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Caption on back of photo: "10 - 1941 The flume now taking shape as heavy hand sawn 1½" planks are nailed in place. Bill Clark."

Caption Source: Bill Clark

Photographer: Carl Falcon

WDA's Comments, 2013 Jul 10: The framing for the flume is complete and the bottom boards are partially installed.

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 97-100. All show hauling pipe across Great Slave Lake in March. There are about 30 sleighs in the train. This one here was an exceptionally big train.

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell

WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 13: This train is carrying freight other than Canol pipe.

Charlie's photo description: It's also at the mill. We used to do some of what we call long
logging. Pulled a whole tree out, two or three at a time but when the snow is gone they get so
ditty and muddy [dulls the saw quickly] and so I cut 'em shmt and I hauled them in on a stone
boat mostly. You can see that some long ones laying there way over by the shack. Nice timber.
Joe Villeneuve is sitting on the ground to the left. He's Ginger and Isidore Villeneuve's son. He's
very dark. That's part of the family that, when the [1898 gold] rush was on going north, there was
a darkie [Black man] passed through Providence and stayed there for the winter I think. It shows a little bit in
some of the kids that come from there. You really can't see it but the hair is dark and wavy.
They're a little darker than the rest of the people. The other one is Henry Squirrel. I can't see who
it is down on his knees there sawing.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview.
Photographer: likely Charlie Hansen or Isidore Villeneuve but with a new sharper camera.

Charlie's photo description: That's the second set-up for the sawmill. After a year or so we
moved it down on a creek closer to the timber and a better place to set up. The first place was too
flat. We couldn't get rid of the sawdust. So there was some logs that got left from the year before
and bugs got into 'em, so I just cut 'em up into boards and built a bunkhouse [ ca. 1943]. We set
up down there with the D4 because then I could bulldoze the place out and fix it up nice because
I had the blade. The guy sitting in the door playing a guitar is little Gabe Sabourin. He didn't
want to come to the sawmill that year because he just got married. So I told him well why not
come out there and take your wife and she can eat with us. She can help my wife with the dishes.
So he set up his tent across the clearing here. And the other one there, that's Henry Squirrel. He
was stuck here this past winter. I lent him money for a ticket to get back home. He lives at
Yellowknife now. He's a good man. He used to work for The Bay mostly. He's not a strong
fellow. And the little fellow there, the Bull Cook we call him, that's Thomas Hope. That's a
nephew. He's a boy from my wife's oldest sister.
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview.
Photographer: likely Charlie Hansen or Isidore Villeneuve but with a new sharper camera.

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell

The file consists of records relating to departmental reorganization and business planning, including Draft Business Plan 1996-97, outline of the Mission of Parks and Visitor Services, draft Reorganization Assessment, 1993 Departmental Reorganization Goals and Objectives Achievements, and correspondence.