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[Rainbow over several buildings.]

[Pick-up truck, forklift, and buildings.]

[Hay River Hotel.]

[Boarded-up Ed's Cafe in Hay River.]

[People, a dog, and a car outside of a home in Hay River.]

[B.J. Motors in Hay River.]

[Wright Agencies Real Estate and General Insurance in Hay River.]

[Marshall Wells store in Hay River.]

[Bungalow home in Hay River.]

[Two-storey home in Hay River.]

[Home in Hay River.]

[Northern Transportation Co. Ltd. office in Hay River.]

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 70. That's Andy Whittington's hotel.

Photographer: unknown

WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 12: Andy's hotel was well known to passing Nahanni travellers. You brought your own bedding, usually a sleeping bag. Andy served simple but ample meals, much enjoyed by those who had been in the bush and had run low on supplies. He made and sold homemade bread. The smaller portion was a "dance hall" where dances and other community events were held, including some court sessions. In Dangerous River R. M. Patterson describes at least one hilarious court session convened by Flynn Harris. When Andy retired Charlie Hansen bought it and ran it for a number of years. There is an extensive interview with Charlie.

Charlie's photo description: That there is Gifford's house or Post Office. Then they added on
both sides. This one here is the little doctor's house. Old Harry Brown he lived in that for quite a
while.
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 and it is sharp to the edges.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 08: I don't know what Charlie means by "the little doctor's
house." Certainly it was not Dr. Truesdell' s house. He had a much larger house to the north on
the Indian Agency property. I suspect he may be referring to the Dene person named Little
Doctor and the one whose name is attached to Little Doctor Lake.

Caption on back of photo: "#70. - 1941 - Taking a last minute check before taking off for Fort Simpson from Mickey Lake. Bill Clark."

Caption Source: Bill Clark

Photographer: Carl Falcon

WDA's Comments, 2013 July 01: 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 [this Norseman] in two additional loads." Here the Norseman is checked prior to take-off.

L→r: Page McPhee (pilot), Ernie Mills (mechanic) and Bill Clark.

Registered Trapping Area file. Contains edge-notched cards.

Caption Source: Anna Lindberg

Photographer: unknown

WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar. 10: I don't know if my phonetic spelling of Ole Lua's name is even close, but he was born and raised in the country. Father H. Posset's genealogy of the area contains no such name which is not to say it does not exist. The closest names to Lua are John Enelua and Elsie Mouya in the genealogy but Anna's pronunciation definitely begins with an L.

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 71. That's the Signals but I don't know what year that was. The buildings on the [far] left are the old N.T. [Northern Traders] buildings I think. Used to call it the NT. Later, Jimmy Cree had them as a trading post. But the main group of buildings are all the Signals' buildings.

Photographer: unknown

WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 12: The white building with the dark gable is the Anglican Minister's house and school. It is not the NT building as identified by Milt.

The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals as it was called in the early 1940s had a militia arm designated the Canadian Corps of Signals (Wikipedia). I don't know which of the two operated the radio telegraph system here at Fort Simpson and throughout the North. Whatever it was, it was a telegraph system that preceded the telephone. The Signals, RCMP, HBC personnel and free traders formed the bulk of the white social circle in Fort Simpson (see photo 76 also).