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This accession consists of an Intelpost message (fax) sent to Yellowknife.

This accession consists of a photocopy of an award winning essay on the Northwest Territories by Jacqueline Martin.

This accession consists of three letters from David T. Hanbury requesting permission to duplicate photographs from an 1897 report.

This accession consists of a recording of Marjorie Nichol's reminiscences of Dennis Williams.

One map was published in 1827 and drawn by Jehoshaphat Aspin in 1826. It is entitled "Recent Discoveries in the Arctic Regions." The 1919 map was published in "Harmsworth's New Atlas" and the 1924 map was published by the Edinburgh Geographical Society.

This accession consists of a map titled "A Sketch Map of the Great Bear Lake Region in the Mackenzie District explored by J. Mackintosh Bell 1900", dated May 13, 1901 and apparently published by the Royal Geographic Society in its Geographical Journal of 1901.

This accession consists of one letter from John Franklin dated October 25, 1830.

The videocassette is a copy of an 8 mm film loaned to the NWT Archives. A related interview with Charles Reiach is in accession number N-1997-022.

Records include a script for a play entitled "Finding Franklin".

Textual records include two telegrams from 1937 relating to the flight of Sigismund Levanevsky of the U.S.S.R.; one autographed program "Commemorating Bush Pilots of Canada", August 20, 1967, Yellowknife; and one Canadian Airways Limited card showing flight routes. The photographs, most obtained from Matt Berry, relate to aviation in the north. The images feature views of life in numerous NWT communities, and activities such as mining. The map illustrates the route flown by W.L. Brintnell in G-CASK during August of 1929. The 21 day (105 hours), 1000 miles trip from Winnipeg (Manitoba) and back included stops in Fort Simpson, Fort Norman, Aklavik, Dawson (Yukon), Prince Rupert (B.C.), Edmonton (Alberta). Some of the photographs in this accession are copies of images held by the National Archives of Canada (NAC). The NAC's reference number for the items in their holdings has been recorded in the accession file.

This accession consists of six black and white photographs of aviation activities in the north. Included among the images are views of the first air mail services in 1929 and an aerial photograph of Yellowknife.

This accession consists of two black and white photographs of the crash site of a RCAF DC-3 in 1949. Item :0001 shows the salvage crew and Inuit men in front of the crashed plane and :0002 shows the crashed aircraft.

Records are comprised of a report entitled "A History of the Northwest Territories and Yukon Radio System 1923 to 1960," produced by Royal Canadian Signal Corps.

This accession consists of one black and white photograph showing a fallen tree trunk used as a child's coffin.

This accession consists of a photocopy of an essay entered in the national essay contest "Know Your Heritage" about the "Old Cemetary [Cemetery]" located at Back Bay in Yellowknife (includes copies of photographs).

Records include photographs from the City of Edmonton Archives. The communities in the photographs include Fort Norman, Fort Smith, Fort Resolution, Fort Simpson, Arctic Red River (Tsiigehtchic), and Yellowknife. Most items are in postcard format, and several are stamped "The Hudson's Bay Co., Edmonton, Alta.".

Records include photographs of Inuvik. Many of the images are aerial photographs and show the layout of the community. This source of the photographs is unknown.

Records include photographs taken in 1938 by A.H. Perry. Included in the images are aerial photographs of Tuktoyaktuk, the Mackenzie delta, Inuit families and Aklavik.

The collection consists of photographs from a variety of photographers and its subjects include people and events from Fort Good Hope and Colville Lake.

This accession consists of one black and white aerial photograph of Jolliffe Island and "Old Town" Yellowknife taken in the late 1930s or early 1940s.