Charlie's photo description: That's telephone poles. They were building a phone line down
from Norman down to Aklavik and I was into that Bechtel. Price, Callaghan (BPC), wanted
thousands and thousands of telephone poles. Thousands and thousands never got there. They
were just abandoned along the Canol Road.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview.
Photographer: likely Charlie Hansen or Isidore Villeneuve but with a new sharper camera.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 11: It seems more likely that the poles were for a telephone line
along the Canol Road and not from Fort Norman or Norman Wells to Aklavik. BPC is Bechtel,
Price, Callaghan the contractor for the Canol Pipeline and the Canol Road.
I saw salvaged coiled wire remnants of the line 1977 Aug 28 along the Canol road in Yukon and
NT, but no poles that I can recall.
The file consists of records relating to interactions with the Council for Yukon Indians and Yukon Association of Non-Status Indians, including correspondence, joint Presentation to the Standing Committee on National Resources & Public Works on the Matter of Bill C-48, a report,
The file consists of records relating to reports received by the Superintendent of Economic Development and Tourism for the South Slave Region. The records include "The Northwest Territories Economy: A Look to the Year 2000", an agenda for a Regional and Sectoral Economic Planning Presentation, organizational chart, excerpt from a Standing Committee on Finance report, and the "Territorial Public Sector Survey 1994".
One folder consisting of the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development commenting on a land lease application as required under the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act.
One folder consisting of the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development commenting on land lease applications as required under the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act.
Charlie's photo description: That's where the end of the road was on the island. You can see
the tarp on the Cat D4. That was so I could close off the whole front with a heavy thirty-two
ounce canvas and felt. It had a zipper on it. l rode that Cat all night once on the airport packing
snow. Got to town seven o'clock in the morning. When I got off I couldn't stretch my legs up. I
was like I was still sitting. Then I started to shiver. I stopped in front of the radio station and
that's as far as I could make it. I went in and the cook was up. I got behind the stove and I
shivered for hours. They had measured that night seventy-seven below but that's as far as they
could measure and if it was below they wouldn't say. So it was a cold night.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview.
Photographer: likely Isidore Villeneuve judging from blurred edges
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 12: -77 °F = -60.6 °C. The coldest temperature at Fort Simpson
airport for the period 1963-2013 was -47 °C. There may have been colder temperatures before
that. Alternately, Charlie's memory may have failed him.
The caboose had a stove in it and offered basic shelter and heat if away overnight or in a storm.
The fuel may be for logging operations as seen in Photos 110-112 or it may be for an entirely
different purpose.
Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 108. Im not too sure where that was taken but I have a feeling it was Resolution. That little old Ford cutaway thing and that's the Sikanni Chief.
Photographer: unknown but maybe Milton J. Campbell
Alpine Tundra Cantung rd. pass
Small lake on E side of Cantung Rd.
Taking off getting up onto the step Watson L.
Loaded and ready to fly to Nahanni
Ernie Harrison + Chuck Hamilton our pilot