A nine dog team coming into to Aklavik. Most good teams are from four to seven dogs, and will travel at a good speed.
A closer view of the principal actors [Actors of the coronation play at Aklavik].
The Hudson's Bay Company's paddle-wheeled steamer S.S. "Distributor" upon which the Governor General travelled to Aklavik. We see it here decorated for the occasion.
Women and children eating outdoors. [Aklavik. Charlotte Vehus (far right), Mary Huskey (third from right), ? Greenland (second from left).]
Department of Transport [Buildings]. Aklavik.
Administrator's house. Aklavik.
Catholic School. Aklavik.
Cutting ice on river below R.C. [Roman Catholic] school, their woodpile in the background. L.A.C.O. Hunt and Frank McCall, game warden. [Only one man is visible]. Aklavik.
Cutting ice on river below R.C. [Roman Catholic] school, their woodpile in the background. L.A.C.O. Hunt and Frank McCall, game warden. [Only one man visible.] Aklavik.
[All Saints] Anglican Cathedral. Aklavik.
Terry Hunt's first [dental] office in Aklavik, 1948.
Terry Hunt's first [dental] office in Aklavik, 1948.
Plane landing on the river in Aklavik, 1952.
Putting Mike's [Mike Zubko] plane in three canoes to paddle it across water to the shore. Aklavik, 1952. [Dock and buildings visible in the background].
Shooting muskrats, spring 1953. Aklavik. [Man in a canoe with a gun].
River barge arriving. Aklavik, 1952. [The "Radium 403" barge pushed by the "Radium Charles" tugboat.]
Driving piles with steam through the permafrost for the new wharf. Aklavik, 1952.
Loucheux [Gwich'in] dance. Aklavik, 1952. [Inuvialuit drummers. Man 4th from the right is Kenneth Peeleelook].
Aerial view [of the delta]. Aklavik, 1952.
Aklavik. [Aerial view].
Out for picnic. Roman Catholic Mission cabin. [Four young women in parkas in front of the RC Mission]. Aklavik 1940s
Agnes Pascal outside the Aklavik hospital. Aklavik 1947.
Getting fresh air. School kids outside the RC [Roman Catholic] Convent house. [Residential school]. Aklavik 1947.
Hospital staff. [6 unidentified workers]. Aklavik 1947.
Dr. Norbert Lyons, resident doctor, examines a baby in Aklavik, 1957.