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In the late 1930s to early 1940's Robert Stirton worked on the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) boats transporting supplies to the HBC posts from Waterways, Alberta to Aklavik.

Dr. Paris B. Stockdale was the head of the Geology Department at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He also did consulting work for Harry Beekner, a mining stock speculator from Greenville, Tennessee. In July 1946, Harry Beekner financed a trip to the Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba in order to see the progress of some Canadian gold mines, in which he owned stock. Dr. Stockdale and Harry Beekner traveled by airplane, train and floatplane and the original 16 mm film was shot by Dr. Stockdale. In addition, to acting as a consultant for Mr. Beekner, Dr. Stockdale did consulting work for the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Manhattan Atomic Bomb Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Reginae M. Tait was born July 9, 1910 at Watford, Ontario, the daughter of Richard Homer and Lily Mae (nee Williamson) Stapleford. She was educated at London Normal School 1930-31 and at the University of Western Ontario, where she enrolled as an undergraduate focussing on art specialist courses. She married George Tait August 31, 1938, having a son, Gary Tait. Reginae Tait was a teacher/art supervisor at the Gordon McGregor School in Windsor, Ontario (1931-1938). At the same time she was highly active in various endeavours in Windsor including: being President of the Jr. Mary Grant Society (1934-1936), being President of the Women Teachers Federation (1935-1936), as a soloist at the Central United Church (1934-1938) and as an art instructor for summer and evening courses for teachers. Reginae Tait served as Assistant Director of the Anglo-American School in Bogota, Colombia from 1941-1944. She was President of the Bedford Park Home and School Association (1956-1957), Program Chairman of the Toronto Home and School Association (1957-1959), and National President of the I.O.D.E.(1970-1972 - Hononary National Vice-President. 1973-). Reginae Tait had founded the first NWT chapter of the I.O.D.E in Yellowknife previously. The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire Prize Books for Children of the Far North was organized in 1960 by the National Education Department as a pilot project in eleven schools. Five hundred dollars was assigned for the purchase of books and the Principals of the schools were permitted to make their own selection of books. In 1961, the project was enlarged so that all 56 schools in the Arctic and Mackenzie District received prize books. The books were awarded as prizes for achievement in school subjects, sports, cooperation, good study habits and artistic ability. As a result of being awarded books, the children were asked to write letters to the IODE to thank them for the prizes. A pen pal program emerged that encouraged the children to write and receive letters, as well as improved the writing skills of the children. In her time as I.O.D.E. president, Ms. Tait initiated and completed a project which aided premature babies by raising funds to purchase incubators for all hospitals and nursing stations in the Yukon and NWT. In 1971, she commenced an I.O.D.E. program to help deaf Inuit children. Reginae and George Tait accompanied Commissioner Stuart Hodgson on his 'working journeys' throughout the NWT (1972-1974). In 1974, the Tait's were members of a Franklin Probe expedition to the far north. Ms. Tait received the Queen's Jubilee Medal in 1977.

Henri Tardy was born in 1917 in Vidalon, France. He was ordained in 1947 (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) and received his first posting in the Northwest Territories in 1948. He arrived at Burnside River in 1948 and in Holman in 1949. He served in Holman until 1983 when he left the Northwest Territories. He passed away in St. Albert, AB in 2004.

Ken Taylor holds an undergraduate degree in the history of northern Canada from Queen's University. In 1971, he earned a Master's degree in Biogeography from the University of Alberta, studying the revegetation of the Discovery Mine site. From 1970 to 1979, Mr. Taylor worked as a project manager on the Land Use Information Map project. In the course of this work he travelled to communities in the NWT, as well as accompanying the wildlife survey biologist on some aerial surveys, and took many photographs. In 1979, he transferred to the Polar Gas pipeline project, and participated in aerial reconnaissance of the proposed pipeline routes.

Born in Wainwright, Alberta on July 23, 1913, (Harold) Rex Terpening began working as an airline engineer for Spence McDonough Air Transport, Ltd. Out of Fort McMurray, Alberta in 1932. He worked for Spence McDonough for just one year, but during this time, he made his first trips to the north. From 1933 to 1935, he worked at a variety of jobs including working a trapline, cutting cordwood and working on the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) boats. In November 1935, he joined Canadian Airways in Fort McMurray and worked throughout the Mackenzie area, as far east as Coppermine, and into the Yukon until 1938. From 1939 until his retirement in 1978, he was transferred to various cities across western Canada including Winnipeg, Edmonton, Regina, and Vancouver. During these years, he was promoted to a number of different positions including Chief Mechanic, District Chief Mechanic, District Supervisor and Maintenance Manager. In 2003, Rex Terpening's book 'Bent Props and Blow Pots: A Pioneer Remembers Northern Bush Flying' was published by Harbour Publishing of British Columbia. In 2011, Mr. Terpening was inducted into the Aircraft Maintenance Engineers Association of Ontario's Hall of Fame. Rex Terpening passed away July 15, 2018.

Thompson-Lundmark Gold Mines Limited was incorporated on August 31, 1938, following the staking of 46 claims the preceding month by Fred W. Thompson and Roy Lundmark at Thompson Lake, 48 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife. Work at the gold mine site began in 1939 and focused on the Kim and Fraser veins. Thompson-Lundmark Gold Mines Limited was hindered by a lack of funds in 1940, until Cominco Limited agreed to provide the necessary financial support to bring the mine into production. Through this arrangement, Cominco assumed management of the mine and developed a 96-ton/day mill that was underway by the summer of that year.

The mine was greatly affected by labour and supply shortages due to World War II, and in August 1943, Cominco recommended that the mine be shut down yet minimally maintained. Thompson-Lundmark Gold Mines Limited was eventually able to repay the Cominco loans, and by July 1946, operating control of the gold property had reverted back to its original owners. Work continued on the Island, Trail, Fraser, and Kim veins in the fall of 1946. Development of the property continued, particularly underground, and in late 1947 changes were implemented to make the operation of the mine more efficient. Despite these improvements, the Thompson-Lundmark Gold Mines Limited treasury was slowly being depleted due to high operational costs in manpower, mobilization, and power allocations, as well as a price of gold that did not rise. The mine closed in 1949 and was put on care and maintenance. The majority of the equipment was removed and sold; only the milling and boiler plant remained at the site.

Thompson-Lundmark Gold Mines Limited was amalgamated into Consolidated Thompson-Lundmark Gold Mines Limited on December 18, 1985, which then was itself amalgamated into Cliffs Quebec Iron Mining Limited / Cliffs Québec Mine de Fer Limitée on July 1, 1989.

A forest fire destroyed the Thompson-Lundmark Gold Mine site in the summer of 1998.

Edward Thorning and his wife moved to Yellowknife in the 1940s. Edward Thorning was involved in supervising the construction of electric power lines in the Yellowknife area.

Lottie Summers was born in Cubbington, England on July 30, 1886. Her husband, Walter Spencer Tremain was born on September 16, 1884 at Blything, Suffolk, England. In 1910, Lottie accepted a proposal of marriage from Walter Spencer Tremain who then left England and moved to Canada. In 1912, Lottie sailed to Canada to join her fiancé and they were married on May 24, 1912 in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. Later that year, W.S. Tremain completed his religious studies and assumed charge of his first parish, that of St. Patrick's in Streamtown, Saskatchewan. Their first child, Spencer Lancelot "Lance" was born on July 5, 1913. In the spring of 1914, the Reverend W.S. Tremain and his family were sent to the Diocese of Mackenzie where they were to remain until the summer of 1919. Reverend Tremain and his family lived in three communities: Fort Norman, Fort Simpson, and Hay River. Lottie Tremain gave birth to a daughter, Winnie, in 1915 but the infant died the following year. In 1919, the Tremain family left the Northwest Territories and returned to England. After working in Chivers Colton for one year, the Tremain family moved to New Zealand, arriving there on December 24, 1920. Lottie Tremain's third child, Gwendoline Tremain-Runyard was born in New Zealand in the 1920s and passed away in California on January 14, 2013.

Paul Emile Trudel was born July 24, 1892. He came to Fort Smith from Ottawa sometime in 1921. He had been in government since 1911, with the Department of the Interior, and had taken part in World War I. Around 1925 he was handling the accounting and bookkeeping out of the Fort Smith office. His immediate chief was J.A. McDougal, District Agent. The office staff also included Gerry Murphy and later, Mr. N.W."Wilf" Champagne. At that time, the Director, NWT and Yukon Branch, Department of the Interior, was O.S. Finnie. From 1931 to 1933 Paul Trudel acted as assistant to the Mining Recorder and Agent of Dominion Lands and Crown Timber. In 1934 he was transferred to Cameron Bay. By April 1935, according to a letter to his brother, Trudel states that the office is not very busy and that he may be returning to Fort Smith. By 1936 he had returned to Fort Smith as Assistant Mining Recorder to Division Head Austin L. Cumming; Dr. James Urquhart was the Acting District Agent. Increased activity and gold discoveries in the Great Slave Lake area created speculation that an office would open at Yellowknife. In December 1939 he received a letter from Roy Gibson, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Mines and Resources, informing him that he and Lloyd Bonnyman were to assist Mr. Gibben in opening up a Yellowknife office in the summer of 1940. He moved to Yellowknife in July 1940 working as the Acting Mining Recorder. In November 1940 Paul Trudel married Dorris Jansen, formerly of Minneapolis, Minnesota. After a period of courtship by mail, she flew to Yellowknife with the wedding cake. Dorris and Paul Trudel had two children, Karen and Suzanne. Paul Trudel was officially appointed as Acting Mining Recorder, Agent Dominion Lands and Crown Timber Agent as well as Inspector of Yellowknife Liquor Store in September 1942. The duties of staking and recording of mineral claims, issuing certificates of work abstracts and recording of transfers increased rapidly in the next two years. In October 1944, due to health problems, he and his family left Yellowknife and returned to Ottawa where he continued to work for the Department of Mines and Resources. Fred Fraser replaced him in Yellowknife that year. On April 16, 1948, Paul Trudel was appointed Mining Recorder of the Arctic and Hudson Bay Mining District of the Northwest Territories. He held the position until his death in 1952 after over 40 years of public service.