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The file consists of a typed transcript of an interview between Elle Andra-Warner (interviewer) and Erik Watt (interviewee). The interview largely focuses on Watt’s play entitled “Bush Pilots” and the firsthand experiences that helped inspire it. The interview also includes the topics of and Watt’s opinions about Watt’s family, learning to fly, Wop May, Jim McAvoy, Gus Weyrowitz, Weldy Phipps, Jock McMeekan, journalism in the Eastern Arctic, residential schools, and the training of nurses in the north. The interview took place on November 1, 2001, and was later transcribed by the creator.

[Four men (possibly Russ Bannock 3rd from left) stand in front of a Norseman airplane (Joe McBryan's CF-SAN) at a float plane dock in Yellowknife.]

[Three men stand in front of Joe McBryan's Norseman airplane (call sign CF-SAN) at a float plane dock, possibly the Air Tindi base in Yellowknife. ]

[Two members of the “Bush Pilots” play crew stand with Erik Watt and his wife Joy, likely at the Air Tindi base in Yellowknife. Left to right: Karen Johnson, Erik Watt, Murray Utas, Joy Watt.]

[Erik Watt stands at a float plane dock, likely the Air Tindi base in Yellowknife. A man’s right shoulder and the tail of a Norseman airplane can be seen on the right.]

Ennadai Lake Weather Station [View of two buildings, a communications tower, and various pieces of equipment at the Ennadai Lake weather station, taken from the top of a hill.]

Ennadai Lake Weather Station About 1969 [View of two larger buildings from the top of a hill at the Ennadai Lake weather station. A smaller building (possibly a shed) and a communications tower can also be seen in the distance, closer to the water.]

Ennadai Lake Weather Station N.W.T. [View of three buildings and the lake at the Ennadai Lake weather station from the top of a hill. Two of the large tanks are visible in the foreground.]

Weather Station Ennadai Lake N.W.T. [A cluster of buildings in a sandy area off Ennadai Lake. A float plane sits tied to shore on the bottom left of the frame. Four large tanks sit near the top of a hill on the right of the frame.]

[on recto] Carter Lockheed at Hay River [on verso] CF-H-T-V This Lockheed overturned & burned about 1971 around Falais Lake Lockheed 10 PILOT - Merlyn Carter [A Lockheed 10-A Electra airplane (call number CF-HTV) sits off a snow-covered landing strip. A truck sits on the left of the frame and barrels and wooden crates sit on the right of the frame.]

Ft Smith [obscured] Terminal Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-3 & C-47 [The Canadian Pacific Airlines building in Fort Smith in summer.]

Sports day July 1st 1957 Cano[e] Tipping Aircraft Rides on "Norsman" P.W.A. [Pacific Western Airlines] [Cars line up along a pier. A large tent is visible in the background on the left. People mill about near and in canoes in the water on the right. Possibly Hay River.]

This is a picture of our bombadier we use on Great Slave. [A Bombardier snowmobile on a frozen lake, likely Great Slave Lake.]

Treaty day [People, including some members of the cloth, gather in front of a wooden building on a grassy field. A flag flies in the mid-left of the frame.]

[Four dogs sit outside in the snow between a wooden ladder and a car, likely in Hay River. Part of the Catholic mission building can be seen on the left.]

[on recto] Beaulieu River NWT 1950 [on verso] One of the falls Beaulieu R. [River] [View of a set of rapids on the Beaulieu River.]

[on recto] NWT. Beaulieu River - Jack Dyck [on verso] J. Dick on the Beaulieu [A man (Jack Dyck) stands at the edge of rapids holding a fishing pole.]

Beaulieu R. [River] 1950 J. [Jack] Dyck [A man drinks from a mug while sitting under an upturned boat next to a campfire. A "Baker's Biscuits" box, cans of food, and a pot surround the fire.]

? Powder [Ken Roberts (right) and another man crouch along a dirt path holding a black bear.]