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The films were largely shot by Otto Binder and depict life in the Beaufort Delta region, and the community of Reindeer Station in particular. Footage of travel by water, as well as reindeer herding activities feature prominently. Shots of family and community life are also within the collection.

This accession consists of one black and white photographic print of Hazel and Wes Drappo with Micky Hagan at a camp.

Records include photographs showing uranium mining operations and equipment at Rayrock Mine. The images date from the summer of 1958 and were taken by George Hunter.

This accession consists of two photographs taken at Great Bear Lake in 1953.

The textual records are comprised of one cocktail and lounge menu from the Ingraham Hotel. The photographs mainly depict views of Yellowknife and float planes.

The textual records consist of two seed tags. The photographs depict wheat farming around Fort Providence.

The textual records are comprised of one book of ration tickets. The photographs depict construction along DEW line sites (mid 1950s) and views of Port Radium (ca. 1969-1970).

The textual records recount the story of "Jim Wilkie's [Jim Wolki?] Dangerous Journey" from Walker Bay Post to Letty Harbour. The photographs depict communities such as Aklavik, and Tsiigehtchic (Arctic Red River), boats and bush planes and trading posts. The two maps detail the journey.

Records include:

• 7 cassettes related to a sealing conference from 1978 (:0001-:0007);
• 9 cassettes from the Legislative Assembly Special Committee on Education entitled Learning: Tradition and Change in the NWT (appear to be the same tape in various Indigenous languages) (:0008-:0016);
• 1 cassette marked Laco Hunt Interview (:0017);
• 7 cassettes related to a Nunavut Mining Symposium held in Cambridge Bay in 1998 (:0018-:0024);
• 9 cassettes that appear to related to an Economic Prospects Conference held in Hay River in 1978 (:0025-:0033);
• 1 cassette marked Former Commissioners Sept. 1979 (:0034);
• 1 cassette marked The Drums – Jim Greene (:0035);
• 1 Reel labelled: CBC Drumming / Peter Liske Drumming (:0036);
• 1 Reel labelled Master Mixed Impulse version (:0037);
• 1 Reel labelled: Recreation 1980 (Box says moose hide tanning) (:0038);
• 1 Reel labelled: Expo Walk (:0039);
• 1 Reel – no label but box marked: Travel Arctic – Explore Canada’s Arctic duplicate pulsed soundtrack (:0040).

Records are comprised of a handwritten account of two prospecting trips taken in the 1940s by Lorne Bishop. It also includes a hand drawn map of the area from Great Slave Lake to Great Bear Lake.

Records are comprised of report by J.W. McKay entitled "Truck Transportation to Yellowknife, The Economic Effect on Yellowknife".

Records are comprised of one field book attributed to Robert Lees. The book includes a prospectors supply list including food list, some prospecting notations and a few poems.

The video depicts three different flooding incidents: 1) Fort Simpson flood and break-up from 1972, 2) 1989 break-up and flooding in Fort Liard in 1989 and 3) break-up and flood in Aklavik in 1992.

The images include fishing trips, a scouting trip, views of Yellowknife including docks, the Rex Café, and aerial views of the town.

Records include copies of Private Member's Public Bill 32, An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, No. 2, correspondence between Charles Dent and legal counsel regarding the revision of Bill 32 which provided a legislative mechanism to remove Members of the Legislative Assembly who are convicted of Criminal Code offences where violence was involved. Records also include letters of support and congratulations for the Private Member's Bill from local non-government organizations and communities.

Images appear to be primarily from the Aklavik and Mackenzie Delta regions. Images include views of residential schools, school children, trapping cabins, dog sleds, furs and schooners. Images may include residential school in Hay River.

Records relate to Dene languages, including materials from the Fort Good Hope Research project undertaken by the Government of the Northwest Territories Department of Education from 1981-1983. It also includes several grammars, dictionaries and reports of Dene language studies.

Records include photographs taken by Monica MacDonald while she was a school teacher living in Fort Good Hope in 1959. The images depict daily life in the community in the springtime, showing housing and children at play. A number of the images show an aerial view of the community and surrounding scenery as seen from a helicopter.