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.]
Indians [First Nations people] packing goods up from the shore of Great Slave Lake 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]
A 50 foot scow shooting a rapid, see previous picture. [Photo from C.W. Mathers' photo album "The Far North" requests for copies should be made to the Provincial Archives of Alberta]
[One sepia-toned photographic print showing three ox-drawn carts against the background of a cluster of frame buildings and tents]
Group of Esquimaux Young people. [Eskimo, Inuit 1901. C.W. Mathers photo].
Fort Providence, Mackenzie River. Photo by C. W. Mathers, Edmonton, Alta. [ca. 1901.]
[An Inuk woman on the front cover of C.W. Mather's book The Far North. 1901].
Esquimaux man and family. The man holds in his hand what is called a snow knife, made from a file, used to cut blocks of snow in making snow huts. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
Fort McPherson, the most northerly post of the H.B.Co. It is on Peels River, within the Arctic Circle, 2000 miles north of Edmonton, the Midnight Sun shines here for about two weeks. The Esquimaux quite frequently come as far south and [as] McPherson to trade. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
The Ramparts - Mackenzie River. The river here is only about one third its usual width, but is 360 ft. deep. It is forced between two great perpendicular stretches of sandstone rock, from 180 to 300 feet high and continues so for about one mile when it again widens out. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
The H.B.Co's steamer "Wrigley" at the junction of the Mackenzie and Liard Rivers, 1200 miles north of Edmonton. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
Skin Lodges of the Dogrib Indians in front of H.B.Co's Fort Great Slave Lake. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
Indians landing at Great Slave Lake with birch bark canoes, coming to trade at Resolution. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].