Many of the sound recordings are poorly identified. Sound recordings include soundtracks for films, interviews, special effect sounds, Inuit throat singing, and government programs such as the series entitled "Behind Closed Doors - A Series on Spousal Assault in the Northwest Territories" and "So You Want to Start Your Own Business". The moving images include copies of: "You Can't Grow Potatoes Up There"; "Koukdjuak Crossing: Caribou Tagging on Baffin Island"; "Bathurst Inlet Caribou" (may also be titled: "To Have Forever: Hunting the Bathurst Caribou Herd"); "Nikko Island", "Wood Bison"; "Kellett's Storehouse"; "Yellowknife"; "Caribou"; "Heritage Centre Spots"; "Kissiliriyeet"; "Gordon Lake"; "Decisions"; "Future"; and "Anik Info Spots" (air prints). The helical scan videos consists of a Keewatin Economic Development Conference and the film "Hire North".
Northwest Territories. Department of Culture and Communications. Radio and Television Services division![[Interview with George Boots]](/images/generic-icons/audio.png){kind=icon}
Side A of audio recorded interview with South Slavey elder George Boots. Mr. Boots discusses the traditional place names of rivers and bodies of water in the Fort Franklin [Deline] area.
Side B of audio recorded interview with South Slavey elder George Boots. Mr. Boots discusses the location of his family's summer camps, and provides traditional names for various bodies of water and waterways, mountain ranges and camps. He mentions alcoholism and its effects on northern communities.
Side A of audio recorded interview with South Slavey elder George Boots. Mr. Boots provides traiditional place names for numerous waterways, locations of houses, and describes several of these places in detail. The sound quality on this recording is poor and portions of the interview are barely audible.
Side B of audio recorded interview with South Slavey elder George Boots. Mr. Boots provides traditional place names for specific bodies of water, hills and mountain ranges. He also discusses the location of fish and fishing.
This item is the first part of a three-part interview of Laura Loutitt, recorded on September 11, 1986 in Fort Smith by the Assistant Archivist of the Northwest Territories Archives. The original source item was track 1 of an audio reel and spans 17 minutes, 30 seconds.. The interview also includes items 0001B and 0001C. Topics include Loutitt’s early childhood at the Hay River Anglican Mission, her father who was the manager of HBC, her siblings, and her marriage to Colin Loutitt. She discusses topics up until the 1920s. There were recording issues at the very end of the tape, causing the audio to speed up before ending abruptly.
The audio recording is of an interview with Laura Loutitt. The interview was conducted by the Assistant Archivist of the Northwest Territories Archives at the request of Laura Loutitt.
Northwest Territories. Department of Culture and Communications. Museums and Heritage division. NWT Archives
This item is the third part of a three-part interview of Laura Loutitt, recorded on September 11, 1986 in Fort Smith by the Assistant Archivist of the Northwest Territories Archives. The original source item was track 3 of an audio reel and spans 30 minutes, 45 seconds. The interview also includes items 0001A and 0001B. Topics include World War II and the CANOL Project, Loutitt's restaurant The Right Spot, and general things about her life such as neighbours and families she knew, the loss of two children, and changes at church. At the end of the tape, the interviewer explains that the tapes will be brought back to Yellowknife to become part of the collection.
The sound recording is of an interview conducted in 1986 by the NWT Archives with Ben Sutherland concerning his time in the Yellowknife area from 1935 to 1937. Topics covered in the interview include: C.J. Baker, demographic changes and transportation.
Northwest Territories. Department of Culture and Communications. Museums and Heritage division. NWT Archives
Side A of audio recorded interview with South Slavey elder George Boots. Mr. Boots provides traditional place names for bodies of water and offers his thoughts on the meaning of the names.
Side B of audio recorded interview with South Slavey elder George Boots. Mr. Boots continues discussing the traditional place names of rivers and bodies of water in the Fort Franklin [Deline] area.
Side A of audio recorded interview with South Slavey elder George Boots. Mr. Boots discusses his home, finding old nails and broken dishes in the area of his home, hunting moose, and fishing.
Side B of audio recorded interview with South Slavey elder George Boots. Mr. Boots provides traditional place names for bodies of water and islands, and discusses fishing near his house. He also identifies the locations of various houses, and names the owners.
Side A of audio recorded interview with South Slavey elder George Boots. Mr. Boots provides traiditional place names for numerous waterways, locations of houses, and describes the location of oil exploration cutlines, his work on the oil pipeline, grouse in the area, the Lafferty family, the location of houses and their owners, the traditional names of trees, and traditional Dene names for specific rivers and mountains.
Side B of audio recorded interview with South Slavey elder George Boots. Mr. Boots discusses the traditional place names of mountains and bodies of water near Root River, and the habits of blackducks, moose and caribou in the area.
This item is the second part of a three-part interview of Laura Loutitt, recorded on September 11, 1986 in Fort Smith by the Assistant Archivist of the Northwest Territories Archives. The original source item was track 2 of an audio reel and spans 30 minutes, 20 seconds. The interview also includes items 0001A and 0001C. Topics include Loutitt’s work as a cook for the RCMP in the 1930s and what the job was like, cooking for local pilots, the types of food they ate, and how she travelled around from Fort Chipewyan to Lake Athabasca to Fort Smith. She also speaks briefly of her husband’s passing around 1946 and a bit about World War II. The beginning of the tape begins with a summary of the previous recording due to issues with the tape recorder.
The records were generated by an oral history project in which Slavey Elder George Boots was interviewed about traditional place names and land use. The audiocassettes contain recordings of the interviews that took place over a five day period at Willow Lake River. The interviews were conducted in Slavey. The textual material consists of two copies of English translations of the audiocassettes.
This project was coordinated by Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre archaeologist, Chris Hanks and involved Territorial Toponymist Randy Freeman and translators Elinor Bran and Margaret Thom. The project resulted in a total of 10.5 hours of taped interviews and many hours of nondirected discussions with Mr. Boots. In these recorded interviews, Mr. Boots provides 147 toponyms, several long narratives on seasonal land use, partial family histories, and camp and resource locations for a large area of the Northwest Territories.
Each of the audio cassettes features recordings on the A and B side.
The sound recordings date from 1987-1990 and were a result of three separate projects that were conducted by the Geographical Names Program. The first series of recordings (CN-1 through CN-16) were created between 1988-1989 and include interviews with elders from Paulatuk about traditional geographical names in the area. The second series (CN-17 through CN-25) contains interviews conducted in 1987 by Allice Legat and Territorial Toponymist Randy Freeman, with Sachs Harbour elder William Kuptana. The interviews focused primarily on William Kuptana's life as well as recorded traditional geographical names in the area. The remaining series (CN-33 through CN-87 and CN-90) contains recordings from the Dogrib Names Study. This project was an internal project through the Geographical Names Program to gather all traditional Tlicho (Dogrib) geographical names. The recordings include extensive elders' interviews conducted in Behchoko (Rae) and Whati (Lac La Martre) between 1989-1990.
Northwest Territories. Department of Culture and Communications. Museums and Heritage division. Geographical Names ProgramThis accession consists of materials produced in an attempt to document an old Catholic Mission building in Fort Resolution. The building was constructed in 1905 and demolished in 1987, and was primarily used as a residence for priests and brothers. Prior to its destruction, staff from the NWT Archives along with an architect visited Fort Resolution and conducted an initial survey of the building. In the following months Gail Beaulieu interviewed Father Louis Menez and Violet Beaulieu about the history of the building. Records in this accession include sound recordings and transcripts of the two interviews; architectural drawings of the basement, main, second, and third floors of the building, based on measurements taken during the survey; and a photograph of the mission building.
Northwest Territories. Department of Culture and Communications. Museums and Heritage division. NWT ArchivesThe sound recordings contain interviews conducted with Sven Johansson in March 1987 and March 1988. Included among this material is: (:0001) one reel to reel recording of the March 1987 interview, (:0002) one reel to reel recording of the March 1988 interview, and typed transcripts of the March 1987 interview. Mr. Johansson managed the reindeer herd in the western arctic from 1963-1968 and subsequently worked as a trapper until 1973.
Northwest Territories. Department of Culture and Communications. Museums and Heritage division. NWT Archives