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[Left to right: unidentified man, John Hornby and Norman Robinson stopping for tea on the ice.]

[Norman Robinson's dogteam at Fort Fitzgerald.]

[Winter trail along the shoreline of the Peace River.]

[Norman Robinson standing in front of tent and dogteam on the Peace River.]

[John Hornby at winter camp on the Peace River.]

[Winter camp in the bush.]

Some of the buffalo. You can go right in amongst them in your car but not allowed to get out of it. [Wood Buffalo Park]

Pine Lake. [Log cabin]

The big white building is Larson and Hubbard Co. [Lamson & Hubbard? Company] Store. The furthest buildings up on the hill are the Hudson's Bay Co. [Company] In the very front is a gas boat. [Fort Chipewyan]

The Slave River [paddle steamer.]

The Old Grahame [paddle steamer.]

McLean, Mercredi. [Norman Robinson (second from left) standing with three men behind a box of baking powder. Two of the men are identified as a McLean and a Mercredi. Fort Chipewyan]

Loutit. [Two women at Fort Chipewyan, one is identified as a Loutit.]

[Fort Fitzgerald]

The barracks. RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] Fort Fitzgerald. 1920.

Indians greeted us on our arrival. [Fort Fitzgerald]

We didn't [canoe] down this one as there are too many rocks. We took a side channel which was swift and rough but one can go between the rocks. [Rapids]

[Rapids]

Pack ponies. [From journal n-2002-005-2-1, page 45:
...by teams hauling freight from up river boats, to those leaving [Fort] Smith for points further North. Everything came across, even boats.
Pack ponies, wagons and eventually trucks and tractors came into use.
Groceries, hardware, dry goods, hay & oats, dynamite – everything required by the different Trading Posts further north.
I said hay and oats, but they only went as far as... ] https://gnwt.accesstomemory.org/n-2002-005-2-1

[Horses pulling carts.] [From journal n-2002-005-2-1, page 45:
...by teams hauling freight from up river boats, to those leaving [Fort] Smith for points further North. Everything came across, even boats.
Pack ponies, wagons and eventually trucks and tractors came into use.
Groceries, hardware, dry goods, hay & oats, dynamite – everything required by the different Trading Posts further north.
I said hay and oats, but they only went as far as... ] https://gnwt.accesstomemory.org/n-2002-005-2-1