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Caption on back of photo: "#60. - 1941 - Very slow way of getting rich. Just sampling the benches. Average gold per yard in gravel above the glacial clay, $1.35 per yard. Bill Clark"

Caption Source: Bill Clark

Photographer: Carl Falcon, print from copy negative

WDA's Comments, 2013 Jul 10: Shortly after they arrived Carl Falcon initiated a systematic sampling program on the benches above Bennett Creek. Permafrost was everywhere, so the first step was to strip off the moss and vegetation from the 3 x 6 foot sample area and leave it to thaw while they explored other creek beds. However, this seems to be Bill Clark's curiosity leading him to sample an area which seemed promising to him. Bill Clark's clothes suggest this is summer but the vegetation seems snow covered in places as though it is early fall.

Charlie's photo description: little dark building on the extreme left had a real old Model T
truck, Walker's bought that and they sawed the transmission off and they got a transmission out
of an International and put in there. The thing was so slow but they used it to pull logs out of the
bush to their sawmill. Warehouse. They kept all the coal oil, gasoline and other ropes, shovels
and hardware in there. Then the old store, the two-storey. First building big building that was
built. That's the old house. The other two story was the first old Hudson Bay house. You can
see the kitchen that's added there. I tore that down for them years later. On the right is RCCS
complex. The cow belonged to the NCO. They had no milk for the kids so he got it in and they
kept it down there. Goodall's kept it for them down by the Post Office. I seen that cow lay on the
ground one morning early so full of flies and the blood just running off of her and she wouldn't
even move. Given up. They didn't come out in time to take her in. She's purebred Holstein too.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview. The above is a condensed version of Charlie's
much longer description.
Photographer: likely Joe Lineham, a HBC employee, who recorded Fort Simpson during his
time there (see Hansen interview for details). His photos are recognizable by the sky because he
used a filter to darken it, thus bringing out the clouds.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 08: See Photo 60-2 for building identification. [Left to right: storage shed with Model T, Warehouse, old HBC store, warehouse, kitchen, old HBC house (residence), Royal Canadian Corps of Signals complex]

The file consists of correspondence with MacKay & Partners accountants and financial records including invoices, list of outstanding payables, financial records relating to loans, and draft financial statements.

[Territorial Council, 60th Session, Commissioner Stuart Hodgson]

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 61. Another test hole. Wouldn't hardly be the same one. It doesn't look like the same one, does it? No.

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell

WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 12: Milt's interview indicates that the coal survey was quite separate from freighting activities. Milt's diary [August 3-24] suggests it was part of a freighting operation.

Caption on back of photo: "#61 1941 Bennett Creek in front of our cabin. Myself still sampling. Bill Clark."

Caption Source: Bill Clark

Photographer: Carl Falcon, print from copy negative

WDA's Comments, 2013 July 10: Shortly after they arrived Carl Falcon initiated a systematic sampling program on the benches above Bennett Creek. Permafrost was everywhere, so the first step was to strip off the moss and vegetation from the 3 x 6 foot sample area and leave it to thaw while they explored creek beds. . However, this seems to be Bill Clark's curiosity leading him to sample an area which seemed promising to him. Bill Clark's clothes suggest this is summer but the vegetation and even rocks seem snow covered in places as though it is early fall.

Caption Source: Anna Lindberg and Bill Addison

Photographer: unknown

WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar. 10: This is in First Canyon, South Nahanni River while RCMP Cpl. Fielding was being taken upriver by Ole Lindberg to supposedly investigate Phil powers death. Powers' death had been investigated by Duncan Martin in 1932 so it is difficult to understand why Fielding is going up again to investigate. Fielding's trip is not reported in Shaw's 1960 article "Valley of No Return" in the RCMP Quarterly 25(3): 217-229, so his trip was probably just a routine patrol trip and had nothing to do with reinvestigating Powers' death. It is unclear whether Fielding's trip was in 1933 or 1934.

Caption Source: Anna Lindberg

Photographer: unknown

WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar. 10: According to an article in Northern News Services (http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2011-05/may12_11lin.html) Edwin was born 1929 Jun 16. In this photo he looks to be about 14-17 years old, thus placing this photo in the mid-1940s.

Caption Source: Anna Lindberg

Photographer: unknown

Charlie's photo description: That's the single quarters at the radio station, the big one in the
foreground. Just left of that you see a corner of the station and the ice house. On the extreme
right is the RC Church again and just a tip of the priest's house. The little house here used to be a
pump house and it was moved in there I just don't remember for sure where it was sitting but it
was moved in there and stayed there. It was kind of a little office. Then you see the Signal
quarters and the flagpole with the Union Jack. You see Gifford's old barn down there to the right
of the Signal quarters. And then Gifford's barn and his ice house. And over top of his ice house is
a black roof. That's Joe Sibbeston's house and right to the right is the old Post Office.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview
Photographer: likely Joe Lineham, a HBC employee, who recorded Fort Simpson during his
time there (see Hansen interview for details). His photos are recognizable by the sky because he
used a filter to darken it, thus bringing out the clouds. His photos are also sharp to the edges.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 08: See Photo 61-2 for building identification. [Left to right: Royal Canadian Corps of Signals ice house, telegraph office, singles' quarters, Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, married quarters, Gifford Barn, Gifford house and post office]

[Territorial Council]

[Yellowknife, Territorial Council, 61st Session, David Searle, Alcohol Workers at Tree of Peace]

[Yellowknife, Territorial Council, 61st Session, David Searle]

Caption Source: Anna Lindberg

Photographer: unknown

WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar. 10: Jack came down with his team here for a visit at Lindberg's.

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 62. This is the first photo of the coal survey in 1939. I must have been up on the bank and George Roberts ran by in the Gray just to get a picture. The Gray is the boat we used for two summers. It was called the Gray because it had a fifty horsepower Gray Marine motor. It was a real good motor for gas motoring. We had a tent pitched on it. Ashes Photography or Studio they numbered the prints and it was great. All in sequence too.

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell

WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 12: The tall poles at bow and stern are not radio aerials because not even the big Sikanni Chief shows evidence of aerials. They probably support a fine line which helps the steersman in the stern align the boat when he can't see around the tent in the bow. It looks Poole Field's hat on the person in the bow. Poole was along as story teller, negotiator with the Natives and as river navigator. Milt had a soft spot for Poole because Poole had given he and Harry so much sound advice and because Poole was so engaging.

Milt's interview indicates that the coal survey was quite separate from freighting activities. Milt's diary [August 3-24] suggests it was part of a freighting operation.

Caption on back of photo: There are two captions, the second in red pencil. "#62 She's a tough racket boys! Sampling placer gold below the flume on Bennett Cr. Bill Clark" "Did you say Gold!"

Caption Source: Bill Clark

Photographer: Carl Falcon

WDA's Comments, 2013 July 01: With the work tent still up (see Photo 63) near the base of the flume and ice already forming, emptying the glory hole beneath the flume is probably complete. Bill Clark may be panning material extracted from the sluice riffles to see what gold is present. If so, they now know the glory hole had nary a speck of gold, or as Falcon put it in a radio messages to his wife and George Bilodeau on Oct. 13 1941, "Completed the big job the result is nil."

Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at 1 am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: likely Charlie Hansen or Isidore Villeneuve judging from blurred photo edges.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 08: see Photo 59-2 for building identifcation. The buildings here
were identified using photos where Charlie had already identified the buildings.
See Photo 62-2 for building identification. [Left to right: Royal Canadian Corps of Signals singles' quarters, office and telegraph centre, married quarters]

The file consists of records relating to research on forest fires, particularly in the Northwest Territories context. The records include "A Forest Fire Research Program for the N.W.T. Region", a photocopied chapter from "Management of Wilderness and Environmental Emergencies", Western Region Fire Weather Committee (WRFWC): Minutes of the Fifth Business Meeting and Seminar Proceedings, Petawawa National Forestry Institute List of Publications, "Forest fire organizations test - new concepts and technology", Northern Forest Research Centre Fire Research Program Review, an aerial photograph of a fire, "Fire in the N.W.T.", and correspondence.

Caption Source: Anna Lindberg

Photographer: unknown

WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar. 10: Joe Clark was an independent trader who came into the country in 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. This gave him quite an advantage over the fixed traders. Ole and Anna only traded some of their fur in this photo with Joe Clark. Prior to the days of radio, trappers wouldn't sell all their fur to one trader in case his prices were too low. Once everybody has radios then fur prices were widely known. This is not all of their 1927 fur. The next photo shows all of it.

Caption on back of photo: "#63. - 1941 - Panning for gold just below our work tent on Bennett Creek. Bill Clark."

Caption Source: Bill Clark

Photographer: Carl Falcon

WDA's Comments, 2013 July 10: With the work tent still up near the base of the flume and ice already forming, emptying the pothole beneath the flume is probably complete. Bill Clark may be panning material extracted from the sluice riffles to see what gold is present. If so, they now know the pothole had nary a speck of gold, or as Falcon put it in a radio messages to his wife and George Bilodeau on Oct. 13 1941, "Completed the big job the result is nil."