Colville Lake - R.C.M.P. from Fort Good Hope, Cst. Sara Drummond [officer in red serge uniform]. 1999
Colville Lake - R.C.M.P. from Fort Good Hope, Cst. Sara Drummond [officer in red serge uniform]. 1999
Colville Lake - Loaded for the Outpost. [Ted Jackson and Joseph Blancho sitting on dock by boat with bags of fiberglas insulation]. 1999
Sheep camp [Canadian helicopter by tents] 1999
Colville Lake - Richard Popko 1999 [Carrying sack/dead sheep?]
This fonds consists of 0.6 cm of textual records, ca. 13,000 photographs (col. slides, col. negatives, and b&w negatives), and 31 reels of 16 mm film.
The textual records comprise two newsletters produced by Bern Will Brown and a series of letters written by Capt. C.T. Pederson. The newsletters give a brief overview of life in the community of Colville Lake during 1991 and 1992, including items of interest relating to various members of the community. The Pedersen correspondence is autobiographical, including reminiscences of C.T. Pederson of some of his activities in the north; the majority are addressed to Father Brown of Our Lady of the Snows Mission in Colville Lake, but one letter is addressed to Commander Ransom.
The photographs include images of a wide variety of subjects, particularly activities of the Catholic Church and traditional activities of the Dene, Inuvialuit and Inuit, including hunting, trapping and transportation. There are photos of many locations throughout the NWT as well as some locations in Nunavut, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
The films and videocassettes include footage of dog teams, life at Colville Lake, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Aklavik, Husky Lakes, Whitefish Station, Tulita (Fort Norman), Nahanni Butte, Fort Simpson, Bern Will Brown, various Catholic priests and bishops, fishing, children at play, aircraft, construction of the mission, reindeer, whaling, trapping, hunting, church services, many local families including: Kochon, Codzi, Masuzumi, Cotchilly, Oudzi and political visitors such as Governors-General.
Brown, Bern WillColville Lake. [A winter scene of snow and trees.] 1999
[Colville Lake.] Margaret and dogs [in a trail in the winter]. 1999
Fort Norman [Tulita]. Bella Peters? [Woman with a small child held in her arms]. [n.d.]
[ one of Bern Will Brown's paintings, a girl sewing by lamplight.] [n.d.]
[ one of Bern Will Brown's paintings, a girl sewing by lamplight.] [n.d.]
[ one of Bern Will Brown's paintings, a person in a canoe paddling.] [n.d.]
[ one of Bern Will Brown's paintings, a child looking in an ice hole while fishing.] [n.d.]
[ one of Bern Will Brown's paintings, a family travelling by dog sled.] [n.d.]
[ one of Bern Will Brown's paintings, the church with a teepee frame beside it.] [n.d.]
Colville Lake. [Cabins in the winter.] 1999
[ one of Bern Will Brown's paintings, a caribou in the woods.] [n.d.]
[ one of Bern Will Brown's paintings, a cabin in a snow storm.] [n.d.]
[ one of Bern Will Brown's paintings, a dog team on the ice.] [n.d.]
[ one of Bern Will Brown's paintings, a child holding a bird.] [n.d.]