Accession N-2013-002 - Ingraham family photograph collection

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Ingraham family photograph collection

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N-2013-002

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  • [192-?-1971] (Creation)
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    Ingraham, Vic

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363 photographs (299 b&w, 50 postcards, 14 col.)

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Victor 'Vic' D. Ingraham (1895-1961) was born December 24, 1895 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Alexander Ingraham and Eliza (Caldwell) Ingraham. In 1916 he enlisted in the US Army artillery and served from 1917-1919 in Siberia. When he was discharged in 1919 he worked as a boomer breakman for several railway companies in the United States. In 1924 he had a logging contract in Fort McMurray, and in 1927 he had the winter mail route between Fort McMurray and Fort Smith. [Between 1927 and 1929?] He married Florence Wylie of Fort Chipewyan, with whom he had two children, Leonard and Louisa.
In the early 1930s, Vic Ingraham partnered with Gerry Murphy to form Murphy Services in Cameron Bay on Great Bear Lake and moved his family there in late 1932. On October 26, 1933 Victor Ingraham sustained burns and injuries to his hands and legs during an accident on the Murphy Services schooner the 'Speed II', which claimed two lives. For several years he continued his partnership in Murphy Services but had to depart often for medical treatment, which had resulted in the amputation of several fingers as well as his legs. In 1937/38 Victor headed to the Gordon Lake area and on to Yellowknife. Initially setting up a bootlegging operation, Victor established a licenced hotel in 1938, opened the Yellowknife Hotel in 1941, and a new hotel in New Town in 1947. He moved to British Columbia in 1953, establishing hotels in Courtney and Victoria. Victor Ingraham died in Vancouver on November 14, 1961. His many contributions to Yellowknife's early development and business community were acknowledged by naming NWT Highway 4 the Ingraham Trail.

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Records include photographs and postcards from two photo albums of the Ingraham family. These photo albums were likely compiled by Victor Ingraham's son Leonard in the early 1980s and comprise of family photographs spanning the 1920s through to 1971. Subjects include Victor and Florence Ingraham, their children Leonard and Louisa, and other friends, family and associates of Vic Ingraham, including Gerry Murphy. Mining activities in the Great Bear Lake region, Vic Ingraham's hotels in Yellowknife and other northern scenic photographs are also featured. Communities depicted in the photographs include Fort Chipewyan, Fort Smith, Cameron Bay and Eldorado mine on Great Bear Lake, and Yellowknife. Also included are a 'Souvenir Folder' and two colour hotel postcards.

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