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A cookhouse, in the Bush, in the NWT in the 1930s - N-1987-030-0364 141

A cookhouse, in the Bush, in the NWT in the 1930s - N-1987-030-0364 14...

A cookhouse, in the Bush, in the NWT in the 1930s Northwest Territories Archives - n-1987-030-0364

A view of Echo Bay on Great Bear Lake - N-1987-030-0289

A view of Echo Bay on Great Bear Lake - N-1987-030-0289

A view of Echo Bay on Great Bear Lake Northwest Territories Archives - N-1987-030-0289

Aerial view of Aklavik - N-1987-030-0401 141

Aerial view of Aklavik - N-1987-030-0401 141

Aerial view of Aklavik Northwest Territories Archives - n-1987-030-0401

Aerial view of Eldorado Mining and Refining minesite, Port Radium, 1946 - N-1979-052-3337

Aerial view of Eldorado Mining and Refining minesite, Port Radium, 194...

Aerial view of Eldorado Mining and Refining minesite, Port Radium, 1946. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number N-1979-052: 3337This tag does not indicate the copyright st... More

Aerial view of Port Radium, and frozen Great Bear Lake - N-1998-015-0228

Aerial view of Port Radium, and frozen Great Bear Lake - N-1998-015-02...

Aerial view of Port Radium, and frozen Great Bear Lake. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number W. Bruce Hunter fonds/N-1998-015: 0228This tag does not indicate the copyrig... More

Aerial view of the Coppermine River - N-1987-030-0399

Aerial view of the Coppermine River - N-1987-030-0399

Aerial view of the Coppermine River Northwest Territories Archives - N-1987-030-0399

Aerial view of Yellowknife, 1932 - N-1986-015-0015

Aerial view of Yellowknife, 1932 - N-1986-015-0015

Yellowknife N.W.T. 1932. Sutherland's Foto [View of Latham Island from Back Bay, looking North East. Pilot's Monument, Sam Otto Theatre, Corona Inn are visible.] This image is available from the NWT archi... More

Arrival of S.S. Distributor on the MacKenzie River - N-1979-050-0008

Arrival of S.S. Distributor on the MacKenzie River - N-1979-050-0008

Arrival of S.S. Distributor on the MacKenzie River. [Barge in front of S.S. Distributor, other boats and floatplanes in water]. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number Arc... More

Barge wrecked on the Chutes - N-2002-005-0013

Barge wrecked on the Chutes - N-2002-005-0013

Original caption: "...drowning we had just missed. Fifty yards below us the whole river – 1 ½ miles in width – suddenly shot over a rock ledge – a sheer drop of 15 feet. Our frail Canoe could never have naviga... More

Bernard Harbour, Arctic Coast - N-1987-030-0126 141

Bernard Harbour, Arctic Coast - N-1987-030-0126 141

Original caption: "Bernard Harbor, Arctic Coast. Charter flite from Coppermine. Believe these bldgs originally owned by HBC but at time of this foto they were used by "free traders" Bill Storr, [Hart] Watson a... More

Bobby Porritt, wearing a suit, in 1931 - N-1987-016-0416 141

Bobby Porritt, wearing a suit, in 1931 - N-1987-016-0416 141

Bobby Porritt, wearing a suit, in 1931. Northwest Territories archive - N-1987-016-0416

Bush plane CF-AXE, a C.A.L. Fairchild 82, at Gordon Lake, Sept. '36. Routine trip to mining camp. -N-1987-030-0117 141

Bush plane CF-AXE, a C.A.L. Fairchild 82, at Gordon Lake, Sept. '36. R...

Bush plane CF-AXE, a C.A.L. Fairchild 82, at Gordon Lake, Sept. '36. Routine trip to mining camp Northwest Territories Archives - n-1987-030-0280

Bush plane CF-BAU landing at Cooking Lake, in the 1930s - N-1987-030-0280 141

Bush plane CF-BAU landing at Cooking Lake, in the 1930s - N-1987-030-0...

Bush plane CF-BAU landing at Cooking Lake, in the 1930s Northwest Territories Archives - n-1987-030-0280

Construction camp for the portage road on the Great Bear River - N-1981-002-0006

Construction camp for the portage road on the Great Bear River - N-198...

Bear River Road Gang. Men's tent. This camp was made on the small "talus" estuary of a gully about one and a half miles from upper end of road. [Two unidentified men stand infront of a camp of canvass tents on ... More

Construction camp for the portage road on the Great Bear River - N-1981-002-0008

Construction camp for the portage road on the Great Bear River - N-198...

Road Camp seen from Bear River, August 21 1932. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number W. Bruce Hunter fonds/N-1981-002: 0008This tag does not indicate the copyright stat... More

Distributor at Aklavik 1945 - N-1979-050-0007

Distributor at Aklavik 1945 - N-1979-050-0007

Distributor on the MacKenzie River at Aklavik. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number Archibald Fleming fonds/N-1979-050: 0007This tag does not indicate the copyright sta... More

Dog sled N-1979-050-0005

Dog sled N-1979-050-0005

Lucy Nersoo [Nerysoo] with a team of dogs, Aklavik, 1943. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number Archibald Fleming fonds/N-1979-050: 0005This tag does not indicate the co... More

Dog team near Port Radium - N-1998-015-0129

Dog team near Port Radium - N-1998-015-0129

[Dog team pulling sleigh near Port Radium; oil storage containers in the background.] This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number W. Bruce Hunter fonds/N-1998-015: 0129This ta... More

Dog team near Port Radium - N-1998-015-0130

Dog team near Port Radium - N-1998-015-0130

[Dog team pulling sleigh near Port Radium; oil storage containers in the background.] This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number W. Bruce Hunter fonds/N-1998-015: 0130This ta... More

Dog team near Port Radium - N-1998-015-0221

Dog team near Port Radium - N-1998-015-0221

[Dog team pulling sleigh near Port Radium; oil storage containers in the background.] This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number W. Bruce Hunter fonds/N-1998-015: 0221This ta... More

Dog team near Port Radium - N-1998-015-0303

Dog team near Port Radium - N-1998-015-0303

[Unidentified man with dog team at Port Radium.] This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number W. Bruce Hunter fonds/N-1998-015: 0303This tag does not indicate the copyright sta... More

Edward Blondin, (and Jean Baptiste) holding horns of moose in boat loaded with moose carcasses, Port Radium, 1940 - N-1979-052-1838

Edward Blondin, (and Jean Baptiste) holding horns of moose in boat loa...

Edward Blondin, (and Jean Baptiste) holding horns of moose in boat loaded with moose carcasses, Port Radium, 1940 This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number N-1979-052: 1838Th... More

Fort Resolution court-house, in 1928 - N-1987-016-0130 141

Fort Resolution court-house, in 1928 - N-1987-016-0130 141

Fort Resolution court-house, in 1928. Northwest Territories archive - N-1987-016-0130_141

Frozen Great Bear River in 1932 - N-1981-002-0004

Frozen Great Bear River in 1932 - N-1981-002-0004

Looking downstream [Bear River] from name place on North Shore.The first location of the Road Camp may be seen on farther side near the point. This image is available from the NWT archives under the refer... More

George Askew, steamboat being hauled across the long Slave River portage. Photo taken by Frank Riddoch. Fort Smith. July, 1944 - N-1979-004-0037 141

George Askew, steamboat being hauled across the long Slave River porta...

George Askew, steamboat being hauled across the long Slave River portage. Photo taken by Frank Riddoch. Fort Smith. July, 1944. Northwest Territories Archive - N-1979-004-0037

George Askew, steamboat being hauled across the long Slave River portage. Photo taken by Frank Riddoch. Fort Smith. July, 1944 - N-1979-004-0039 141

George Askew, steamboat being hauled across the long Slave River porta...

George Askew, steamboat being hauled across the long Slave River portage. Photo taken by Frank Riddoch. Fort Smith. July, 1944. Northwest Territories Archive - N-1979-004-0039

Great Bear on Great Bear Lake, 1946 - N-2001-004-0003 141

Great Bear on Great Bear Lake, 1946 - N-2001-004-0003 141

Great Bear on Great Bear Lake, 1946 Northwest Territories Archive - N-2001-004-0003

Hay River Mission Site n-1979-004-00151

Hay River Mission Site n-1979-004-00151

Hay River Mission Site This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number n-1979-004-00151This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright ta... More

HBC Gravel Point Shipyard opposite bank downstream from Bellrock - N-1986-015-0002

HBC Gravel Point Shipyard opposite bank downstream from Bellrock - N-1...

HBC Gravel Point Shipyard opposite bank downstream from Bellrock This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number W. Bruce Hunter fonds/N-1986-015: 0002This tag does not indicate ... More

Huskies in a canoe, Aklavik - N-1979-050-0003

Huskies in a canoe, Aklavik - N-1979-050-0003

Huskies in a canoe, Aklavik. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number Archibald Fleming fonds/N-1979-050: 0003This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attache... More

Mast and sail of the Henry Ford - N-1979-050-0018

Mast and sail of the Henry Ford - N-1979-050-0018

Bishop's flag on mast of the "Henry Ford". This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number Archibald Fleming fonds/N-1979-050: 0018This tag does not indicate the copyright status ... More

Mildred Hall uses a blackboard, in 1939 - N-1992-125-0001 142

Mildred Hall uses a blackboard, in 1939 - N-1992-125-0001 142

Mildred Hall uses a blackboard, in 1939 - N-1992-125-0001 Northwest Territories archives - N-1992-125-0001

Mildred Hall, the first public school teacher in the NWT, and her students, in 1939

Mildred Hall, the first public school teacher in the NWT, and her stud...

Mildred Hall, the first public school teacher in the Northwest Territories, in 1939, with half her students. Until the first schoolhouse was completed, in November 1940, the school's 20 students had two sittin... More

Mission boat on the Mackenzie, 1943 - N-1979-050-0016

Mission boat on the Mackenzie, 1943 - N-1979-050-0016

Mission boat on the Mackenzie This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number Archibald Fleming fonds/N-1979-050: 0016This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attach... More

Pilot Con Farrell, sitting in temporary shelter, while waiting for snowstorm to abate - N-1987-030-0138 141

Pilot Con Farrell, sitting in temporary shelter, while waiting for sno...

Original caption: "Camping in the snow. Con Farrell, Sept. '36. Teapail hanging over campfire. Pilot Con Farrell sitting in temporary shelter while waiting for snowstorm to abate." Northwest Territories Archiv... More

Port Radium from the air -a

Port Radium from the air -a

Port Radium from the air. Original caption: "Port Radium [Aerial photographs of Port Radium mine stie on Great Bear Lake. 1930s]Caption: 975.58 Kb 10.00 x 6.80 inches Credit: Edm. Air Museum Ctte./NWT Arch... More

Portrait of an Inuit woman, 1945, by Henry Busse

Portrait of an Inuit woman, 1945, by Henry Busse

Portrait of an Inuit woman, 1945. © NWT Archives/Henry Busse fonds/N-1979-052: 1008 This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number N-1979-052: 1008This tag does not indicate the ... More

Radium Express in 1942 N-2017-004-0011

Radium Express in 1942 N-2017-004-0011

Hay River 1942 [The "Radium Express" boat travels through open water dotted with sections of ice. Eight men are visible on the boat.] This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference num... More

Radium Express in 1942 N-2017-004-0012

Radium Express in 1942 N-2017-004-0012

Hay River 1942 - Facing away from the camera, the "Radium Express" boat travels along a river dotted with sections of ice. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number Sam Otto ... More

Radium Gilbert built in Vancouver and shipped in pieces, assembled in Waterways, Alberta - Picture taken at Port Radium, 1946 - N-2001-004-0001 141

Radium Gilbert built in Vancouver and shipped in pieces, assembled in ...

Radium Gilbert built in Vancouver and shipped in pieces, assembled in Waterways, Alberta - Picture taken at Port Radium, 1946. Northwest Territories Archive - N-2001-004-0001

Radium King in 1937 - N-1986-015-0003

Radium King in 1937 - N-1986-015-0003

Just after she left the [Alberta Waterways] during the launch. [Photograph of the Radium King steam ship on the Mackenzie River, shortly after inaugural launch] This image is available from the NWT archiv... More

Radium Yellowknife in 1948 - N-1986-015-0004

Radium Yellowknife in 1948 - N-1986-015-0004

R. YK. [Radium Yellowknife] ready for launching, 1948. [Photograph of the Radium Yellowknife prior to launching] This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number W. Bruce Hunter fo... More

Radium Yellowknife in 1948 - N-1986-015-0005

Radium Yellowknife in 1948 - N-1986-015-0005

The Radium Yellowknife launching 1948 Waterways, ALTA [Alberta] This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number W. Bruce Hunter fonds/N-1986-015: 0005This tag does not indicate th... More

Read Island, off the Arctic Coast - N-1987-030-0160 141

Read Island, off the Arctic Coast - N-1987-030-0160 141

Original caption: "Read Island, Arctic Coast. Apparently 3 bldgs. with a high radio transmitter mast visible. [Possibly an abandoned Hudson's Bay Company post that was relocated to Holman." Northwest Territori... More

Rex Terpening in 1938 - N-1987-030-0509

Rex Terpening in 1938 - N-1987-030-0509

Rex Terpening, in 1938 Northwest Territories Archives - N-1987-030-0509

Rex Terpening, holding big snowshoes, surrounded by three feet of soft snow - N-1987-030-0474 141

Rex Terpening, holding big snowshoes, surrounded by three feet of soft...

Rex Terpening, holding big snowshoes, surrounded by three feet of soft snow Northwest Territories Archives - n-1987-030-0474

Rex Terpening, understudy for Buffalo Bill, 1938 - N-1987-030-0508

Rex Terpening, understudy for Buffalo Bill, 1938 - N-1987-030-0508

Rex Terpening, understudy for Buffalo Bill - 1938 Northwest Territories Archives - N-1987-030-0508

Robert Porritt posing in light parka and muk luks - N-1987-016-0389 141

Robert Porritt posing in light parka and muk luks - N-1987-016-0389 14...

Robert Porritt posing in light parka and muk luks. Northwest Territories archive - N-1987-016-0389

Sled dogs at Aklavik - N-1979-050-0004

Sled dogs at Aklavik - N-1979-050-0004

Sled dogs, Aklavik This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number Archibald Fleming fonds/N-1979-050: 0004This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A ... More

Sternwheeler Mackenzie River entering Yellowknife harbour in 1932 - N-1986-015-0014

Sternwheeler Mackenzie River entering Yellowknife harbour in 1932 - N-...

S.S. Mackenzie River entering Yellowknife Harbour. Photo by Sutherland's. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number W. Bruce Hunter fonds/N-1986-015: 0014This tag does not in... More

Sternwheeler Mackenzie River on the Mackenzie River N-1998-015-0320

Sternwheeler Mackenzie River on the Mackenzie River N-1998-015-0320

Sternwheeler Mackenzie River on the Mackenzie River This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number W. Bruce Hunter fonds/N-1998-015: 0320This tag does not indicate the copyright ... More

The 'Margaret A', and 'Henry Ford', Aklavik - N-1979-050-0019

The 'Margaret A', and 'Henry Ford', Aklavik - N-1979-050-0019

The 'Margaret A', and 'Henry Ford', Aklavik This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number Archibald Fleming fonds/N-1979-050: 0019This tag does not indicate the copyright statu... More

The Great Bear - N-1998-015-0152

The Great Bear - N-1998-015-0152

The Great Bear This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number W. Bruce Hunter fonds/N-1998-015: 0152This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal... More

The Great Bear and barge at anchor at Port Radium, 1932 - amphibious airplane in background - N-1987-016-0520

The Great Bear and barge at anchor at Port Radium, 1932 - amphibious a...

The Great Bear and barge at anchor at Port Radium, 1932 - amphibious airplane in background. Northwest Territories archive - N-1987-016-0520

The Great Bear steaming into Port Radium in the 1930s - N-1998-015-0181

The Great Bear steaming into Port Radium in the 1930s - N-1998-015-018...

The Great Bear steaming into Port Radium in the 1930s. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number W. Bruce Hunter fonds/N-1998-015: 0181This tag does not indicate the copyrig... More

The Messenger, a missionary boat, 1933 - N-1979-050-0022

The Messenger, a missionary boat, 1933 - N-1979-050-0022

The mission boat at Aklavik, "The Messenger", 1933 This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number Archibald Fleming fonds/N-1979-050: 0022This tag does not indicate the copyright... More

The Messenger, a missionary boat, 1934 - N-1979-050-0023

The Messenger, a missionary boat, 1934 - N-1979-050-0023

The Messenger, a missionary boat, 1934 This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number Archibald Fleming fonds/N-1979-050: 0023This tag does not indicate the copyright status of ... More

The Messenger, a missionary boat, 1940 - N-1979-050-0021

The Messenger, a missionary boat, 1940 - N-1979-050-0021

The "Messenger" Mission Boat at Aklavik. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number Archibald Fleming fonds/N-1979-050: 0021This tag does not indicate the copyright status of... More

The Messenger, a missionary boat, 1943 - N-1979-050-0020

The Messenger, a missionary boat, 1943 - N-1979-050-0020

The "Messenger" at Aklavik, 1943. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number Archibald Fleming fonds/N-1979-050: 0020This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the at... More

The mission boat on the Mackenzie, 1943 - N-1979-050-0015

The mission boat on the Mackenzie, 1943 - N-1979-050-0015

The mission boat on the Mackenzie, 1943 This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number Archibald Fleming fonds/N-1979-050: 0015This tag does not indicate the copyright status of ... More

The Mission boat, 'Messenger', leaving Aklavik for Fort McPherson - N-1979-050-0017 (cropped)

The Mission boat, 'Messenger', leaving Aklavik for Fort McPherson - N-...

The Mission boat, "Messenger", leaving Aklavik for Fort McPherson with Bishop Fleming (hand upraised) and the Rev. George Nicholson. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference numbe... More

The Mission boat, 'Messenger', leaving Aklavik for Fort McPherson - N-1979-050-0017

The Mission boat, 'Messenger', leaving Aklavik for Fort McPherson - N-...

The Mission boat, "Messenger", leaving Aklavik for Fort McPherson with Bishop Fleming (hand upraised) and the Rev. George Nicholson. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference numbe... More

The Radium King viewed from an amphibious aircraft - N-1979-003-0522

The Radium King viewed from an amphibious aircraft - N-1979-003-0522

The Radium King viewed from an amphibious aircraft. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number Edmonton Air Museum Committee Collection/N-1979-003: 0522This tag does not indi... More

The upper end of a proposed portage road on the Great Bear River - N-1981-002-0010

The upper end of a proposed portage road on the Great Bear River - N-1...

Views at the upper end of proposed portage raod. These pictures show how the road ends on a steep clay and shale bank about 90 feet above the river. [Photograph from the shores of the Bear River] This ima... More

The upper end of a proposed portage road on the Great Bear River - N-1981-002-0011

The upper end of a proposed portage road on the Great Bear River - N-1...

Views at the upper end of proposed portage raod. These pictures show how the road ends on a steep clay and shale bank about 90 feet above the river. [Photographs from the shores of the Bear River] This im... More

The Yellowknife School Board opened its second purpose built school in 1947

The Yellowknife School Board opened its second purpose built school in...

The Yellowknife School Board opened its second purpose built school in 1947 Original caption: "The new Public School. (NWT Archives/Busse/N-1979-052:4060)" Northwest Territories archives - N-1979-052:4060

Two men work on the portage road on the Great Bear River, using only hand tools - N-1981-002-0007

Two men work on the portage road on the Great Bear River, using only h...

Some of the men of the Road Gang at Work. This is on the Upper end of the road, and the character of the ground may be seen especially in the upper picture of men cutting a drainage culvert. This is on top of t... More

View of headframe and other buildings, Eldorado Mine, Port Radium (Great Bear Lake), 1946 - N-1979-052-3343

View of headframe and other buildings, Eldorado Mine, Port Radium (Gre...

View of headframe and other buildings, Eldorado Mine, Port Radium (Great Bear Lake), 1946. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference number N-1979-052: 3343This tag does not indicat... More

Whaling camp - N-1979-050-0001

Whaling camp - N-1979-050-0001

Probably whaling camp on coast near Aklavik. Note whale meat hung in strips to dry. Barrels contain whale fat which will render into oil. This image is available from the NWT archives under the reference ... More

Will Rogers and Wiley Post arriving at Aklavik August 1935. They were killed near Point Barrow on their return trip - N-1987-030-0049 141

Will Rogers and Wiley Post arriving at Aklavik August 1935. They were ...

Will Rogers and Wiley Post arriving at Aklavik August 1935. They were killed near Point Barrow on their return trip Northwest Territories Archives - n-1987-030-0049

Yellowknife children were taught in this two room schoolhouse from 1940 to 1947

Yellowknife children were taught in this two room schoolhouse from 194...

Original caption: "The school in the draw along the shores of Yellowknife Bay, used 1940-1947. Army hut adjacent was the teacher’s residence. (NWT Archives/Busse/N-1979-052:4808)" Northwest Territories archiv... More

Yellowknife, 1932 - N-1986-015-0013

Yellowknife, 1932 - N-1986-015-0013

Yellowknife N.W.T. 1932. Sutherland's Foto. [Postcard of Yellowknife, view of Latham Island from Back Bay looking east. Sam Otto Theatre, Corona Inn, Sutherland's Drugs are visible. Produced by Sutherland Foto]... More

Young Bobby Porritt, wearing a parka - N-1987-016-0406 141

Young Bobby Porritt, wearing a parka - N-1987-016-0406 141

Young Bobby Porritt, wearing a parka. Northwest Territories archive - N-1987-016-0406

Ruins of Fort Reliance

Ruins of Fort Reliance

Fort Reliance, showing the chimney erected by Back in 1833, and the remains of the cabin built by Buffalo Jones. John Russell hired Métis Sousi Beaulieu to guide him while surveying the northern shore of the E... More