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[C.J. Baker (Yellowknife Johnney) standing beside a cement tree-trunk Woodcutters Monument.] To the memory of Edward Martin. Died June 13, 1928. "The best wood cutter of the North. He supplied fuel to steamboats. A silent and lone man who took pride in his work and built and honest pile." Erected on the 60th parallel between Alberta and North West Territories, near Fort Smith.

Seen here are Yellowknife Johnney's [C.J. Baker's] two Yellowknife "Huskies," "[racist slur redacted] and Chief." They were excellent and fierce guard dogs of the Giant [Giant Mine] Camp, but also were great and friendly pets of all that property's development crew. Also, in 1936 they willingly learned to wear a harness by which to tow me on skis.

[The record creator (C.J. Baker) used an anti-black racist slur as a name for one of his dogs. Previously, an archivist reproduced the racist term in the Scope and Content. In November 2022, an archivist revised the description of the photograph to redact the slur. A copy of the original description is available upon request in the accession file for N-1999-015. Please contact NWT Archives for more information or to request access to the original description.]

copy of 27:15 minute 8mm original film https://vimeo.com/447893619/5a1f53f201
1) Self [C.J. Baker] in canoe on Y’Knife [Yellowknife] Bay, paddle to shore and land at the Rich [Burwash Gold Mine]
2) Old prospector, Horan, on trip with me, crossing portage.
3) Self [C.J. Baker] carrying my canoe across a portage.
4) Foot of the [Tartan Rapids] rapids where Y’Knife [Yellowknife] River enters the bay.
5) Ross starting the Kicker.
6) Ross in canoe with Kicker, towing another canoe.(note the bridle hitch).
7) Brock at the Kicker.
8) Lunch at a point on a lake. Hughie Muir and others.
9a) Big bush fire at the Rich [Gold Mine]. The crew all cutting some trees to make a fire break.
9b) More smoke and fire, as the bush fire approaches the Rich [Gold Mine].
10) My raven, Angus, on the ridge pole of my tent.
11) My Y’Knife [Yellowknife] Husky pups. [racist slur redacted] and Chief.
12) Ross and others of my party on the Walsh portage, do some shooting practice
13) Mock fight with a bear that I had just had to shoot.
14) Self [C.J. Baker] and party going across the Walsh portage.
15) One of our canoes (with kitchen) approaches and goes away into the distance
16) At my Ptarmigan Prospect Camp, the cook cuts wood for the stove.
17) Cutting a water hole through the ice. For water for our camp.
18) Self [C.J. Baker] on the ice.
19) Men on snow trail.
20) Self [C.J. Baker] and party returning to our camp.
21) [Husky dogs] Gyp and Benny alone at wood pile.
22) [Husky dogs] Gyp and Benny coming towards me.
23) At Edmonton airport, with aircraft [CF-BDG] in the ice and snow.
24) A winter panorama of Giant [Gold Mine].
25) Norseman Aircraft [CF-AM?] on ice at Giant [Gold Mine], being met by my huskies, [racist slur redacted] and Chief
26) My husky "[racist slur redacted]" at edge of ice of Y’Knife [Yellowknife] Bay near my Giant [Gold Mine] camp.
27) My raven "Angus" on a stump.
28) Our large freighter canoe.
29) Beach craft Aircraft lands on Y’Knife [CF-BBB, Yellowknife] Bay to come to the Rich [Gold Mine].
30) The pilot stands on pontoon to paddle aircraft [CF-AWR] to landing at the Rich [Gold Mine].
31) Ole Hagen at the Giant [Gold Mine].
32) My summer tent camp at the Giant [Gold Mine].
33) X-ray Diamond Drill is landed from aircraft [Junkers CF-AM? At the Rich [Gold Mine].
34) X-ray on canoe raft that we made to take it across the [Back Bay] bay to the Giant [Gold Mine].
35) Beach craft Aircraft comes into a landing at the Giant [CF-BBB Gold Mine].
36) Panorama at the Rich [Gold Mine], log cabins and tents.
37) My crew trenching on the Giant [Gold Mine].
38) Dynamite blasting at Giant [Gold Mine] workings.
39) Hughie Muir at my Giant [Gold Mine] workings.
40) Our Diamond Drill.
41) My husky "Chief' prospecting in the bush, followed by "[racist slur redacted]".
42) Long shot photo of Rich [Gold Mine] with aircraft in distance.
43) Aircraft at shore at Rich [Gold Mine]. (tail end view of Bellanca?).
44) Northern Transport Co. boat and barge at Rich [Gold Mine], and plane flying over.
45) Aircraft at shore at Rich [Gold Mine, Bellanca?].
46) Barge at the Rich [Gold Mine].
47) NT. Boat and barge at Rich [Gold Mine] dock and crew rolling off the oil drums.
48) At Rich [Gold Mine], man carries case of dynamite to permafrost dug out for storage.
49) Self [C.J. Baker] viewing big compressor just landed at the Rich [Gold Mine].
50) Mining equipment and supplies just landed at the Rich [Gold Mine] and tractor is on the move.
51) The Blacksmith shop at the Rich [Gold Mine].
52) Our tractor hauling machinery at the Rich [Gold Mine].
53) Shaft head buildings at the Rich [Gold Mine] and installing machinery.
54) Ole Hagen going down the prospect shaft at the Rich [Gold Mine].
55) Pete, at Y’Knife [Yellowknife] old town, carries in the very first spring-bed- mattress.
56) At Rich [Gold Mine], aircraft takes off. [Bellanca]
57) Large barge-boat that the Rich [Gold Mine] crew built goes away down the Bay.
58) I portage my canoe to the Bay and paddle away

[The record creator (C.J. Baker) used an anti-black racist slur as a name for one of his dogs. Previously, an archivist reproduced the racist term in the Scope and Content. In November 2022, an archivist revised the description of the photograph to redact the slur. A copy of the original description is available upon request in the accession file for N-1999-015. Please contact NWT Archives for more information or to request access to the original description.]

82 page typewritten transcript of an interview with C. John Baker (Yellowknife Johnney). Interview conducted by Walter Humphries in 1993. Transcript contains information about prospecting near Yellowknife, the discovery of gold and working in the Great Bear Lake region.

[Bound journal, containing correspondence and observations about development and drilling, ordering mining supplies and equipment, payroll and expense information at what is now Giant Mine, correspondence and notes written by Lockie Burwash. The journals date from January to March 1936.]

[Bound journal, containing correspondence and observations about development and drilling, ordering mining supplies and equipment, payroll and expense information at what is now Giant Mine, notes and correspondence written by C. John Baker, July - September 1936.]

[Bound journal, containing correspondence and observations about development and drilling, ordering mining supplies and equipment, payroll and expense information at what is now Giant Mine, notes and correspondence written by C. John Baker, 1936.]

[Bound journal, containing correspondence and observations about development and drilling, ordering mining supplies and equipment, payroll and expense information at what is now Giant Mine, correspondence and notes written by Lockie Burwash. The journals date from July 4 - 29, 1935.]

Eleven page typewritten report [copied] entitled Burwash Yellowknife Mines Limited Summary Report on The Rich Group by C.J. Baker [John Baker], M.A., C.I.M.M. The report describes the location, topography, climate, local geology and history of the discovery of the Rich Claim. There is a map showing the location of the Rich [Burwash Mine] Claim and a sketch of the location of the "Rich" gold vein which accompanies the report.

Two page report on the geological conditions of the land owned by Yellowknife Gold Mines Limited, by C. John Baker.

One page of typewritten extracts from the Edmonton Journal, The Northern Miner and The Edmonton Bulletin concerning the discovery of gold by C. John Baker in the Great Slave area.

[Unidentified man, possibly Leigh Brintnell, standing beside a Mackenzie Air Service Ltd. Fokker Super Universal airplane.]

[Silhouette of unidentified object. key?]

Yellowknife Johnney 1936. [Portrait of C.J Baker.]

[Two boats pulled to shore and floatplane at docking area. Buildings in background.]

Four page report entitled "Geological Survey Yellowknife River Area, Northwest Territories" by A.W. Jolliffe. Paper 36-5, 1936. Canada. Department of Mines, Bureau of Economic Geology, Geological Survey. The report describes mineral deposits at the Burwash Yellowknife Mine and other deposits around the Yellowknife area.

[View of a rocky cliff.]

[Unidentified man with small bird perched on his hand.]

[Disrupted campsite, tent possibly damaged due to a bear.]

[Unidentified man.]