Main Street, Aklavik, 1956. RCMP subdivision at right.
Schooner at Aklavik, 1958.
Reindeer herder Jimmy Komeak, wife and kids, Aklavik, 1956.
Father Colas at RC mission in Aklavik with potatoes grown in mission garden. Garden supplied clergy and residential school. [1959?]
Aklavik Hotel, 1957. Dr. Ian Bennett, resident dentist, talks to visitor, Ellen Watt.
Aklavik, looking west, 1958. Police buildings at left. Square, hip-roofed building at right is old North Star Hotel.
Inspector W. G. Fraser, officer in charge of Aklavik RCMP sub-division, also in close-up, with police dogs in Aklavik, 1957. Subdivision was still doing patrol by dog of up to 1,500 miles then. [RCMP officers (on left Inspector A. Huget not Fraser) stand by dog teams with Otto Binder Jr, middle, a special constable for the RCMP. He guided the team through the Yukon and Northwest Territories.]
Inspector Albert Huget, r., Special Constable Otto Binder, who was in charge of drive which brought reindeer to Delta in 1930s from Alaska, (centre), Const. Murray Petrie, with RCMP teams in front of Aklavik subdivision, January 1959. Subdivision was still doing patrol by dog of up to 1,500 miles then.
Members of Charles Camsell Hospital Arctic Survey team, Inuit patients heading home from Edmonton, aboard RCAF Flying Boxcar, heading for Cambridge Bay, 1957. Dr. L.E.C. "Bill" Davies, medical officer of health for Western Arctic, head of party, is sleeping atop cargo of bedding at right, centre. Dentist Dr. Ian Bennet of Aklavik asleep on seats, lower left.
Students at Anglican residential school [All Saints], Aklavik, 1957 or 1958.
Students at Anglican residential school [All Saints], Aklavik, 1957 or 1958.
Will Rogers and Wiley Post arriving at Aklavik August 1935. They were killed near Point Barrow on their return trip. [Lockheed Orion]
[View of the grave of Albert Johnson also known as the Mad Trapper at the Aklavik cemetery. Buildings are visible behind it.]
Aklavik. Metis Assembly. [A man speaks at a microphone during a Metis Assembly meeting in a gymnasium in Aklavik.]
Aklavik. Metis Assembly. [Several people sit at tables during a Metis Assembly meeting in a gymnasium in Aklavik.]
"Distributor" frozen in at Aklavik. Aklavik. winter, 1941-1942.
Children meet boat. [Group of school children lined up at the dockside]. Aklavik. 1940-1942.
Children meet boat. [Large goup of people at the dockside]. Aklavik. 1940-1942.
Choir. [The choir of All Saints Anglican Cathedral/church]. Aklavik. 1940-1942.
Anglican staff. Aklavik. 1940-1942.
School children. [Students of the Anlgican school]. Aklavik. 1940-1942.
Catholic Mission boat and I [Mary Saich standing on the deck of the "Our Lady of Lourdes" a boat belonging to the Roman Catholic mission in Herschel Island]. Aklavik. 1940-1942.
Girl. [Young girl in parka in front of a canvas tent].
Girls at school. [Five young girls in school uniforms]. Aklavik. 1940-1942.
Andy Hay and his furs. [Pelts hanging to dry]. Aklavik. 1940-1942.