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Our cook, old Dave Goulet. Aug. 1923.
Indians [Indigenous people] moving across Lake Marian. Aug. 1924 [1923]. [A canoe under sail].
A York boat, Tal-the-lei. [Taltheilei Narrows?] Great Slave Lake. Aug. 1923.
The big loaf. Sept. 1923. [The cook, Dave Goulet, holding a large loaf of bread; another man standing beside him.]
[Fort] McMurray. The H.B.Co. [Hudson's Bay Company] buildings.
Landing party at Carcajou Point, Peace River. [Scow being unloaded]. May 1923
On the Peace River. May 1923. [Scows and a boat].
Ed Gorman portaging his skiff around the chutes. May 1923.
Ice on Lake Athabaska, May 1923.
Fitzgerald, Alberta. June 1923.
The harbour at Smith, Smail schooners bound for the Arctic. June 1923.
The Slave river rapids, near [Fort] Smith.
On the Peace, near Peace Point. Flood time, with plenty of driftwood. June 1923.
The beacon at the mouth of the Slave [River]. 1923
The "Ptarmigan" [boat], at Rae. July 1923.
Channel buoys made of spruce trees set upright on floats. 1923.
[A Tlicho woman sits outside in Rae (Behchoko)]
[An archivist wrote the above description. Below, we have transcribed the original caption written by photographer John Russell. We have redacted a derogatory term for Indigenous women. If you have feedback or questions, or would like to see the original description, please contact the NWT Archives.]
A Dogrib [slur redacted], Rae. July 1923.
A cache built in a tree, near Rae. July 1923.
Going home from church, Rae. July 1923.
Bob gets friendly with the natives. July 1923. [A surveyor poses with Dogrib people in front of a teepee, at Rae].
[Captions from photos :0559 and :0560:] Falls at the mouth of Wetcho [Wecho] River, which / flows into the east end of Russell Lake. Aug. 1923. [Two men in a canoe in the distance].
Louis. 1923. [Man poses by canoe with shouldered axe]
A quartette, Dave [Goulet], two Dogribs, Bob, of handsome men. Aug. 1923.
The Yellowknife settlement. Aug. 1923. [A tent and some log buildings. Detah?].
Missionaries' little boy, born down near the Arctic. 1923.
