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August 1945 - Settlement of Aklavik, NWT. Looking West - Aklavik's waterfront on the Peel Channel, Richardson Mountains (background), John H. Douglas Blg - postoffice (extreme right).

August 1945 - Settlement of Aklavik, NWT. RCMP Buildings (L to R) : Men's quarters (extreme left), Office, O.C.'s quarters, N.C.O.'s quarters, 2 warehouses (right foreground).

1945-1948 - Aklavik, NWT. Boat driver: RCMP Special Cst. Andrew Stewart - native [Indigenous] guide. [Andrew Stewart operates the outboard motor of a small boat.]

c. 1945 - Aklavik, NWT. People unknown, standing near airstrip ready to depart Aklavik; RCMP barrack buildings (right background).

1945-1948 - Aklavik, NWT (Peel Channel waterfront). Hudson Bay shipment on tractor sled. [Unidentified driver and assistant transport a loaded supply sled over the muddy ground using a Caterpillar tractor. A group of children are along for the ride. In front of them is a barge situated in the Peel Channel as well as a number of canoes and other supplies onshore.]

Summer 1945 - Mrs. Leona E. Kirk standing in front of her RCMP quarters, Aklavik, NWT.

1945 - RCMP Office, Aklavik, NWT. RCMP Insp. C.N.K. Nordie Kirk (O.C. Aklavik).

1945-1948 - Aklavik, NWT (Peel Channel waterfront). Mrs. Leona E. Kirk (wife of RCMP Insp. C.N.K. Nordie Kirk), Doug McNeice (CPA agent)-2nd fr right; others unknown. [Five men in uniform stand behind Leona Kirk. Possibly all Canadian Pacific Airways staff. Airplane on floats in background.]

Winter c. 1946 - Settlement of Aklavik, NWT (western waterfront on frozen Peel Channel). Dogsleds arrive to pick up mail.

Winter c. 1946 - Settlement of Aklavik, NWT (western waterfront on frozen Peel Channel). Canadian Pacific Airlines Norseman (CF-CPS) drops off mail then picked up by dogsled.

July 1946 - Aerial view of Aklavik, NWT. Left: Aklavik's southern waterfront on the Peel Channel; Right: Aklavik's western waterfront on the Peel Channel. [On actual print it reads:] EN-717 Aklavik. Isl. Post [?] 50 HQS. 3 July 46. 900'E.

Xmas 1946 - Mrs. Leona E. Kirk (wife of RCMP Insp. C.N.K. Nordie Kirk) in her home (RCMP O.C.'s quarters) at Aklavik, NWT. Livingroom; Note Insp. Kirk's mukluks under tree (donated by Mrs. Kirk to PWNHC in 2005).

c.1946 - Aklavik, NWT (west waterfront on the Peel). L to R: Marge Boxer, Mrs. Leona E. Kirk.

Winter 1946 - Settlement of Aklavik, NWT. RCMP Barracks Square (L to R): warehouse, guardhouse/jail, men's quarters, office, O.C.'s quarters, N.C.O.'s quarters, warehouse.

Summer 1947 - Aklavik, NWT. RCMP Cst. Willard L. Jewett piloting RCMP patrol boat "Aklavik" along the Peel Channel.

Winter 1947/48 - RCMP barracks, Aklavik, NWT. Mrs. Leona E. Kirk (wife of RCMP Insp. C.N.K. Nordie Kirk) & son Brian. Location: O.C.'s quarters at left (not visible); NCO's quarters at right (white bldg).

March 1948 - RCMP barracks, Aklavik, NWT. Leona E. Kirk (and son Brian at 10 months) at NW side of her RCMP quarters (wife of RCMP Insp. C.N.K. Nordie Kirk); outhouse facilities at extreme left.

June 1948 - Aklavik, NWT. RCMP Insp. C.N.K. Nordie Kirk and Mrs. Leona E. Kirk (with son Brian at 1 year) aboard RCMP patrol boat "Aklavik" piloted by Cst. Stan A. Byer.

Me and my toboggan patrol. Aklavik. March 1948 - Aklavik, NWT. RCMP Insp. C.N.K. Nordie Kirk on patrol. [Driving a team of five dogs.]

c. 1947 - RCMP patrol, Aklavik, NWT area. Trappers' tent : F. Rivet? [stands outside his tent next to a pair of snowshoes.]

Raddi [brothers] in hosp [hospital at Aklavik].

Lucy Chicksi has an identical twin, Margaret. [All Saints Hospital, Aklavik.]

Freddie [?], a patient at All Saints Hospital, Aklavik. Lucy Chicksi is in the background.

Lt to Rt Sadie Elanek, Annie Thompson, Margaret Lennie. [Hospital patients in Aklavik All Saints hospital]

Mrs. Fregan (aide), RN Thelma Benham (from England). Patients going home. ? Nellie or Ada Raymond from Tuk[toyaktuk]. I think this is Ada. [Two nurses with three children in front of the hospital in Aklavik.]