Item N-2001-002: 13135 - Reel # 37

• Moving images

1 film reel (44 min. 20 sec.) : col. ; 16 mm

Reel # 37
1400’ best original footage.

• Colville Lake from the air August 1962
• Unloading the PWA Beaver: first trip in: first shore fire.
• Setting first tent: cutting brush: Father Brown makes the plan.
• Building the dock: skidding logs & barking them.
• Hare Indian [Sahtu Dene] girls bring in spruce boughs for tent floor.
• Hauling gravel by boat: arrival of CF-OMI: digging the privy
• Aquinas boys bring in jackfish: three girls cooking
• Mass in the tent : mixing & pouring cement
• Father Brown levelling the missions floor joices [joists].
• Bob Engels arrived with freight in his Single Otter aircraft
• Father Brown scribing logs, cutting: mission dogs tied at bank.
• Hauling in dry spruce: tea break in the tent: mission up 5 logs.
• Raising roof rafter in the fish house
• Agnes Oudzi and Wilfred Kochon & mission plaque.
• Raising the plate log
• Inside placing the ceiling rafters.
• A rainbow, August snow storm.
• Brian & Frank fishing off 18’ canoe, set lines, gill net.
• Father Brown builds the steeple
• Dup- sheeting & shingling the roof.
• Cutting in the windows : painting log ends.
• Building the fish stage: stick fish: freight for the store.
• Father Brown builds porch railing: places mission name plate.
• Inside: laying the insulation under flooring.
• Shop: Father Brown building drawers, bunks, chair, altar.
• Painting the Madonna of the Snows for the mission chapel

Building the church: original film:

• Cutting brush on the church site: Charles Codzi: Luke Tinatchie
• Father Brown building 1st Loon & launching.
• Log boom at Wekata: skidding logs up on to the church site.
• Laying out the church foundation
• Peeling logs: mixing cement & pouring.
• First log: Richard McNeely, John Blancho Jr., Wilfred Kochon
• Raising the four steeple legs, the Loon hauling golere.
• Up 11 logs: tea break aboard the Loon: logs floating near Wekata.
• The plate logs: roof rafters, sheeting the church roof.
• Father Brown builds the steeple, raising it, shingling
• Trimming & painting log ends: insulating, windows, cement steps.
• Father Brown making benches altar vestment cases.
• A/BP Pignadoli blesses church. Raising bell, congregation, panorama https://vimeo.com/pwnhc/nwta-bwb-n-2001-002-13135