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111 · Fonds · [1901-197-]

This fonds consists of 935 copy photographs (35 mm negatives) of Fort Providence and its surrounding area. This is a collection of images featuring the work of many photographers including O.S. Finnie, Rene Fumoleau and Celine Lafferty. Most of the photographs were donated to the Research Project by the Catholic Mission. There are a variety of images including those of the residents of Fort Providence, the Roman Catholic Mission and clergy, agriculture and gardening. There appears to be some duplication within the collection.

Fort Providence Slavey Language Research Project
Projects and Events
415-S05 · Series · 1965-2001
Part of Boy Scouts of Canada. Northwest Territories Council fonds

This series consists of 25 cm of textual records and 38 photographs. Records include correspondence and reports related to service projects, badges, NWT jamborees, cuborees, regional camps and trips, and interaction between scout groups inside and outside the NWT, as well as photographs of service projects and camps.

The NWT Scout Council organized a territory-wide service project in 1973, Operation Yuuch, which encouraged scout groups to clean up buildings or locations in their communities. The series also includes some correspondence related to Canada-wide service projects and some records related to local service projects undertaken by Yellowknife groups.

In 1964 the national council's Arctic and Northern Scouting Committee created a set of Northern badges aimed at teaching Scouts aspects of life and outdoorsmanship in the North; these badges were maintained and updated by the NWT Council. This series includes a small amount of correspondence related to Northern badges and alterations to badge requirements to make them more relevant for Northern Scouts.

The NWT Council organized three NWT jamborees, in 1973, 1978, and 1982, and one NWT and Nunavut Cuboree in 2001. The series includes planning materials, correspondence, financial statements, and handbooks for these events. The NWT Council also organized two expeditions in Baffin National Park, called Adventure Auyuittuq, in 1976 and 1979; the series includes a bulletin and promotional letter regarding these trips. In addition, there is correspondence regarding camps and trips undertaken by local groups.

The NWT Council also helped to coordinate interactions between NWT scout groups and scout groups outside the NWT, including twinning between NWT and outside scout groups, NWT participation in national and international jamborees, and visits to the NWT by outside groups. The series includes a small amount of correspondence and reports related to these activities.

The photographs include images of Operation Yuuch, the Yellowknife Region's Kakisa Kuboree, and several Yellowknife region Beaver camps, as well as photographs from a report on the NWT Council's display at the 1985 Canadian Jamboree.

Regions and Local Groups
415-S04 · Series · 1965-2001
Part of Boy Scouts of Canada. Northwest Territories Council fonds

This series consists of 47 cm of textual records and 6 photographs. Records include documentation of interaction between the NWT Scout Council and regional councils and local scout groups; membership census records and group charters; RCMP returns detailing scouting activity in the communities; and photographs of local groupmeetings.

The series includes three sets of documents filed by region, one dating to theearly 1970s, one to the late 1970s, and one to the 1990s, as well as other files containing materials documenting communication between the NWT Council and its subordinate groups. Records in these files include correspondence, field visit reports, and regional and local meeting minutes and publications.

Coordinating registration was a major function of the territorial council. The NWT Council received both individual and group membership applications, maintained lists of members, and reported on membership to the national council. The bulk of the membership records have been returned to the donor due to privacy concerns. This series includes registration statistics for 1965-1971, 1975-1985, and sporadically through the 1990s, as well as group charter applications for 1993-2001. Membership census numbers for some years were published in the annual report or in the Boreas newsletter.

In addition to communicating directly with local groups, the Boy Scouts received regular reports from the RCMP on Scouting activities in Northern communities. This series includes a set of RCMP returns from the late 1970s, filed by community, aswell as several files containing returns from earlier and later dates.

The photographs include group portraits of Scouts and Venturers in Chesterfield Inlet in 1969 and candid shots of Cubs and Beavers at a 1977 "swimup" ceremony in Pine Point.

N-2003-014 · Accession · 1984-1985

Records relate to the Yellowknife Public Library's Oral History Project dating from 1984-1985. The cassette tapes contain recorded interviews with prominent Yellowknife residents who were pioneers in their endeavours. Many of the interviewees and their families arrived in Yellowknife as the community began in the late 1930s and 1940s. Interviewees include Barb Bromley, Mary Hunter, Archie Loutitt, Arnold Smith, Helen Parker, Jean Piro, Joyce McLeod, Donald Sian, Michael Ballantyne, Harold Glick, Rene Fumoleau, Jan Stirling, Gerry Hordal, and Mary Forrest. The folder of text contains a master working list of prospective interviewees, 'local history files' or personal profiles of most participants, as well as general documents relating to the methodology for creating oral histories. The three colour prints are of former Yellowknife mayor and territorial MLA Mike Ballantyne.

Geological Survey of Canada
G-1989-001 · Accession · 1938-1947
Part of Geological Survey of Canada fonds

Records include photographs of Yellowknife, mining camps around Yellowknife, Fort Resolution Fort Smith and survey crews around Yellowknife Bay. The photographs appear to have been taken by members of survey teams including: A.W. Jolliffe, C.S. Lord [Clifford Symington Lord] and J.F.Henderson.

Records relate to the 1985 Hay River Flood. Records include files related to emergency response and compensation paid by the GNWT. Records also include two binders of photographs documenting the damage to property.

Northwest Territories. Department of Municipal and Community Affairs. Emergency Services division
N-1991-072 · Accession · 1960-1963
Part of Canada. Department of Mines and Technical Surveys fonds

This material is comprised of typed manuscript reports prepared by the Research Division of the Government of Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Geographical Branch. The reports include 'Settlement files' and 'Terrain and Site Analysis' on settlements in the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. The Settlement files provide information under the headings of: location, structure, function and facilities, communications, population, resources, origin and history, toponymy, physical setting, climate, permafrost, freeze-up and break-up. The Terrain and Site Analysis reports provide information regarding location, geology, landforms, terrain conditions, soil, drainage, permafrost, vegetation, harbour and shore conditions, weather conditions, water supply, sewage and garbage disposal, sanitation, aircraft landing facilities, locations of buildings and roads, local labour and fire safety. The reports also contain photographs, maps, graphs and charts.

Hugh Ross
N-1992-250 · Accession · 1933-1961
Part of Hugh Ross fonds

The textual records consists of letters written by Hugh Ross between 1933-1936 from the Fort Norman Wireless Station to his future wife. In addition, there is a copy of a pseudo newsletter of the Royal Canadian Corps. Of Signals Northwest Territories and Yukon Radio System called "Notes of Interest." The negatives and photographs, which are located in a photo album that was compiled by Hugh Ross, include images of military personnel, wireless stations and the military base at Alert. The films show Yellowknife in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as aerial footage and the base at Alert in the 1960s.

Paul Trudel
N-2004-018 · Accession · 1939-1983
Part of Paul Trudel fonds

The textual records are comprised of one letter and one recipe card. The photographs are of the Trudel family while they lived in Yellowknife from 1940 to 1944, as well as prominent Yellowknife families and individuals, including Dr. Stanton, Father Gathy and Bishop Breynat. Several of the photographs document Paul Trudel's day to day activities at the district's mining recorder's office on Latham Island in Yellowknife.

Paul Trudel
N-2004-022 · Accession · 1920-1944
Part of Paul Trudel fonds

The textual records are comprised of a colour photocopy of a [1922?] Waterways train schedule, a colour photocopy of a map showing the communities of the Mackenzie River Valley, memorabilia including scanned copies of two Christmas cards, an engagement announcement from Edmonton Journal, a copy of a letter written by Paul Trudel, and editions of the Yellowknife Blade newspaper (annotated by Paul Trudel), Vol. 1, No.3 and Vol. 1, No. 4. The majority of the photographs were taken in the Fort Smith area, but they also include an aerial photograph of Yellowknife and a snapshot of the Trudel family.

Felix Labat
N-2004-027 · Accession · [195-]-1984
Part of Felix Labat fonds

Records include photographs of Fort Smith, Fort Good Hope, Deline, Tulita, Norman Wells, Hay River and Willowlake River. The photographs span Father Labat's career with the Roman Catholic Diocese of the Mackenzie, beginning in Deline in 1954. Photographs taken at Deline range from 1954-1961; those taken at Tulita span 1961-1966. Subject matter includes church services, weddings, and other church-related activities, transportation by barge, motorboat, canoe, dogsled, mooseskin boat, ski, snowshoe and snowmobile, portraits of Dene men, women and children, including students at Grollier Hall in Inuvik, Dene arts and crafts, events, including the NWT Centennial Canoe Race, and hunting and fishing activities.

N-1979-024 · Accession · copied [1970?]
Part of Father Emile Petitot Research Collection

Records include photographs collected by Donat Savoie while researching the work of Father Emile Petitot. The images are primarily of engravings and drawings by Petitot depicting the Dene, Metis, Inuit, and their cultures. Also included are photographs of Petitot and the Fort Good Hope church. Artists other than Petitot did some of the engravings. Many of the illustrations appear in Petitot's and Savoie's books.

Richard Finnie
N-1979-033 · Accession · 1931
Part of Richard Finnie fonds

Records include photographs depicting people at Coronation Gulf, and were taken by Richard S. Finnie. Images feature Finnie, Bill Storr, Lucy Kila, Jim Hall, Kahingak and Matt Berry.

Isaac Seymour Hadwen
N-1979-567 · Accession · [1920-1939]
Part of Isaac Seymour Hadwen fonds

Records include photographs of the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Alaska and Lapland as well as reindeer herding activities.

Larry Moline
N-1980-001 · Accession · [193-]
Part of Larry Moline fonds

Records include photographs of Yellowknife and Churchill, Manitoba. The images depict views of Yellowknife, including images of buildings, cat trains, dog teams, aircraft, boats and barges, mining activities, unidentified individuals and skaters on Back Bay.

W. Bruce Hunter
N-1981-002 · Accession · 1932-1980
Part of W. Bruce Hunter fonds

The black and white prints were contained in three photo albums. Prints from the albums show the Great Bear River region during the 1930s and the early 1950s. The colour prints were taken in 1980 and document the "Radium Franklin" being transported across the Bear River portage. The photo albums include captions and two have titles: "Ice Conditions - Bear River Upon Opening of Bear River Camp, June 1950" and "Operations on Bear River - 1951 Including Portaging of "Radium Franklin" and barges, and freight operations Bear River and Franklin." The images document the portage of the "Radium Franklin,” and include photographs of the "Radium Gilbert", Barge 432, the "George Askew," as well as images of transporting Eldorado freight across the Bear River portage. The third album documents a survey camp in the Great Bear River region during the 1930s; Hunter obtained the album from a surveyor.

Jack Hurst
N-1980-003 · Accession · 1947-1948
Part of Jack Hurst fonds

Records include photographs documenting the transportation of transformers for the Snare River Hydro Dam from Yellowknife to Snare Lake and one annotated map of the north Great Slave Lake region.

N-1983-001 · Accession · [196-?-1981]
Part of Fort Good Hope Dene Community Council fonds

The audiocassettes and audio reels were copied to DAT cassettes in January 1996. The DAT cassettes now constitute the archival master and the audio reels and cassettes are being retained as original masters. This material represents a collection of oral histories and photographs accumulated by the Fort Good Hope Community Council via their Dene Language and Historical Research Project. The oral histories were created directly because of the Dene Language and Historical Research Program. The photographs, collected from individual photographers, represent an artificial collection of historical photographs. Photographers include Mr. Cassien Edgi and Brother Mahe, as well as several other community members.

Paul Williamson
N-1983-004 · Accession · 1937-1940
Part of Paul Williamson fonds

Records include photographs taken by Paul Williamson during his years in both Portage La Loche (Saskatchewan) and Yellowknife. Many photos have been removed from photo albums created by Paul Williamson. The accession has been divided into three series: 1) La Loche, Saskatchewan; 2) Yellowknife; 3) Miscellaneous. The photographs of Yellowknife include views of: the Hudson's Bay Company store; gold mine operations at Con and Negus Mines; sporting activities including hockey, baseball and skiing; aircraft; the Yellowknife River; Con hydro and scenery around Yellowknife. There are also aerial views and images of the Hudson's Bay Company post in Hay River.