Skin lodges of the Dogrib indians [Tlicho people] in front of the HBCo. fort. 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]
The HBCo. steamer "Wrigley" on the Mackenzie, taking a moose aboard, which was shot from the deck. [Photo from C.W. Mathers' photo album "The Far North" requests for copies should be made to the Provincial Archives of Alberta]
Hislop and Nagle trading steamer, bringing their supplies into their post at [Fort] Resolution, 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]
Fort Smith HBCo. 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 [Photo from C.W. Mathers' photo album "The Far North" requests for copies should be made to the Provincial Archives of Alberta]
Loading the boats again after making the third portage, Slave River. Flour here is worth $10 a hundred lbs. [Photo from C.W. Mathers' photo album "The Far North" requests for copies should be made to the Provincial Archives of Alberta]
One of the pretty spots on Slave River [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] 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. [Photo from C.W. Mathers' photo album "The Far North" requests for copies should be made to the Provincial Archives of Alberta]
An indian packer with an average load of 200 lbs. [Indigenous man carrying a heavy load on his back. Photo from C.W. Mathers' photo album "The Far North" requests for copies should be made to the Provincial Archives of Alberta]
A moose and teepee [tipi]. The moose is not much used being too difficult to train, dogs are used almost now exclusively instead. [Moose in harness]. [Photo from C.W. Mathers' photo album "The Far North" requests for copies should be made to the Provincial Archives of Alberta]
Eskimaux [Inuk] 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 [igloos]. [Photo from C.W. Mathers' photo album "The Far North" requests for copies should be made to the Provincial Archives of Alberta]
Trading with an Eskimo at [Fort] McPherson. [1901. C.W. Mathers photo].
H.B.C. [Hudson's Bay Company] Fort Simpson. Mackenzie River. [1901. C.W. Mathers photo].
H.B.Co's post, Chipewyan on Athabasca Lake, 500 miles north of Edmonton. [Alberta, C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
Indians tracking the H.B.Co's fur boats up the rapids on Athabasca River, from Fort McMurray to Grand Rapids, 87 miles is almost one continuous rapid. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
An Indian packer with an average load of 200 lbs. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
Left to right: Chief Julius; Sem Smith; Old Martin; Old Robert; Old Alexi. At left, lying down: Richard Martin.
Frank Slide 1903. [Postcard]
Nov. 4th 1903 7:20 p.m. 4 sec. [second] exposure by the light of the Aurora borealis at Fort Simpson.
Map entitled "Exploration in Northern Canada, and adjacent portions of Alaska and Greenland, 1904." The map documents the routes taken by explorers and expeditions along the coast and inland.
H.B.Co. Trader 1905. [Unidentified man in elaborately designed clothing holding rifle that is covered in skin casing.]