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86 part of US Army camp, Fort Simpson Airport, ca. 1942-43
N-2022-003: 0860 · Object · [1942 or 1943]
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

Charlie's photo description: That's part of the Army camp at the airport. We don't see it all.
When they first started up, they had Army tents. They knew the winter was coming on so they
wanted to build log shacks. They didn't know how so they come into town and asked me ifI
could come out. By that time I got to know them. We went out there and we put a cabin about a
halfway up and made the first little cuts for the window and the door and told them what to do.
Then the lumber on these roofs you see here was sawed after it froze and it was cold.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview.
Photographer: likely Charlie Hansen or Isidore Villeneuve judging from blurred photo edges.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 10 The Milt Campbell interview also talks about the airport
construction and it has photos of the log cabin US Army camp.
86. Sikanni Chief pulled out for repairs, Liard R, . 1942, M Campbell photo
N-2022-003: 0340 · Object · 1942
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 86. Now this is about the middle of the Liard Rapids.. As you know the rapids are something like twenty miles long and that was when the water was so low and it shouldn't have been but we were trying to push this barge. This here stretch of water, as you can see, is very smooth and it's a very smooth bottom. It was running over flat limestone maybe. And all of a sudden, bump, bump, and a boulder came right through the bottom of that old boat right in front of the motor and the water came in by gosh. Alex was at the engine and he just hollered we're sinking and we threw the thing ashore. We were very close anyway and made it right to there. Now that's the Sikanni Chief and we were freighting gas up to Fort Nelson for the Alcan highway. Now we think it was a rolling boulder coming down with the current and we were just unlucky enough to catch it midship. Now we had to pull this thing out. We built a Spanish windlass on shore.

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell

WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 13: Good river pilots were able to read variations in the water surface to estimate depth and locate obstacles but once in a while the unexpected happened.
87 HBC Distributor at Fort Simpson with three barges, ca. 1942-45
N-2022-003: 0861 · Object · [1942 to 1945]
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

Charlie's photo description: That's the old Hudson Bay steamer. It's got to be the Distributor I
think. The Mackenzie didn't make too many trips down there. It was laid up. It was finished but
they put it back in service during the war because they needed to take so much stuff down there.
But he's on his way south you see he's empty. He's going upriver.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview.
Photographer: likely Charlie Hansen or Isidore Villeneuve judging from blurred photo edges.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 10: This is the Distributor based on comparison to known photos
of both the Distributor and the Mackenzie. Note the fuel drums stacked on shore. Charlie knew
the barges were empty because of the water level marks on the sides of the barges being so far
above the water.
8-8 Cecilia &Vera Edwards, Arnold Lindberg, Mabel E, Edwin L, Elsie E, & Eric L Lindberg, ca. 1943
N-2022-003: 1185 · Object · [ca. 1943]
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

Caption Source: Anna Lindberg

Photographer: unknown

WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar. 10: Cecilia Edwards is Bill Edward's wife. These are the Lindberg and Edwards children. This photo was probably taken at the Edwards' cabin at the mouth of a small creek on the north shore of Liard River about 53 km below the South Nahanni-Liard confluence.
88 skids laid in preparation for pulling Hearne Lake & barge out in fall, Fort Simpson, fall 1942
N-2022-003: 0862 · Object · 1942
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: There was such a rush for the WW II effort that boats ran
until freeze-up instead over wintering in more protected quarters. Boats were always pulled up
on land for winter to protect them from floating ice during breakup. This year Both HBC boats
such as the Hearne Lake here and US Army tugs and barges (they may have been leased) ended
up at Fort Simpson around freeze-up. Charlie notes in the caption for Photo 92 that he cut these
heavy skid way timbers in anticipation of having to do this. The dozer near the center of the photo
is not Charlie's but a US Army machine based on a comparison to their dozers or Cats. Charlie's
new Cat D4 is in the lower right. This is at The Flats on the upstream end of Simpson Island.
Charlie notes that the Hearn Lake weighed ninety tons, a huge load to skid sideways with
relatively light machinery. Note the lack of lifeboats in the davits. They have been removed to
reduce weight, and probably other things were removed as well. See the lifeboats in Photo 90.
89 clearing ice away from US Army tugs & barge in ice at Fort Simpson, winter 1942-43
N-2022-003: 0863 · Object · 1943
Part of W. D. Addison Nahanni collection

Charlie's photo description: The Army brought in some of their own big tug boats, the Notoway and
the Saline here. They were all engine, with a Caterpillar diesel sitting in them. They brought barges down.
They used the Distributor or the Hudson Bay boat. Everybody's boat was hauling freight. They even
pulled the old Mackenzie out ofretirement. Got it going again. That was the steamboat before the
Distributor. It wound up as a fish factory up on Great Slave Lake. They had been hauling stuff down to
the Canol Project. They come there with the ice. The barges were covered with ice. I don't know how
many hundred tons they weighed. But these two, we didn't get 'em out in time. We got the others out.
These two were left sitting in the ice and there was a little barge too. I guess that's the one we see way out
there maybe. Then towards spring they got me to go down to see if I could get them out before the ice
would take them in the spring. You're looking up the Liard there. That is down by the Flats [on Fort
Simpson island]. I took the job chopping them out. We chopped the ice all around them. It was about four
feet deep and sitting right on the bottom close to shore. We got in under as far as we could. I took the
prop out and cleared everything off. We tried to jack it up but it just wouldn't come loose. So we went
inside and we lit a little fire inside on the bottom of the boat and we put pressure with the jacks on the
corners and after awhile it popped right off. Then we pulled them ashore with the Cat there. They were
heavy things. We had to use block and tackle too.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview.
Photographer: likely Isidore Villeneuve but with a new sharper camera.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 10: Charlie is on his new Cat D4 dozer in the photo. There are two barges
here, one in the foreground, the other at the back. The dozer is pushing snow and ice chunks away. The
ice is partially chopped out from under the Saline.
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N-2001-016: CN-423B · Object · [ca. January 1977]
Part of Metis Nation of the Northwest Territories fonds

This item is the fifth part of a five-part recording of a joint Metis Association and Indian Brotherhood (later Dene Nation) meeting in Inuvik, recorded ca. January 1977. The recording is in English and Indigenous languages. The original source item is side B of a 60 minute audio cassette. The meeting also includes items CN-421A, CN-421B, CN-423A, and CN-423A. The purpose of the meeting is to determine if the Metis Association and Indian Brotherhood can work together and how they might work together. The meeting is chaired by Richard Blake. The recording continues with discussion. A female speaker indicates that attendees returning to communities can tell people what is really going on and what happened at the meeting. Another speaks on working together. A motion is proposed that the two organizations will meet together at least once a month at the community level and every three months at regional level or as important issues come up. There is some discussion on who should organize the meetings. It is suggested that each regional meeting should set the date for the next one. There is additional discussion before a break, but the poor audio quality makes it difficult to follow. Following the break, a speaker indicates that people can't depend on one person all of the time and that leaders need to have people pulling with them. There is a motion to get a written press release endorsed by the meeting's attendees about the meeting. Paul Andrew and Charlie Furlong are to be spokesmen, but how they are to be interviewed is debated. Another speaker reiterates the need to start working together in communities. Overall, the audio quality is extremely poor and it is difficult to hear.

This recording includes sides A and B of tape.