Hay River, NWT Canso's. Avalon Aviation Cansos that are working the Pine Point fire 1979 [Four Avalon Aviation Ltd Cansos sit sidy by side in a sandy area.]
Rainstorm YK. [Yellowknife] Northward Airlines Twin Otter at Yellowknife [Airplanes on the YZF tarmac in a rainstorm.]
Wolverine air Ft. Simpson. Wolverine Air base [Airplanes and trucks parked in front of modular buildings. A Cessna 185 (call number C-GHWO) sits on the left and an Islander sits on the right. A second Cessna 185 (possibly call number C-GYIX?) sits in the middle.]
DC-6's Yellowknife 1983. Conair aircraft at Yellowknife Tanker Base Two cement pads were originally designed for Canso parking. [Two Conair DC-6 airplanes sit parked on a paved area at the Northern Affairs Program's Air Tanker Base.]
C-185 Landing Ft. Simpson [Wolverine Air Ltd.’s Cessna 185 (call number C-GHWO) lands on the snowy airstrip in Fort Simpson. A deHavilland Otter sits in the distance.]
[Twin otter airplane in unidentified location]
[Three men, two holding cameras, beside the tail section of CF-BKV, a Bellanca 66-76 Aircruiser.]
[A man standing in front of airplane CF-BBB (Beech Staggerwing D17) on Great Slave Lake in Yellowknife. Fuel drums and many buildings on Latham Island are visible in the background.]
Ft. Simpson Island Airport. A 3000 ft runway adjacent to the Village of Fort Simpson [An airplane lands on skis along a runway in winter. The runway is lined with cones on either side. A second airplane sits just off the runway on the left of the frame.]
YK [Yellowknife] Airport July 1977. NWT Air's ramp with 2 DC-3s and a DC-6 parked [Harvard, WW 11 trainer (US T-6 Texan) and NWT Air airplanes sit in a gravel area at the Yellowknife Airport YZF.]
A-26. Two Conair A26s departing Yellowknife for Fort Simpson after several days based in YK [Yellowknife YZF]. [Two Conair A-26 airplanes in flight.]
Mackenzie R. [River] F. [Fort] Simpson. Fort Simpson float base on Mackenzie River [Airplanes, including a Cessna 185, sit tied to docks along the Mackenzie River. A tug boat is visible in the background.]
N. [Norman] Wells 79. The Yellowknife Canso group in Norman Wells enroute to Inuvik to fight a fire down by Fort McPherson summer 1979 [Two Avalon Aviation Canso airplanes (call numbers C-FBLX(?) and CF-IZZ) sit on a paved runway in summer. In between them sits a Cessna 185 (call number C-F?CX(?)). A man walks away from the airplanes on the left.]
Yellowknife. Wardair deHavilland Dash 7 and deHavilland DHC-6 Twin Otter at their Yellowknife base. [A DHC-7 (call number C-GXVF) and a Twin Otter (call number CF-TFX) sit in front of the Wardair hangar at YZF in summer.]
Gt. [Great] Bear Lake 79. L-R [left to right] Tom Daniel and Al Jasmine at Sawmill Bay on Great Bear Lake 1979. Beech -18 in background that did flights for the lodge. [Two men (Tom Daniel and Al Jasmine) stand on a dock in front of a Cessna 185 (call number C-FUGX) in summer. A fuel drum sits on the left. A Beech-18 airplane sits next to another dock in the background.]
Gateway's Otter Yellowknife [A single Otter airplane sits tied to a dock on MacDonald Drive in summer. A canoe is visible in front of the Otter. A second Beaver sits behind the first. Jolliffe Island in background]
Yellowknife. Float base Yellowknife [A Norseman (call number CF-ZMX) and a Cessna 185 (call number CF-QHQ) sit tied to Raecom dock on Mitchell Drive, Latham Island.]
Hay R. [River] 79. Capt [Captain] Bob Pettus walking across the ramp at Hay River. Bob was a school teacher in Ont [Ontario] who came to finish the summer contract on CF-CRR after Tom Collins had been fired. [Three Avalon Aviation Ltd. Canso airplanes sit nose to tail on a paved surface. The first airplane is C-FCRR. Bob Pettus walks away from the planes.]
Wolverine T-Otter + [and] C-206 Delivering groceries To Nahanni Butte store Early 1993 [Two Wolverine Air Ltd airplanes (a Turbo-Otter and a Cessna 206/Stationair 6) sit facing each other on a dirt road.]
Mackenzie R. [River] Fort Simpson C-185 Norseman T [Wolverine Air Ltd.’s Cessna 185 (call number C-GYIX) and a Norseman each sit at a dock along the Mackenzie River. Scows are visible in the distance.]
Conair A-26 Tanker Fort Simpson July 1983 [A Conair Tanker (number 23) sits on a paved runway. Three people stand next to the nose of a second airplane in the distance. The wing of a third airplane is visible behind them.]
Pilot Lake fire Hanging Ice Lake/78. Helicopter pad for fire suppression and access to fuel dropped off by float plane [A float plane (call number C-FCJN?) sits along the shoreline. A helicopter sits on the shore on the left. The wings of another airplane are visible on the right.]
Conair DC-6 YK [Yellowknife] Base 79. Conair had a contract to provide a DC-6 air tanker to the DIAND [Department of Indian and Northern Affairs] from the mid 1970's to 1994. There was a DC-6 tanker based in Yellowknife from 1981-1985 [People walk under and near a Conair DC-6 on a paved tarmac. A ladder leans against the plane. An airplane wing with call number C-FGLX is in the foreground.]
La Ronge's Base, YK [Yellowknife] 1977. Back Bay [Three float planes sit at docks in Back Bay. Downtown Yellowknife is visible in the distance.]
Sask. Gov't [Saskatchewan government] Trackers Yellowknife, NWT Aug 79. They had been brought up to help with fire operations. [Two Government of Saskatchewan Tracker airplanes sit on a paved surface. The words "Capt. G. Rowan" are visible under the cockpit window of the left airplane.]