This fonds consists of 2731 colour photographs in slide and print formats, 6 audio reels, 75 film reels, 10 umatic videocassettes, approximately 1.14 meters of textual material, 8 microfilm reels and 15 posters. The photographs depict communities throughout the Northwest Territories, indigenous animals, landmarks, Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line sites, Anglican and Catholic Missions, schools, Dene and Inuit peoples and landscapes. In addition, there are images of the 1978 Arctic Winter Games, Commissioner Hodgson's tour of the Northwest Territories in 1969 and photographs documenting the construction of a mooseskin boat at Fort Norman and the Keele River Camp in 1981. The textual material consists of a report on the Commissioner's Tours of the Upper Mackenzie, Nahanni and Liard River Area, Central Arctic and Western Arctic between 1969-1970, as well as a journal kept by Beryl Gillespie documenting the construction of the Mooseskin Boat Project that took place in 1981. The bulk of the textual material consists of files from the Central Registry and were from the following Central Registry blocks: Policy (11-000); Settlements (11-004); Tours (11-005); Publications (11-006) and Communications (11-012). There is also approximately 5.5 cm of newsletters, brochures and booklets on varied topics such as translation services, the NWT visual identity program, regional information (mostly the Keewatin region), an Analysis of the Dene Language Information Review, the Dene and Inuit Traditional Life Series, and 6 years of weekly Territorial bulletins (incomplete). The microfilm reels contain files from the Central Registry dated between 1970-1973 from the following program areas: Policy, Settlements, Publications, Public Relations and Miscellaneous (11 block) and from Conferences and Administration (13 block). There are also 10 umatic videocassettes and 19 film reels that document the Mooseskin Boat Project. The remaining 57 films (16 mm) document events in the Northwest Territories, such as the Commissioner's Tour of the Northwest Territories in 1969-1970, the 1970 Arctic Winter Games, Caribou Carnival in Yellowknife, Camp Unity and a CBC production about whaling in the north. The five sound reels provide audio for some of these films. The remaining material consists of 15 posters that represent images of the Northwest Territories, including wildlife and northern residents in both the Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions.
Northwest Territories. Department of Information (1967-1985)Included are images of communities; buildings; indigenous animals; landmarks; Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line sites; people; special events; Anglican and Catholic Missions; schools; Dene and Inuit involved in traditional activities; and landscapes. The images would have been used in government publications and displays.
Eskimos [Inuit] at Frobisher Bay [Iqaluit] broadcasting the new ways. Photographer unknown. [A young Inuit woman, identified as Ann Mikijuk Hanson, holds microphone towards an older Inuit woman who has a pipe in her mouth].
Meeka Kilabuk and May Akulukjuk outside Hudson's Bay post store at Pangnirtung. Taken by Lynn Ball, 1967. [Two Inuit women in parkas stand at top of stairs.]
[Taina Angmarlik and her son, Tony Angmarlik.] Eskimo [Inuit] woman with child [in amautiq] - Pangnirtung. Taken by Lynn Ball, 1967.
Eskimos [Inuit] outside tents in Pangnirtung working on carvings. [Three boys sit on ground, antlers in foreground.] Taken by Lynn Ball, 1967.
Eskimo [Inuit] woman - Pangnirtung. [Inuit woman stoops to fill kettle from water tap outside small house.] Taken by Lynn Ball, 1967.
Eskimo [Inuit] outside tents in Pangnirtung. [Inuit boy sits on ground carving whale bone.] Taken by Lynn Ball, 1967.
Port Radium on Great Bear Lake, NWT. [Mine buildings, headframe and storage tanks seen from water.] Taken by Ted Grant, 1967.
Port Radium on Great Bear Lake, NWT, once the scene of uranium mining. Today silver is being taken out by Echo Bay Mines. [Buildings seen from water.] Taken by Ted Grant, 1967.
Bus service and large stores in Yellowknife, named capital of Canada's Northwest Territories in 1967. [unpaved Franklin Avenue scene includes Marshall Wells Hardware and Appliances store in the W.H. Bromley Building, YK Photo, Bank of Commerce, Woody's Barbershop, YK Hotel/Inn, Frame & Perkins bus and child on bike.] Taken by Ted Grant, 1967.
Aerial view of Yellowknife, capital of the Northwest Territories. Taken by Ted Grant, summer 1967.
Aerial view of Yellowknife, capital of the Northwest Territories. Taken by Ted Grant, summer 1967.
Aerial view of Old Town in Yellowknife, capital of the Northwest Territories. Taken by Ted Grant, summer 1967. [Jolliffe Island, the Rock, Back Bay]
Floatplane base, Yellowknife, NWT [showing tail of Single Otter belonging to Wardair Canada Ltd., a de Havilland Beaver and a Twin Otter beyond]. Taken by Ted Grant, 1967.
Federal housing in Inuvik, NWT - two-storey brown prefab house, grass and trees. Taken by Ted Grant, 1967.
Federal housing in Inuvik, NWT - two-storey blue prefab, trees and grass. Taken by Ted Grant, 1967.
Aerial view of Pine Point mine and Great Slave Railway in Canada's Northwest Territories. Taken by Ted Grant, 1967.
Eskimo [Inuit] mother and family, Ongersin Fiord Point. [Inuit woman with baby in amautiq is surrounded by at least 4 other children, Baffin Region? High Arctic Region?] Taken by Lynn Ball, 1967.
Eskimo [Inuit] family - Ongersin Fiord Point. [Inuit man and woman with 5 children stand in front of camp or settlement dwellings, Baffin Region? High Arctic Region?] Taken by Lynn Ball, 1967.