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N-2001-016: CN-155A · Object · March 1994
Part of Metis Nation of the Northwest Territories fonds

This item is the thirteenth part of a thirteen-part meeting or forum of the Metis Nation on land and resources, held in Hay River in March 1994. The meeting is in English. The original source item is side A of a 60 minute audio cassette. The meeting also includes items CN-149A, CN-149B, CN-150A, CN-150B, CN-151A, CN-151B, CN-152A, CN-152B, CN-153A, CN-153B, CN-154A, and CN-154B. The meeting appears to be co-chaired by Gary Bohnet and Pierre Simpson. The recording begins with the continuation of a presentation by Gary Bohnet (Metis Nation President) and George Kurszewski (Fort Smith) regarding the Political Accord signed by the Minister of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND) and the Native Council of Canada (NCC) and the letter of intent from the Minister to the Metis Nation. Kurszewski reflects further on the change in government policy, refusing the comprehensive land claim in 1990, and waiting for a better deal. Questions and comments from the delegates are discussed including publicizing the significance of the Accord and Letter of Intent, next steps, how to ensure a community driven process, respecting treaty First Nations and the processes they are in, work to be done in the communities by the Locals. The discussion gradually shifts to meeting wrap-up, including thanks to the host community, the Executive, volunteers, and chefs, a closing prayer by Bernie Ouellette, and the Metis anthem ("Proud to be Metis").
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#8
N-2001-016: CN-320B · Object · May 19, 1976
Part of Metis Nation of the Northwest Territories fonds

This item is the fourth part of a five-part recording of a meeting of the Dene Land Claims Committee, including members from the Metis Association and the Indian Brotherhood (later Dene Nation) held May 18-19, 1976 in Fort Smith. This recording was made May 19, 1976. The meeting is in English. The original source item is side B of a 90 minute audio cassette. The meeting also includes CN-434A, CN-434B, CN-320A, and CN-319A. Two tapes seem to be missing from the recording. Participants include Richard Nerysoo, George Kurszewski, Francois Paulette, and Charlie Overvold. The recording continues with a continuation of the discussion on possible political structures. The committee discusses the relationship between community and national level (Grand Council) and possibly not having a regional level. They want the structure things in a way that will ensure that the chief executive of the Grand Council will be answerable to the Council, which will be made up of community leaders, and can be removed if necessary. Their goal is to be self-governing, with control over what happens in communities. The Committee also mentions the need to determine who is eligible to participate in the land claims. They acknowledge that there has already been long debates on this. The Committee turns to a discussion of deadlines. While one speaker suggests that the land claim should take as long as necessary, another states that while there is no land claim, the Federal Government will remain in control with the result that the people will lose more and more control. The November 1 deadline to submit a land claim proposal to the Federal Government is analyzed, with members speculating on the consequences of failing to meet it. The discussion then turns to the upcoming policy panel on land claims for the Berger Inquiry. Richard Nerysoo and Rick Hardy are tasked with preparing a paper for discussion at the next Dene Land Claims Committee meeting. Names of those presenting were also to be decided at that meeting. Finally, land claims funding is mentioned, along with guidelines for how it can be spent. The establishment of regional offices and the possibility of regional budgets is discussed. Charlie Overvold and Richard Nerysoo debate whether the funding ought to be used to fund a special Metis Association Assembly to settle the question of whether the Metis Association will continue or join with the Indian Brotherhood. The recording ends abruptly.
8. H Vandale hamming it up, M Campbell photo
N-2022-003: 0265 · Object · 1934
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 8. H Vandale hamming it up, M Campbell photo

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell

WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 08: According to Milt, Harry had the knack of keeping people happy and on an even keel with his humour. He was particularly adept at diffusing tense or difficult situations with a well placed funny remark.

The width of the river in the background indicates that it is the Liard or the Mackenzie.
8- Indian [Indigenous] women
N-2022-003: 0598 · Object · [ca. 1940]
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

Caption Source: taken [adapted] from typed caption sheet in Bill Cormack's photo album

Photographer: unknown

WDA's Comments, 2013 Oct. 12: Location unknown but given that the photo seems to have come from Lodema and Arthur George it was probably taken somewhere along the Liard or Fort Nelson Rivers.
8 Mackenzie Air Service, Bellanca Aircruiser, CF-BKV, on Mackenzie R, Fort Simpson, 1930s
N-2022-003: 0782 · Object · [after 27 Sep. 1938]
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at I am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: unknown but likely Charlie Hansen judging from sharpness falloff towards the
corners as seen in Charlie' known photos.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 03: The Aircruiser is now on floats. Carl Falcon flew from
Cooking Lake to F01t Simpson in it on a scheduled run. The plane was then diverted from the
sched to fly one load of Falcon's supplies from Fort Simpson to Seaplane (Landing) Lake in
1941 for Carl Falcon's effort to mine gold below a little falls in a canyon on Bennett Creek. The
plane presumably returned to the sched run on down to Aklavik after the Seaplane Lake trip.
Interrupting a sched run was a normal procedure at this time. Competition between bush plane
services was fierce and they did things like this to garner some extra income. This aircraft
appears in other Nahanni photos.
CF-BKV was not registered until Sep. 27, 1938 (Ellis, J. R., Canadian Civil Aircraft Register) so
this photo post-dates that.
#8, flume support beams, work tent & pump, falls below, Bennett Cr canyon, 1941, Carl Falcon photo
N-2022-003: 0678 · Object · 1941
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

Caption on back of photo: "#8. Summer of 1941. Planks were all hand sawn by whipsaw and back packed 300 yards from our primitive lumber camp. View shows lower end of short narrow canyon on Bennett Creek. The Indians [Indigenous Peoples] called it Gold Creek at the turn of the century. Bill Clark"

Caption Source: Bill Clark

Photographer: Carl Falcon, print from copy negative

WDA's Comments, 2013 Jul 10: Emplacement of the heavy framework logs to support the flume in the canyon is just beginning. The work tent is on the right.
80 Hearne or Watson Lake 'docked' with barge, Fort Simpson, mid-late 1930s
N-2022-003: 0854 · Object · [193-]
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

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 10: The Hearne Lake and Watson Lake were HBC tugs used to
push smaller loads on the Mackenzie and Liard Rivers. They were nearly identical and certainly
Charlie could not distinguish between the two in photos unless their name plates were
visible. They were also gasoline or diesel powered as opposed to the much better known and
larger wood burning Mackenzie and Distributor. The switch from wood to fossil fuels was also
accompanied by a switch from sternwheeler to propellor driven ships. Here the tug and its barge
are 'docked' at Fort Simpson.
81. bulldozing ice off Fort Simpson runway for summer useunknown, ca. 1945-46, M Campbell photo
N-2022-003: 0335 · Object · [1945 or 1946]
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 81 & 82. Both the same thing at a little different angle. We didn't plow these runways in the winter. We built them up. And we dragged and rolled so that come spring you would have maybe ten inches of pretty near ice packed over the months and if you left it sit there until it melted it'd be June and you couldn't land an airplane on the thing to save your life. We used these dozers and we take one-half of the runway and bulldoze it off. Our runways were pretty wide. As it dried out for landing we'd dust off the other side. It was a lot of work as you can see. That's what we're doing. Rufus Goodall is in number eighty-two and number eighty-one I don't know who is in the picture.

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell
81 Watson Lake or Hearne Lake bringing barges & LACO Hunt's horse for C Hansen, Fort Simpson, ca. 1937-38
N-2022-003: 0855 · Object · [1937 or 1938]
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

Charlie's photo description: That's got to be either the Watson Lake or Hearne Lake just coming in to
land at Simpson because he's made a turn. You can see the wake behind the boat.
Yeah, the horses ... At that time there was no herd law and they could run loose on the island. Somehow
somebody left the gate open up at the Hudson's Bay and Slim and Gander got in there. Old [LACO] Hunt
he got mad and he grabbed his shotgun and he goes out and blast the horse in the front legs. That was
Gander. So one of the Indians [Indigenous Peoples] come down and told me Gander was standing up in front of the Hudson's
Bay and he was bleeding. So I went up there and somebody else up there told me what had happened but
that was no good because he [Hunt] just say no.
The police said you got to get something to prove it. I got one of the Indian [Indigenous] boys up there and Hunt had
gone down to play bridge with the doctor as usual. I went up there and I sent the fellow into the kitchen
'cause he didn't know any better. I wouldn't go in myself you know but he walked in the kitchen and I told
him what to look for in the cook stove. Sure enough there they were, two burned shotgun shells. He took
them out and he give them to me. Then Hunt couldn't say very much and he promised to get me another
horse. The replacement horse is arriving on this barge pushed by the Hearne Lake or the Watson Lake.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview.
Photographer: likely Charlie Hansen or Isidore Villeneuve judging from blurred photo edges.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 10: LACO Hunt was stationed in Fort Simpson as manager of the HBC
store from summer of 1934 until the winter of 1938-39 (Hunt, LACO. 1983. Rebels, Rascals & Royalty.
Outcrop, The Northern Publishers, Yellowknife. See pp. 57-98 for Hunt's Fort Simpson years.) Naturally,
he makes no mention of shooting Charlie's horse. See Photo 83 for more details.
8-10 Dick Gutcher, Karl Aarhus, unknown Swede, Slim Jones, Herb Curl, Mackenzie R, n.d.
N-2022-003: 1187 · Object · [ca. 1940]
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

Caption Source: Anna Lindberg

Photographer: unknown

WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar. 10: The Swede was getting such terrible headaches that he drowned himself. The photo was taken down the Mackenzie River but Anna does not know where. Dick Gutcher had a trading post near River Between Two Mountains from 1937-39 and Slim Jones had it from 1939 to 1963. (Ussher, Peter J. 1971. Fur Trade Posts of the Northwest Territories: 1870-1970. Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Publication No. QS-1156-000-EE-A-11.) This photo was likely taken there. See also photo7-8.
82. bulldozing ice off Fort Simpson runway for summer use, R Goodall, ca. 1945-46, M Campbell photo
N-2022-003: 0336 · Object · [1945 or 1946]
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 81 & 82. Both the same thing at a little different angle. We didn't plow these runways in the winter. We built them up. And we dragged and rolled so that come spring you would have maybe ten inches of pretty near ice packed over the months and if you left it sit there until it melted it'd be June and you couldn't land an airplane on the thing to save your life. We used these dozers and we take one-half of the runway and bulldoze it off. Our runways were pretty wide. As it dried out for landing we'd dust off the other side. It was a lot of work as you can see. That's what we're doing. Rufus Goodall is in this picture.

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell
82 Charlie's new horse provided by LACO Hunt being unloaded, Fort Simpson, ca. 1937-38
N-2022-003: 0856 · Object · [1937 or 1938]
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

Charlie's photo description: (See also Photo 82 for more details.) I picked some of the shot out
of gander's legs but we left most of them in. He was kind of out of commission for quite awhile
but he got over it. When he got old and in the cold weather he kind of stiffened up in the knees.
The lead was still in there. So he [Hunt] sent up to the Ryan brothers at Fort Smith for this horse
here. He's just a little bitty thing and he can't hardly walk and he comes off the gangplank there. I
wouldn't take him. He didn't match anything I had anyhow. So LACO had a horse. And that's all
we done about it. The horse ran around in the bush there and the mosquitoes eat him up. He
finally just died. Yeah, he's coming off of the Hudson's Bay barge. That must have been just
before the war.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview.
Photographer: likely Charlie Hansen or Isidore Villeneuve judging from blurred photo edges.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 10: LACO Hunt was stationed in Fort Simpson as manager of
the HBC store from summer of 1934 until the winter of 1938-39 (Hunt, LACO. 1983. Rebels,
Rascals & Royalty. Outcrop, The Northern Publishers, Yellowknife. See pp. 57-98 for Hunt's
Fort Simpson years.) Naturally, he makes no mention of shooting Charlie's horse. See photo 82
for more details. In short, LACO's stingy attempt at restitution left him saddled with weak, small
uselss horse to care for while Charlie still had Gander even if his health was slightly
compromised. Horses quickly became less important to Charlie with the onset of WW II.
83. American built Fort Simpson Airport camp, 1940s, M. Campbell photo
N-2022-003: 0337 · Object · [194-]
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 83 & 84. These pictures are of our camp at Simpson Airport built by the Americans in 1939, this group of log cabins. Building an airport in those days it just meant clearing off the trees, grading out the stumps and getting out of the way. Dal [G.C.F. Dalziel] selected the site for the Simpson airport. Now Matt Berry had the final say but he depended a lot—I know he did, he told me he did—on Dal's judgement. And by golly Dal's judgement was pretty darn good.

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell

WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 13: While I can not find a date for the beginning of construction of the airport, it was not 1939. Most likely it was 1942 or 1943, after G. C. F. Dalziel completed his survey of sites for Mackenzie valley airports for Matt Berry (see Dalziel and Hansen interviews).