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This accession consists of student work books and artwork produced by students of Alexander Halley Low at St. Peter's Mission (Residential) School in Hay River.

This accession consists of two yearbooks from the 1985-1986 and 1986-1987 school years. They contain messages and individual photographs of staff and students grades 7-12, as well as school organizations, sports teams, and activities.

This accession consists of booklets relating to the Arctic Winter Games, including “for those who were there” NWT Team booklet from the 1978 Games held in Hay River-Pine Point, “we’re together again” NWT Team booklet from the 1980 Games held in Whitehorse, “Northwest Territories Team 1982 Arctic Winter Games Fairbanks, Alaska”, and “Cultural Performances, Arts and Entertainment Program 1998 Arctic Winter Games Yellowknife, Northwest Territories March 15-21”.

Records include photographs produced for the Native Press newspaper. The photographs are in the form of primarily black and white negatives with associated orginal contact sheets. So far only the images from 1971-79 have been fully processed. The accession also includes unprocessed stock image prints, textual records, audio-visual material, original artwork, and book galleys.

Records consist of a report and booklet about the T.E.S.T. Ski Program, a booklet and program for the Top of the World Ski Championships, a booklet for the Northern Games, and a program for Caribou Carnival. They were collected by Lorna Clement during her time in various communities of the Northwest Territories.

Records consist of two bound volumes, one a diary documenting research and survey work performed during the search for a "New Aklavik" (later Inuvik) and the other a vessel log for the paddle wheel stern wheeler the "Dingle".

Records were created by Peter M. Porter during his time employed as resident watchman/caretaker on Outpost Island in Great Slave Lake, 1938-1940. The records include Porter's journal from November 15, 1938-July 26, 1939, which gives a day-by-day account of life alone on the island. Other records include corresondence from Slave Lake Gold Mines, merchants, and friends, September 1938 to February 1940.

Records were created by Bear Exploration and Radium Ltd. in the course of their work on claims and mines in the Yellowknife area in the late 1940s. The records appear to be predominently those of BEAR's NWT Manager of Operations, Hugh Fraser, and include payroll and employment records, correspondence, licences, prospectors' agreements, assay certificates, certificates of work, drill hole records, reports, and maps of claims, geological features, and work done, for several groups of claims in the Yellowknife area, including Atlas, Greyling, Admiral, Ace, Quyta, Daw, Yellowrex, Jacknife, Neptune, BYG, and Beulah Gold Mines.
The files have been arranged by the Archivist with reference to the numerical classification scheme used by BEAR, although these files weren't specifically labelled with classification numbers.

The records include a cheque register, correspondence, membership lists, meeting agenda, minutes, Prospector’s Class enrollment, schedule, and course materials, a proposed itinerary and account of the Governor General's 1947 visit, and a photograph of CIMM visitors to Yellowknife.

Records were created by John Anderson-Thomson from 1946 to 1962, in the course of his work as a land surveyor and consulting geologist and as a member of the Royal Commission on the Great Slave Lake Railway. The files were arranged by the Archivist by content/type (Field Work, Correspondence, Royal Commission), then date. The records include field books of survey data, correspondence, Royal Commission list of exhibits and briefs presented and a draft report, and four maps showing a highway route.

The text and approximately half of the images were kept as a scrapbook recounting travels with Commissioner Stuart Hodgson, and life in Yellowknife as written by Mary Ellen Davies. The remaining images document the same time period and events, but were not included in the scrapbook.

These records were created by Walter Slipchenko during his time as Chief of DIAND's Circumpolar Affairs Division, Director of Circumpolar Affairs with the GNWT, and as a consultant on circumpolar affairs, from 1977 to 1994. The records consist primarily of reports on GNWT engagement with circumpolar affairs, particularly with exchanges to the USSR and joint projects. Copies of the various cooperation agreements and photographs of some exchanges are also included.

The records, created by Jack La Flair, document his business and aspects of his personal life as an independent trader in the Nahanni Butte area from 1921 to 1951.

The photographs (227 colour slides and 7 b&w negatives) document Pi's life on his trapline around the Oulton Lake area north of Fort Smith, including building construction, travel by dogteam and by boat, trapping and hunting activities. Also included are photographs of activities in the town of Fort Smith, including parades, sports and dog races. The Super 8 films document animals out on Pi's trapline, life in his camps, as well as dog races. The textual material includes documentation of fur pelts sold, expenses, as well as calendars kept on the trapline. The maps are of Pi Kennedy's trapline area north of Fort Smith and include annotations of trails and cabin sites.

The text is the transcript of the Michif Language Conference on February 19 and 20, 1994, in Yellowknife, hosted by the Metis Heritage Association. The sound recording comprises the Michif spoken excerpts of the proceedings, which have been indicated on the transcript.

The records consist of one bound volume and one folder of correspondence. The bound volume is a handwritten diary that recounts daily events aboard the HBC supply ship RMS "Nascopie” during its tour to the Eastern Arctic in the summer and fall of 1944 from the perspective of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Inspector Cyril N.K. “Nordie” Kirk. The volume also summarizes RCMP inspections in New Brunswick in the fall and winter of 1944, and Kirk’s activities during the holiday season in Ottawa in late 1944 and early 1945. The typed correspondence consists of seven letters written from the fall of 1945 to the summer of 1946 that detail Kirk’s time as Officer in Charge (OC) in Aklavik to individuals in other parts of Canada, as well as one letter received from a southern correspondent.

Records include the North of Sixty/North of 60 newsletter produced by Cominco between June 1977-December 1985. The newsletters document operational and social activities of Cominco mines and mine employees. This accession contains a full run of the newsletters. Only one issue, a Christmas issue, was published for 1983. The 1984 Homecoming issue was the only issue published in 1984.

The textual records include a diary and a notebook written by John Paterson, a letter from Jack Stark to John Paterson and a pamphlet of the Northern Transit Service. The diary recounts Mr. Paterson's time as a trapper and fur trader in the Snowdrift (Lutselk'e) area from the fall of 1924 to the summer of 1925. The notebook describes Mr. Paterson's arrival in Canada and how he came to be in the North.

The bulk of the text consists of correspondence, both personal and relating to Jake's work in the mining industry, his service in the Air Force, and his and Didi's facilitating a visit to the Arctic for Sherman Haight. Other documents in the accession include share certificates, legal paperwork, a log of Jake's prospecting activities in 1938, and samples of his poetry and prose writing. The photographs depict Jake at various stages of life as well as members of his family, prospecting activities, and signs and monuments beside Highway 1.

Records consist of songs, stories and interview transcripts collected by ethnomusicologist Nicole Beaudry in the Sahtu communities of Deline, Tulita and Fort Good Hope in 1988-1992.