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Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at 1 am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: unknown.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 04: The Roman Catholic Church owned this Bellanca through
RC Episcopal Corp. of the Mackenzie. Bishop Gabriel Breynat ofFmt Smith had a Waco ZQC-6
registered in his own name from Mar. 08, 1937 to Nov 18, 1939 (Ellis, J.R., Canadian Civil
Aircraft Registry). The Bellanca 31-42 Pacemaker in this photo was registered to the Roman
Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Mackenzie, Fmt Smith from July 03, 1939 until August
23, 1940. In his book, (Flying Bishop, 50 years in the Canadian Far North, Bums, 1955.)
Breynat mentions both planes, but he seems not to have flown them himself. He calls this plane
Sancta Maria in the book but Santa Maria is the name painted on the plane in the photo. The
engine is being warmed by a gas burning pot or pots (stoves) under the engine cover (see photos
1 and 7 for more explanation). The person on top of the engine may be pouring heated engine oil
into the engine to help warm it up prior to starting it.

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 13. "South Nahanni River Gang". From the left along the front row is John the Russian half kneeling at the front. Then next could be Jimmy but I'm not certain. Jimmy looked pretty white. Next is Harry. He grew a moustache. That is Sonny Field. And this is Rodney. It runs in my mind that his last name was Roberts. Rodney Roberts. He turned out to be quite an engineer later. Next to him is Hans Hansen. He was a little baker from Dawson Creek that was going up to Bear Lake to make his fortune. In the back row is Joe Clark the free trader. Nazar Zinchuk, of course. Mrs. George. And that chap in behind and between the two ladies, I just don't know. Mrs. Field That's Vera Turner. She's holding her hand up from the sun. She's waiting for her husband. Dick was up on the Nahanni somewhere. There's Bert Neeland. And I don't remember his name. And Arthur George. So we have two unknowns there.

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell

WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 11: To reiterate: front row l->r; John the Russian, Jimmy [maybe Jimmy Cholo? ], Harry Vandale, Dick "Sonny" Field [boy], Rodney Roberts and Hans Hansen. Back row l→r; Joe Clark, Nazar Zinchuk, Lodema George, unknown, Mrs. Mary Field, unknown but probably Poole Field with his signature hat, Vera Turner, Bert Neeland, unknown and Arthur George. This photo has more Nahanni characters in it than any other of which I aware.

Anna's Photo Description:

Caption Source: Anna Lindberg

Photographer: unknown

WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar. 10: Dick Field was nearly always called Sonny. When I interviewed him in 1977 at Dawson City he was still called Sonny. So far as I know Sonny and Phoebe are the only two children of Poole and Mary Field. Phoebe subsequently drowned while ratting (muskrat hunting) in spring at Aklavik.

Caption Source: taken from typed caption sheet in Bill Cormack's photo album

Photographer: unknown

WDA's Comments, 2013 Oct. 12: The use of pack dogs offered flexibility in winter travel providing they have a packed trail to walk on. Bill Cormack describes this in his interview as does G. C. F. Dalziel (Dal). The flexibility came at a cost. Note the chains running from the trapper to the dogs to keep them from running off, primarily after game. The chains become burdensome to both trapper and dog and Dal describes how he managed his dogs so that they were rarely chained. The other problem with both pack dogs and dogs pulling a toboggan is dog food. They eat a lot of meat which requires plentiful big game—moose, caribou, Dall sheep mainly—available on a regular basis. In his interview Milt Campbell describes having to shoot his dogs when he couldn't get meat.

Caption on back of photo: There are two captions, the second in red pencil. "#13 - 1941. Canvas covered, the flume takes the creek's waters. With a tongue & groove bulkhead embedded in cement to clean swept bedrock, 99 % of the water swept over the flume. Bill Clark." "Intake completed"

Caption Source: Bill Clark

Photographer: Carl Falcon

WDA's Comments, 2013 Jul 10: The completed flume carrying Bennett Creek over and beyond the pothole. The bulkhead, of vertical (right) and horizontal (left) tongue and groove Douglas Fir boards that were flown in just for this purpose was the last thing to be finished and it diverted Bennett Creek into the flume. The work tent was just beyond the bottom of the flume.

Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at I am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: unknown
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 13: I suspect that this person is one of Charlie Hansen's two
uncles resident in Canada, either Maitin Bode with whom Charlie stayed a couple of years on his
homestead near Wanham, AB, or his uncle Emil Bode who was killed, along with his paitner
Gene Olson,on the Thelon River by an Eskimo (see C. Hansen interview). It also may be
Charlie's father. Whomever it is, there is a facial resemblance to Charlie.

Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at 1 am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: unknown
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 13: Charlie found out about his uncles murder whem an RCMP
officer came to his uncle Maiiin's homestead near Wanham to tell them. This photograph may
have been from the RCMP investigation.