative term used to refer to persons experiencing joblessness and/or homelessness.]

Captain Al Cohol. Book two: featuring Captain Al Cohol and an Ordeal of Torture, plus: a special added bonus introducing the Curvacious Beauty called Lois Alley in "Some Women Can Spell Trouble" / Alcohol Education Program, Department of Social Development. - [Yellowknife] : Department of Information, 1973. [Captain Alcohol - Bound comic book (ca. 30p.)]

[Please note that this publication contains a pejorative term used to refer to persons experiencing joblessness and/or homelessness.]

The file consists of the agenda, signed meeting minutes, and an attachment for a special meeting and the agenda, signed meeting minutes, and attachments for the 178th session of the Council of the Northwest Territories.

Please note that the Council minutes contain a discussion on treatment of people living with various social and mental challenges on page 12 of the PDF.

The file consists of the agenda, signed meeting minutes and agenda for the 160th session of the Council of the Northwest Territories.

Please note that the Council minutes contain a discussion of persons with a substance use disorder on page 3 of the PDF.

One folder consisting of the Votes and Proceedings of the 9th Session of the 2nd Council of the Northwest Territories, sitting in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories.

Pamphlet from Northern Trading Company's (NTC) Northern Transport Service. The pamphlet lists freight and passenger tariffs in 1921 between Fort McMurray, Alberta and various locations in Alberta and the Northwest Territories including: Fort Chipewyan, Fort Fitzgerald, Fort Smith, Fort Resolution, Fort Hay River, Fort Providence, Fort Simpson, Fort Wrigley, Fort Norman (Tulita), Fort Good Hope, Fort Arctic Red River (Tsiigehtchic), Fort McPherson and Fort Scenic. The pamphlet also includes a map of the routes taken by the NTC boats S.S. Northland Echo and S.S. Northland trader.

One membership certificate issued to Sam Otto by the Mystic and Auroral Order of Yukon Canolites.

This accession consists of one menu from the Wildcat Cafe in Yellowknife, ca. 1940's.

This accession consists of one menu from the Wildcat Cafe in Yellowknife, dated 1944.

The file consists of stories by Mod Mandeville and the transcript of oral history interview conducted by Ray Price and Joanne Overvold, likely in early 1977.
Interview notes from 1992 Index: His mother's name was Mary Rose Boucher. His father's name was Francois Mandeville. Mod was born in Fort Smith in May of 1908. He has 3 sisters and a brother Archie who is actually a cousin (his father's sister's son), but they call each other brothers.
Page 4 in the interview transcript is missing. "When my father died, all his traps and guns and his belongings went to this uncle of mine, Michel, and I used to trap with the old man. Whatever, I caught was all his though, I never got nothing out of it." p.10 Mod was 15 years old when he shot his first moose. [Hanging of murderer Albert Lebeau](*****REALLY GRUESOME DETAILS ABOUT MRS. NORN'S DEATH ~ AND THAT OF HER TWO CHILDREN BY VICTOR BEAULIEU.)

The file consists of the signed minutes and attachments for the 17th session of the Council of the Northwest Territories.