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Loading freight. Transformers on the way to hydro site north of Yellowknife. A H.B. C. [Hudson's Bay Company] boat. Fort Smith boat landing area. 1939.

[Boats at the boat landing area. No date]. Fort Smith.

Loading Canol pipeline pipe onto barges. Fort Fitzgerald [Alberta]. 1942.

'Great Bear' boat and barge at Echo Bay [Great Bear Lake]. 1937.

S.S. Midnight Sun. Northern Traders boat at Athabasca Landing [Alberta?]. 1912.

Flying Box Car [airplane of Canadian Airways Limited]. Yellowknife. 1939.

The Eldorado plane at Fort Resolution. CF-AWR, flown by Stan McMillan. 1937.

Bob Duncan (left) and [Mr] Thompson at Fort Franklin [now Deline]. 1937

Dog race. Eldorado [Great Bear Lake]. 1937. [“…In early 1937 Harry Snyder contacted…bolster price of stock…Associated Screen News of Montreal (also several newspaper reporters and Canadian Author Leslie Roberts) arrived to document a screen commentary of the Eldorado Mine and settlement of Great Bear Lake. For a week or more, a winter carnival was staged and a dog derby held with a large trophy cup going to the winner. The exaggerated reports sent to the press outside relating how thousands of dollars were bet on the outcome of the races…a ten gallon gasoline barrel with pipe handles made in the blacksmith shop and painted with aluminum paint.
…pains taken by screen crew to provide these bogus settings and spurious pictures hoping to con the gullible public into buying stock in the company.
CBC…Atomic Bomb…The Secret Years” these pictures were used…” -F.J. (Tiny) Peet N-1992-181]

Eldorado Mine, Great Bear Lake. [CF-AWR on skis on the ice]. 1938.

Eldorado at Echo Bay. Moonlight picture. [View of the minesite at Great Bear Lake]. 1937.

Dog race at Eldorado Mines [Great Bear Lake]. 1937.[“…In early 1937 Harry Snyder contacted…bolster price of stock…Associated Screen News of Montreal (also several newspaper reporters and Canadian Author Leslie Roberts) arrived to document a screen commentary of the Eldorado Mine and settlement of Great Bear Lake. For a week or more, a winter carnival was staged and a dog derby held with a large trophy cup going to the winner. The exaggerated reports sent to the press outside relating how thousands of dollars were bet on the outcome of the races…a ten gallon gasoline barrel with pipe handles made in the blacksmith shop and painted with aluminum paint.
…pains taken by screen crew to provide these bogus settings and spurious pictures hoping to con the gullible public into buying stock in the company.
CBC…Atomic Bomb…The Secret Years” these pictures were used…” -F.J. (Tiny) Peet N-1992-181
]

New cookhouse at Echo Bay Mine [Eldorado, Great Bear Lake]. Bunkhouse in foreground. 1937.

Colin, a Christian leader. Colin Vittchik [seated in an office, possibly of a church or government official. Original source & © unknown.]

Unveiling a plaque at Fort McPherson. July 7, 1977. Ex-chief Johnny Kay [Kyikavichik] reading, Robert Simpson in white shirt, R.P. Malis to the right of RCMP

Loucheux [Gwich'in] beadwork. Fort McPherson, 1954. [Gwich'in woman with a baby in a beaded sling, and a child]. [Caroline Kay (Kyikavichik) nee Robert, of Fort McPherson with son, possibly Johnny Robert Kay, and her other son, Selwyn Kay beside her - description provided by Robert Alexie]

Chief John Kay [Kyikavichik]

Photograph of a plaque erected at Coppermine commemorating the first regular Masonic lodge meeting held north of the Arctic Circle on August 30, 1938. The plaque lists a number of officers including W.R. "Wop" May, H. Larsen, J.B. Tyrrell and A. Copland. These officers came from a number of different Freemason lodges but this was an official Ivanhoe Lodge meeting to initiate E.J. Walli of Eldorado Mines.

[Yellowknife 1937. The structure of Con gold mine's headframe, shown while being constructed.]