Charlie's photo description: There it's breaking up. You can see the ice is coming and you can
just imagine what would have happened had the boats and barges not been freed from the ice.
The ice come right up to the Hudson's Bay barge sitting there, the Hearn Lake, Hudson's Bay
boats. I pulled them out too with that little tractor. And up here further over you see the
wheelhouses of the steel boats sitting along the road on the snye and you see the barge with the
tanks on. That was the heaviest one of the lot 'cause it was covered with ice and even the Hearn Lake there weighed ninety-ton. You can imagine what a big barge weighed. They were around a hundred feet long.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview.
Photographer: likely Charlie Hansen or Isidore Villeneuve.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 10: The boats were barely out of reach of the flowing ice. Had it
been a big flood, the boats may have gone with the ice
Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 93. This is portaging some sort of a river scow. I didn't take this photo.
Photographer: unknown
Yearbook for St. Patrick's High School, Yellowknife, 1993-1994.
The file consists of records relating to the Rent Supplement program of the NWT Housing Corporation. Records include a "Review of Costs Rent Supplement vs. NWTHC-Built Housing" report, "Part 3: Technical and Area Requirements" of the Residential Gross Lease document, call for proposals, and status updates, inspection reports, design and drawing reviews, and correspondence on specific program submissions and housing units.
Charlie's photo description: There it's breaking up. You can see the ice is coming and you can
just imagine what would have happened [to the Saline and barge]. The ice come right up to the
Hudson's Bay barge sitting there, the Hearn Lake or the Watson, Hudson's Bay boats. I pulled
them out too with that little tractor. You see the barge with the tanks on. That was the heaviest
one of the lot 'cause it was covered with ice and even the Hearn Lake there weighed ninety-ton.
You can imagine what a big barge weighed. They were around a hundred feet long.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview.
Photographer: likely Charlie Hansen or Isidore Villeneuve but with a new sharper camera.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 10: The lifeboats off the Hearne Lake are in the foreground and
have been removed to reduce weight. See Photo 92 for additional description.
Caption Source: Anna Lindberg
Photographer: unknown
This item is an interview of Violet Bouvier, recorded on February 3, 1994 in Hay River likely by Margaret Bearard. The interview is in English. The original source item is side A of a 90 minute audio cassette. Violet was born May 17, 1914 in Fort Liard to parents Fred and Marguerite McLeod. Fred worked for the Hudson's Bay Company and the family moved to Fort Simpson and then to Fort Providence. Violet was the fourth child in a large family. Her chores were inside ones, including laundry, dishes, keeping house, and looking after children. English was the language spoken in her home and she also understands French but only speaks a few words. Violet attended school one year in Hay River, then about 3 years in Fort Providence, attaining Grade 6. When her mother died, she had to stay home and look after the younger kids. Her advice for Metis children now is to stay in school. Violet married and had five children. The interview also briefly covers the topics of epidemics, grandparents, traditional skills, clothing, and entertainment. Background white noise makes it difficult to hear some of Violet's responses.
Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 94. This is a Yellowknife Transport boat but I don't recognize where. It looks like it's up on a smaller river. Just somewhere around the Liard. It's not the Gray though.
Photographer: unknown
One folder consisting of the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development commenting on a land lease application as required under the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act.
Caption Source: Anna Lindberg
Photographer: unknown
Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 95. This is a D8 Caterpillar and with a Hyster [winch] on the back end and a blade on the front because working on the lake you had to push the snow aside. You couldn't haul these heavy loads over any amount of snow. Not even an inch. You had to get it right down to the ice if you could so you put your blade at a sharp angle and moved it aside. And this load here, the dead weight of that was five hundred and twenty tons, so you couldn't move it on snow. It had to be on ice.
Photographer: Milton J. Campbell
Charlie's photo description: That's down in front of my old log house, the big log house, by
the doctor's. I couldn't tell you who is sitting there but I have an idea it's my wife and her sister
and one of her kids, Hilda but that doesn't matter anyhow. You see the pail there? They'd been getting a little clean ice for drinking because the water gets so muddy there in the spring. The ice
is just moving out. That's right where the old sawmill used to sit, the old ID [Indian Department]
sawmill in the old days.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview.
Photographer: likely Charlie Hansen or Isidore Villeneuve judging from blurred photo edges.
One folder consisting of the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development commenting on a land lease application as required under the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act.
One folder consisting of the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development commenting on a land lease application amendment as required under the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act.
One folder consisting of the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development commenting on a land lease application as required under the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act.
Yearbook for St. Patrick's High School, Yellowknife, 1995-1996.
Charlie's photo description: The shack is in the background with a window in it. That was
where the Brother was sleeping when we went to town one night. They wanted some little
lumber and some timbers. They sent a Brother out. He come there and he skidded logs for us and
then we sawed them. Kind of a deal we made and he maybe took out some for us too. He come
back there one night and here's one of them big trees fell right over the comer of the shack and
where his bed was. Of course, it couldn't bust the logs in the shack. He laughed and said, "You
see Charlie, somebody up there is looking after me". The other boys, they liked tents so they
stayed in tents. I had a little lumber shack on skids. We don't see it anyplace. Anyhow, I'm filing
the saw. My father-in-law is sitting there on the slab, part of his back to me. I can't see who's
over by the tractor there. But Isadore used to come out and he was the throttle man. He was
crippled with [suffered from] rheumatism and so on. Some days he would feel real bad and I just let him go and
run whatever his own speed was. So when he was like that I put him on the tractor seat there and
he pulled the throttle when he seen the saw going into the log. Gas was expensive in them days. I
ran out of gas and the Army sent me-I'm sawing some for them too---a truck down with two
barrels of gas. I didn't know it was truck gas and the tractor wasn't made for that type of gas. All
at once bang, sputter, bang. It bmned all the valves out ofit. Too high octane. Well I put new
ones in.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview.
Photographer: likely Isidore Villeneuve but with a new sharper camera.
Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 96. That's the D8 with her load, hauling pipes for the Canol pipeline. The pipeline used to run from Norman Wells over to Whitehorse and they never used it. This is getting the pipe from the Resolution Delta. Now that came in by boat and over the portage [at Fort Smith], down the Slave River and they dumped it right in the Delta because Great Slave Lake had frozen over. We picked it up there in March and moved it down to Mills Lake which is the head of navigation on the Mackenzie River. Not the head of navigation for us because we come in from Grimshaw with all the other freight and we piled everything at the foot of Mills Lake and from there it was a straight shot down the Mackenzie to Norman Wells.
Photographer: Milton J. Campbell
Caption Source: Anna Lindberg
Photographer: unknown
One folder consisting of an agenda and supplementary material for a board meeting of the NWT Business Credit Corporation on September 24, 1996.
One folder consisting of a memorandum to the board of directors of the NWT Business Credit Corporation regarding outstanding projects.
Digital file consisting of a 1996-02-05 cover letter for two proposals to the Northern Contaminants Program.
Yearbook for St. Patrick's High School, Yellowknife, 1996-1997.
Charlie's photo description: That's same outfit there, the little tractor and I'm standing here in
the foreground with a light shirt on and my back turned. I seem to be having a conference there.
We're all in a circle. Old George Sibbeston there with his back towards us. I can't make out the
others. They're a little too small. That's the first sawmill. That one is right in what we called
Sawmill Creek later on. It's still called Sawmill Creek.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview.
Photographer: likely Isidore Villeneuve but with a new sharper camera.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 11: It is worth noting that all moving of logs onto stoneboats or
sleighs in the bush and off them into piles at the sawmill and from the pilse to the saw carriage
was done by humans without mechanical assistance. See Photos 104-105 for examples. The
lumber was likewise all moved by hand.
Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 97-100. All show hauling pipe across Great Slave Lake in March. There are about 30 sleighs in the train. This one here was an exceptionally big train.
In photo 97 if you look at you'll see a wee little black dot away back yonder. That's another Cat train coming. Well that's one of our Cats. But we never followed closer than half-a-mile to the fellow in front of you, maybe a little farther behind. When you're on ice in April—this was April 20—you stay well back. The train, including the Cat, the loads, the equipment sleigh, the cook car and the caboose was estimated at five hundred and twenty tons. That's logged-in weight. At that time that was the heaviest weight ever pulled by a D8.
Photographer: Milton J. Campbell
WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 13: he ice had to be incredibly thick to take a load of this magnitude. That is also why the next train is so far back. Heavy moving loads can start the ice undulating and cracking, moreso with trucks. By keeping loads well separated any undulations can die out before the next load arrives and magnifies any residual undulations.