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![2 Ft. McPherson Sept.10.01 [Side 3]](/images/generic-icons/audio.png){kind=icon}
This item consists of part three of a four-part consultation meeting (Phase 2) held on September 10, 2001 between staff from the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development (RWED) and the Fort McPherson Renewable Resources Council (RRC) on proposed new wildlife legislation. The meeting is in English. The original source item is side A of a 90 minute audio cassette. The meeting also includes items 0021A, 0021B, and 0022B. The meeting consists of presentation and discussion of the new Wildlife Act, including licencing (use of beneficiary cards as licences, General Hunting Licences, Indigenous harvesters, special GHLs, border licences, Indigenous hunters from out of territory, residency requirements), who is making decisions for the community (Elders, young people), and hunter training (mandatory attendance, who will pay, providers, content). Questions and comments are offered by the RRC members. The group goes on break at 38:28, but the tape is left running until the meeting resumes at 46:56.
This item consists of part four of a four-part consultation meeting (Phase 2) held on September 10, 2001 between staff from the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development (RWED) and the Fort McPherson Renewable Resources Council (RRC) on proposed new wildlife legislation. The meeting is in English. The original source item is side B of a 90 minute audio cassette. The meeting also includes items 0021A, 0021B, and 0022A. The meeting consists of presentation and discussion of the new Wildlife Act, including outfitting and guiding, buddy hunting, tags and quotas (for resident hunters, area specific, various species), trapping, harvest reporting (harvest studies, mandatory harvest reporting), minimum and maximum firearm calibre standards for big game, baiting, wildlife harassment (use of aircraft, research), minimum waiting period after fly-in, age requirements, minor's permit, no hunting corridor along highways, wastage, and mandatory meat handling course. Questions and comments are offered by the RRC members.
This is the first part of a two-part interview of Harry Camsell. The original source item is side B of a 60 minute audio cassette. The interview also includes item 0022A.
Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 2. This is the Sikanni Chief as it starts to break up. You can see the ice piling up here, jammed really, but still moving slowly.
Photographer: Milton J. Campbell
WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 08: The breakup of a large mountainous northern river is one of nature's great spectacles. The ice goes out with an initial rush of spring melt water sweeping ice and trees along with it. Occasionally the ice jams, creating a dam behind which water levels may rise metres before the accumulated weight of water breaks the jam. The powerful rush of water and ice can do incredible damage. Northern river travellers head downstream as soon as the river is fairly free of floating ice because in most years the water level drops significantly over the next few days. The water level then typically rises again to a peak flood in June when heat and rains melt the mountain snow pack. The trick is to leave right behind the ice before the water drops producing shallow water when rocks and bars become navigation obstacles.
Charlie's photo description: ... is also AXM [Fairchild 82] on the snye in the winter. I recognize one guy standing with his back there as Pat Villeneuve, the guy we called the Inspector because he was always around airplanes. He'd pump gas. He'd do anything just to be allowed to hang around. That's him holding the strut. There's a little fellow in between them - you got to look hard to see him-the little hunchback from the Mission, Rafael Canadian. Canadian was his name. He died years ago. There's another guy standing in there that I don't know who he is. I can't see his face. The Indian [Dene] fellow standing with his back there I don't know. It is probably early 1930s. Charlie Hansen photo.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview
Photographer: Charlie Hansen
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 02: The snye west of Fort Simpson island usually froze over fairly smoothly and thus was the preferred landing spot because Mackenzie River ice in front of Fort Simpson was normally quite rough. Charlie did not arrive in Fort Simpson until 1932. Therefore this photo must post-date his arrival since he says he took it.
CF-AXM was not registered until Mar. 05, 1937 (Ellis, J. R., Canadian Civil Aircraft Register) so this photo post-dates that.
This item is the third part of a three-part interview of Dora Tourangeau at Fort Smith, recorded on March 31, 1992 by Sister Agnes Sutherland as part of the 1992 Metis Heritage Project. The interview is in English. The original source item is side A of a 60 minute audio cassette. The interview also includes items CN-36A and CN-36B. Dora provides biographical information about herself, while answering interview questions. Topics covered include residential school, education, quilting, crocheting, and childcare.
This item is the third part of a four-part interview of Marie Anne McDonald (born October 21, 1915) at Fort Smith, recorded on March 17, 1992 by Sister Agnes Sutherland as part of the 1992 Metis Heritage Project. The interview is in English. The original source item is side A of a 46 minute audio cassette. The interview also includes items CN-30A, CN-30B, and CN-31B. Marie tells portions of the story of her life and background interspersed with more general responses to the interviewer's questions of what life used to be like. Topics covered include food preparation, clothing for men, women and children, footwear, medicinal plants, diseases and epidemics, death and burial customs, mourning and remembrance of the dead, religious beliefs, and medicine men.
The recording includes the third and fourth parts of this interview.
Caption on back of photo: "#2 There are omissions in photography and in keeping a detailed account of our efforts. So let the reader judge, not too harsely [sic], my account of the toil engendered in our erstwhile search for gold. WC 1941"
Caption Source: Bill Clark
Photographer: Carl Falcon
WDA's Comments, 2013 Jun 28: The 1941 search for Bennett Creek gold focused on a short canyon that ended in a little falls and plunge pool about 2.4 km upstream from the Bennett Creek-Flat River confluence. The plunge pool was filled with massive boulders and gravel. If it could be emptied, in theory, a rich deposit of placer gold would be found in the bottom of it; in short, a glory hole. Their solution to the problem was to build a flume to capture Bennett Creek at the upstream end of the canyon, divert the water into the flume which would carry the creek downstream beyond the plunge pool where it would be returned to the creek bed. This would leave the glory hole dry beneath the flume so that they could remove the boulders and put the gravel through a sluice box to retrieve the gold. This photo shows the emplacement of the first foundation timbers within the canyon to support the flume.
The file consists of the environmental analysis synthesis, site planning, and new communities sections of Arthur Boutilier's portfolios, compiled from work done while a student at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and working for Llewelyn-Davis Associates, William L. Pereira Associates, and Ben-Ami Friendman, AIP. The records include maps, articles, photographs, architectural drawings, diagrams, and planning documents.
Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 20. This is looking down Bennett Creek from the sawpit and do you see the tents down there in the centre distance? That's where we lived all winter. We had two tents there.
Photographer: Milton J. Campbell
WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 11: I can't see any tents.
Caption Source: Bill Addison because we ran out of tape & time (at I am) before Charlie could
describe it.
Photographer: unknown
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 04: Unidentified woman with Mackenzie Air Service (MAS)
Stinson SR-IOP Reliant, on Snye, Fort Simpson, winter 1939-40 or 40-41. This aircraft was first
registered Apr. 29, 1939 and went through two owners before purchase by Mackenzie Air
Service ( date unknown). It crashed June 02, 1941, so this photo was taken sometime between
those two dates. It certainly looks newer and less heavily used than most MAS aircraft.
The background in this photo and Photo 3 Mackenzie Air Service Fairchild 82, CF-AXM, mail
plane on Snye, Fort Simpson, 1930s are identical indicating that both were taken close together,
perhaps the same day. This places Photos 1-3 also in the winter of 1939-40 or 1940-41.
This item is the eighth part of a twenty-nine-part recording of a portion of a Metis Association Board meeting, held ca. September 1974 in Fort Resolution. The original source item is side B of a 40 minute audio cassette. The meeting also includes items CN-475A, CN-475B, CN-476A, CN-476B, CN-248A, CN-248B, CN-23A, CN-249A, CN-249B, CN-250A, CN-250B, CN-251A, CN-251B, CN-252A, CN-252B, CN-477A, CN-477B, CN-253A, CN-253B, CN-478A, CN-478B, CN-343A, CN-343B, CN-254A, CN-254B, CN-255A, CN-255B, and CN-256A. The recording continues with a presentation by George Talbot on the territorial Department of Recreation (within the Department of Local Government) and its policies to provide supports and grants to communities. He mentions the capital funding that is available on application, but cautions communities not to build facilities that are beyond their ability to maintain. He also indicates that sometimes projects are proposed without majority community interest or support. The recording ends abruptly.
This recording includes sides A and B of the tape.
Caption Source: taken from typed caption sheet in Bill Cormack's photo album
Photographer: unknown
WDA's Comments, 2013 Oct. 12: In 1935 a group of people sampled the Liard River bars between Nahanni Butte and Fort Liard for gold. They were encouraged enough to form a loose partnership to raise sufficient funds for Milt Campbell and Harry Vandale to bring in a high volume, low pressure pump with them on their return from Edmonton in the spring of 1936 with which to supply water to the sluice box to separate gold from the gravel. The partners appear in a photo made by Milt Campbell that appears in his collection and also in Dick Turner's book Nahanni. The group apparently included Ole Lindberg, George Boudah, Stan, Fred, and Dick Turner, Harry Vandale, Joe Vandaele, Hans Rorwick, John Norgaard and Arthur and Lodema George. Just who the person is the person in the above photo is unknown or whether the person is one of the above group is also unknown but there is a good chance it is given that the photo seems to have come from the Georges. Like all other gold ventures in the general area, it came to very little. The group barely recovered costs ( see Milt Campbell interview and diary).
![20 [twenty] miles North of E-3 [East 3, later Inuvik]](/images/generic-icons/image.png){kind=icon}
20 [twenty] miles North of E-3 [East 3, later Inuvik]. [A dog team on the ice.] 1956
20 [twenty] miles North of E-3 [East 3, later Inuvik]. [A dog team and a canoe moving through the icy water.] 1956
Caption on back of photo: There are two captions, the second in red pencil. "#20. 1941 General view of flume and sluice boxes in good working order. Bill Clark." "The Sluice"
Caption Source: Bill Clark
Photographer: Carl Falcon
WDA's Comments, 2013 Jul 10: The canvas-lined flume and associated sluice box on the left are in fine working order. Note how the sluice box extends well beyond the flume.
One folder consisting of English and Inuktitut versions of the Workers' Compensation Board of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut 2000 annual report.
Yearbook for St. Patrick's High School, Yellowknife, 1999-2000.
