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Hudson Bay Company post at Aklavik.
The Mission Fish House in June 1937 during the flood - roof only seen. Teachers at All Saints School, Aklavik (Miss L. Farrow and Miss H. Keyes) paddling (near) canoe around fish house submerged in spring floods May 30 - June 7, 1937.
Hotel Aklavik. [Three people standing in front of the hotel].
[Man standing on road in front of the Hotel Aklavik, nd]
[Nigalik schooner moored at Aklavik, 1945]
[Three unidentified men (possible crew of Nigalik) on road in front of Hotel Aklavik, 1945]
Dr. Otto Schaefer, Aklavik, N.W.T. [Dr. Otto Schaefer sits next to a Christmas tree.]
Children going off to school in Aklavik, 1952. [Women and children on the shore; White buildings left to right Anglican Hospital, Mission House, Anglican school Aklavik].
Stan Peffer's power station, 1950. Aklavik.
Government Day School - Moose Kerr, Principal. Aklavik.
Plane load of stores piled on the river. Aklavik.
CHAK, Aklavik Radio station. [Building].
Putting Mike's [Mike Zubko] plane in three canoes to paddle it across open water to the shore. Aklavik, 1952. [Airplane CF-CXY].
Shooting muskrats, spring 1953. Aklavik. [Muskrat on the water].
Johnny Semple a well known senior citizen from Aklavik and sometime employee at E3 [Inuvik].
A contract was let to the Aklavik Constructors to build the airport. Bill Venables, the head of the company, visits the site, travelling by water from E3. The two men up forward are rock quarry experts. Venables at right, June 1956. The crushing plant and the heavy equipment to build the airport has already been purchased and on the way north.
Some prospective new landowners [including a Roman Catholic clergyman] from Aklavik are shown the site - lots available, etc.
[Aklavik, Baby, meeting, fur products]
[Aklavik, restaurant, cemetery, church interior]
[Aklavik cemetery in winter]
[Aklavik, public meeting, jukebox]
Camped and drilling for soil samples at "Fraserville", west channel north of Aklavik. [Drilling in progress beside campsite].
Dalls Mountain sheep at home in the Richardson Mountains west of Aklavik. When startled by the helicopter on an upland plateau the sheep make smartly for a precipitous spur about one sheep wide there to thumb noses (figuratively) at the intruder.
Dalls Mountain sheep at home in the Richardson Mountains west of Aklavik. When startled by the helicopter on an upland plateau the sheep make smartly for a precipitous spur about one sheep wide there to thumb noses (figuratively) at the intruder.
The northern end of the sidewalk in Canada 1954, Aklavik. [View of townsite].
