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Caption on back of photo: There are two captions, the second in red pencil. "#44 Carl Falcon, mining engineer, nearing cabin with a load from Mickey Lake, 1½ m. away Bill Clark" "What a Man!"

Caption Source: Bill Clark

Photographer: while Bill Clark likely took this photo, it was on Falcon's camera under his direction, so Carl Falcon is credited with the photo.

WDA's Comments, 2013 Jul 10: Carl Falcon notes, "we took in six thousand eight hundred pounds of supplies... The first plane [a Bellanca Aircruiser] took in a load of thirty-six hundred pounds and the rest was brought in a smaller plane in two additional loads." The 3600 pounds was off loaded at Seaplane (Landing) Lake and had to be back packed from there about 10 miles to Bennett Creek. This included a crossing of the Flat River. On that first trip the pilot determined that subsequent landings could be made at Mickey Lake providing some trees were cut down on the approaches to Mickey Lake. They promptly cut the trees and the last two loads in a Norseman landed at Mickey Lake. Given that those two loads contained fifteen drums of gas, this was a blessing because gas drums make for very awkward portaging and they weigh nearly 100 pounds apiece.

Charlie's photo description: This is in the Hudson's Bay field again. To the left with the
pitchfork is Brother LaPlante and to the right of the wagon is Brother Gosselin. It looks like Pat
up in the load. But you see them horses have got hats on too to keep the flies out of their ears.
They're harvesting grain feed. They grow some wheat there too but most of the time it would
only be chicken feed. But oats and barley grow good in Simpson.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview
Photographer: Probably Charlie Hansen or Isidore Villeneuve because of sharpness falloff
towards the edges.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 07: Gardening and, to some extent, farming were possible at Fort
Simpson and up the Liard valley as far as Fort Liard because of locally deep soils deposited by
Liard River floods. Late spring or early fall frosts were always a hazard but there is a photo of a
magnificent tomato crop at Fort Liard. Photos exist of huge cabbages grown elsewhere in the
Liard and Mackenzie yallies. In his interview Charlie talks of his own gardening ventures and
those of Andy Whittington and the Anglican minister. Jack LaFlair famously kept a garden at
Nahanni Butte, as did the Lindbergs nearby at Blackstone River.

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 44. Is in1934 when they came back from Simpson...when the gang got back and were ready to go to work on the Liard bars.. It must have been on in July. From left to right: Ole Lindberg, George Boudah, Hans Rorwick, John Norgaard, and with his hands on John's shoulders is Stanley Turner, then Dick Turner, and with hands on Dick Turner's shoulders is Harry Vandale, then his brother Joe Vandaele followed by Frederick Turner, Mrs. George and Arthur George. The picture is taken in front of George's cabin on the Liard River.. That was their last cabin. They left there and went to Fort Nelson.

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell

WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 12: This photo taken in 1936, not 1934 as Milt recalled it. In his book Nahanni, Dick Turner has the same photo and he dates it at 1936, but he gives George Boudah's name as Boo Jodah. Presumably Milt gave Stan Turner a copy of this photo and Kay Turner loaned it to her brother-in-lw Dick to use in his book Nahanni. Milt's photos were shared with friends. For instance Bill Clark had a number of Milt's photos. Harry Vandale changed his spelling of the Vandaele family name while Joe kept it. I don't know if Harry officially changed the spelling or whether he just did it unofficially.

Caption Source: Anna Lindberg

Photographer: unknown

WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar. 10: The Roman Catholic School is the building on the right.

Caption Source: Anna Lindberg

Photographer: unknown

Caption on back of photo: "#45 Everything had to be back packed from Mickey lake just 1½ m. away. Myself & Jean with gasoline. Bill Clark"

Caption Source: Bill Clark

Photographer: Carl Falcon, print from copy negative

WDA's Comments, 2013 Jul 10: Carl Falcon notes, "we took in six thousand eight hundred pounds of supplies... The first plane [a Bellanca Aircruiser] took in a load of thirty-six hundred pounds and the rest was brought in a smaller plane in two additional loads." The 3600 pounds was off loaded at Seaplane (Landing) Lake and had to be back packed from there about 10 miles to Bennett Creek. This included a crossing of the Flat River. These were the days when men were men. On that first trip the pilot determined that subsequent landings could be made at Mickey Lake providing some trees were cut down on the approaches to Mickey Lake. They promptly cut the trees and the last two loads in a Norseman landed at Mickey Lake. Given that those two loads contained fifteen drums of gas, this was a blessing because gas drums make for very awkward portaging and they weigh nearly 100 pounds apiece.

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 45. A caption on the back says, "Ted Trindell and moose". It didn't mention Bert but that's Bert Neeland on the right. We were going upriver and that thing swam out. Bert was going to Fort Nelson and I thought he might need a little help in the Liard rapids., so I went up just to the head of the rapids and came back in 1937.

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell

Charlie's photo description: none
Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at 1 am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: unknown
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 07: I don't recognize the people in this photo. The person on the
right may be Brother Gosselin based on comparison to Photo 44. The grain appears the same in
both photos.
Alternately this may be a post 1947 photo on the Dominion Experimental Farm of the Canada
Department of Agriculture operated at Fort Simpson from 1947 into the 1960s.
The first alternative seems more likely judging from the setting and the dress of the people.

Registered Trapping Area file

Caption Source: Anna Lindberg

Photographer: Ole Lindberg

WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar. 10: Joe Clark was an independent trader who came into the country each spring for a number of years through Fort St. John, to Conroy creek on the Sikanni Chief River. There, he would build a scow and drift down the Sikanni Chief, Fort Nelson and Liard Rivers trading fresh gods at least a month before fresh goods could be obtained through the Mackenzie River system. The scow on the right is likely his.

The boat in front of the scow appears to be the clinker-built boat constructed by Charlie Boostrom, Anna Lindberg's step-father and passed on to Ole and Anna. The same boat was used to take RCMP Cpl. Fielding up the South Nahanni to investigate Phil Powers' death in 1933 or 1934. This boat appears in a number of other photos, both in this collection and in those of others. This is the boat that Anna tracked up through The Splits to Nahanni Hotsprings (now Kraus Hotsprings), much of it by herself on the trackline. The rest of the family sat in the boat.

Scotty Crombie was a shell-shocked (PTSD in today's terms) decorated WWI veteran who stayed alone above Netla River on the Liard. Passersby would check on him and leave food. He died there, alone, a mental wreck.

Caption on back of photo: "#46 Our main cabin and caches on a bench on Bennett Cr. N.W.T. Bill Clark"

Caption Source: Bill Clark

Photographer: Carl Falcon

WDA's Comments, 2013 Jul 10: the cabin was built by Bill Clark and Gus Kraus in the 1930s.The tall pole against the cabin will be for the radio aerial. The tarpaulin on the roof suggests that it was a quick temporary fix for a leak.

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 46. That's Harry but I don't know what year that was. It must have been around again about '36 or '37. Must have been '37. That rigging on the two canoes… You can't push two canoes through fast water tied side by side so we tie them ahead with the kicker on the rear canoe and it was pushing the front canoe. This is on the Liard Rapids.. You see that pole across the lead canoe and you pull your rope to straighten it one way or the other. Of course, these two poles keep them rigid. Keeps them from seesawing up and down [back and forth]. This system of triangular bracing holds the canoe in position.

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell

WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 12: This photo must date from 1935 because Harry left the Nahanni for good in the spring of 1936.

Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at 1 am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: unknown
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 07: This series of four photos is of a summer picnic by RC nuns,
some Dene or Metis women, a male boat driver and another male. These appear to be Isidore
Villeneuve photos due to the fall-off in sharpness towards the corners, so he was likely along
also. It appears to be up the Liard River from Fort Simpson.

Caption on back of photo: "#47 Glaciated valley just below canyon on Bennett Creek. Wm Clark."

Caption Source: Bill Clark

Photographer: Carl Falcon, print from copy negative

WDA's Comments: the background peak appears to have a snow covered crest.

Caption Source: Anna Lindberg

Photographer: unknown

WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar. 10: Anna says that Susan is now Mrs. Carroll [spelling?]

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 47. That is the Liard Rapids. It's pretty hard to get a real picture of any rapid with a still camera, but it's pretty rough out there. It's pretty fast too.

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell

Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at I am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: unknown
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 07: This series of four photos is of a summer picnic by RC nuns,
some Dene or Metis women, a male boat driver and another male. These appear to be Isidore
Villeneuve photos due to the fall-off in sharpness towards the corners, so he was likely along
also. It appears to be up the Liard River from Fort Simpson.
The woman on the front left appears to be Nora McKay based on a comparison to a known photo
of her (see Photo 41). I do not recognize either of the male faces in the stern of the boat.

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