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C-FCRR. This aircraft was one of the heavier and poorer performing of the Canso fleet. [An Avalon Aviation Ltd Canso airplane (call number C-FCRR) sits partially submerged in water near a dock. Damage to the right wing is visible.]

Sawmill Bay Gt. Bear Lake NWT 79 [An Avalon Aviation Ltd Canso airplane sits in the water along the shoreline. Billows of smoke are visible in the background.]

YK [Yellowknife] Tanker Base. Conair's Piper Aerostar birddog 109 aircraft C-FSXX at Yellowknife Tanker Base [A man stands next to an airplane (call number C-GSXX?). His right hand sits on the plane's right propellor. A toolbox is on the ground on the left and a step stool stands in front of the propellor. A bicycle leans on the front of a car on the right.]

Ft. Liard. Beaver at Fort Liard. Simpson Air had a base in Fort Liard. In 1981 it was sold to Urs Schildknecht who operated as Liard Air Ltd. [A deHavilland DHC-2 Beaver (call number C-FEYW) sits in front of trees, some of which are covered in hoarfrost. Refuelling barrels sit next to the plane.]

Mackenzie R. [River] Ft. Simpson [A Cessna on the Mackenzie River. A red canoe is attached to the left float.]

Trapping. Supply flight to a trapper outside Fort Simpson [Two people stand next to a Cessna 185 (call number CF-BZY), a skidoo, and a sled loaded with supplies.]

Simpson Air Turbo-Porter frozen in the ice at Wrigley. See previous info on similar slides. [Simpson Air Ltd's Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter (call number C-GWXZO) stuck in the ice. Two men working to free the airplane. View from the right side.]

Brian Raikes preheating a Cessna 185 prior to a flight. [A man stands next to a Wolverine Air Ltd Cessna 185 (call number C-GHWO) in winter.]

Ptarmigan T-Beaver Trout Lake. CF-ROC departing Trout Lake [Sambaa K'e] for Yellowknife [A Beaver airplane (call number CF-ROC) on a runway in winter.]

Transair Landing YK [Yellowknife], 1977. Transair operated a sched [scheduled] flight several times a week from Winnipeg, Yellowknife and on to Whitehorse return. [A Fokker F28 Fellowship airplane on the runway at the Yellowknife Airport YZF. The top of the Robertson Shaft headframe is visible in the background.]

Les Dvorak, Ray Horton, Tim Garrish March 79 Ft. Simpson. From left to right: Les Dvorak, Ray Horton and Tim Garrish. Les Dvorak founded WAL [Wolverine Air Ltd.] in 1972 getting his Operating Certificate (OC) from Transport Canada in 1973. At the start he had one Cessna 180 CF-DLA on wheels, skis, and floats. Les had operated prior to 1972 out of Fort Liard under Abbotsford Air Service's licence while he waited for his own OC. He had also contracted his C-180 to Pete Cowie's Arctic Air Ltd to help out with the high demand for charter aircraft for oil exploration in the late 1960's and early 1970. The others in the picture are Tim Garrish and Ray Horton. Tim had worked for Arctic Air Ltd in 1973-74 (owned by Keen Industries) then and came to work for WAL in 1977. Tim flew Pete Cowie's Cessna 185 CF-TFO on a WAL birddog contract in Yellowknife working with Avalon Aviation PBY-5A Canso water bombers. Ray Horton started with WAL in the fall of 1978 on the Cessna 185 [Les Dvorak, Ray Horton, and Tim Garrish stand in front of Cessna 185 C-GHWO.]

Set for Winter Ft. Simpson, NWT. C-GYIX with engine tent. Plugged in with car warmers in nacelle. C-GYIX was a 1977 model purchased new with floats in 1977 for $55,000. It was operated on wheels in the winter and floats in the summer. [Cessna 185 C-GYIX sits in the snow. Large fuel tanks are visible in the distance, behind the fence. An engine warmer is wrapped around the nose of the airplane.]

FS Island Airport Islander -40. Britten-Norman Islander BN2A-27 mid day [An airplane in winter. Each of the two propellor engines is covered in an engine cover.]

[Gateway Aviation Beaver airplane CF-IFG takes off near the shore of Jackfish Lake, just below Pi Kennedy's spring hunting camp. Trees on the shore and the ice-filled lake can be seen.]

[View of (military?) aircraft 3378, nose in snow, near Yellowknife.]

Camp on the shore of frozen Keyhole Lake (69° 22' 49.00" N 106° 14' 29.00" W) 50 [kilometers] northwest of Cambridge Bay to study landlocked char (Salvelinus alpinus) as part of a research project headed by Gerald Hunter.

[Mackenzie Air Service Fairchild 82D, CF-AXQ on floats is docked at Peace River, Alberta. A clergyman is seen opening the door of the plane. A trestle bridge, likely the Peace River bridge is in the background.]

[A view of an airplane and two people standing near water at sunset on Little Cornwallis Island. Photographer: Dan Mandin. Published in Native Press, May 21, 1982, page 15.]

Huge planes on the Mackenzie; all mail now carried by planes. [A plane, likely Mackenzie Air Service Fairchild 82D on floats is on water. Three men can be seen].

[Three people playing the Airplane Arctic game in Yellowknife during Caribou Carnival. Photographer: Dan Mandin. Published in Native Press April 8, 1982, page 16-17]

Canadian Airways - "Junker" - ARI; at Lac La Biche [ Canadian Airways Junker W 34, CF-ARI on floats is docked on water at Lac La Biche, Alberta.]

Travelling in many parts of Athabasca [A group of men surround Fokker Universal G-CAHE on skis at Peace River town in Alberta. Houses, a Midland-Pacific grain elevator and harnessed horses pulling a structure on sled are in the background. A vessel, possibly S.S. "D.A. Thomas" can be seen.]

[Passengers inside the cabin of a small airplane]

Canso Cockpit. Note throttle and prop controls are on the overhead panel. [View of the cockpit of Canso CF-IZZ.]

Canso Panel. Cruise speed was 105 kts [knots]. Scooping speed 60 kts and airborne at 65 kts. [A close-up shot of the control panel of Canso airplane CF-IZZ.]