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Records include images of Inuvik, including photographs of construction work, the original town and power station and two community dances.

Many of the photographs are postcards mounted on scrapbook pages. The photographs were taken in the 1920s and depict Fort Simpson, New Chicago, riverboats, Arctic Red River, the ramparts and Fort Norman as well as other scenes from around Great Slave Lake and along the Mackenzie River as far north as Aklavik.

The report, titled "Reconnaissance of Yellowknife River and Adjacent Lakes, Great Slave Lake, N.W.T., July 1 - Sept. 7, 1928", carries the name Henry L. Smyth, Jnr. on the cover. The map is of "Yellowknife River and adjacent lakes from Yellowknife Village north to the third portage," is also dated July 1-September 7, 1928, and was drawn by Mr. Smyth. Scale 1" to 4,000 feet. The present day site of Detah is indicated on the map as being Yellowknife Village. Mineral deposits in the area have been annotated onto the map.

The videocassette consists of "The City of Yellowknife", part of the series "Sketches of Our Town." The video, hosted and narrated by Harvey Kirck, was filmed in the fall of 1991. It depicts Yellowknife past and present, and includes archival material, and interviews with residents Michael Borden, Dave Lovell, Barb Cameron, Walt Humphries and pilot Jim McAvoy.
You can watch a version of this film on https://youtu.be/dqD_lZn5iZM , as hosted by BeaverCreekProductions.

The textual records consists of one letter describing the audiocassette. Most of the photographs date from between 1963 and 1978, although there is one from 1932 and several from 1993. The photographs document the Reverend Ben S. Hall's life in Hay River from 1963-1970, as well as a 1978 Boy Scouting trip to Coppermine and Pine Point. They also depict images of public events, the local "Indian village," aircraft, clergy, and Yellowknife. The audio cassette narrates the series of colour slides of the Boy Scout trip to Coppermine and Pine Point.

The photographs were originally housed in an album. Most of the prints have no accompanying information such as dates or identifications. The album contains images of mines and mining camps, fishing, hunting, fur trading, dog sledding, the Largent family and the city of Yellowknife. Most of the photographs were likely taken in the 1940's.

The cover page of the album reads: "This album was put together by Bill Largent. Bill spent from 1920 to 1951 in the Yellowknife and Hay River area. His parents were fur traders or supplied trading posts in these areas. Bill passed away in Nanaimo in 1981, July 25th."

The images depict daily life, mine employees, the camp and mining operations at Port Radium. In addition, there are several images of Northern Transportation Company Limited tugboats, barges and paddle steamers, as well as locations such as Hay River, Norman Wells and Inuvik.

Records include images of Yellowknife, Pine Point, Con Mine, prospectors, tractor trains, and barges.

Records include photographs of Yellowknife. Included are shots of the Wildcat Café, Canadian Pacific Airlines terminal building, and Giant Yellowknife Gold Mines Ltd.

Records include photographs of the community of Tungsten. Most of the images depict the Cantung mining and milling operations; there are also images of the townsite.

The photographer of these images is unknown. They were produced by Bush Edit House and may have been taken by the firm's owner, Burt Bush, who was a film producer in North Vancouver and was often contracted by resource companies for their corporate presentations.

Records include images of various settlements across the NWT. The photographs, primarily aerial photographs, appear to have been collected by the Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources from a number of sources. The majority of the images are of Yellowknife, but the collection also includes images depicting Fort Rae (Behchoko), Tukotyaktuk, Aklavik, Inuvik, Paulatuk, Rocher River, and Shingle Point, Yukon.

This accession consists of four cartographic sheets which collectively are entitled Map of Great Slave Lake and Hudson Bay. They were originally published by the Federal government in 1900 and reprinted in 1923, to accompany a report by J.B. Tyrell. They are stamped Department of Interior-Yukon and Northwest Territories Branch. They are annotated with the inscription "help yourself". (:0001) is entitled Sheet No. 1 and shows McLeod Bay in the east end of Great Slave Lake, the water route to Artillery Lake, Lac Du Bois, Casba Lake, Campbell Lake and Sifton Lake. (:0002) is entitled Sheet No. 2 and shows the Thelon River. It includes Granite Falls and Hanbury River. (:0003) Sheet No. 3A and 3B shows the Thelon River and includes Beverly Lake and Aberdeen Lake. (:0004) is entitled Sheet No. 4 and shows the lower Thelon River and includes Schultz Lake and Baker Lake. The maps also show Dene and Inuit encampments along the Thelon River. There are no copies of these maps on deposit with either the National Archives of Canada or the National Museum of Civilization.

This accession consists of one blueprint titled "Reference Plan of Yellowknife Settlement, NWT". Scale is 1" to 200 feet. The plan was revised up to December 18, 1958. The plan indicates the lot boundaries for the new town area of Yellowknife, the old town, Latham Island and Jolliffe Island.

This accession consists of two file folders labelled Aklavik and Port Radium and site plans for Aklavik and Yellowknife. Inside the folders are charts illustrating daylight/twilight/darkness distribution at 66 degrees and 68 degrees North and two internal memorandums about Aklavik and Port Radium written by Margaret R. Montgomery for the Northern Operational Research Section, Department of National Defence. Also in the folders are three maps (0001) Hydrographic chart of Great Bear Lake, (0002) site plan of Port Radium, and (0003) Road & Rail Routes in the Northwest.

This accession consists of one map entitled "Plan of Cameron Bay Settlement" compiled from surveys conducted by M. Meikle D.L.S. on August 25, 1933 and produced by the Department of the Interior. The map is scale: 100 feet to an inch. Cameron Bay was the name of the town that sprang up after Gilbert Labine's discovery of silver and radium. The settlement was officially named Port Radium in 1937 and then renamed Echo Bay in 1965. The locations and identifications of Royal Canadian Mounted Police buildings appear to have been annotated on the original map.

This accession consists of 10 meters of textual material dating 1940 to 1973. The records were created by the Northern Administration Branch and its various predecessors in regards to the federal government's activities in administering the Northwest Territories. Records include administrative and operational files from the Fort Churchill district office as well as Ottawa. These were originally classified using a numerical block system. The primary number block consisted of: 100 - Administration; 200 - Economic and Industrial Development; 300 - Engineering Projects; 400 - Forests and Game; 500 - Public Service; 600 – Education. Records within the files include a wide range of administrative and operational records. A large proportion of these include education-related records regarding operations in both Eastern and Western Northwest Territories. These include records relating to school children’s education and administration, and adult education and training, and many of these include personal information. Also included are records relating to game management and employment. Lastly, records relating to northern co-operatives are also included within this accession.

Records include images of Yellowknife and Dettah: a view of 50th Street and the Royal Canadian Legion Building (:0001); a trailer camp in Yellowknife (:0002); a view of Willow Flats (:0003); the docks at old town (:0004); and views of Detah in winter (:0005 and :0006). The photographs appear to have been part of the Canadian Government Travel Bureau's collection.

Records include photographs from the City of Edmonton Archives. The communities in the photographs include Fort Norman, Fort Smith, Fort Resolution, Fort Simpson, Arctic Red River (Tsiigehtchic), and Yellowknife. Most items are in postcard format, and several are stamped "The Hudson's Bay Co., Edmonton, Alta.".