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The Circumpolar Conference on Literary was held at the Explorer Hotel in Yellowknife from April 10 to 12, 1990. The purpose of the conference was the promotion of literacy and the exchange of information.

CFCT Tuktoyaktuk Radio Station officially opened on July 5, 1971. CFCT was sponsored by CHUM, a radio station based in Toronto. Father LeMeur was instrumental in getting the radio station to Tuktoyaktuk. He was the president, station manager and announcer. Lorna Clement was the secretary, and also the donor of this collection.

Helene Marie Caufield was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario on July 10, 1929. She attended Central Public School and Sault Collegiate Institute and received the nursing scholarship on graduation. Helene trained as a nurse at the Plummer Memorial Public Hospital and the Civic Hospital in Ottawa. She also received training in pediatrics at Montreal and at War Memorial Children's Hospital in London, Ontario. Helene worked in Sault Ste. Marie, Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), and Montreal before being sponsored by the Anglican Church of Canada to serve at All Saints Hospital in Aklavik, Northwest Territories. Although based in Aklavik, Helene also provided nursing services in Fort McPherson, Reindeer Station, and Tuktoyaktuk. She also spent some time in Inuvik. In 1960, Helene went to Edmonton and earned a diploma in public health nursing. She resumed her nursing career in Fort Simpson, where she married Edd Johnson in 1963. A son, Peter, was born in Fort Simpson later that year followed by a daughter, Clara, born three years later in Inuvik. Imperial Oil transferred Edd and the family to Calgary in 1966 and Edmonton in 1973. Helene moved to Victoria following the deaths of Edd and Peter. Throughout her life, Helene was involved in church work, including teaching Sunday School while in Aklavik and singing in several choirs. She received a number of awards for her volunteer work with the Victorian Order of Nurses and other organizations. Her other interests included painting, gardening, knitting, and sewing. Helene died in Victoria on September 26, 2015.

In 1861, Bishop Grandin selected a site for an Oblate mission which he called Notre Dame de la Providence. Six years later, four Grey Nuns (Sister Adeline Lapointe, Sister Michel des Saints, Sister Amant, and Sister Elizabeth Ward) and two lay missionaries (Domitelle Letendre and Domitelles Lortie) arrived in Fort Providence to establish a boarding school and hospital. In 1927, a new residential school was built to accommodate students from as far off as Fort Smith and Aklavik. This institution was closed in 1958 and replaced with a new day school named after Sister Elizabeth Ward.

Josephine Castonguay was born in 1879 in a small rural community on Quebec's South Shore in the Kamouraska region, Sainte-Helene. She attended convent school, l'Academie des soeurs du Bon-Pasteur, in Riviere-du-Loup, then know as Fraserville. She became a teacher and spent nearly two decades in Canada's North teaching. She ventured to the North in approximately 1920 and left in the late 1930s. After leaving the North, she moved to Ottawa and then worked in Quebec City for the government until her retirement when she moved back to her hometown. Josephine Castonguay died on December 30, 1966 at the age of 87.

Dr. Emily Elizabeth Cass was born on August 21, 1903 in England. She was educated at Nottingham High School and Cheltenham Ladies College. In 1932, she married William Morley, a bacteriologist but they separated in 1937 and were divorced in 1947. In 1940, Dr. Cass joined the British Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) as a senior ophthalmologist. In 1943, she was transferred to Gibraltar where she worked as an ophthalmic surgeon in a military hospital. In 1947, she left the RAMC but continued to work for them in her professional capacity until 1955. In December 1956, Dr. Cass immigrated to Canada. She joined the Department of Health and Welfare, working as an ophthalmologist in northern Ontario. In 1958, she moved to Fort Smith, where she became the first resident ophthalmologist. In 1968, she began lobbying the territorial government to establish specialized facilities for the treatment of eye diseases, which lead to the establishment of the Elizabeth Cass Foundation Society. In 1970, as part of the NWT Centennial Celebrations, she organized an international congress on eye diseases that was held in Yellowknife. Because of this meeting, the International Society of Geographical Ophthalmology was created. Dr. Cass was elected President of this organization in 1970, a position she retained until 1977. In 1970, Dr. Cass retired from the territorial government and established a private practice in Fort Smith. In 1970, she received the Order of Canada, Medal of Service. She died in Fort Smith in January 1980.

Franklin (“Frank”) Thomas Carter was born in Guelph, Ontario in 1915. He trained as a welder. He found work with Horton Steel building corvettes for the Royal Canadian Navy in Hamilton, Ontario in 1939. Frank tried to enlist in 1941 during wartime but was turned down for medical reasons. Instead, he and his brother Ralph followed war work with the steel company, including a job building oil tanks at the Canol Project in Norman Wells in 1942-1943. He later worked on ship construction throughout Ontario as well as in Calgary and Halifax before settling in Waterloo, Ontario in September 1944. After a successful career in welding, and later motorcycle and vehicle welding and repair, Frank died of congestive heart failure on September 1, 1985.

Dorothy (Chocolate) Carseen was born in 1959 and raised on the land near Gameti. After going to high school in Yellowknife, she worked at Native Press as a photographer and photography editor [1984-1990], as well as photographer at Press Independent [1990-1993], and editor at Northern Star [1993]. She was also a founding member of NIIPA, the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers' Association. Dorothy used her time away from her photography jobs to return to traplines and camps to document contemporary camp and community life.

Winona Orr Carruthers (nee Orr) began teaching school at Saint Peter's Anglican Mission in Hay River when she was 18 years old. She taught there between 1903 to 1909. The mission was established in 1893 by the Reverend Thomas Jabez Marsh. It contained a boarding school for approximately 40 students from a variety of linguistic groups including Chipewyan, Slavey, Dogrib, Yellowknives, Dunne-za, Mountain Dene and Gwich'in. Approximately ten years later, a church and hospital were added to the boarding school. The Anglican Church received a subsidy from the Federal Government for each student at the mission and by 1906 there were 30 students enrolled in the school. Topics taught at the school included reading, writing, arithmetic, composition, grammer, geography, dictation, literature, history and the Holy Scripture, as well as occasional lessons in the students native languages, both in Syllabics and Roman Orthography.

John Carroll was an engineer who surveyed the north in 1938 to establish astronomical fixes and set survey monuments to aerial photographic mapping. Among the sites he visited was Franklin's winter camp at Fort Enterprise.

James M. Carmichael worked with mining exploration groups in the Yellowknife area in the late 1930s. In 1940, he moved to Yellowknife with his wife Helen to work at Con Mine as a mechanic in the machine shop. Their daughter Reva was born in Yellowknife early in 1942; later that year the family left Yellowknife.

The Canalaska Trading Company Ltd. was formed in 1926 as a limited Canadian corporation with its home office in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its main business activity was the establishment of seasonal trading posts in Canadian Arctic coastal communities. C.T. Pedersen, the Manager, hired people to run the posts, where goods were sold or traded for furs. The company was associated with the Northern Whaling and Trading Company.

The Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) is a national non-governmental organization founded in 1976 as a response to International Women's Year. CRIAW is committed to advancing the position of women in society, to encouraging research about the reality of women's lives and to affirming the diversity of women's experiences. CRIAW provides the following: publication of women-centered research; sponsoring an annual scholarship in women's history; sponsoring a national theme conference every two years in a different part of the country; recognition of feminist scholars through a program of prizes and awards; operation of a resource center; and provision of a tri-annual Newsletter to members. CRIAW is a bilingual membership-based organization run by a volunteer Board of Directors elected from each province and territory. Members include independent researchers, students, academics, policy-makers, journalists, community activists and women's centers. CRIAW receives funding from the Women's Program and Status of Women Canada. Additional funding is derived from memberships, sale of publications, research contracts and from donations. The organization is a registered charity. In 1989, the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) held their 13th annual conference in Yellowknife. This was their first northern conference, and the theme of the conference was "Making Connections." Speakers from across Canada participated in the conference, however many of the speakers and participants were from the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. Many of the sessions focused on northern issues including daycare in the north, traditional healing methods, Inuit midwifery and educational opportunities in the north.

The Yellowknife Branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy was organized in October 1945 and held their first regular meeting at the Negus Mine in November of the same year. The J. G. McNiven was the founding Chairman, with J. D. Bateman as Vice Chair, Dr. Neil Campbell as Secretary-Treasurer, and W. J. Tought, H. C. Giegerich, and W. J. Hacker also on the operating committee. The other charter members included J. C. Kingston, H. B. Denis, A. K. Muir, J. M. Wilson, C. E. Anderson, and John Anderson-Thomson. The Branch also established a Safety Committee to promote mine safety and a Legislative Committee to examine NWT Legislation and suggest amendments. The Branch held monthly meetings, usually with a presentation component. They also ran an annual prospector’s course with instructors drawn from their membership and Yellowknife geological professionals, held an annual social ball, and participated in special events, including hosting a visit from the Governor General in 1947.

The Canadian Institute for Mining and Metallurgy was established as the Canadian Mining Institute in 1898 by an Act of Parliament. Their name changed in 1920 to Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and, more recently, in 1990 to Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum. The Yellowknife Branch is still active.

In 1978 the Canadian Association of Smelter and Allied Workers (CASAW) signed the majority of Yellowknife gold miners into their membership.

In 1967, a Royal Commission, authorized under The Inquiries Act, Part One, investigated and reported on the administration of justice in the Hay River area. The investigation was authorized following allegations that not all individuals were receiving equal treatment in the courts, that the courts were not open to the public and that the press was being censured on matters concerning the proceedings in the courts. The Commissioner for the inquiry was the Honourable W.G. Morrow.

The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer was a federal agency that was created in 1920 and reported to Parliament via the President of the Privy Council. In 1980, the name of the agency was changed to Elections Canada.