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Initially, William Hoare left Ottawa for Herschel Island to act for the Anglican Church as a missionary. He returned after five years and married Catherine Cowan, who had been training to be a nurse in Ottawa. In 1920 they traveled to Aklavik, where they were to establish an Anglican mission. The couple remained in the north until 1931, with William Hoare eventually working for the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (R.C.M.P.) until 1931, when they returned to Ottawa.

The Dawson City Museum and Historical Society, which operates a museum in Dawson City, sponsored a conference dedicated to the discussion of heritage and culture related issues in northern regions. The planning, which was stimulated by the desire to know how other museums and institutions were handling certain situations, began in 1983. A Planning Committee was struck with regional representation. The conference focused on preservation and access and consisted of numerous discussion and dialogue groups. There were over 130 participants.

David Henry worked as a welder and boilermaker for the Imperial Oil Company on the oil drilling efforts in the Norman Wells region during the early 1920s. He lived in High River before World War I. He was injured in a streetcar accident and died in an Edmonton hospital in 1925. His daughter, Davina Henry was born on April 12, 1914 and lived in Yellowknife from 1950 to 1968. She lived in a home overlooking Back Bay and worked in a variety of businesses including: Yellowknife Bakery, Hodgson Store, Macara's Laundry at Giant Mine, and Weaver and Devore's. She retired to southern Canada and currently lives in Red Deer, Alberta.

Mr. Hemstock was born in Hanna, Alberta in 1921. After graduating from the University of Alberta with a BSc in Mining Engineering in 1943, Alex Hemstock began working for Imperial Oil on the Canol project in Norman Wells. In 1945 Alex Hemstock met Emily Keeley, who was also working in Norman Wells for Imperial Oil at the time. They were married soon after. As an employee of Imperial Oil, Alex Hemstock was tasked with doing an assessment of the CANOL infrastructure in 1944 when the project was shut down. Following his time on the Canol project, Alex Hemstock returned to the University of Alberta and obtained a MSc in Soil Mechanics in 1947, and continued to do work related to geology and environmental studies for the remainder of his life. He passed away in 2010 in Calgary, Alberta.

June Helm was born on September 13, 1924 in Twin Falls, Idaho to Julia Frances (nee Dixon) and William Jennings Helm. Her family moved to Kansas City in 1930 where she attended public and high school. She graduated from high school in 1941 and attended the University of Kansas City until 1942 when she transferred to the University of Chicago. In 1945, Helm married Richard S. "Scotty" MacNeish, an archaeologist.

In 1949, Helm and MacNeish moved to Ottawa where he held an appointment at the National Museum of Canada. During his summer archaeological survey of the Mackenzie River, MacNeish learned that the small community of Jean Marie River required volunteer teachers. In the summer of 1951, June Helm and fellow graduate student, Teresa Carterette went to Jean Marie River as volunteer teachers, however, Helm also started to compile ethnographic field data at this time, which became the basis of her PhD dissertation. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1958. In 1959, the Tlicho (Dogrib) people became the focus of Helm's fieldwork, which entailed ten trips to the Northwest Territories between 1959-1979. Ultimately, she edited the Subarctic Vol. 6 of the Handbook of North American Indians that was published by the Smithsonian Institute in 1981 and wrote several books, monographs, articles and chapters about her fieldwork in the Northwest Territories with the Dene. In the 1970s, she served as an expert witness and land claims researcher for the Indian Brotherhood (Dene Nation), and as a consultant to the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry.

During the years that Helm lived in Canada, she was a sessional lecturer at Carleton University in Ottawa (1949-1959) and at the University of Manitoba (1953). After she and MacNeish divorced in 1958, she became a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Iowa in 1960. In 1968, she married architect Pierce King. In 1969, the University of Iowa established the Department of Anthropology, where Helm, at intervals, served as department chair. Between 1993-1996, she chaired the American Indian and Native Studies Program. She was also the president of the American Anthropological Association (1985-1987), served as editor of American Ethnological Society publications (1964-1968), was president of the Central States Anthropological Society (1970-1971), chaired Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1978), was associate editor of American Ethnologist (1979-1981) and was president of the American Ethnological Society (1982-1983). She was also elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. June Helm was professor emerita at the University of Iowa, having retired in December 1999 after 40 years of teaching. June Helm died on February 5, 2004.

Chuck Hayward was an outfitter in the Little Dal area.

Hay River began as a Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) trading post in 1868. It remained a trading post until 1939 when the beginnings of a settlement were established on Vale Island. Hay River became an Administration District on April 21, 1949 and a Municipal District on June 25, 1953. On July 19, 1963, Hay River obtained town status.

B.C. "Bart" Hawkins was born at Harrow, Ontario on June 30, 1933. He joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on January 14, 1952. Following training in Ottawa and Regina, he was posted to Vegreville, Alberta. While in Vegreville, he applied for northern duty and was transferred to Yellowknife on May 22, 1954. In December 1956, he was transferred to Port Radium as I/C (in charge) where he remained until July 1957.

On July 17, 1957, he married Catherine Marshall, who had been a nurse at the Yellowknife hospital. Following his marriage to Catherine, he was transferred as a married Constable to Fort Simpson, where he served from July 1957 until his transfer to Fort Liard in June 1958. In August 1958, Mr. Hawkins was posted to Hay River where his wife was ill in the Hay River Hospital. Following the death of his wife, he was granted compassionate transfer to Regina, Saskatchewan in order to better care for his infant son, Bruce Carlisle.

On September 17, 1960, he married Jean Baker and was subsequently transferred to several RCMP detachments in Saskatchewan. On december 26, 1961 his second son, Bradley Drew was born. He was promoted to Corporal in October 1962 and on May 12, 1964 returned to the NWT with a posting in Arctic Red River as I/C. Following the closure of the school in the fall of 1964, he was transferred to Fort Norman as I/C. He was transferred to Whitehorse, Yukon in July 1966, to Aklavik as I/C in April 1967, and returned to Whitehorse in June 1970. While in Whitehorse, he was promoted to Sergeant.

On July 17, 1971, he departed the north for Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba as I/C. He was subsequently transferred to Winnipeg General Investigation Section as second I/C. In August 1975, he was transferred to Brandon Sub Division West Section NCO and promoted to Staff Seargent. He remained in Brandon until his retirement from the RCMP on October 31, 1983. He accepted the position of Chief of Police of the Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council Police Force, which he held until his retirement in December 1988.

Charles Robert Harrman was born in New York in 1897. He spent his summers from 1950 to 1960 in Rae. He retired to Rae in 1961, where he remained writing and painting until his death in 1967.

David Alan Harrison was born July 17, 1940 to William Harrison and Evelyn Harrison, nee Fiddler in Leeds, Yorkshire England. Raised in northern England, he earned a BSc. in Geography in 1961 from Leeds University. He emigrated to Canada in 1961 to work as a meterological observer and graduate student at the McGill University Sub-Arctic Research Station at Knob Lake (Shefferville). On completion of his Master's degree in Geography in 1964 he worked for the Canadian federal government carrying out glacial geomorphologic research on Baffin Island. In 1966 he took teacher's training at McGill and was employed as a Geography Instructor at the University of Victoria, and a high school teacher in Dorval, Quebec.

In 1969 he returned north to Hay River, NWT where he taught at Diamond Jenness Secondary School. In 1970 he married fellow teacher, Dona Maria Murray. They made their home in Hay River, raising two children David Michael and John Martin. David A. Harrison taught at Diamond Jenness Secondary School from 1969-1996, specializing in geographic, social studies, and historical geography education. He published work in teachers' journals, magazines and academic journals on those topics as well. Along with teaching responsibilities, David was active in the NWTTA local, the Hay River Library Board, Cubs and Scouts, the Elder Hostel Programme, and worship and fellowship at St. Andrew's Anglican / Grace United Church.

David A. Harrison's education continued with a Master of Education from the University of British Columbia in 1977, and a PhD. in Geography from the University of Alberta in 1984. The thesis, "Hay River, NWT. 1800-1950: site and situation" was a culmination of research and work on the history of Hay River.

David A. Harrison was very active and committed to faith work throughout his life. Upon retirement after 30 years of teaching, David and Dona returned to her family's home in Tobago. There he became involved with lay leadership in St. Mary's Parish and was ordained decon in 2001 and priest in 2005.

Sam Hansen, originally Knut Wiseth, grew up in Norway. He changed his name when he moved to Canada. He moved to Yellowknife in the late 1930s and stayed through most of the 1940s. Prior to moving to Yellowknife he lived in Goldfields, Saskatchewan and in the Great Bear Lake area.

Sidney C. (Sid) Hanford was born in Birmingham, England, on March 3, 1905. After graduating high school, he participated in an engineering pupil apprenticeship program. Following the completion of the program, Sid Hanford worked at a mine power plant in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, for two years. He then returned to England and married Elizabeth. During this time, Sid Hanford worked installing movie theatre sound systems. The Hanfords then moved to Cyprus where Sid worked at a copper mine for the Cyprus Mines Corporation. Sid and Elizabeth’s first son, Howard, was born on December 18, 1934, and their second son, Gordon, was born on November 21, 1938.
As World War II progressed, the Hanfords left Cyprus for asylum in Canada. Between July 13 and October 22, 1940, the family travelled by boat, bus, and tramp steamers from Cyprus through Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Basra, Karachi, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan before arriving in Vancouver, British Columbia. In Vancouver, Sid Hanford worked as a draftsman at the Burrard Dry Docks, moved briefly to Trail, BC, and returned to Burrard Dry Docks to supervise the build of the North Sands cargo ships. Sid Hanford then worked as the plant engineer for a copper mine in Copper Mountain, BC.
In February 1945, Sid Hanford moved to Yellowknife and in April began work as the Master Mechanic at the newly opened Giant Mine, where he was in charge of surface installations, the operation of the steam plant, and repair and maintenance of machinery. Elizabeth, Howard, and Gordon followed Sid to Yellowknife later in the spring. The Hanfords spent the summer and fall in Yellowknife before moving back to Cyprus, where they stayed for three more years before they moved to Toronto, Ontario, in 1948. In Toronto, Sid Hanford worked for Canada Packers, first for the main production plant and then the multi-product plant until his retirement in 1970. Sid and Elizabeth spent their retirement first between summers in the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario and winters in Florida, and later between Ontario’s Muskoka area and Florida. Sid died in 1987. Elizabeth died in 1994.

Beryl Lynette (Lyn) Hancock was born on January 5, 1938 in East Fremantle, Western Australia. She attended secondary school at Princess May School in Western Australia and attended the University of Western Australia between 1955-1957 where she received her diploma in Speech Arts and her Teachers' Certificate from Graylands Teachers College in 1956. She also attended the Trinity College the Royal Academy of Music in London, England where she studied Speech, Drama, Mime and Movement between 1959-1961. In 1977, she received her Teacher's certification from the British Columbia Department of Education. She also received her Bachelor of Education and Master of Arts degrees from Simon Fraser University in 1977 and 1981 respectively. Lyn Hancock moved to the Northwest Territories with her former husband David in 1972. While living in the NWT, she wrote and sold stories to newspapers and magazines such as Above and Beyond, Up Here, Northwest Explorer, Milepost, and Northern News Services; she also wrote and published several books about the North and took many photographs. In addition, Lyn worked with local tourism agencies and Government agencies to promote tourism and pass on her love of the North. She lived in Fort Simpson for seven years before leaving in 1995 with her husband Frank Schober. Lyn currently lives in British Columbia and travels extensively around the world. She has received several literary awards and is the author of over 30 books.

Ben Hall was born in Birmingham, England, in 1918 and married Nancy Pratt in 1951. They immigrated to Ontario in 1957 and Ben joined the seminary that same year and became an Anglican priest. In 1963 he accepted a call from the Bishop of the Arctic and moved to Hay River, NWT. During Ben Hall's time in Hay River (1963-1970) he ministered to the residents of Hay River, Fort Providence, and Pine Point. He was very involved in Boy Scouts in the North as well. Ben left the NWT in 1970, and he passed away in 2009 in Grande Prairie, AB.

Ron and Bev Hall and their three young children lived in Wrigley (Pehdzeh Ki) from 1971-72. Ron was initially employed as a basic upgrading instructor under the Territorial Department of Education, but transitioned into community education and development under the Department of Local Government with the aim of establishing a settlement council, training settlement administrators, and implementing community programs for social and economic development. Bev was also active in the community, providing assistance in establishing a bilingual early childhood program, community library, handicraft industry, and coffee shop. She also served as a relief teacher. Their interest in Wrigley continued even after they left the community and they have made several return trips over the years.

Ole Hagen was born in Norway in 1888; he moved to Canada in 1914. He worked for the railways in Ontario and as a miner at Cobalt, Ontario. He first came to the Northwest Territories in 1928 and worked at locations such as Great Bear Lake and Yellowknife until the 1950s. Hagen and his partner Major L.A. Burwash, were the original prospectors at Negus. Mr. Hagen sold his shares at Negus and Great Bear Lake Mines in 1937 but continued to work in the north until the 1950s when he returned to Ontario. He died in 1961.