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[Betacam copy (archival master) of the original 16mm colour film entitled "Nahanni Butte". The silent video is 22 minutes in length, and is believed to have been taken by Gus Kraus. The video depicts pesonalities from the Nahanni Butte/Fort Simpson area in the early 1960s, including Gus and Mary Kraus, their son Mickey Kraus, Dick Turner, Father Posset and Albert Faille. Also depicted are recreational activities such as relay races, three-legged races, snowshoeing, tug-of-war contests, and dogsledding. There is footage of men paddling a canoe upstream (the Liard River?), the breakup of the (Liard?) River, a float-equipped helicopter both on the ground and in flight, and airplanes with floats and with skis. Footage of wildlife includes birds, black bears, grizzly bears, wolves, and moose.] https://vimeo.com/447954787/73375ac47e
[Caption information below supplied by Dr. Norman Kagan.
time - season - details
m/s
0/00 - W - Ice flowing on River - NB
0/40 - W - RCMP Const., Micky, ? , Gus Kraus w suspenders
0/45 - - Mary Kraus
0/50 - W - Micky Kraus w pups & sled at NB
2/00 - S - Children running relays at NB - first girls, then boys, then men
2/40 - S - 3 legged races at NB - first men, then boys
3/20 - S - Tug of War at NB - first men, then women
4/00 - W - dog pull, Micky on Skis at NB
4/25 - W - Mary and girls
4/40 - W - River flowing ice ( HS ?)
5/25 - Men in Voyageur canoe ferrying across the river
5/30 - W - boy in hotsprings pool - HS
6/00 - - []Fr Marie ?, ?, John Brucker w gas tank - all in boat
6/20 - - []S pool
6/50 - W - Micky
7/00 - - []women
7/10 - - two men with fish
7/55 - S - white haired man is George Bayer, playing w Micky at NB
8/25 - W - Mary w Micky , sled and dog at cache
9/00 - - Gus w Micky at NB
9/30 - - Micky and ax, then snowshoes at NB
10/20 - S - Birds
10/53 - S - Helicopter at Turner's place at NB
11/12 - S - (Marcelais or Tetso ?) & boys
11/50 - - missionary ( Mrs. Jack Norcross ?), Vera Turner and daughter Nancy
12/07 - - meat drying, Mary Kraus
12/27 - - []wo helicopters at Turner's compound NB
12/45 - S - Joseph and Amy Kraus, Gus' older brother & sister-in-law [Joe grew vegetables at Paradise Gardens south of Hay River]
13/25 - S - red plane w Joe and Amy at Ft. Providence [Joe: 5/26/96 - 10/23/86 buried at Hay R., Amy was in Ft Smith seniors home in 1995]
13/25 - W - Pacific Western plane and frozen wolf
13/50 - - birds in tree
14/07 - - man scraping hide, NB
14/18 - S - Mary, Micky, and John Brucker (cigarette in hand) at NB
14/50 - W - Mary Kraus with laughing Vera Turner & daughter Nancy talking with visiting R. M. Patterson at NB (March,1960?)
15/15 - W - tractor scenes
16/25 - S - John Brucker pouring gasoline
16/50 - S - cinematographer Don Wilder at NB - July 4, 1961 with George Bayer, John Brucker, young man w fists up (Don Turner?) and Albert Faille [Wilder hired Geo & John to crew 2nd scow]
17/40 - - kids
17/48 - W - Mary w girl and two similar women ?
18/32 - W - new cabins at NB
19/00 - - dog on chain
19/10 - W - red plane and Mary with others
19/25 - W - wind blowing at NB
19/45 - W - Mary with young girls at NB
19/59 - S - black bear at HS
20/30 - S - moose along river at HS
20/38 - - birds and dogs
20/58 - W - Norseman [actually Otter] plane - Edwin Lindberg folding tarp
21/20 - - Mary cutting young man's hair, looking for lice
21/35 - THE END]

Interviews with Wekweti (Snare Lakes) elders including Joe Pea'a, Madeline Judas, Louis Whane, Helen Laboline, Margaret Lafferty, Joe Dryneck, Charlie Eyakfwo, Leonard Fish, and Roger Arrowmaker. Interviews are in Tlicho (Dogrib). https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwtarchivesn-1995-011-0023

Interviews with Snare Lakes Elders including Margaret Lafferty, Rosa Fish, Marie Simpson, Harry Kodzin, Alexis Arrowmaker, Rosa Pea'a, Joe Wanazah, Celine Wanazah and Monique Koyina. Interviews are in Tlicho (Dogrib). https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwtarchivesn-1995-011-0024

This film contains amateur footage of construction on the Giant Mine site in the fall and winter of 1946-47 filmed by A.K. Muir, General Manager. Footage shows construction of a dock, framing, a headframe, the Engineers building, sawing lake ice, heavy equipment, and the boat "Liard River". [Ted Horton, Jock McNiven?, also horses] https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-n-2014-004-0001

This film illustrates and describes the mining process at Giant Yellowknife Gold Mines, including surveying, blasting, hauling and crushing ore, roasting and pouring a gold brick. It also details life in Yellowknife and documents Dominion Day celebrations and boating on the Yellowknife River. https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-n-2014-004-002

This film contains amateur footage of a variety of subjects, including brief shots of Giant Mine in winter, flora and fauna, a survey team, aerials of mountains, a prospecting camp in summer, heavy equipment and a helicopter, a Giant Yellowknife Gold Mines airplane on a lake, and airplanes at a dock in Old Town Yellowknife. It may document exploration activities for Giant Mine's parent company Frobisher Ltd.'s northern holdings. https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-n-2014-004-0003

This film contains amateur footage of a variety of subjects, and seems to document flying from Giant Mine in Yellowknife to other northern mining exploration camps. Included are brief shots of Giant Mine headframe and roasting complex, aerials of possibly Giant Mine or Yellowknife, a prospecting camp in summer, several shots of a larger mining camp (perhaps North Rankin Nickel Mine), and planes at the Pacific Western Airways dock in Old Town Yellowknife. It may document exploration activities for Giant Mine's parent company Frobisher Ltd.'s northern holdings. https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-n-2014-004-0004

[3 minute b&w film of one inuit child (Rebecca Webster?) and young Raymer Ross playing with sled and box of live chicks (brought by Wop May); men building an igloo; two inuit women with tattooed faces (one smoking); Raymer doing laundry in tub with mangler; women cutting and distributing something (blubber?) wrapped in paper to women and children (Margery Webster?); Lillian Ross leading dog team pulling large boat on a sled; Raymer with Jocko the sock monkey and his mother, Lillian. Read Island 1938-39] https://vimeo.com/447889669/aab11d3f97

Entitled "Highway of the Atom," this film was created for the Northern Transportation Company Ltd. (NTCL). It was edited and recorded by Crawley Films, with camera work by R.B. Ranson. "Highway of the Atom" illustrates the Radium Line of the Northern Transportation Company Ltd. Transportation system by tracing the shipment of materials from Waterways, Alberta to Port Radium, on the "Radium Franklin" and the "Radium Gilbert." https://vimeo.com/752291801/daeaced7ee For reference only, request copies/copyright permission from LAC.

Promotional film describing a typical transportation season, produced for NTCL by Jubenvill & Embra Films Ltd. (Vancouver, Canada) and directed by Ken Jubenvill. 33 minutes https://vimeo.com/752277649/ace5fe7686
Includes footage of: Great Slave Lake, Mackenzie River, Delta, Beaufort Sea, Northwest Passage; Hay River, Inuvik, Tuktoyaktuk, Coppermine, Gjoa Haven. NTCL tugs: Vic Ingraham, Angus Sherwood, Frank Broderick; Camsell (Ice Breaker), barges, hovercraft, crew, man-made islands, railway and highway transportation. For reference only.

[Documenting students at Mesi Community School in Wha Ti making a bush canoe with the help of elders from the Lac La Martre Community Education Council. The film was related to their entry in the 'Explore Our Northern Heritage' competition.] https://vimeo.com/752157689/a99fe4fad6

[Documenting students at Mesi Community School in Wha Ti making a caribou skin jacket with the help of elders from the Lac La Martre Community Education Council. The film was related to their entry in the 'Explore Our Northern Heritage' competition.] https://vimeo.com/448920443/d5b85bc369

8 mm. Colour. 400' Untitled. 1955. [This footage contains images of men constructing a log bridge, dredging the river, machinery and boats at the dock, spring breakup and ice buildup on the river. (11:39 min) 1948-59] https://vimeo.com/689001682/43e3083450

Videocassette is a duplication of 8 mm films also in accession N-1992-250 which feature footage of Yellowknife in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as aerial footage and the base at Alert in the 1960s. https://vimeo.com/447878685/0aca2d7cdd

"Dogrib Treaty" is Richard Finnie's 1939 film record of the Dogrib Indians, an Athapaskan tribe which lives between Great Bear and Great Slave lakes, shot at the time of treaty payments. The footage includes scenes from annual gathering of the Dogrib Indians of Fort Rae, N.W.T.; women making moccasins, beadwork, and fishnets; a man emptying his nets, cleaning and drying fish; boys playing checkers; a couple sharing a meal; ceremonies held under canvas with drums, chanting, and dancing; women walking to the Roman Catholic church with babies; the congregation, separated by sex; and medical checkups administered by a government doctor.

Also shown are the Hudson Bay Company, trading, church going, gambling, circle dance, drum songs, and paying treaty of $5 in $1 bills by RCMP to each man, woman and child. Elders and chiefs speak and identification cards are distributed. The chief, (possibly Chief Jimmy Bruneau), is seen conversing with government treaty officials. Also included is a sequence from a Hudson's Bay Company post where a white trader examines the furs of an Indian trapper. For reference only, request copies/copyright permission from Library & Archives Canada. http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=filvidandsou&id=61889&lang=eng https://vimeo.com/70083011/4764988ea4

[Footage of RCMP Beech 18 airplane (CF-MPI), car, officers painting the roof of a building, boats (Aklavik II), waterfalls, barges and tug (Expeditor?), Mackenzie River Ramparts, tank farm, crane lifting lumber from barge to truck, Beaver airplane, whale blubber on drying racks, tour of sled dogs chained to posts, aerial of pingos in Delta/Tuktoyaktuk region, buildings and ship, fishing, nets and racks (dog food?), sawing and moving ice blocks, sunsets, harnessing and running dog teams on trails through bush and on ice, Canadian Pacific Otter (CF-CZO) on river (skis and floats), Arctic Red River community and water during Spring ice break-up and flooding.] 1956-62 https://vimeo.com/777090522/0810928836

[Footage of red and white RCMP buildings of Arctic Red River in winter, dog team journeys, log homes, church, boats, dog pens, puppies, huskies eating fish, Wardair Otter (CF-IFP?) on skis, NWT Mace being carried by RCMP officer in red serge uniform (possibly Robert C. Knights), RCMP airplane [and removal of a body from the bush (Edited out)]. 1956-62 https://vimeo.com/777075332/d7140597ce

copy of 27:15 minute 8mm original film https://vimeo.com/447893619/5a1f53f201
1) Self [C.J. Baker] in canoe on Y’Knife [Yellowknife] Bay, paddle to shore and land at the Rich [Burwash Gold Mine]
2) Old prospector, Horan, on trip with me, crossing portage.
3) Self [C.J. Baker] carrying my canoe across a portage.
4) Foot of the [Tartan Rapids] rapids where Y’Knife [Yellowknife] River enters the bay.
5) Ross starting the Kicker.
6) Ross in canoe with Kicker, towing another canoe.(note the bridle hitch).
7) Brock at the Kicker.
8) Lunch at a point on a lake. Hughie Muir and others.
9a) Big bush fire at the Rich [Gold Mine]. The crew all cutting some trees to make a fire break.
9b) More smoke and fire, as the bush fire approaches the Rich [Gold Mine].
10) My raven, Angus, on the ridge pole of my tent.
11) My Y’Knife [Yellowknife] Husky pups. [racist slur redacted] and Chief.
12) Ross and others of my party on the Walsh portage, do some shooting practice
13) Mock fight with a bear that I had just had to shoot.
14) Self [C.J. Baker] and party going across the Walsh portage.
15) One of our canoes (with kitchen) approaches and goes away into the distance
16) At my Ptarmigan Prospect Camp, the cook cuts wood for the stove.
17) Cutting a water hole through the ice. For water for our camp.
18) Self [C.J. Baker] on the ice.
19) Men on snow trail.
20) Self [C.J. Baker] and party returning to our camp.
21) [Husky dogs] Gyp and Benny alone at wood pile.
22) [Husky dogs] Gyp and Benny coming towards me.
23) At Edmonton airport, with aircraft [CF-BDG] in the ice and snow.
24) A winter panorama of Giant [Gold Mine].
25) Norseman Aircraft [CF-AM?] on ice at Giant [Gold Mine], being met by my huskies, [racist slur redacted] and Chief
26) My husky "[racist slur redacted]" at edge of ice of Y’Knife [Yellowknife] Bay near my Giant [Gold Mine] camp.
27) My raven "Angus" on a stump.
28) Our large freighter canoe.
29) Beach craft Aircraft lands on Y’Knife [CF-BBB, Yellowknife] Bay to come to the Rich [Gold Mine].
30) The pilot stands on pontoon to paddle aircraft [CF-AWR] to landing at the Rich [Gold Mine].
31) Ole Hagen at the Giant [Gold Mine].
32) My summer tent camp at the Giant [Gold Mine].
33) X-ray Diamond Drill is landed from aircraft [Junkers CF-AM? At the Rich [Gold Mine].
34) X-ray on canoe raft that we made to take it across the [Back Bay] bay to the Giant [Gold Mine].
35) Beach craft Aircraft comes into a landing at the Giant [CF-BBB Gold Mine].
36) Panorama at the Rich [Gold Mine], log cabins and tents.
37) My crew trenching on the Giant [Gold Mine].
38) Dynamite blasting at Giant [Gold Mine] workings.
39) Hughie Muir at my Giant [Gold Mine] workings.
40) Our Diamond Drill.
41) My husky "Chief' prospecting in the bush, followed by "[racist slur redacted]".
42) Long shot photo of Rich [Gold Mine] with aircraft in distance.
43) Aircraft at shore at Rich [Gold Mine]. (tail end view of Bellanca?).
44) Northern Transport Co. boat and barge at Rich [Gold Mine], and plane flying over.
45) Aircraft at shore at Rich [Gold Mine, Bellanca?].
46) Barge at the Rich [Gold Mine].
47) NT. Boat and barge at Rich [Gold Mine] dock and crew rolling off the oil drums.
48) At Rich [Gold Mine], man carries case of dynamite to permafrost dug out for storage.
49) Self [C.J. Baker] viewing big compressor just landed at the Rich [Gold Mine].
50) Mining equipment and supplies just landed at the Rich [Gold Mine] and tractor is on the move.
51) The Blacksmith shop at the Rich [Gold Mine].
52) Our tractor hauling machinery at the Rich [Gold Mine].
53) Shaft head buildings at the Rich [Gold Mine] and installing machinery.
54) Ole Hagen going down the prospect shaft at the Rich [Gold Mine].
55) Pete, at Y’Knife [Yellowknife] old town, carries in the very first spring-bed- mattress.
56) At Rich [Gold Mine], aircraft takes off. [Bellanca]
57) Large barge-boat that the Rich [Gold Mine] crew built goes away down the Bay.
58) I portage my canoe to the Bay and paddle away

[The record creator (C.J. Baker) used an anti-black racist slur as a name for one of his dogs. Previously, an archivist reproduced the racist term in the Scope and Content. In November 2022, an archivist revised the description of the photograph to redact the slur. A copy of the original description is available upon request in the accession file for N-1999-015. Please contact NWT Archives for more information or to request access to the original description.]

This video provides an overview of Dene arts and crafts that have been and continue to be created in the NWT. Wayne Nataway narrates the video, which includes snowshoe making, moosehair tufting, birch bark basket making, and beading. Included in the video are Nelie Wedzen and Elizabeth Rabesca (Behchoko) scraping hides, Joe Charlo making snowshoes, Rose Bonnetrouge tufting, and Annie Apple (Behchoko) beading. https://vimeo.com/747806469/c980790b2d

The video is a documentary introduction to paddling the Thelon River and the Kazan River. The video is narrated with clips of audio interviews and includes both video and photographs. Content includes geography, flora and fauna, food, planning a canoe trip, and a stop at Baker Lake featuring Inuit art and artists, a traditional hunting camp, and the Hudson's Bay Company post and visitors' centre. The canoeists are Laurie Pelly, David Pelly, Jimm Simon, Paul von Baich, and Mike Whittier. The narrator was John Tarzwell with location sound by Samuel Itqilik, camera by Victor Kilulark, and photographs by Paul von Baich. The writer was Charles Brown and the director was Gary Duke. Producers were Lorraine Thomas, Mike O'Shaughnessy, and Gary Duke, with Jimm Simon (ED&T) as the Executive Producer. The video was produced by Inuit Communications Systems Ltd. in cooperation with Betelgeuse Productions and Southpaw Productions for Canada's Northwest Territories. https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-g-2024-019-0001