Office and dental surgery [of Dr. Terrance Hunte], 1952. Aklavik.
Meeting R.C.M.P. [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] plane. Aklavik, 1952. [Men with two canoes on the ice].
Dave Jones (Imperial Oil), Doug McNeice (CPA agent) [Canadian Pacific Airlines]. Aklavik, 1952. [With an R.C.M.P. officer].
Unloading R.C.M.P. plane. Aklavik, 1952. [Blue Wien Alaska Airlines plane N3875V is on the ice; canoes are being used to unload freight and passengers].
Three means of travel in the spring. Aklavik, 1952. [An airplane on skis, dog team and sled, and canoe, on thin ice at break-up time].
Driving piles with steam through the permafrost for the new wharf. Aklavik, 1952.
Driving piles with steam through the permafrost for the new wharf. Aklavik, 1952.
Loucheux [Gwich'in] dance. Aklavik, 1952. [Could be Inuvialuit dance/dancers] Two women dancers in brightly coloured parkas].
Indian [Indigenous] girl. Aklavik, 1952. [Girl wearing a parka with a sunburst].
R.C.M.P. [Royal Canadian Mounted Police post and Canadian Immigration office]. Aklavik.
[Hudson's Bay store, men on bench in front, Aklavik?, 1952]
View of Aklavik from river. [View of Aklavik buildings on the bank of the Peel Channel from the water.]
View of Aklavik from river. [View of Aklavik buildings on the bank of the Peel Channel from the water.]
View of Aklavik from river. [View of Aklavik buildings on the bank of the Peel Channel from the water.]
Fred Novus of Aklavik delivers camp gear to Husky site. [The Husky site, which was located on the Husky Channel, was one of the three sites test drilled by surveyors as part of the preparations for a new government town to be built in the Mackenzie Delta].
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.
Inland deflecting main channel current at the entrance to the Oniak Channel en route to Aklavik - East 3.
The Minister and party paid a short confirming visit to check out East 3 on the ground. [Left to right]: The WardAir Otter owner- pilot, Max Ward; Jean Lesage busy with mosquitos, coat over arm; Frank Carmichael, member of NWT Council back to camera; behind him seated is Merv Hardie, the first MP for NWT; at extreme right is Lee Post, Area Administrator Aklavik, also busy with mosquitos. Other man not identified. 1954.
[Chief Kotchili's tent, Fort Good Hope, store, church, handicrafts, restaurant, grading furs, meeting, Aklavik]
[Two unidentified persons in Aklavik holding dead muskrats 1971]
[Aklavik curling rink 1971]
[Children with sled in Aklavik]
[Aklavik, craft workshop, street, kids, kitchen]
[Child with jukebox in Aklavik]