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The records, created by the Pappas family and their relations, document settler life in Yellowknife and Outpost Island mine.

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 film opens with footage of the mine site exterior, followed by a tour of some interior rooms including the tool shop, mess hall, recreation room and a number of offices. Narrated footage then focuses on gold milling processes including crushing and grinding the ore, classification, cyanidation, filtering and precipitation. Various elements of pulp balance measuring, solution tests, etc to determine if the water vs solids balance was correct. There is also extensive footage of gold assaying in the assay office. Processes filmed include bucking of samples, splitting, sieving, and atomic absorption spectrometry using flame atomizer to determine the gold assay. The film also features an original song about Salmita Mine written and performed by Jerry Snow.

The film opens with footage of the mine site exterior, followed by a tour of some interior rooms including the tool shop, mess hall, recreation room and a number of offices. Narrated footage then focuses on gold milling processes including crushing and grinding the ore, classification, cyanidation, filtering and precipitation. Various elements of pulp balance measuring, solution tests, etc to determine if the water vs solids balance was correct. There is also extensive footage of gold assaying in the assay office. Processes filmed include bucking of samples, splitting, sieving, and atomic absorption spectrometry using flame atomizer to determine the gold assay. The film also features an original song about Salmita Mine written and performed by Jerry Snow.

Records include a film shot in January 1987 to capture the last year of operation of Salmita mine. The film was produced and directed by Larry Campanas, who was employed at Salmita Mine as the Safety and Mine Resources Coordinator. The camera was operated by Wayne Bayrack. The film also features an original song performed by Jerry Snow.

1963. Hay River Town. Loading barges[with fuel drums, lumber, camp trailers, vehicles, Caterpillar loaders], Hay River. Fishing at Hay River. [Tug Y-Tee Husky]. Fort Simpson. Alexandra Falls. Unloading at Fort Simpson. Up River. Fort Wrigley -San Sou [Sans Sault] Rapids. Fort Good Hope (Storm) Inuvik and Calgary. [From shot list found with film reel, now located in accession file]

[Film depicts aerial views of the NWT and the Norman Wells airport. The film stock was likely manufactured in 1961, edge codes make process date as March 1964. Likely shot between 1961-1964]

The photographs document the construction of a winter road between Fort Providence and Inuvik in 1963-1964. The 8 mm film appears to depict a flight from Calgary to Norman Wells. The 16 mm film depicts the loading and unloading of barges through various communities along the Mackenzie River, including Hay River, Fort Simpson, Fort Wrigley and Fort Good Hope. The cartographic booklet is comprised of maps of the Mackenzie River.

The materials formerly belonged to Ross Laycock, who worked on the first winter road up the Mackenzie Valley from Fort Providence to Inuvik in the 1960s.

The film was shot in Inuvik and the Mackenzie delta region circa 1964-1967. The filmmaker is Terry F. Keim. The film features the [196? and 1967] Inuvik Muskrat Jamboree, aerial views of Inuvik, various buildings in the townsite, airplanes and the Inuvik airport, and extensive footage of drum dancers in traditional costumes. A complete shot listing is located in the accession file.

This item consists of one DVD video containing two narrated slide shows, created around 2005 by Dr. Ernest Jarman, using photographs taken during his time as a medical officer for Indian Health Services at Faraud Hospital in Fort Rae (Behchoko) from 1954 to 1956.

The first 36 minute video consists of 96 individual images and includes the following: introduction to the Jarman family - Ernest, his wife Jane, his son Mike and his daughter Marnie; family activities in Fort Rae; ceremony of paying treaty money; delivery of goods by air and by water; views of residences and buildings in Fort Rae. Individuals appearing in the photographs include RCMP Const. Buck Thomas, RCMP Const. Ken Plumm [Kenneth Plomp], RCMP Const. Terry Garvin, Indian Agent Kirkby, Assistant Agent Robby, Chief Jimmy Bruneau, Chief Jimmy Kia, Naomi Murphy, Oblate Priests of Mary Immaculate ; communities featured in photographs include Fort Rae, Yellowknife, Whati (Lac la Martre), Hay River and Fort Providence.

The second 18 minute video consists of 50 individual images and includes the following: various family activities; graveyards in Fort Rae; activities within the hospital; hunting; winter in Fort Rae. Individuals appearing in photographs include RCMP Const. Terry Gravin, Indian Agent Ivan Kirkby, Chief Jimmy Bruneau and wife.

Records include two narrated video slide shows created in 2005, and one self-published memoir created in 2015, which all include photographs taken during Dr. Ernest Jarman's time as Medical Officer for Indian Health Services at Faraud Hospital in Fort Rae (Behchoko) from July 1954 to June 1956.
The first video consists of 96 individual images and includes the following: Jarman family activities in Fort Rae, treaty payment, delivery of goods by air and by water, views of residences and buildings in Fort Rae. The second video consists of 50 individual images and includes various family activities, graveyards in Fort Rae, activities within the Faraud hospital, hunting, winter in Fort Rae. People included in the photographs in both videos include RCMP constables Ken Plumm [Kenneth Plomp], Buck Thomas and Terry Garvin, Indian Agent Kirkby, Oblate priests, Chief Jimmy Bruneau and Chief Jimmy Kia, and Naomi Murphy. Communities featured include Fort Rae (Behchoko), Yellowknife, Whatı̀ (Lac la Martre), Hay River and Fort Providence.

The text consists of a 54 page self-published memoir, "Through Dr. Jarman's eyes - going North in 1956: featuring Dr. Ernie Jarman's photos and slides of Fort Rae and surrounding area, Northwest Territories, Canada" by Dr. Ernie Jarman and Marnie Jarman Bethell, written in 2015.

The original film [Trucking - Beyond the Fringe, was taken by John Denison and] William Kruining in 1961 [1964] during a trip with the Byers transport convoy on the winter road from Yellowknife going through Discovery Mine to Tundra Mine. Footage includes the making of the winter road, the Byers Tankard Curling Bonspiel, mine truck and airplane transportation, and [Cooper- Dessemer power generator] equipment delivery. Also includes views of Salmita Mine. The documentary is in colour with sound. <15 minutes.

The records document an oral traditions project carried out by Jonas Adam on behalf of the Salt River First Nation in 1996, funded via the Oral Traditions funding program. The textual records consist of two copies of a report entitled Memories To Last. It includes photocopies of pictures, and what appear to be transcripts of the interviews with six Salt River First Nation elders: Mary Rose Benwell, Napoleon (Abraham) Nasgadhe, Philip Cheezie, Mary Jane Bruno (Taylor), Wilfred Beaulieu, and Oliver Beaulieu.

[Shots of people sitting in a truck and cars parked in the snow; skidoo racers in Aklavik. Shots of people exiting plane. Views of vehicles decorated for centennial celebrations, possibly in Inuvik.]

[Shots of musicians in country gear on stage and an assembled crowd watching. Children play outside. Shots of people standing by the Mackenzie River and views of break-up and ice on the river. Parts of the film are out of focus.]

[Views of child in parka and baby with reindeer and Santa’s sleigh display, child walking towards house and woman holding baby. Views of crowd gathered outside with dog sleds, alongside a herd of caribou; the dog sleds drive past the caribou. Shots of the herd moving. Views of a procession lead by woman in a red cloak, possibly Caribou Carnival Queen, and women on stage. The first half of the film is out of focus, and other shots are very dark.].