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Ft. Liard. Wolverine Air's Island CF-ZUT and Cessna 185 on a charter with holding at Fort Liard. Early fall before the snow but cold enough to put engine covers on. This was on the old original runway. [A Cessna 185 (call number C-GYIX) and an Islander sit just off a gravel airstrip.]

Latham Isl. J. McAvoy. Jim McAvoy owned Latham Island Airways. He sold and Ivan Rand had the firm for a number of years. [A man kneels on the shore putting gear in a bag. Two de Havilland DHC2 Beaver float planes (call numbers C-??VF and C-FEYZ) sit tied up along the shore.

Boeing 247 and Fairchild 71 [airplanes CF-BVX, CF-ATZ on floats].

[Two men, one holding a camera, beside the tail section of CF-BKV, a Bellanca 66-76 Aircruiser.]

Airplanes on rotting ice.

Lac la Ronge [A small de Havilland D.H. 60M Moth biplane floats in a lake next to a dock. A canoe is in the water next to it. Another biplane is on the lake in the background.]

F.S. [Fort Simpson] Looking nw [northwest] down the Mackenzie R. [River] at Fort Simpson. Arctic Air's float base. [A Cessna 185 sits tied up at a floating dock.]

Wolverine Air F. [Fort] Simpson. Late winter and early spring. [A Cessna 185 (call number C-GYIX) and an Islander (call number CF-ZUT) stand in front of the Wolverine Air Ltd. trailer in late winter or early spring.]

Pine Point Fire. On standby at what appears to be the Pine Point Airport 1979. [Two Avalon Aviation Ltd. Canso airplanes (call numbers CF-IZZ and C-FCRR) sit on a gravel surface. Another Canso, its call number obscured, sits behind C-FCRR. A fourth airplane, a Cessna 185 (call number C-FUGX) sits on the left.]

Hay R. [River] 79. Refuelling at Hay River while working the Pine Point fire 1979 [Nose to tail view of three Avalon Aviation Ltd. Canso airplanes (one call number C-FHNF) from behind. A man cleans the wing of one the middle airplane.]

Hay River, NWT Canso's Aug 79. Standing by for the Pine Point fire 1979. [Four Avalon Aviation Ltd. Canso airplanes sit side by side on a gravel area. Only the nose of each airplane is visible. The fourth Canso, the furthest away, is undergoing servicing.]

Wolverine Air's base at the Fort Simpson MOT airport. L-R Islander CF-ZUT, Piper Seneca 2 C-GBCU and Cessna 185 C-GUAK on amphi [amphibious] floats. Wolverine Air moved their operations from the town strip to the MOT airport for a brief period in 1981 and 1982 before moving back to the town strip. [Three airplanes sit in a grassy area near a runway.]

The ramp at the Cadillac Mine. Simpson Air's Islander CF-SAD [C-GSAF] and the left and Wolverine Air's Islander CF-ZUT on the right. [Two airplanes sit at the Cadillac International Airport.]

Two of Conair's Douglas DC6B air tankers at the Yellowknife Tanker Base summer of 1983. One was based in Hay River flown by Ted Mitchell and the other was based in Yellowknife and flown by Ralph Boulton and Bob Ellison. [Two Conair DC-6 airplanes sit parked on a paved area at the Northern Affairs Program's Air Tanker Base YZF. The sign for the Air Tanker Base (Government of Canada) and an Esso fuel truck can be seen.]

B-25 Mitchells SM - Parks Contract. NWAir [Northwestern Air] Lease in Fort Smith operated 3 B25 Mitchell aircraft that had been converted for fire bombing on a contract for Parks Canada Later G&M out of AB [Alberta] had the contract with the a/c [aircraft] [A B-25 Mitchell airplane on a paved area in summer. A second B-25 is visible behind it. A third airplane is partially visible on the right.]

WAL [Wolverine Air Ltd.] Base - FS [Fort Simpson] 1985. WAL base with the Turbo-Beaver C-FOEZ rear left, C-185 C-GHWO centre and Islander C-FZUT on the right. Imperial Oil's bulk fuel storage depot in background. [Three airplanes are visible mid-frame. Fuel tanks and a few trailers are visible behind the planes.]

[Two Pacific Western airplanes on skis (Beaver and Barkley Grow) CF-BWW?]

[Two airplanes on a frozen lake, CF-BKV (Bellanca 66-76 Aircruiser) and CF-BBB (Beech C17R). Piles of fuel drums are visible in the foreground.]

[Several airplanes on skis or wheels on a snowy tarmac or lake. RCAF airplane (call number KT669, tail number 3669) is at centre. A Wardair airplane is at left, another airplane is at right.]

[Two bush planes on the ground. C-FXSA and Cessna 180 CF-RUK]

Yellowknife. Canso taxiing into the Yellowknife Tanker Base. Wardair Hangar to the right of picture. [A Canso airplane sits on a paved runway. Two Cessna 185s and a Piper Aztec sit on the left. YZF]

Ft. Simpson. Simpson Air's Cessna 185 and Norseman on the Mackenzie River at Fort Simpson [A Cessna 185 (call number C-FBZY) and Norseman (call number C-FSAN) sit tied up at a dock. Snow covers the ground, but the water is still open and the planes are still on their floats.]

Wardair 2 Dash-7's. Wardair operated the first DHC-7s in Canada. [Three airplanes (1 Twin Otter C-GTFX, and 2 Dash 7's C-GXVF and C-GXVG) sit in front of the Wardair hangar in Yellowknife YZF in summer. Fuel drums and other supplies surround the planes.]

Tanker Base Yellowknife New Base 1978 [Two Avalon Aviation Canso airplanes (call number C-FCRR (left) and call number unknown (right)) sit on a large paved surface. A Cessna 185 (call number CF-UGX), two cars, and a mobile office are visible in the distance on the left and in the centre of the frame.]