[On negative] First passenger train over White Pass and Yukon Route to summit Feb. 20 – 1899 [Archival description] [People stand behind White Pass and Yukon Rail train cars stopped on a trestle bridge.]
[Colour illustration of two images - top] Un eskuimau dans son canol [An inuit man in a kayak - and bottom] Esquimaux du cote du Nord-Ouest de la Baye de Hudson [Inuit family from Hudson's Bay in front of stone structure.]
Fort Simpson, 1900 [Hudson's Bay Co. compound]
Old Fort Rae, Great Slave Lake. Built 1804 during search for Franklin Expedition. Taken by James Hislop from his York boat, 1900. This post abandoned when Hudson's Bay Co. moved to Hislop's post and present Fort Rae.
Records include photographs taken along the Slave River and in the Great Slave area. Images are captioned: Skin Lodges on Great Slave; the Last Portage on Slave River; Towing Traders Boats down Slave River; Hudson's Bay Company's (HBC) Transport on Smith Portage; Traders Boat Running the Rapids on the Portage at Smith; and Indians Packing.
- l->r "Margaret (Firth) McLeod, William Firth, John Firth, Joanne (Firth) McDonald Helen (Firth) Parson, Mrs Caroline Firth (Stewart), Catherine (Firth) Cardinal" Maragaret McLeod is Laura Loutitt's mother
Midnight Sun and Coming In From The North. [A composite of two photographs - the midnight sun and a dog team pulling a sled. C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
Interior of the R.C. Church, on the Arctic Circle at Fort Good Hope, Mackenzie River. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
Indians packing goods up from the shore of Great Slave Lake at Fort Resolution. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
Hislop & Nagle trading steamer, bringing their supplies into their post at Resolution, Great Slave Lake. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
A group of Dogrib Indian boys. Great Slave Lake. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
Fort Smith H.B.Co's post, showing the ox carts loaded with fur, making the 16 mile portage to avoid the rapids on Slave River. 700 miles north of Edmonton. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
Loading the boats again after making the third portage, Slave River. Flour here is worth $10 a hundred lbs. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
Indians running a boat through the rapids on the second portage, Slave River. The boats are run in the channels of the river thereby avoiding the heavier swells in the main part of the river, which is a mile wide and almost impossible to run a boat through. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
Grand Rapids, Athabasca River. The photo shows the H.B.Co's fur boats landing at the foot of the rapid, preparatory to making the portage, 265 miles north of Edmonton. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
Trading with the esquimaux [Inuit] observe the stone ornaments [labrets] the man has in his lips, they are inserted from the inside, a shoulder preventing it from coming all the way through. [Photo from C.W. Mathers' photo album "The Far North" requests for copies should be made to the Provincial Archives of Alberta]
A group of Dogrib indian [Tlicho] boys, Great Slave lake [Photo from C.W. Mathers' photo album "The Far North" requests for copies should be made to the Provincial Archives of Alberta]
Indians [First Nations people] landing at Great Slave Lake with birchbark canoes, coming to trade at Fort Resolution [Photo from C.W. Mathers' photo album "The Far North" requests for copies should be made to the Provincial Archives of Alberta.]