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Robert (Bob) Roy Janes, born in 1948, initially studied liberal arts and anthropology, graduating from the Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin with a B.A. in Anthropology in 1970. He continued his studies, receiving his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Calgary in 1976.

In 1974, Janes was employed by the Northwest Territories Historical Advisory Board as the Chief Archaeologist for the Mackenzie River Archaeological Project. Two years later, in June 1976, he was appointed the first Director of the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife. In 1986, he left the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre to take the position of Founding Executive Director of the Science Institute of the Northwest Territories and Science Advisor to the Government of the Northwest Territories. In 1989, at the conclusion of his term as Executive Director of the Science Institute, he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer for the Glenbow Museum, Art Gallery, Library and Archives in Calgary, where he worked until 2000. Since 2000, he has been a museum and heritage consultant, advisor, author and independent museum scholar and served as Editor-in-Chief of the “Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship” from 2003 to 2014. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of Calgary from 1990 to 2015.

Dr. Janes has been a Foreign Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, Fellow of the Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Fellow of the Canadian Museums Association, Honorary Visiting Fellow at the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester (UK), and Fellow of the Canadian Museums Association.

Dr. Janes has served in various capacities on numerous boards and committees, including the Canadian Archaeological Association, the Arctic Institute of North America, the Northern Jury of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Assembly of First Nations/Canadian Museums Association Task Force on Museums and First Peoples, the Canadian Art Museums Directors Organization, the Canadian Museums Association, the National Selection Committee for NextGen Canada, the Banff Canmore Community Foundation, and the Board of Directors of the Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley.

He has received many honorary awards and degrees, including being named the first honorary life member of the Canadian Museums Association (CMA), the CMA award for Outstanding Achievement in Museum Management, the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for exceptional contributions to the provincial, national and international museum communities, an International Achievement Award from the International Council of Museums (ICOM/Canada), and an Honorary Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (LL.D.) from the University of Western Ontario. In 1995, he was given the traditional Blackfoot name OTAHKO OHKIPTOPii (Yellow Horse Rider).

Dr. Janes has written several books, including “The Archaeology of Fort Alexander, NWT”, “Archaeological Ethnography among Mackenzie Basin Dene”, “Preserving Diversity: Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives on Culture Change in the Western Canadian Subarctic”, “Museums in a Troubled World: Renewal, Irrelevance or Collapse?”, “Museums and the Paradox of Change”, and “Museums Without Borders: Selected Writings of Robert R. Janes”, and over 100 articles in the areas of archaeology, anthropology, and museology. He has also edited several books and occasional papers. He is a prolific speaker, having given more than 75 public presentations and keynote speeches.
Dr. Janes is married to Priscilla Bickel Janes.

William Archibald (Archie) Jamieson was born in Valleyfield, Quebec on July 8, 1888. He studied mechanical engineering in Providence, Rhode Island until 1910 and lived in Rhode Island and later in Maryland before moving to Toronto, Ontario in 1913. He was married to Rosemond Ihley in 1912 and moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1913 where he was employed with Consolidated Steel Company until 1918. He had two children with Rosemond; Malcolm and John. In 1923, he moved to Fort Frances, Ontario after the death of his wife and lived there until 1925, when he returned to Toronto and was employed at the Central Scientific Company. In 1926-1927, he attended the Ontario Training College for Technical Teachers at Hamilton, Ontario and in 1927 he moved to Goldboro, Nova Scotia where he was employed at the Victory Gold Mine as Mechanical Engineer and Foreman. In 1929, he married Edna Peitzsche in Goldboro and they had four children: Archie Junior, David, Bernice and Sheila Anne. In 1933, he left Goldboro for work at Rouyn-Noranda in Quebec. Between 1933-1939, he worked in various locations including the Treadwell-Yukon Mine, Lee Gold Mines in Ontario, the mine in Goldfields, Saskatchewan and at the Noordyn Aviation Company in Montreal. In 1940, he was contacted by J.J. Byrne who asked him to help build a mine on Outpost Island, Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories. He arrived on Outpost Island on September 9, 1940 and completed his work in July 1941. By the end of July, he returned to Goldboro, Nova Scotia where he worked for the Canadian Car and Foundry Company that built airplanes for the war effort. In 1946, the family moved to Walton, Nova Scotia, where Archie was employed as a Master Mechanic at a barites mine. He died on March 1, 1960.

Jamadam Records was a recording company established and run by Pat Buckna. Material produced by Jamadam was distributed by Festival Records. In 1983, Jamadam records recorded Pat Buckna's "Bombs Over Heaven" and Moon Joyce's "The Infinite Edge". In 1984, Jamadam Records produced the "Yellowknife Album" to commemorate Yellowknife's 50th anniversary.

Michael Mechell Jacob, known mainly as Mitch Jacob, was born on October 29, 1912, in Roanoke, Virginia, United States. Jacob’s parents, both of Syrian descent, were Najeeb Jacob, a merchant, and Rosa Joseph Jacob, a housewife. Jacob spent the first years of his childhood in Roanoke. In approximately 1932, Jacob travelled to the Northwest Territories and settled in Behchoko (formerly Fort Rae), where he worked as a bookkeeper for independent trader Jim Darwish. Jacob spent approximately four years in the Northwest Territories before moving south to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

On November 29, 1940, Jacob married Louise Veronica Jacob (nee Abdo), and they had three children: Mechell Paul Jacob, Frederick Richard Jacob, and Thomas Michael Jacob. Jacob worked as a salesman for Kaufman Knitting Co. in Minneapolis from 1940 to 1988. Mitch Jacob died October 17, 1988.

Susan Jackson (formerly Susan Milligan) moved to Yellowknife in 1965 to work for the federal government. She developed a personal interest in the history of Yellowknife, and in 1983 became the City's coordinator for the 1984 Yellowknife Homecoming, a 50th anniversary celebration of the founding of the community. As a result of gathering materials for this project, she founded the Yellowknife Local History Project. In 1986, Susan moved to Sechelt, British Columbia, with the materials she had collected for the Yellowknife Homecoming and the Yellowknife Local History Project, There she began compiling and editing the materials for a book entitled "Yellowknife, N.W.T.: An Illustrated History." Susan Jackson was an active participant in many community groups and was involved in founding an organization dedicated to establishing a search and rescue operation in the Northwest Territories.

Fred C. Jackson was born in England on December 2, 1894. He first came north as a school teacher for the Anglican Mission in Hay River. He was a bookkeeper with the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) from 1920 to 1931, and during that time travelled to various Mackenzie River Settlements. He left the service of the Hudson's Bay Company on March 23, 1931. Late in life he became a member of the clergy with the Anglican Church of Canada.

Established in 1980, the Inuvik Dene Band Council represented its members as well as other native people who were having difficulties with the law, social development, or housing authorities. Originally financed by the Dene Nation and special fund raising activities, the Inuvik Dene Band sought to establish a program of economic development opportunities. In order to fulfill the designs of this program of economic development East - 3 Denuit Inc. was incorporated on September 3, 1983 and acted as the corporate arm of the Dene Inuvik Band Council.

The Inuvialuit Social Development Program (ISDP) is a branch of the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, which was established to receive and manage benefits resulting from the 1984 Inuvialuit Final Agreement (IFA). The program was designed to promote the social, cultural and educational welfare of the Inuvialuit, focusing on the preservation of Inuvialuit culture. Activities of the ISDP include: participation in Oral Histories projects; involvement in Historical National Park studies; Language and Culture camps; Inuvialuit Genealogy Program; support to Inuvialuit Drum Dance groups; support for Adult Inuvialuktun Language Program classes; assistance in the development of Teacher Education Program of Arctic College in Inuvik and the participation in regional, territorial and national workshops regarding social, health and cultural issues.

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.

Originally known as the Commission on the Indian Canadian, the Commission was renamed the Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada in 1960. (In 1972, the organization was renamed the Canadian Association in Support of Native Peoples). In 1963, the Association, in co-operation with the CBC, began a project called the Delta Community Action Project, or Delcap. The project involved recording Indigenous people telling their personal stories and providing a forum for Indigenous people to speak on issues of importance to them. In 1965, the CBC recommended that the Community Action Program provide educational programs in Indigenous languages. The educational programs intended to specifically assist Indigenous people to achieve a goal that they had established for themselves. Overall, the radio programs were expected to: meet the special needs and circumstances of northern audiences; to stimulate independent creative activity; and to improve the economic, social and educational status of northerners. The Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada funded the project, while the CBC prepared the recordings for airing and then broadcast them.

Jack Knowles Hurst, a captain with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, accompanied a 'cat train' loaded with transformers for the Snare River Hydro Dam Project to study the difficulties of winter transport. The transformers were moved from Yellowknife to Snare Lakes in the 1947-1948 season. Corporal W. Mahon and Corporal D.D. Hopkinson, of the RCAF, accompanied Hurst on the 300-mile journey across Great Slave Lake.

George Hunter was born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1921. In 1937 at the age of 16, he bought his first camera to record his trip to London, England for the coronation of King George VI. He began selling his first photographs the next year. From 1945-1950 he worked for the National Film Board's Still Division. In 1950, he went into business for himself, buying a Piper Clipper airplane for aerial photographs. He promoted himself as a corporate, industrial and aerial photographer.

George Hunter's work in the north consisted of primarily mining industry photography during the 1950s. During this time he also gained an international reputation, carrying out assignments for Time, Fortune and National Geographic magazines. In 1977 he was one of the first photographers elected to the Royal Canadian Acadamy of Arts. His images have been used by companies around the world, as well as Canada Post for images on stamps, and the Bank of Canada, which used his images of salmon seiners on the $5 bill and oil refineries on the $10 bill for the 1972-1988 banknote series. His more recent work has focused on travel photography and fine art photography. In 2005 the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center hosted an exhibit of his work entitled "Not only gold: 1950s mining in the NWT", by the NWT Mining Heritage Society, funded in part by the Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment.

George Hunter passed away in Mississauga, Ontario on April 10, 2013.

W. Bruce Hunter was born in Brockville, Ontario in 1915. In 1918, he moved to Mort Lake, Saskatchewan with his family where he finished his schooling. He first came to the north in 1935, working at a variety of jobs. In 1937, he began working for the Northern Transportation Company Ltd. (NTCL) and continued to work for NTCL until his retirement in 1980. He held various positions during these years beginning as a deckhand in 1937, to Assistant General Manager in 1948, Manager in 1960 and Vice President of Operations in 1971. In 1942, Mr. Hunter was seconded from NTCL to work on the Manhattan Project. He ensured that all materials that were needed for the Eldorado mines made it from Fort Norman to Great Bear Lake. In 1950-1951, as Assistant General Manager, he oversaw the portage of the "Radium Franklin" at Bear River.

Dr. Terrance "Terry" Hunt, L.D.S., D.D.S., R.C.S., Eng., was born in England and trained as a dentist. He moved to Canada in 1946 and spent the next two years working for the Grenfell Mission in Labrador. In 1948, he began working for the Department of Health and Welfare and was to remain in their employ until his return to England in 1956. Between 1948 and 1951, he was based in Edmonton and made regular trips into northern communities to provide dental treatment. In 1951, he established a permanent clinic in Aklavik, becoming the first resident dentist in the Northwest Territories. Dr. Hunt's dental practice covered the communities of Aklavik, Tuktoyaktuk, Fort Smith, Fort Resolution, Fort Rae, Wrigley, Fort McPherson, Coppermine, Fort Simpson and Old Crow (Yukon Territory). In 1956, Dr. Hunt returned to England to join his fathers' dental practice in Aldershot. He died in 1975.

During World War II, Dr. Norris Hunt flew Spitfires but was shot down and captured and was a prisoner of war for three years.
He had a private practice in Oakville, Ontario before moving to the Northwest Territories in 1968. Dr. Hunt, his wife and three teenage children moved to Inuvik after reading an advertisement in the C.M.A. Journal for physicians needed in the Arctic and was hired by the Department of Health for a one year term. His wife was a physiotherapist and she became the first part-time physiotherapist in the Inuvik Hospital, also helping to run the local Girl Guides troop. The family carried on with their interest in cross country skiing. While in Inuvik he had the opportunity to fly a Cessna 150 from time to time. When visiting nursing stations in the area there was often room for another passenger in the airplanes, so his family members took turns accompanying him. Dr. Hunt always had an interest in photography and acquired a Pentax Spotmatic camera for his journey to the North.

The Hudson's Bay Company was proclaimed by royal charter in 1670. Originally, the company had exclusive trading rights in Rupert's Land, the area traversed by rivers flowing into the Hudson Bay. In 1821, a merger with the North West Company extended Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly to the North-West Territory. Shareholders elected a London based governor and committee which set policy for Rupert's Land. A bay area governor was then appointed and each trading post was commanded by a chief factor (trader) and a council of officers. The company headquarters was based in London, England until 1970 when it was moved to Winnipeg.

Mildred Josephine Young was born in Toronto in 1924. A schoolteacher, at age 20 she went to the Yukon, and later Moose Factory, Ontario and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories at the age of 23 in 1947. She left Yellowknife for Southern Ontario in 1950. She later became a school inspector (classroom consultant), living in Winisk, Ontario where she met her husband George Hubbert. Millie Hubbert travelled to Fort Good Hope in 1969. Ms. Hubbert published three books in the 1990s, "Since the Day I Was Born", about her life growing up in depression-era Toronto and "Into Canada's North: Because It Was There", recalling her adventures teaching in the North. The third book, recalling her time in Winisk, was entitled "Winisk: On the Shore of Hudson Bay". The manuscript was completed shortly before her passing in March, 1997.

Robert (Bob) Howren, a native of Georgia, received his BA from Wake Forest in 1950 and MA from the University of Connecticut in 1952 (both in English), and his PhD from Indiana University in 1958 (in English linguistics). Following a teaching term at Wake Forest, he moved to the University of Iowa in 1962, where he chaired the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics 1965-70 and was the founding chair of the Department of Linguistics 1970-75. In the summer of 1965 Howren did a summer season of fieldwork in Fort Rae (Behchokǫ̀), following up with research assistant Charles Pyle in 1967. During the 1960's he also served as a language-training consultant to the Peace Corps in Malaya and was a Fulbright Lecturer in English at the University of Mandalay in Burma. He came to Chapel Hill in 1976, where he chaired the Dept. of Linguistics and Non-Western Languages 1976-81, retiring in 1994. While his research interests included American English dialects and the history of English, his primary specialization was phonology, with concentration on the Northeastern Athapaskan languages of the Canadian Northwest. He conducted fieldwork in these languages, most notably Tłı̨chǫ, some in collaboration with his second wife, Phyllis. This work was supported by the National Museum of Canada, among other funders. Following his retirement, he began a new project on Yucatec Maya, carrying out fieldwork in the vicinity of Xocen, Mexico and delivering a paper on the topic at a conference in Guadalajara. Robert R. Howren, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, died on September 5, 1997, at the age of 68.

The photographs were taken by Richard E. Howell, a British subject who left England to accept a position with the Hudson’s Bay Company. His employment sent him to Tulita (Fort Norman). From there he spent time in a few other NWT communities.

Stuart (Stu) Milton Hodgson (April 1, 1924-December 18, 2015) was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Allen Jay and Hermoine Mary Louise Hodgson (Allen). He attended Walter Moberly Elementary School from 1930 to 1938, then John Oliver Secondary School from 1938 to 1940. At age 16, he left school to work at the Thompson & Clark Plywood Plant, later known as Vancouver Plywoods.

While Hodgson was working in the lumber industry, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. He decided to sign up for military service, and on July 2, 1942, reported for duty with the Royal Canadian Navy. The majority of his service was spent as an anti-aircraft gunner, running convoys of merchant vessels between Newfoundland and the British isles, patrolling routes around the United Kingdom, and as part of the convoy on the Murmansk run to deliver war materials to the Soviet Union.

After the war he returned to Vancouver Plywoods. In 1948, he helped organize the Vancouver chapter of the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) union. His involvement began whilst convincing his coworkers to remain loyal to the IWA and not join a communist splinter union. He went to work for the Vancouver local, and was quickly promoted to Financial Secretary in 1949, and in 1951, joined the Canadian Congress of Labour Executive Council.

One of the secretaries hired at the Vancouver chapter of IWA was Pearl Kereliuk, who became Stuart’s wife on July 28, 1951. They were married at St. George United Church in South Vancouver. They had two children, Eugene Allen and Lynne Mary.

In May 1964, Hodgson was appointed to the Territorial Council, which governed the Northwest Territories from Ottawa. He was appointed Deputy Commissioner in 1965, then appointed Commissioner of the Northwest Territories on March 2, 1967, and served until April 6, 1979.

Stuart Hodgson and his staff were tasked with “bringing the government to the people” on recommendation of the Carruthers Commission’s report of 1966 to the federal government. On September 18, 1967, with a small staff and their families, Stuart Hodgson set about the task of creating the territorial government in Yellowknife. Responsibilities transferred to the fledgling government from the federal operations were education, small business, public works, social services and local government. Shortly after their arrival, the 35th session of the Northwest Territories Council was the first legislative session held entirely in Yellowknife.

Commissioner Hodgson was nicknamed Umingmak, or muskox, by the Inuit, for his larger than life presence (and stature, at six foot three inches). He insisted upon yearly visits to every community in the territory, which at the time included what is now Nunavut. He felt it imperative to bring the government to the people, and to listen to their concerns in person.

Seeing the potential for increased visibility, Hodgson continually invited dignitaries, politicians and journalists north to see the Northwest Territories in person. He spearheaded a tourism campaign entitled Travel Arctic, which included the creation of the iconic three-legged polar bear.

Starting with Princess Alexandra in 1967, members of the Royal Family have consistently visited the NWT in their trips to Canada.

Commissioner Hodgson spent a great deal of effort coordinating NWT Centennial celebrations in 1970, a year which saw visits from Prime Minister Elliott Trudeau, Governor General Roland Michener and his wife Norah, as well as Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and their son and daughter Prince Charles and Princess Anne. Hodgson also helped to found the Arctic Winter Games, first held in Yellowknife in 1970 as an international circumpolar event for athletes.

While Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, he was appointed to Officer of the Order of Canada on December 18, 1970, for his services in labour relations and government. He was also awarded the Knight of Grace of St. John of Jerusalem in November 1971. Stuart’s wife Pearl Hodgson was appointed to Member of the Order of Canada on December 17, 1973 for her voluntary service in community programs in the Northwest Territories. Stuart was presented with the public service’s Outstanding Achievement Award in 1976, and was made an honorary doctorate of laws by the University of Calgary in 1977.

After his tenure as Commissioner, Stuart was Canadian co-chair of the US-Canadian International Joint Commission from 1979 to 1981. Following that, he moved back to his home province of British Columbia, recruited by then-Premier William R. Bennett to run BC Ferries. He was appointed chairman and CEO of BC Transit in 1985, until his retirement in 1992.

Stuart was appointed a citizenship judge in British Columbia in December 1997 and served until 2005. He received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in June 2012. Stuart passed away on December 18, 2015 in Vancouver, British Columbia at the age of 91.