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Records include photographs illustrating the progress of various construction projects carried out primarily in Yellowknife but also in Rocher River, Fort Smith, Coppermine and Fitzgerald, Alberta between 1948 and 1949.

The records consist of one report, "My Summer with the N.C.W.I", prepared by Gladys Vear in 1968. Ms. Vear's report discusses trips to Aklavik, Fort McPherson, Inuvik, Reindeer Station, Tuktoyaktuk, Fort Good Hope, Fort Norman [Tulita], Yellowknife, Coppermine [Kugluktuk] and Fort Providence. The report contains information about various women's groups already in existence in some of these communities.

Records include photographs documenting the construction of a mooseskin boat, the construction of a spruce bark canoe, and the tanning of a moose hide and a copy of Gloria Fedirchuk's proposal to film aboriginal adaptations and their relationship to the boreal forest environment of the Fisherman Lake Slave, including ethnographic practices, ethnobotanical information on use and taxonomy of flora, ethnozoological information on use of fauna, activities done in various seasons of the year, and the construction and creation of ethnographic items.

This fonds consists of 1141 colour slides of Fort Simpson, Fort Providence, Fort Smith, Fort Good Hope, Deline, Tulita, Norman Wells, Hay River, and Willow Lake River, as well as 5 colour negatives of Willow Lake (K’álǫ Tué) taken by Father Felix Labat OMI. Included in these are approximately 44 images taken by Sister Blanche Matte, sgm, particularly in Behchoko, Whati, Fort Good Hope, and Fort Providence. The photographs span much of Father Labat's career with the Roman Catholic Diocese of the Mackenzie, beginning in Deline in 1954 and stretching into the 1980s. Subject matter includes church services, weddings, first communions, and other church-related activities, transportation by barge, motorboat, canoe, dogsled, mooseskin boat, ski, snowshoe and snowmobile, portraits of Dene men, women and children, including students at Grollier Hall in Inuvik and Breynat Hall in Fort Smith, Dene arts and crafts, events, including the NWT Centennial Canoe Race and 1984 Pope's (cancelled) visit, and hunting and fishing activities.

Records consist of J.D. Ferguson's report entitled "The Human Ecology and Social and Ecomonic Change in the Community of Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T.". The report was submitted to the Dept. of Indian and Northern Affairs in Oct. 1961 and is 80 pages long.

Records include a script for a play entitled "Finding Franklin".

Records include a first day cover commemorating the first official flight from Coppermine [Kugluktuk], Nunavut to Cameron Bay, Northwest Territories.

This accession consists of first day covers of the first official airmail flights from Fort McMurray to Aklavik.

This accession consists of two copies of a general letter from Commissioner Stuart M. Hodgson declaring 1970 to be the centennial for the Northwest Territories. These letters were carried by dog sled to fourteen communities in the Mackenzie basin as part of the Centennial Western Dog Sled Mail Run. They are postmarked Inuvik and addressed to the Centennial Centre in Yellowknife.

This accession consists of 5 sheets of postage stamps commemorating the centennial of the Northwest Territories.

This accession consists of 66 first day covers that were carried on inaugural postal service flights to many communities in the Mackenzie District. They were originally collected by Frank McCall.

This accession consists of nine First Day Covers. Three (0001-0003) semi-official air mail stamps, 2 issued by Western Canada Airways Ltd. in 1927 and 1 issued by Commercial Airways Ltd. in 1929 and six envelopes with stamps showing the 1932 inaugural flights between Fort Resolution, Rae and Great Bear Lake. They were originally collected by Dr. J. Alex Campbell.

This fonds consists of 23 photographs, 7 cm of textual material and 1 cartoon-sketch of Wally Firth. The textual material includes one Hudson's Bay Company ledger listing financial transactions between 1901-1902 from the post at Fort McPherson, correspondence written by William Firth when he worked for the Hudson's Bay Company, a short biography of John Firth as well as newsletters and letters written by Wally Firth when he was a Member of Parliament. The photographic material consists of 26 photographic prints, predominantly copies made from cellulose nitrate negatives.

This accession consists of photographs showing seismic operations conducted during the winter of 1945 along the banks of the Mackenzie River by the Imperial Oil Company. The images include views of the camp site, much of the equipment used, and many of the crew members.

The plan was produced in response to the City of Yellowknife's call for proposals for development plans for the city's waterfront areas and includes detailed lot drawings of Latham Island, Jolliffe Island and the Old Town area of Yellowknife.

This fonds consists of 21 festival programs and eight promotional posters of the Folk on the Rocks Music Festival. The programs date from 1980-2001. There was no program produced for 1986. The majority of the programs are full-colour, although a few were printed on newsprint. The colour posters date from 1994-2001.

Records include photographs depicting the attendees of the annual meetings of Government of the Northwest Territories' foremen for 1973, 1974 and 1975. Each meeting member is identified including their position title and place of work. Employees from the communities of Enterprise, Fort Providence, Yellowknife, Pine Point, Fort Smith, Fort Simpson, Inuvik, Stagg River, Buffalo River, and Hay River are listed.

This fonds consists of two maps, 465 photographs, 43 DAT audiocassettes and 17 audio reels. The majority of the material consists of a collection of oral histories and photographs accumulated by the Fort Good Hope Community Council via their Dene Language and Historical Research Project. The oral histories were created because of the Dene Language and Historical Research Program. The photographs, collected from individual photographers, represent an artificial collection of historical photographs. Photographers include: Mr. Cassien Edgi, Brother Mahe and Alphonsine McNeely. The maps consist of town plans dealing with land use and development in the municipality of Fort Good Hope. One plan contains the text of the Fort Good Hope Community Plan. The second plan indicates zoning and focuses on the Jackfish Creek Redevelopment.

The videocassettes consist of "Birch Bark Baskets" (English version) 21 min.; "Making a Birch Sled" (Slavey version) 21 min.; and "The Spruce Canoe" (English version) 21 min. The canoe was built by Johnny Klondike. The videos were filmed by Francine Betthale, produced by the Fort Liard Band Council, and funded by the GNWT Department of Culture and Communications and Dene Nation.

The sound recording contains examples of recordings broadcast by the Fort Liard Communication Society radio station CHFL. The recordings include local reports, elders' stories, interviews with Members of the Legislative Assembly, local musicians and Christmas messages.

This fonds consists of By-law No. 11/85, dated 7 March 1985, to regulate the use and development of land within the municipality.

This accession consists of one photograph (black and white negative) of community leaders in Fort Norman [Tulita] taken in 1939 by a priest named Ittuvik.

Records include census records for Fort Providence. Two of these records appear to be government generated treaty lists and include full names, family numbers, sex and marital status of individuals residing in Fort Providence. The third folder contains a census of Fort Providence residents compiled by Sister Cherlot, a Grey Nun with the Roman Catholic Mission and public nurse stationed in Fort Providence.