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Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at 1 am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: unknown
WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar 04: The animal in the foreground may be a dog. Hunters often
used packdogs. A good dog could carry 30-40 pounds. Dogs took the load off people but they
also required successful hunting to feed them. The minimalist nature of nomadic camping and
hunting is evident in this photo.

Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at 1 am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: unknown
WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar 04: This camp is even more simple than most spring hunt
camps. With the canoe, there must be a lake or river nearby.

Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at 1 am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: unknown
WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar 04: This is a very atypical bush cabin. It is built of milled
lumber. That almost certainly means that it was built close to a town such as Fort Simpson with a
ready lumber supply. It also likely means that it was built by a white person.
Bush cabins were normally built of logs, whether constructed by Dene or whites. Lumber was
rarely whipsawed in the bush. When it was, it was done to construct river scows or sluice boxes
that could not be made from logs. The only person that I know of who whipsawed lumber in the
bush to build a building was Andy Whittington who whipsawed some of the lumber ( and planed
it by hand) for his hotel. Andy was a rare and special person, maybe even unique in this regard.
See Charlie's interview for details.

Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at I am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: Bill Addison
WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar 04: CPA was formed in 1942 Canadian Pacific Railway bought
up and amalgamated ten bush air services over a period of time, among them Mackenzie Air
Services operating along the Mackenzie valley. Charlie became their Fort Simpson agent for an
unknown period, probably in the late 1940s and 1950s. He kept this baggage sticker as a
souvenir of those days. Most of the bush pilots mentioned in the Nahanni interviews went on to
become CPA pilots of large multi-engine aircraft for CPA. They made the transition from single
piston engine aircraft to large multi-engine commercial jet aircraft.

Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at 1 am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: unknown
WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar 04: These unknown men appear to be standing in front of one of
the RC Mission buildings. It may also be one of the HBC buildings but their door frames were
painted red and should be much darker than this in the photo if that was the case.

Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at 1 am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: unknown
WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar 04: The slope of the land suggests to me that this photo was
taken at Fort Liard, likely in front of the HBC post but I have no Fort Liard photos to compare
this to. I do not recognize any of the people.

14th Meeting. Science Institute of the Northwest Territories. Yellowknife, N.W.T., February 27 and 28, 1991.

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 15. The caption on the back is, "Survey Crew South Nahanni R." On the left, is Art George and these other names escape me. He was one of the mechanics and next is a pilot. He was in charge of the group. And then again is another mechanic and that's the other pilot Sargeant… I've forgotten his name. Poole Field. And this is a little feller that looked after the airframe or aircraft if they needed repairs.

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell

WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 11: A comparison of this image with several poor quality images of Eric S. Fry in Photographing Canada from Flying Canoes by S Bernard Shaw (2001) suggests that he is second from the left in the above photo, but I could not rule out the possibility that Fry is third from the left. Each Bellanca Pacemaker on floats had a pilot and mechanic/engineer who also doubled as photographer according to Milt Campbell in his interview. For more information on the RCAF's Nahanni flying activities, and the staking deception described in photo 14, see the Campbell interview and pages 156-157 in Photographing Canada from Flying Canoes.

Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at 1 am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: unknown
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 04: The Roman Catholic Church owned this Bellanca through
RC Episcopal Corp. of the Mackenzie. Bishop Gabriel Breynat of Port Smith had a Waco ZQC-6
registered in his own name from Mar. 08, 1937 to Nov 18, 1939 (Ellis, J.R., Canadian Civil
Aircraft Registry). The Bellanca 31-42 Pacemaker in this photo was owned by the RC Episcopal
Corporation of the Mackenzie from July 03, 1939 until August 23, 1940. In his book, (Flying
Bishop, 50 years in the Canadian Far North, Burns, 1955.) Breynat mentions both planes, but he
seems not to have flown them himself. He calls this plane Sancta Maria in the book but Santa
Maria is the name painted on the plane in the photo.
I am unable to identify anyone in this photo.

[Fort Liard (frames 1-5), students, school, children, Macleod? (frame 1A), George Braden (frame 2), cabins, chickens, Nahanni Butte (frames 7-29), snowmobiles, cabins, Liza and Darrell Betsaka (frames 10-11), Nick Sibbeston (frames 15-16), George Matou (frames 18-19), teacher, Wrigley (frames 29-35), Etanda Nayalle almost 2 years (frames 30-33), Boniface Nayalle (frames 32-33), Dora Nayalle (frames 32-33), Sarah Nayalle (frames 32-33, far right), Fort Simpson (frames 36-37), Nick Sibbeston (frames 15-16), office]

Caption Source: taken from typed caption sheet in Bill Cormack's photo album

Photographer: unknown

Anna's Photo Description:

Caption Source: Anna Lindberg

Photographer: unknown

WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar. 10: Having a Jeep at Nahanni Butte in the 1960s when there were no roads seems unusual. These are three close friends.

[Yellowknife (frames 1-5), Dene Nation office, Herb Norwegian, Behchoko (frames 6-20), RCMP-Dene Nation Baseball Tournament, teams]

Caption on back of photo: There are two captions, the second in red pencil. "#15 - 1941. All boulders had to be removed—see foreground—and channel deepened in order for the ground, underneath the flume, to be worked. Bill Clark." "First water through the flume"

Caption Source: Bill Clark

Photographer: Carl Falcon

WDA's Comments, 2013 Jul 10: The completed working flume but still without its complete associated sluice box. The start of the sluice box is visible on the left side of the flume just below the left side jog.

Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at 1 am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: unknown
WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar 04: Charlie Hansen bought Andy Whittington's hotel in 1957
and proceeded to fix it up as an operating hotel. In 1959 Edmonton Construction and Charlie
concluded an agreement for Charlie to house some of 200 construction workers and feed all of
them while they built the Anglican and RC hostels for residential school students in Fort
Simpson. Charlie hired local people to help with cleaning cooking and serving the workers.
Photos 150-152 show women at the hotel door whom I believe were hired by Charlie to do this
work. In his interview it is clear that there were others besides these three.

The file consists of correspondence from the Premier of the Northwest Territories and a copy of the Premier's statement to the Legislative Assembly on February 14, 1996.

The file consists of records relating to interactions with the Department of Renewable Resources, including correspondence, Planning Meeting Proceedings Planning Meeting for a Northern Conference on Sustainable Development, draft Guideline for the General Management of Hazardous Waste in the NWT, draft Guideline for Industrial Waste Discharges in the NWT, and Consolidation of Wildlife Act.

The file consists of records relating to the Northern Accord, including an agenda item summary, correspondence, statement given in the Legislative Assembly, and briefing notes for the 1995 Metis Nation Assembly.

The file consists primarily of records relating to interactions with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, including correspondence, core funding application form, press release, "Towards a Better Tomorrow" Vision and Priorities Caucus 14th Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, news report, information about TAPP Consulting Services, Land Claims & Self-Governmetn Negotiations Update, and a meeting agenda.

The file consists of records relating to interactions with the Department of Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs, including correspondence, Master Agreement Core Funding, and a contribution agreement.

The file consists of records relating to core funding for Metis locals, including correspondence and an application form.