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[Planning sketch map of Fort Providence drawn by J. Lewis Robinson in 1945. The drawing is 19 cm x 37 cm. The scale is roughly 1.5 inches : 500 feet. Numbered buildings indicate the locations of the R.C. Mission dwelling, the residential school, the Roman Catholic Church, the Hudson's Bay Company store and dwelling, R.C.C. Signals (RCASC) Station and dwelling, and the RCMP station.]

[Planning sketch map of Fort Simpson drawn by J. Lewis Robinson in 1945. The drawing is 17.5 cm x 31.5 cm. The scale is roughly 1.5 inches : 1000 feet. Numbered buildings indicate the locations of oil storage tanks, the government doctor's dwelling, independent traders, the hotel, the RCMP station, the Roman Catholic Mission Hospital, the Roman Catholic Church, the post office, the Anglican Mission Church, the RCC Signals (RCASC) building, and the Hudson's Bay Company.]

[Hand-drawn map of Cape Parry and Amundsen Gulf, featuring Police Point, Devon Point, Franklin Bay, and Gillet Bay. An air strip, vegetation and hamlet are indicated.]

Map hand-drawn by Jean Boulva illustrating the areas navigated by the M.V. Salvelinus during the 1965 fisheries and oceanographic investigation in the Bathurst Inlet area. A few other places are also mentioned (text in French).

[Depicted areas include Coronation Gulf, Gulf of Queen Maud, Keyhole Lake, Dease Strait, Hepburn Island, Starvation Cove, and Cambridge Bay [Iqaluktuuttiaq]. Also included are commentary and descriptions of the landscape and weather encountered]

One map appears to be one half of a larger map. It depicts northern Alberta, northern British Columbia and a portion of the western section of the Northwest Territories extending to the Arctic ocean (53 - 70 north and 103 - 128 west). Features included on the map are Great Slave Lake, Great Bear Lake a portion of the Mackenzie River and the Coronation gulf. A number of rivers, lakes, mountains, various other geographical features and communities including older communities such as Old Fort Providence, Old Fort Confidence, Old Fort Franklin, Old Fort Enterprise, Old Fort Reliance and Fort Anderson are identified on the map. Certain routes and trails such as winter portages and the routes of Hearne and Franklin are also depicted.

One map entitled " Canada Centennial Map: Northwest Territories 1870-1970. Map shows historic places and events on a map for the NWT. Produced by the Federal Dept. of Energy Mines and Resources, 1970.