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N-1992-101 · Accession · 1975-1976
Part of Yellowknife Huskies (Hockey Team) fonds

Records include correspondence and minutes of the Huskies' executive; minutes of the Yellowknife Intermediate Hockey Association; fundraising and budget information; news clippings; game summaries and schedule; player information; and information on the Territorial Youth Associations. The photo is of the Yellowknife Huskies logo.

N-1992-102 · Accession · 1973-1976
Part of Northwest Territories Status of Women Action Committee fonds

Records include correspondence and minutes of the Northwest Territories Status of Women Action Committee; newsletters; reports and news clippings from the 1973 Northwest Territories Status of Women Conference; reports and minutes concerning the 1975 Yellowknife Women's Festival; poster orders; and reports on progress made and issues of interest.

N-1992-112 · Accession · 1976-1977
Part of Northwest Territories Options for Women fonds

Records include one file of material containing: the NWT Societies Ordinance Application and by-laws, 1976; minutes of annual general meetings, 1976-1977; lists of activities for members, 1976-1977; an undated list of future planned activities; and an undated list of nominations for the executive.

Ray Ross
N-1992-124 · Accession · [1925-1926], copied 1992
Part of Ray Ross fonds

Records include photographs taken primarily in the Tree River area circa 1925. Images include Inuit, camps, ships and buildings, probably Hudson's Bay Company posts.

Ray Ross
N-1996-004 · Accession · [193-]
Part of Ray Ross fonds

Footage shows Wop May on Reid (Read) Island.

Ray Ross
N-1998-029 · Accession · [193-?]
Part of Ray Ross fonds

Many of these images are unidentified, however there are images of people from the Tree River area [1925-29] and boats the "Margaret A", "Blue Fox", "Bay Maud", "Bay Chimo" and the "Aklavik."

Ray Ross
N-2006-006 · Accession · 1937-[194-]
Part of Ray Ross fonds

Subjects include Ray Ross' wife Lillian, son Raymer, born 1937, daughter Patricia, born 1940, and the communities of Holman and Read Island, Nunavut. Includes photographs of the boats, dosgsleds, Norseman floatplanes, Professor Lincoln Washburn and his wife Tahoe Washburn. The majority of the photographs depict Ross' son Raymer's playtime and his life in the Arctic with his parents and their sled dogs.

Robert van't Hoff
N-1995-007 · Accession · 1946-1948, 1994
Part of Robert van't Hoff fonds

74 of the negatives were taken from August 1946 to May 1948 and are cellulose nitrate. One negative was taken in June 1994 as a comparison to an earlier image of the same location. The photographs feature the locations of Port Radium, Yellowknife, and Norman Wells. Subjects include an Eldorado Mining and Refining, Ltd. Camp, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals stations, airplanes, Governor General Alexander's visit to the Northwest Territories in 1947, the Imperial Oil Limited camp and a Royal Canadian Mounted Police dog patrol. Most of the images were photographed by Robert van't Hoff, however, two images are credited to Henry Busse.

N-1992-130 · Accession · 1968-1974
Part of Yellowknife Toastmistress Club fonds

The records include bylaws, correspondence, minutes, financial records, guides and manuals, member lists, agendas, newsletters, and a scrapbook. They weregenerated by the Yellowknife Toastmistress Club from its foundation in 1968 until early 1974, although the majority of the records only go to 1972.

Clare J. Dent
N-1992-136 · Accession · 1954-1955
Part of Clare J. Dent fonds

The textual records consist of photocopies of typewritten accounts by Dent of the events documented by the photographs. The photographs depict the posthumous awarding of a Coronation Medal to Michael Amarouk. Amarouk's wife, Martha Kigjugalik, accepted the medal presented by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Corporal Clare Dent, surrounded by Kigjugalik's family. One photograph also depicts Superintendent H. A. Larsen presenting an RCMP Long Service Medal to retired S/Cst. Parker at Baker Lake, the first Inuit man to receive this award. The photo was taken by Dent.

Irene Spry
N-1992-139 · Accession · 1935
Part of Irene Spry fonds

Records document the journey taken by Irene Spry (formerly Irene Biss) through the western Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territory. The textual records consists of two notebook diaries that contain many descriptions of the people she met and the places she visited.
Irene Spry began her trip in Edmonton and journeyed via rail to the Waterways (Fort McMurray) to Fort Chipywan and onto Fort Rae, Port Radium, Fort Resolution, Fort Norman, Aklavik, Dawson City and Whitehorse. During this excusion, she intended to study the role of hydro-electric power in Canada's economic development.
Irene Spry was born in South Africa on August 28, 1907 and grew up in Devonshire, England. She was a graduate of Cambridge University, where she had specialized in economic and political science, and had come to North America to obertain her graduate degree at Bryn Mawr University. She begain post doctoral work at University of Toronto in 1929. At the time of her northern trip she was affiliated with the University of Toronto and had taken the journey to further her studies in Canadian economic history. Following her time in the North, Irene Spry experienced continuing success in her academic career, as well as being a prominent activist in the international movement for women's rights. At the time her materials were donated to the NWT Archives she was a professor emeritus at the University of Ottawa. She received honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto and the University of Canada and was awarded the Order of Canada in 1992 She died on December 16, 1998 at the age of 91.

John Blondin
N-1992-144 · Accession · 1980
Part of John Blondin fonds

Records include photographs featuring people and scenes in Fort Simpson, Snowdrift, Fort Norman and Fort Franklin. It also includes a number of images of the Dene National General Assembly, held in Fort Good Hope, from July 22 to July 30, 1980.

John Blondin
N-1998-032 · Accession · [198-?]
Part of John Blondin fonds

The majority of the negatives are of Dene communities, children and portraits of Dene people. The bulk of the slides are a series of shots showing the butchering of a caribou.

Canalaska Trading Co., Ltd.
N-1992-156 · Accession · 1938, copied 1980
Part of Canalaska Trading Company, Ltd. fonds

Textual records contain photocopies of five statements of account from the Canalaska Trading Company (Limited) issued to Stephen Angulalik. The original items are dated July 30, 1938 and August 3, 1938. The statements list quantity, types, and prices of materials purchased.

J. E. Ayrhart
N-1992-165 · Accession · [194-?-196-?]
Part of James Ayrhart fonds

Records include photographs taken in and around Yellowknife. The images show people including Samuel James Ernest "Ernie" Ayrhart, his wife Mildred Dale Ayrhart, Doc and Doris McGill, Geddes Webster and Cam Wallbridge, as well as places in Yellowknife such as the Liquor Store, Mining Recorders Office and the Yellowknife Hotel. There are also images of prospecting camps and various views of Mr. Ayrhart's DC3, the Yellowknife Express. Also included in the accession are two autobiographical accounts of some of Mr. Ayrhart's experiences in the Northwest Territories. One contains identifications for some of the photographs; the other concerns the purchase and sale of the Yellowknife Express.

Jack Anderson
N-1992-175 · Accession · 1937-1938
Part of Jack Anderson fonds

Records include photographs of Goldfields, Saskatchewan, Yellowknife and Gordon Lake. Images include the construction of Con Mine in Yellowknife and Camlaren Mines, Ltd. at Gordon Lake. Camp personnel are also featured. The photographs are arranged into four series: Goldfields, Saskatchewan; Yellowknife; Gordon Lake; and Miscellaneous.

N-1992-194 · Accession · 1952, copied 1986
Part of Northern Transportation Company, Ltd. fonds

Entitled "Highway of the Atom," this film was created for the Northern Transportation Company Ltd. (NTCL). It was edited and recorded by Crawley Films, with camera work by R.B. Ranson. "Highway of the Atom" illustrates the Radium Line of the Northern Transportation Company Ltd. Transportation system by tracing the shipment of materials from Waterways, Alberta to Port Radium, on the "Radium Franklin" and the "Radium Gilbert."

N-1995-013 · Accession · 1969, 1972
Part of Northern Transportation Company, Ltd. fonds

Records include two productions. One is entitled "To Move a Mountain" and the other is entitled "A Break in the Ice". Both are promotional films that describe a typical transportation season. "To Move a Mountain" was produced in 1969 and "A Break in the Ice" was produced in 1972.