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Records document Beryl Gillespie's work with the Mooseskin Boat project. The textual records are comprised of an account of the Mooseskin Boat project as it was observed by Beryl Gillespie. The photographs document the Mooseskin Boat project, including the preparation of the moosehide, boat construction and campsite activities. There are also images of the boat as it travelled down the Keele River, and of George Pelissey and Madeline Karkagie who worked on the project. In addition, there are several images of the mountains near Tulita (Fort Norman).

These are copies of photographs which belonged to Wop May. Though many of the images are not dated, the original photographs appear to date from circa 1928 to 1948. Many of the photographs were taken in northern Alberta, but locations in the Northwest Territories include Aklavik, Cameron Bay, Fort Norman [Tulita], Rae, Arctic Red River [Tsiigehtchic], Hay River, Fort Providence, Fort Simpson, and Fort Resolution. The images include pilots, aircraft, mining exploration, and various aspects of air mail delivery and the aviation industry.

Records include a booklet titled The Story of Discovery, Northwest Territories, produced by the Discovery Women's Institute, which offers photographs and a history of the townsite and its residents. This accession also contains a program titled Commemorating the Dawson Patrol February 16-March 14, 1970 and a promotional pamphlet for the town of Yellowknife produced by the Yellowknife Board of Trade.

Records include photographs of Fort Simpson and ships docking at that community.

Records consist of eight reports were written by Ryan Silke and date between 2001-2004. The reports document abandoned or demolished Yellowknife buildings including the Knutsen Sheet Metal Shop, Canadian Tire Building, Con Mine Camp and Waterfront, Old Vaydik House, The House of Horrors and Akaitcho Hall Building. Two of the reports contain inventories of Plaques, Murals and Displays in Yellowknife, as well as an inventory of New Town Historical Buildings.

The reports were written by Ryan Silke and date between June to August 2005. The reports document historical buildings in the Yellowknife area. Titles include: "Historical overview of the Negus Mine and Camp area", "Historical building inventory - Old Town area", "Historical building inventory - Downtown area" and, "Giant Mine townsite".

This artificial collection includes photos of the 1961 Northwest Territories Tourist Association convention, Con Mine, Discovery Mine, Giant Mine, Negus Mine, Rycon Mine and mining activities in the 1930s. In addition, there are images of Yellowknife, Detah (Indian Village) [Dettah], and Goldfields, SK in the 1930s and 1940s and Federal Government employees based in Yellowknife in the 1950s.

This artificial collection includes photos of Jean Marie River, Aklavik in the 1920s, Norman Wells, Fort McPherson as early as 1916, Fort Simpson, mining, oil wells, Port Radium, the Labine brothers, Fort Norman, and Fort Resolution.

The images include mine sites, Arctic Red River in 1925, river transportation, a hand coloured photo of Fort Simpson taken by C. W. Mathers, circa 1901, the Ingraham hotel, 1947, reindeer at Richard Island and a rock inscribed "S. Hearne, July 1767."

This accession consists of four cartographic sheets which collectively are entitled Map of Great Slave Lake and Hudson Bay. They were originally published by the Federal government in 1900 and reprinted in 1923, to accompany a report by J.B. Tyrell. They are stamped Department of Interior-Yukon and Northwest Territories Branch. They are annotated with the inscription "help yourself". (:0001) is entitled Sheet No. 1 and shows McLeod Bay in the east end of Great Slave Lake, the water route to Artillery Lake, Lac Du Bois, Casba Lake, Campbell Lake and Sifton Lake. (:0002) is entitled Sheet No. 2 and shows the Thelon River. It includes Granite Falls and Hanbury River. (:0003) Sheet No. 3A and 3B shows the Thelon River and includes Beverly Lake and Aberdeen Lake. (:0004) is entitled Sheet No. 4 and shows the lower Thelon River and includes Schultz Lake and Baker Lake. The maps also show Dene and Inuit encampments along the Thelon River. There are no copies of these maps on deposit with either the National Archives of Canada or the National Museum of Civilization.

This accession consists of one map entitled "Plan of Cameron Bay Settlement" compiled from surveys conducted by M. Meikle D.L.S. on August 25, 1933 and produced by the Department of the Interior. The map is scale: 100 feet to an inch. Cameron Bay was the name of the town that sprang up after Gilbert Labine's discovery of silver and radium. The settlement was officially named Port Radium in 1937 and then renamed Echo Bay in 1965. The locations and identifications of Royal Canadian Mounted Police buildings appear to have been annotated on the original map.

This accession consists of one blueprint titled "Reference Plan of Yellowknife Settlement, NWT". Scale is 1" to 200 feet. The plan was revised up to December 18, 1958. The plan indicates the lot boundaries for the new town area of Yellowknife, the old town, Latham Island and Jolliffe Island.

Records are comprised of one pamphlet of general information on Yellowknife dated 1949. The pamphlet was published by the Department of Mines and Resources, Lands and Development Services Branch, Ottawa, Canada.

The locations depicted include Fort Resolution, Fort McPherson, Norman Wells, and Fort Simpson. Images depict RCMP graves and boats, and scenes from the communities.

Photographs depict a ceremony held in Yellowknife in 1973 to unveil a plaque to commemorate the service of RCMP sled dogs; and views of Hay River and Tuktoyaktuk.

Photographs depict the RCMP Band tour of northern communities, the ceremony involved with the dedication of a plaque on the Henry Larsen Building in Yellowknife and the following banquet and dance. Images include C.O. "G" Division Chief Supt. Al Huget and wife Gladys, Insp. Harry T. Nixon and wife Hazel, D/Commr. W.J. Fitzsimmons and Mrs. Fitzsimmons, Bob Ward, Supt. Bramwell Smith, Supt. Al Dye and Betty Dye, Bob Ward and Mrs. Mary Larsen. Scenes from northern tour and stone church at Cambridge Bay are also represented.

Accession consist of publications of Northwest Territories community data and settlement reviews.