July 1946 in Aklavik. Hut that Mrs. Yvette Park (nee Boileau) visited to have her parka and mukluks made. Mrs. Yvette Park photographer. [Unidentified woman holding child wearing high moccassins in doorway. Small child in foreground. Note snowshoes hanging on wall.]
NWT Aklavik, 1952. Bath day at All Saints School ([negative] 3349) George Hunter, RCA. Rolleiflex camera (2 1/4 x 2 1/4 negative) Super XX film. George Hunter, flying his Piper Clipper aircraft, landed along street in front of Aklavik Hotel, a tight manouver as roadway bisected by construction of water line. Piezography print with carbon inks. July 2004 by Mel Busschert, Calgary, AB under supervision of George Hunter. [Unidentifed group. A woman washes four children in two washtubs. A row of "Mother Hubbard" style parkas lines the wall behind them. One girl ties her moccassin on in the background at right, and a child looks on at far left.]
[Three planes on skis on ice including CF-ARX and CF ARI. Community may be Aklavik with Hudsons Bay building in background.]
Frank McCauley, Aklavik, NWT 1935.
[The Bay Sunday sale, possibly in Aklavik.]
[The Bay Sunday sale, possibly in Aklavik.]
[The Northwest Territories shield with "Northwest Territories" on a ribbon underneath and "Aklavik, N.W.T." below that. Printed on a square cloth with red-outlined leaves in the background, hanging from an oboe.]
View of Aklavik from pile driver tower, at wharf location. [Aerial view of Aklavik, 1953. In the foreground is the Canadian Pacific Airways building. Many buildings and streets are in the background.]
Construction of pile wharf. [View of men working next to a pile driver while constructing a wharf at the shore in Aklavik, 1953. A portable steam boiler is in the foreground.]
Sidewalk in Aklavik. [View of a wooden boardwalk along a street in Aklavik in winter or early spring, 1953.]
Steam boiler operator. [A man holds onto the hose of a steam boiler used during a pile wharf construction project in Aklavik, 1953.]
Steaming the holes for the piles. [A man steams a hole in the ground, likely on the shoreline, for a pile wharf construction project in Aklavik, 1953. A man wearing a fur-trimmed parka sits on the ground behind him.]
Wharf crew. [Two men operate machinery on a pile wharf construction site in Aklavik, 1953. Behind them is the Canadian Pacific Airways building.]
Fred Grenier - Pioneer, northern character, built first house on new townsite, 1945 (ex-trapper, dog-team mail runner, etc. Aklavik)
Mother and child in Aklavik. 1950
Dogs tied up in Aklavik.
Gordon Ingraham (left) and Sgt. [Sergeant] Denny Johnson (right) at Aklavik.
Chunks of Mackenzie River ice stored outside house for use cooking and bathing (was brought inside and melted). Aklavik. [Two children sitting in front of ice blocks.]
Springtime in Aklavik. [Unidentified child playing with dog.]
Grace McCall and K. [Keltie] McCall in front of Mike Zubko's airplane in Aklavik.
Children in Aklavik. [Four unidentified children.]
Pat Reimer with two children in Aklavik.
Pulling RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] boat [named Aklavik] (broken down) from Fort McPherson to Aklavik for repairs.
Springtime, front street on water in Aklavik.
Joyce Johnson (far left), Mrs. Laco Hunt (second left), others unknown. Aklavik.