Homeward bound. Our transport up the Slave and Athabaska [Athabasca] rivers. [Ship towing two scows].
The delta of the Athabaska [Athabasca]; in the foreground a willow bar. High Point in the distance.
The H.B.C. [Hudson's Bay Company] buildings at [Fort] Chipewyan.
The Peace River, near where it becomes the Slave. Note how the swift current has undercut the banks.
Leaving Bell Rock nine miles below Fort Smith, N.W.T. [A schooner towing canoes lashed together.]
Fort Smith harbour, showing S.S. Distibutor, etc.
The Slave, miles below Smith. Note the typical cut banks. The canoes are lashed in pairs, as this was found safer than in threes. [Canoes being towed behind a ship].
Wrigley harbour, building channel buoys.
Harbour at the mouth of Buffalo River. [Schooner moored to the shore].
Off the Slave delta, [Fort] Resolution in the distance.
When storms come things get black. [Schooner on the water, dark sky overhead].
Dogrib canoes crossing the Long Traverse [the canoe crossing on Great Slave Lake from Fort Resolution to Gros Cap Point]. 1922. [Canoes using sails].
Contact of rock formations, Et-then. [Etthen Island].
Cliffs of Et-then Is. [Etthen Island], showing the igneous overflow.
Type of shore line. Et-then [Etthen] Island.
The north shore of Kah-o-chela [Kahochella] peninsula has cliffs above with talus slopes below.
The islands seem to lie on the edge of the world, and as you draw near loom higher. If you move away from them, they disappear under the horizon.
Gibraltar point, the western end of Kah-o-chel-la [Kahochella] peninsula. Looking at the point from the west.
Indian [Indigenous] canoes passing Gibraltar point on their way to the caribou hunt at Artillery Lake. [Canoes with sails, very far in the distance].
One of the best harbours on the lake, at Fork Pt., McLeod bay. [Schooner at anchor].
Fort Reliance, from the east. [View of the land].
"Ptarmigan" [boat] at the mouth of Lockhart R. [River].
Charlton bay, from the cliffs at Pike's Portage.
Indian [Indigenous] goods cached at Pike's Portage while the owners are away hunting caribou. [Caches and teepee frames along the shore].
An Indian [Indigenous] grave at Pike's Portage.