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WDA's Comments, 2014 Mar. 10: Joe Clark was an independent trader who came in the country each spring for a number of years through Fort St. John, to Conroy creek on the Sikanni Chief River. There, he would build a scow and drift down the Sikanni Chief, Fort Nelson and Liard Rivers trading fresh goods at least a month before fresh goods could be obtained through the Mackenzie River system.

The boat appears to be the clinker-built boat constructed by Charlie Boostrom, Anna Lindberg's stepfather and passed on to Ole and Anna. The same boat was used to take RCMP Cpl. Fielding up the South Nahanni to investigate Phil Powers' death. This boat appears in a number of other photos, both in this collection and in those of others. This is the boat that Anna tracked up through The Splits in 1923 to Nahanni Hotsprings now Kraus Hotsprings. She had some help from Yukon Indians [First Nations] by the name of Stewart (spelling?) including two daughters and two sons going up the Nahanni to trap. The rest of Anna's family (stepfather, mother and two sisters) sat in the boat. As Anna said, "I don't care if I ever see it" again, referring to the South Nahanni. Anna was known for her strength and endurance. (See Kay Turner interview)

Milt Campbell's Audio Caption for photo: 33 & 34 are the same picture but there's a little more in one picture than the other. On the back of thirty-four there's a caption, "Junction Caribou and Flat Rivers".

Photographer: Milton J. Campbell

WDA's Comments, 2013 Sep 11: The winter of 1934-35 Nazar Zinchuk and John the Russian trapped from the old Stark and Stevens cabin on Caribou River just upstream from Flat River.

Charlie's photo description: This is Milt Campbell taken, I think it was '36 when Fred
[Sibbeston] was up there and got the horses at Conroy Creek on the Sikanni Chief River.
[Charlie thinks the photographer may have been Fred Sibbeston.]
Caption Source: Charlie Hansen interview
Photographer: If Charlie is correct then Fred Sibbeston almost certainly took the photo.
WDA's Comments, 2014 Feb 05: As Charlie suggests, this photo may be at Conroy Creek
(right), in which case it has broken and is in flood while the Sikanni Chief (left) still seems
frozen. The photo is similar to the topographic map of the area in terms of the planar relationship
of the creek and river. That said, the background country seems less confined and lower than in
Photo 25 or in Milt's photos of the area. This raises some question as to whether this is at Conroy
Creek. This photo does not appear among Milt's photos and, thus, it is unlikely that Harry
Vandale took it. It does appear among Bill Clark's photos but Bill was an inveterate collector of
other people's photos thus calling into question whether or not he took it. If Bill Clark did take it,
the photo would have to be up the Flat River somewhere because that was the only place he and
Milt were together. In short the only ce1tain thing about this photo is that it is of Milt Campbell.
The photo location at the juncture of the Conroy & Sikanni Chief is a reasonable conclusion but
not a crertain one unless one could verify the scene in person. Even that may resolve nothing
because rivers constantly change course, especially so over 78 years.

Caption on back of photo: There are two captions, the second in red pencil. "#33. 1941 Same scene as #32. We were concerned about losing the heavy canvas. A later thaw allowed us to retrieve the canvas. Wm Clark" "Ice Sept. 20, 1941."

Caption Source: Bill Clark

Photographer: Carl Falcon

WDA's Comments, 2013 Jul 10: The bottom end of the flume before its canvas was removed. Before they left, the bulkhead was dynamited out to allow Bennett Creek to return to its natural course in the hopes of keeping the flume intact for possible future work. They never came back. Heavy fall rains produced turbulence and spray which froze over everything.

Permafrost slump in lacustrine terrace bluffs on Flat R. about 4-5 km above mouth of Caribou R.

Looking up Flat R. valley into Ragged Range. Bedrock terrace on left suggests two glaciations. Lacustrine bluffs on right seen from Sunblood limestone hoodoos about 6 km up Flat from Caribou R.

Hoodoo field in Sunblood limestone across from and slightly above mouth of Caribou River

Limestone hoodoos about 6 km up Flat R. above mouth of Caribou R. (Sunblood Fm)

On bar at mouth of Flat R. (Dryas)

Looking WNW over Flat-Nahanni confluence

Shales topped with buff lake clay about 10 km above mouth of Flat R.

Looking N from head of Gate Creek to Cadillac Explorations trenching activity

The Great Arcuate Wall seen from on top of The Gate

Little falls at foot of Gate Creek canyon

Walls of Third Canyon below The Gate

Creek on S side of Third Canyon at about km 153. Sunblood limeston on this side of creek valley, OSD shales on other side. Gate Fault goes up creek.

Looking into Little Valley from foot of Third Canyon

Folding in foot of Third Canyon in Little Valley

Little Valley Creek at its mouth

"The Frying Pan", an eroded fold in Nahanni limestone in Little Valley at about km 131

Hillside rising up Headless Range from "Easy-up Creek"

Route to top of Headless Range from head of Easy-up Creek Note stone stripes

Looking N along Headless Range, up Nahanni to Big Bend + to head of Little Valley

Dall rams on tundra of Headless Range above Second Canyon