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Reel # 24
N-2001-002: 13125 · Item · [1954-1959]
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Reel # 24
850’Original film

  • Taken around Camsell Portage
  • Stoney Lake, Sask. Women working on a stretched moose hide
  • Father Brown’s dogs passing Stoney Rapids
  • Sunset at Fort Chipewyan
  • The "Ark" at Black Bay
  • Father Brown running behind his dog team
  • Father Brown & Archie Powder with the komatik
  • Father Brown & Phillip Stenne at Black Bay: fall fishery
  • Uranium City [Sask]: aerial footage
  • Sunset: long footage: Crackinstone Point: Lake Athabaska
  • Ice pile at Crackinstone: pressure ridge (St. Joseph Point )
  • The old fort: opposite Fort Chipewyan
  • Fort Chipewyan: panorama, Slave River, Pelican Rapids from the air
  • Fort Fitzgerald, Fort Smith, Bell Rock : loading the Sant’anna
  • Morris Point: Father Brown plucking geese
  • Camsell: netting fish: Felix Powder: Phillip Stenne
  • Father Brown attaches name plate to mission St. Bernard.
  • MASL (McMurray Air Service Ltd) Stinson lands at dock.
  • Morris point: killing mounting geese
  • Swimming across the portage at Camsell
  • Father Brown: gull eggs: shrine at St. Marys Channel
  • Gunnar mine town site:
  • The ruins of Goldfields, Sask.
  • Fond du Lac
  • Gunnar mine: Gilbert Labine & family
  • Camsell: Father Brown, kids & balloons
  • Departure from Camsell: people on the beach
  • Sunset: Lake Athabaska https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-bwb-n-2001-002-13125
Reel # 19
N-2001-002: 13123 · Item · [1954-1959]
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Reel #19
500’ Bishop Trocelliers funeral 1959 ?

This is the original film footage taken at. Fort Smith, N.W.T.

  • Bishop Joseph Trocelliers body laid out at the old cathedral
  • The funeral mass: Father Leon Mokwa O.M.I. celebrant
  • The choir: Father Joseph Turcotte O.M.I. directing
  • Singers: Fathers Jean Denis: Pat Mercredi, Robert Haramburu O.M.I.
  • The Grey Nuns chorale
  • Procession to the cemetery at -50 f.
  • Grave site prayers, lowering the casket.
  • Summer: oblate graves at Fort Smith
  • Banquet; St. Anne’s hospital refectory, all O.M.I. personnel
  • Kitchen staff: hospital patients.
  • The Grey Nuns sewing room.
  • The foundation of the new St. Joseph cathedral.
  • The old and new hospital
  • Pelican Rapids Slave River
  • Aerial view of Fort Smith
  • Buffalo in winter: Hay Camp : Wood Buffalo Park
  • Views from the Beaver aircraft piloted by Pat Carey
  • Fort Chipewyan: winter: aerial view.
  • Fort Chip [Chipewyan]: winter: children & Grey Nuns.
  • Kids sliding in front of the mission
  • Camsell Portage: Phillip Stenne harnessing dogs
  • Uranium City: the church & rectory (moved from Goldfields, Sask.) https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-bwb-n-2001-002-13123
Reel # 17
N-2001-002: 13122 · Item · [1962]
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Reel #17
600’ Original footage

From Fort McMurray to Fort Norman [Tulita] by canoe 1962
Father Brown and five Rochester volunteers from Aquinas Inst.

  • Loading 22 ft freighter canoe at Ft. [Fort] McMurray snye O
  • North down the Athabaska River O
  • Pulling out at the Fort Fitzgerald (portage to Ft. [Fort] Smith 16 mi) O
  • Passing stern-wheel river dredges
  • Camp on beach on Lake Athabaska across from Fort Chipewyan
  • Camp on Dead Mans Island: Great Slave Lake: Brown, Martin, Wratni.
  • Hay River Indian Village [Kátł'odeeche First Nation]: crowd after Sunday mass.
  • Fort Providence mission: Frs. Alexis Robin, Lusson O.M.I.
  • Mission attic: wooden shoes from France: book bindery & Robin.
  • On the Mackenzie: Wratni & Martin
  • Fort Norman [Tulita]. : the old and new churches: D
  • H.B.C. Ft. [Fort] Norman town dock ?
  • Panorama of the town, Bear Rock O
  • Old and new church O
  • Father Brown shows Wratni & Martin church wall paintings O
  • Father Brown officiates at a high mass O
  • At [Fort] Norman dock site: prospector Hamar Nelson: Hare Indians [Sahtu Dene] on bank
  • The Anglican log church : H.B.C. O
  • Loading canoe with dogs: panorama of Fort Norman [Tulita] O
  • Passing Bear Rock in the canoe O https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-bwb-n-2001-002-13122
Reel # 16
N-2001-002: 13121 · Item · [1962-1970]
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Reel #16
900’ Colville Lake : O=orig.film: D=duplicate.

  • Colville Village from the air : O
  • Snow blowing over lake ice: long segment: O
  • Our Lady of the Snows mission: plaque Agnes Oudzi: Wilfred Kochon D
  • Mission pups: Samson & Delilah: ptarmigan supper O
  • John Blancho Jr: Alexis Blancho O
  • Veronique Kochon hauling firewood D
  • Mary Codzi using swede saw: ptarmigan O
  • Frank Wratni, Brian Martin, ptarmigan O
  • Alice Oudzi & dogs: Louis Oudzi hauling fire wood dogs: D
  • Antoine Codzi: son- Phillie [Phillipe?]: daughter- Madeline: setting tent ?
  • A pine marten in a trap ?
  • The first trading post: Father Brown gives Christmas gifts D
  • Offloading PWA Otter to dogsled D
  • The caribou hunt north: five teams D
  • Louie Oudzi unloading meat into his warehouse D
  • Philip Codzi Jr bringing in building logs by dogteam D
  • Peter Mountain squaring logs: his wife Adele getting ice D
  • Codzi family arriving by dogteams Easter: setting their tent D
  • The Kochon family lease [leaves?] after Easter D
  • Martin Oudzi and daughter Alice driving dogs D
  • Father Brown and his team: Corpus Christi trip north D
  • Kochon tent camp at Doeta spring ?
  • Codzis Ketaniah spring camp: Baptistine Codzi & beaver skin D ?
  • Codzi camp on Colville Lake: Verona Pascal (Ahson) & beaver D
  • Charlie Masuzumi stretches muskrat D
  • Bertha Tinatchie & Mary Barnaby with stretched beaver D
  • Antoine Codzi canvasses a rat canoe: Ethloleh working D
  • Martin Oudzi in rat canoe: Antoine Kochon & swan ?
  • The R.C. dock from the kitchen window O
  • Edward Oudzi in canoe: Philip & Dora Codzi paddlying [paddling] canoe O
  • The Isadore Kochon family return by dog packs in spring O
  • At the mission: Father Brown & pups O
  • Building the six man fishing lodge: Father Brown: 1965
  • Alfred Saiten & Wildred Kochon: Lucy Ann & Betty Barnaby ?
  • Benediction in the mission O
  • Baptism of Stella Barnaby D
  • Trout at Doeta off the Loon ?
  • Father Brown & moose near Bekadu D
  • Kochon family leave by dog packs fall D
  • Johnny Blancho in canoe, netting fish off the Loon D
  • Bro. R. Mahe: fish: kids & frozen wolves: pups: village at -40 blowing snow O https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-bwb-n-2001-002-13121
Reel # 12
N-2001-002: 13117 · Item · [1953-1960]
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Reel # 12
1100’Original film ?

Lake Athabaska: towing the "Ark" * 30 ft skiff (R.P. Rousseliere OMI)

  • Skiff in rough seas Lake Athabaska: Mike Powder
  • Father Brown & Phillip Stenne at fish camp, Black Bay Oct. 1954

Camsell Portage:

  • Father Brown at kicker: breaking ice: putting up stick fish.
  • Camsell mission St. Bernard (duplicate)
  • Hauling water: dog blankets: harnessing dogs: Philip driving dogs.

Original film:

  • Father Brown harnesses dogs: Philip, Archie Powder & 16’ komatik
  • Spring komatik trip to Black Lake, Sask.
  • Travelling with dogs, nailing cabin door: Philip
  • At Black Lake: nets, scenes around the settlement
  • Father Brown brings communion to a sick Chipewyan woman in a tent.
  • Kids playing: women at work, washing etc.

Aklavik:original film

Father Brown’s spring dog sled trip 1956

Tuktuk [Tuktoyaktuk]: scenes around town

  • Schooner Our Lady of Lourdes on the beech.
  • Bob and Margaret Cockney
  • Pokiak kids & dogs
  • Husky Lakes: family in basket sled photograph Father Brown & team
  • Setting a tent on the ice Husky Lakes
  • Jiggling for trout: Edgar Kutakut & pup
  • Wallace Lucas tent camp: reindeer
  • Father Brown followed Edgar’s team into Tuk [Tuktoyaktuk]:
  • Ptarmigan
  • Whitefish Station: summer
  • Schooner "North Star" Fred Carpenter at Tuk [Tuktoyaktuk]:
  • Whaling at Whitefish Station
  • Fleshing beluga hide (Alice Thrasher)
  • Drying hides: beluga stomach: making muktuk
  • Reindeer along the shore at Whitefish

Inuvik:

Reel # 11
N-2001-002: 13116 · Item · [1959]
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Reel #11
650’ Original footage.

The old mission restoration project: Fort McMurray, Alta. 1969

  • [Fort] McMurray: the old mission: dilapidated condition, original site
  • Father Brown builds skids of long green logs.
  • Two N.T.C.L. TD-18 Cats hauling old mission thru town
  • Digging the 6 ft. trench at the hotel parking lot to get under wires
  • Father Raymond Danto O.M.I. on the Mayrath car.
  • Father Brown congratulates his works after old mission move.
  • George Couterier hauling land fill around old mission
  • Re-shingling old mission roof with cedar shakes
  • Father Brown builds a new steeple and puts it up.
  • Old mission: Brother landscaping with tractor and harrow
  • The finished job: old mission in winter
  • The commemorative plaque in place
  • The sun dial "Nisi Horas Serinas" built by Hans de Vroom
  • Benediction in the old mission
  • Procession leaving old mission. https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-bwb-n-2001-002-3116?share=copy
Reel # 10
N-2001-002: 13115 · Item · [1953-1969]
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Reel #10
900’ Original film

Scenes around the Mackenzie River Delta :

  • Aklavik: R.C. hostel: boys yard, girls yard
  • Scenes around town: Gallagher Airy etc.
  • Spring: ski aircraft: Irish (Bill) Coulter
  • Fr. [Father] Max Ruyant , Fr. [Father] Antoine Biname, girls yard hostel
  • R .C. Boat "Immaculata" & Cat
  • R.C.M.P. schooner "Aklavik", pilot Bill Storr, Spec. [Special Constable] Otto Binder
  • Painting the name on schooner Aklavik Otto Binder
  • Aklavik waterfront: boats
  • Kids planting potatoes R.C. Hostel: Bro. [Brother] Geo Mrogula O.M.I.
  • Picnic: hostel kids aboard Immaculata
  • Peel River wood camp: loading 4 ft. firewood.
  • Unloading the wood barge Aklavik: hostel girls sport day
  • The wildlife (CWS) [Canadian Wildlife Service] Grumman Goose [CF-CRW]: CF-OMI Beaver: the Sant’anna
  • Scouts marching: Father Brown’s speedboat
  • The Jimmy Adams family, Lucy: Mrs. George Adams, Bobby at camp.
  • River camps: Arctic Red River: boats (Golden Hind-Harry Harrison)
  • Unloading the mission’s Immaculata at [Arctic] Red River. [Tsiigehtchic]
  • Amos Niditchie pulls his net, Mackenzie River
  • Loading the Golden Hind
  • N.T.C.L. barge tied up at Arctic Red R. [Tsiigehtchic]
  • Father J. Franche in his cabin cruiser en route to E-3 [East Three = Inuvik]
  • Father Brown in speed boat stops at Chief John Kevik’s camp
  • River tent camps: Gus Tardiff etc.
  • Tuktuktiaktuk [Tuktoyaktuk]: boat building shop: reindeer
  • The DEW line: muktuk making
  • Aklavik in winter
  • Frank Rivet & wife Rosalie : Aklavik
  • Kids & sled dogs: a skidoo
  • "Aklavik Hilton". The Moose Kerr School
  • Carl Gardlund (power house operator: show hall)
  • Aklavik street scenes
  • Sunset. https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-bwb-n-2001-002-13115?share=copy
Reel # 8
N-2001-002: 13114 · Item · [1952-1956]
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Reel #8
1600’ Original film

Aklavik - Inuvik area :

  • Inuvik, an aerial view 1956
  • The new 5-12 houses, Father Brown checks out the R.C. Lot
  • Tommy Thrasher, wife & child at tent camp.
  • Peter Thrasher, wife at his tent
  • Father Brown & new pups, E-#3 pilings
  • Eskimos build giant igloo for ice carnival east channel
  • The first ice carnival at Inuvik
  • Break up, unloading a boat Inuvik
  • Mike Zubko & [Cessna] 170 on floats, PWA DC-4; Wardair Bristol [airplanes]
  • Great Northern Airways Twin Otter
  • Takeoff and fly [Cessna] 170 to Aklavik with Mike [Zubko?]
  • Fred Carmichael’s Stinson on skis, Peel Channel, Aklavik
  • Cutting ice, Aklaviks Peel Channel, Fred Norris & motor ice saw.
  • Kids sliding in front of the R.C. hostel
  • P.W.A. ? Bristol with full load of booze Aklavik
  • Dog teams. Nels Hvatim’s cabin ? Pokiak Channel Aklavik
  • Kids sliding R.C. hostel, dog "Nitlett"
  • Igloo R.C. hostel: Gov. Gen’l. Vincent Massey visit to R.C. scouts
  • R.C.A.F. DC-3 lands on ice of Peel Channel
  • Nov. 11, 1955 Remembrance Day celebrations, Aklavik school
  • A cat train, Bill Strong’s new skidoo
  • Around Aklavik, the H.B.C. store etc.
  • The first communion class: R.C. hostel
  • King & Queen Day party R.C. hostel
  • Alec Stefansson & his new Bombardier.
  • Bob Steen on the mission Cat.
  • My trip by dogs around the Delta spring of 1956

  • Gallagher Aery’s girls at his camp. Joe Bernard pulls net
  • Billy Thrasher at his Delta cabin with Alice
  • The Pascal Baptiste family at their cabin, also Henry Larson.
  • Arctic Red River: Nap & Annie Norbert
  • By dogs to Ft. [Fort] Mcpherson with Levesque & Rosaire to visit Colas OMI
  • Trader Mike Krutko, Old Charlie ? Stewart.
  • Mouth of the Peel: the Bonnetrouge family
  • With Geo Roberts, Tommy Clarks post, the Snowshoe family tent
  • Knut Lang’s post, Eddie McCloud & family, by dogs to Tuk: Wallace Lucas reindeer camp, pingos, Bob, Margaret Cockney, Fort Hearne,
    Our Lady of Lourdes schooner, Fr. [Father] J. Franche & Bombardier, Tuk D.E.W. to Cape Parry: Frs. Dehurtevent & Vermot, Joe Thrasher, Gordon Pascha & flight to Paulatuk on skis, Paulatuk & people. https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-bwb-n-2001-002-13114
Reel # 7
N-2001-002: 13113 · Item · [1962-1969]
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Reel #7
1200’ Original film

This reel all of Colville Lake

  • Sunset, blowing snow, a long footage
  • Kenny Turo in a hareskin parka
  • Gene Oudzi, Alice Gully, Edward Oudzi, Charlie, Mary Codzi, Madeline Blancho, Antoine Codzi, Alfred Siten, Isadore Kochon canoe.
  • Jean Marie (Gene) Oudzi and his pups on the ice.
  • The Kochon family leaves by dog pack in the fall.
  • Joe & Vicki Orleas leave by dog team
  • Martin & Alice Oudzi (Tawichile) pull out with two dog teams.
  • Pierre, Philly & Charley Codzi by a winter trail fire.
  • Father Brown & Charley Codzi set a net N. end Ketaniahtue. 1969
  • The Antoine (Saklay) Codzi tent camp Ketaniahtue.
  • Open water, the Ross River, Ketaniahtue
  • Johnny Blancho in tent makes a marten stretcher.
  • Dog teams arriving for Easter
  • The Antoine Codzi family setting up their tent at Colville
  • The mission: Alice Oudzi with marten pelts.
  • Charlie Masuzumi in Colville's first trading post.
  • Christmas creche: Alfred Saiten: benediction: Oudzi game.
  • Philip Codzi Sr. & Saiten play Oudzi for C.B.C. cameras
  • Louie Oudzi brings sledload firewood, wife Mariecho uses swede saw.
  • Veronique Kochon & adopted son Wilfred bring in fire wood.
  • Mrs. Peter Mountain gets ice for drinking water.
  • Charlie Codzi harnessing his dogs
  • George Codzi Sr. harnessing RCMP dogs (Siberian)
  • Five teams on a weeks hunt for caribou north of Colville
  • Muskox photographed en route to Paulatuk
  • First ice carnival, target shooting, ice chopping, dog race etc.
  • Kids using the "giant step" in winter, Wilbert Kochon loses pants.
  • Philip Codzi Jr. Hauling building logs
  • Peter Mountain squares logs
  • Elizabeth (Goday) & Pierre (baahah) Blancho with their dogs.
  • Dog team at sunset. https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-bwb-n-2001-002-13113
Reel # 6
N-2001-002: 13112 · Item · [1959-1960]
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Reel #6
1500’ ---- original film

  • Athabaska River, the breakup shot from the chopper.
  • Chopper R.C.A.F. lands behind the church
  • The mission grotto: Our Lady of Lourdes.
  • First communion class: Father Clairmont c.s.s.r.
  • Dedication of oak mission cross built by Mike Ponte
  • Skidding out old warehouse, move to the Harpe property
  • Brother Philip on his tractor: Rene Theriault & Brother Guerin
  • Building cement pedestal for the virgins statue
  • Father Brown building sisters retreat cabin "Chateau Gai".
  • Scouts camping in winter: snowball fight
  • Mounting the scouts riding horse "Tonka".
  • School yard & kids. School gym * the altar boys party
  • The school play: Father Browns life.
  • The school yard igloo
  • Sisters drive the Mayrath & clean an Indian cabin.
  • Father Brown & dog team, pups, goes for a moose
  • Father Brown & team on the frozen Athabaska River
  • At the snye, Milt McDougall loads up his Beaver
  • The town hockey rink in action. The spring flood.
  • Jim Waniandy watches the Athabaska River breakup
  • Father Brown & Bro. [Brother] Vincent Cadoret visit net, Athabaska River.
  • Father Brown’s smoke house. George Sanderson
  • Fire at the prairie (short footage.)
  • Brother Philip on the Mayrath.
  • Town picnic at the prairie ball field.
  • Ball game at the prairie field.
  • Parish picnic by the Athabaska River
  • Waterways: NTCL & HBC boats pulled out & launched.
  • Boats on the Athabaska River
  • Spring flood: near the prairie, log jam, bent r.r. [railroad] tracks
  • Waterways: various scenes.
  • The N.A.R. (Northern Alberta Railway) steam engine (Fri. nights)
  • Sunset over St. Johns church.

https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-bwb-n-2001-002-13112

Reel # 5
N-2001-002: 13111 · Item · [1958-1961]
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Reel #5
1600’, Original film

  • Fort McMurray : the St. Gabriels hospital kitchen
  • Sister Claire Hamelin SGM & girls
  • Sr Gilbert SGM & baby, Sr. Josie Kergoat SGM in hosp. office
  • Father Brown conducts a high mass
  • Trapping beaver, local trapper Louis ? Paulin
  • Father Brown & his dog team at Paulin’s tent camp, Athabaska R. [River]
  • Anzac, Alta. The new mission church, St. Claire
  • The Boy Scouts, Clearwater River camp
  • At the snye, canoe, Norseman aircraft
  • Cyril Barlow & Rose McKenzie on picnic
  • Fathers Geo. Begin & Raymond Danto load speed boat at snye
  • Brother Philippe Latreille O.M.I. stokes the furnace
  • Hospital girls eating, working, doing laundry
  • Father Brown cuts anniversary cake - May 31st 1959
  • The Grey Nuns, in their refectory, on a picnic.
  • Father Ovila Lapointe & Brother Rene Guerin O.M.I.
  • The chopper to Stoney Mountain, Mid-Canada Line
  • At Anzac, John Warings cabin, mass & baptism on the front porch
  • Chief Napesis Cree with horse & wagon
  • Mildred Lake tarsand equipment passing the mission heading north
  • Dmitri Salin & team of horses hitched to his sled.
  • Spring flood in downtown [Fort] McMurray.
  • The snye, aircraft in winter (pilot Milt McDougal)
  • Around town at 44 below zero.
  • Scouts camping out in winter.
  • The town hockey rink in action
  • The mission buildings
  • Father Brown builds an igloo at St. Johns school yard.
  • First communion class: Father Clairmont c.s.s.r. (visitor)
  • Grey Nuns at a winter picnic
  • Jimmy Waniandy surveys the breakup of the Athabaska River.
  • The famous "Mayrath" miniature car in missions back yard.
  • A brush fire in the "prairie" half way between McMurray & Waterways.
  • The school play: "Life of Father Brown".
  • Church of St. John, exterior in winter.
  • Father Brown harnessing his dog team at their corral.
  • Father Brown driving dogs up the Clearwater River ice.
  • Santa Claus on Clair Pedes’s horse. (Pedens)
  • Scouts picnic in winter
  • After mass: church: Brother Philip passing our church bulletin
  • Marriage: school dance: building "chateau gai" lynx jumps on canoe! https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-bwb-n-2001-002-13111
Arctic Coast
N-2001-002: 12407 · Item · 1994
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Arctic Coast. Coppermine [Kugluktuk] - outcamp. [Inuit sit on boat on shore] 1994

Reel # 3
N-2001-002: 13110 · Item · [1959-1962]
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Reel #3
850’

Duplicate footage

  • Fort Simpson, Oct. 1961, aerial views (emulsion side is up )
  • A visual tour of the mission, church, hospital,
  • Hockey arena (built by Father [Father] Lesage OMI) barn & chickens
  • The Mackenzie River running ice in the fall
  • Various boats freezing up
  • Fr. Henry Posset OMI
  • The Ft. [Fort] Simpson trading co.
  • Lapointe Hall & hostel
  • School children & Grey Nuns (s.g.m.)

---------original film follows----------------

  • Fort McMurray , scouts camping on the Clearwater River
  • Swimming, surf-boarding behind Fr. [Father] Brown’s 22ft canoe.
  • The old mission (1911) winter, after restoration
  • Father Brown with dog team
  • Old mission, 50th anniversary celebration 1961
  • Mass, old mission, celebrant - Leo Deschatalets O.M.I. sup-gen.
  • Sr. Claire Hamelin SGM with her cake replica of old mission
  • Mission Beaver CF-OMI, Bill Leising O.M.I. pilot, at snye
  • Hunting geese Athabaska delta, also an arctic owl
  • Father Brown, Bro [Brother] Philippe at Camsell portage by canoe.
  • Canoe trip Athabaska R. Families Lacaille, Daniel etc.
  • Mission buildings McMurray, back yard scene
  • Father Brown & Bro [Brother] Philippe, goose hunt, Moose Pt. (Chip) [Fort Chipewyan]
  • Camping canoe trip up the Clearwater River with Justin & Barbara Brown, Tom Hauck, George Sanderson (one leg)
  • St. Johns school play depicting Father Brown’s life from baptism to ordination (Director Sr. Y. Lapointe SGM) https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-bwb-n-2001-002-13110
Reel # 1
N-2001-002: 13109 · Item · [1952-1969]
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Reel # 1
700’ Original film
Colville Lake:

  • The "R.C.M." [R.C.M.P.] flag flying
  • Our Lady of the Snows Church (before it got its bell)
  • Church, warehouse, mission panorama, winter & summer
  • B.W. building 6-man lodge spring 1965
  • Cutting brush for church site, Luke Tinatchie, Seesa Codzi & dogs
  • Quimpe (the Loon) frozen in, hung fish
  • B.W. painting the 1st madonna

Fort Franklin - mission, winter, the teepee church, village scenes, winter.

Colville Lake: Joe Orleas & Sister Vickie harnessing dogs, moose hides, winter

Fort Smith: grotto winter, St. Anne's hosp. [hospital] cathedral, old hosp.

Hearthcliff: Rochester, summer storm on the lakefront

  • The family Lacour aboard the yacht "Dottie-M"
  • Heathcliff front yard: at Fr. [Father] Tom Brown's ordination 1955
  • Family picnic - Webster Park @?
  • Rochester yacht club, Dick Callon & his boat
  • Ganonique: Que. Centennial voyageur canoe trials, outdoor mass
  • Voyageur canoes in a sprint race
  • Voyageur camp site cooking
  • Commodore B.W.Brown with map, trophy https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwtarchives-n-2001-002-13109
Reel # 14
N-2001-002: 13119 · Item · [1956-1960]
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Reel #14
1200’ Original film "Eskimo Film"

  • Dog team: Reindeer Station to Husky Lakes: Father Brown in parka
  • Aklavik: kids sliding in winter with "Nitlett"
  • Cub Scouts, Cub master Father Brown & visit of Gov. Gen. Vincent Massey
  • Jack Goose from Holman Is. [Ulukhaktok] builds an igloo in R.C. yard : Aklavik
  • Mildred Pokiak tries out this igloo
  • Building the carnival igloo at Inuvik 1957
  • Reindeer in harness for the carnival (loaned by Lee Post)
  • Eskimo [Inuvialuit] family in basket sled Husky Lakes
  • Pitching a tent : Husky Lakes
  • Chopping 7 ft. ice Husky Lakes for jiggling trout
  • Mona Felix jiggling. Edgar Kotakut’s pup eats chunk of muktuk
  • Edgar & Father Brown travel by dogs to Tuk [Tuktoyaktuk]
  • Tuktuk [Tuktoyaktuk] scenes : kids, dogs, DEW line station
  • Beaver aircraft , Father Franche’s Bombardier
  • Bob Cockney, Father Brown driving dogs.
  • Break....lead
  • Tuk [Tuktoyaktuk] : summer: schooner "North Star"
  • Whitefish Station, people, tents, dogs etc.
  • Reindeer herd on the beach
  • Eskimo [Inuvialuit] look out for beluga, schooners leave.
  • On board "Only Way": Archie Headpoint
  • Shooting beluga: Elias Kalinek
  • Tieing [tying] on beluga, Kenneth Pilaluk & his boat, flag raising
  • Beaching beluga, cutting off muktuk.
  • Scraping beluga hide: Alice Thrasher. Staking hide on ground.
  • Boiling muktuk to make uksook: beluga stomachs inflated.
  • Billy Thrasher’s scow: his son practices harpooning.
  • Sunset over the River. https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-bwb-n-2001-002-13119?share=copy
Reel # 13
N-2001-002: 13118 · Item · [1953-1960]
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Reel # 13
1250’ Original film "Indian Film"

  • Camsell Portage: mission in winter
  • Towing the Ark to Black Bay fall of 1954 (Mike Powder)
  • Fishing at Black Bay: Lake Athabaska: Father Brown & Phillip Stenne
  • At Camsell: dog "Prince" visits Father Brown at the workshop
  • Father Brown exits mission with harness, harnesses dogs, leaves.
  • Father Brown & Phillip Stenne travelling with dog teams.
  • Father Brown harnessing dogs: kids helping.
  • Father Brown & Philip on the trail: approaching Fort Chipewyan
  • Down the Slave R. [River] by dogs: Moore family, Johnson’s trading post.
  • Pulling a net: the ice hole
  • Tough travelling: -30 & 30 mph head wind: Chip [Fort Chipewyan] to Camsell
  • Return to Camsell after sled trip to Fort Smith for annual retreat.
  • Spring komatik to Black Lake: Father Brown & Archie Powder 1954
  • Meeting Fond du Lac [Saskatchewan] Indians [Denesųłıné] & teams
  • At Black Lake, Sask. Natives [Denesųłıné] attach "leashes" to their toboggans.
  • Black Lake scenes: town water hole etc.
  • Marten parka: caribou skin parkas
  • The mission: Father Brown takes communion to the sick.
  • Wildfowl Island: Lake Athabaska: harnessing dogs F.B.[Father Brown] & Archie
  • Examining caribou tracks
  • Meeting 5 caribou: then 10 & 14.
  • Philip shoots caribou
  • Over a pressure ridge: Father Brown shoots a caribou
  • F.B. [Father Brown] skins, butchers & loads komatik with this caribou
  • Trail fire at Pine Channel (between Fond du Lac & Stoney Rapids [Saskatchewan])
  • Sunset scene.
Fort Norman [Tulita]
N-2001-002: 08250 · Item · 1949
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Fort Norman [Tulita]. 1949 [People on steps outside church incl. John Blondin, Therese Naedzo and (Onte) Catherine Zole]

Fort Norman [Tulita]
N-2001-002: 02967 · Item · 1949
Part of Bern Will Brown fonds

Fort Norman [Tulita]. Onte [Catherine] Zole, Alice and Johnny Neyalle and "Cheeah" Paul Baton [Cheeriah?]. 1949 [Group outside church, wedding?]