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Rosie Archie & Dona [Donna} Kisoun Mitqulgit Atigit, Fur Parka, Project/Inuvik [Photo taken by Tessa Macintosh]

This item is an interview of Cam Jordheim recorded ca. 1986 by Sandra Dolan, likely as part of Operation Fox Moth. The interview is in English. The original source item is side A of a 90 minute audio cassette. Cam speaks about working as an aircraft maintenance engineer in the north since 1970. He describes his training, tasks (including favourite and least favourite), changes in the job over time, working with regulatory agencies, changes in airplanes, and busy seasons. He emphasizes the shift in aircraft maintenance from panic maintenance to preventative maintenance. Cam also talks about Ptarmigan Airways, including its history and a hangar fire that had occurred three years before the interview, charter start-ups, overloading, and competition.

This item is an interview of Mark Dodd recorded ca. 1986 by Sandra Dolan likely as part of Operation Fox Moth. The interview is in English. The original source item was side B of a 90 minute audio cassette. Mark first came north in 1959 and is the former Commander Northern Region. He discusses the history of military flying in the North, where planes were based, and activities, including Hudson’s Strait Operation, establishing LORAN navigational stations, mapping and charting, aerial photography, weather observation station resupply, radar site locations, the DEW line, Christmas supply, airfield construction, and military exercises and training. Mark also talks about types of aircraft used, flying in the arctic, and the role of the US Air Force during WWII and into the 1960s. There is also some discussion of how he would like to see the military presented in the PWNHC’s aviation display and Mark provides names of additional people for Sandra to contact.

This item is an interview of Denny May recorded ca. 1986 by Sandra Dolan, likely for Operation Fox Moth. The interview is in English. Denny’s wife Margaret also speaks occasionally during the recording. The original source item was side A of a 60 minute audio cassette. Denny May is the son of renowned pilot Wop May. He discusses writing a book about his father with his sister-in-law Sheila Reid and provides some biographical details about his father’s life and experiences as a pilot before his death in 1952 when Denny was 17 years old. The interview mentions Wop May’s time in the Royal Flying Corps during WWI, barnstorming, flying out of Fort McMurray and around the Northwest Territories, medivacs (including the trip to Fort Vermillion), the first airmail run to Aklavik, secondment during WWII, time as Chief Pilot of Canadian Airways, his tenure as Director of Northern Development for Canadian Pacific Airways, and loss of his pilot’s license due to a missing eye. The interview also discusses other early pilots, engineers, various planes and companies, styles of planes and controls, and flight clothing. The recording ends abruptly.

[This item is primarily a practice recording of Universal Music Machine (UM2) recorded at YK Radio. The last few minutes include various items.]

A home movie made on the occasion of Frank Glick's visit to Yellowknife. The footage includes an Air Canada plane taking off, Prelude Lake (RVs, people boating), as well as machinery, men digging, and trailers at the edge of a lake. At about 9 minutes, the video shows the interior of the Yellowknife Radio store, including staff, racks of clothing, furniture and home appliances; following that are daytime street scenes in Yellowknife (including cars, intersections (50 Street &50 Ave blocked off for Raven Mad Days?), Frame & Perkins bus, police cars, a tall building being constructed with a crane (Laurentian Building), and the exterior of buildings including CIBC, Sutherland’s Drugs, Macleod's Hardware, The Bay, the Tog Shop, Yellowknife Inn, the Gold Range, Northway building, the Museum of the North, Pacific Western in the Laing building, KFC, the YK Fire Department on 44 Street, and the Frontier Inn on Franklin/50 Avenue), old town/Yellowknife Bay Gateway Otters at float base, Volkswagen van, helicopter, midnight sun, . This is followed by footage of a shooting range, Wardair Bristol freighter plaque and airplane, and the Welcome to Yellowknife sign. The next scene depicts a trip in the Yellowknife Radio van and a float plane to a mine site (Hidden Lake?), gold sluicing and panning, houses and canvas tents at camp, fishing, Radium Charles boat, Ptarmigan float base on MacDonald Drive.

The Yellowknife portion of the film ends at 26 minutes, and is followed by footage of a trip to Montreal (including Canadian Pacific sign, Le Chateau, Champlain Place Du Canada, CN sign, The Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Laurentienne, Hotel Windsor, Le Pub Sur le Parc, and an "Early Civilizations" museum exhibit.

The final minutes of the video are a mixture of clips that appear to have been recorded off of television broadcasts including a news clip about a bombing, Chilean elections, and the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. There is no sound from the video, but there is a musical soundtrack. https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-n-2021-005-0060

[This item is the second of a two-part recording of performers at the Centennial Talent Show, hosted by Pat Reilly in the auditorium of Yellowknife Public School. The Nomads perform and awards are presented.]

[This item is the first of a two-part recording of performers at the Centennial Talent Show, hosted by Pat Reilly in the auditorium of Yellowknife Public School. Performers include Charles Callas, Ken Hall, Murray Glick, David Stevens, Chris Morrison, Stewart Curley, Nancy Shaw, Gwen Dies, Karen Parker, Gillian Halliday, Chris Morrison, Derek Neve, Pat Morrison, Peter Slatterjee, as well as local bands - as well as local bands The Auroras (George Mandeville, Hans Nenza, John Tees, Derek Neve, The Nomads, popular piano selections (Archie Plamondon), The Tundra Folk (Ted Wesley, Lesley Wesley, and Andy Steen).]

[This item is the second part of a two-part recording of radio reports from the day that Bob Gauchie returned to Yellowknife after being lost for 59 days. It includes live reports and interviews upon his arrival at the Yellowknife Airport and at the hospital.]

[This item is the first part of a two-part recording of radio reports from the day that Bob Gauchie returned to Yellowknife after being lost for 59 days. It includes live reports and interviews upon his arrival at the Yellowknife Airport and at the hospital.]

[This item is a recording of Universal Music Machine (UM2) recorded at YK Radio, featuring Kevin Mackie (drums), Tom Hudson (vocals), Tony Buggins (guitar), Ryan Kovatch (bass) and Mark Whitford (organ). Songs include Oh! Darling.]

[This item is a recording of Universal Music Machine (UM2) recorded at YK Radio, featuring Kevin Mackie (drums), Tom Hudson (vocals), Tony Buggins (guitar), Ryan Kovatch (bass) and Mark Whitford (organ). Songs include Hey Little One, The Weight, Up Around the Bend, Kaw-Liga, Folsom Prison Blues, It Came Out of the Sky, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Mr. Spaceman, Five Miles from Home.]

[This item is a recording of Pat Monaghan narrating an advertisement for YK Radio's 28th anniversary sale.]

[Four staff members meeting around a table. Bob Rupert at right, possibly Wilbert Manacho (Menacho) at left, possibly Dorothy Chocolate in front. Photographer: Tessa Macintosh. Published in Native Press newspaper July 25, 1980, page 15]

[Wilbert Manacho (Menacho) and Lorne Poitras looking at a strip of photo negatives. Photographer: Lorne Poitras. Published in Native Press newspaper July 25, 1980, page 14]

[George Tuccaro and son Daryl Tuccaro doing a jig during Heritage Day at St Patrick's school in Yellowknife. Photographer: Dorothy Chocolate. Published in Native Press newspaper, February 26, 1982, page 12.]

This accession consists of one blueprint of a plan produced by FMS Engineers/MacLaren Plansearch in response to the City of Yellowknife's call for proposals for development plans for the city's waterfront areas. The plan includes detailed lot drawings of Latham Island, Jolliffe Island and the Old Town area of Yellowknife.

One blueprint that is approximately nine feet long. It is titled "Great Slave Lake and Mackenzie River from Fort Resolution to Fort Simpson, NWT" and indicates a "Steamers Route" along the river. It was compiled by R. A. Brooke of Edmonton, from information provided by river pilots Joseph Bird and Captain Mills. Scale is 1" to 2 miles. 193?

Archive 10.1. Dogrib Archive Cassette 10 = data pages 152b - 1960b, original cassette 9.1.254 to 9.2.458 (incl. Texts 7-14). [Vital Thomas providing Tłı̨chǫ (Dogrib) paradigms for Constance Naish or Gillian Story, likely dates November 22, 1982 to April 6, 1983.]

Archive 10.1. Dogrib Archive Cassette 10 = data pages 152b - 1960b, original cassette 9.1.254 to 9.2.458 (incl. Texts 7-14). [Vital Thomas providing Tłı̨chǫ (Dogrib) paradigms for Constance Naish or Gillian Story, likely dates November 22, 1982 to April 6, 1983.]