At Work
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Inuit Whaling Camp, Aklavik

Rat Sunday - Muskrat skins
were put on the collection
plate, Aklavik

Dried Muskrats, Mackenzie
 Delta

Coppermine - ice fishing with
a net.

Skilled Dogrib canoemen
transport tent flooring, 
Fort Rae

Edward Blondin (left) holding
horns of large moose at Port
Radium

Indian Way" - Winter fishing

Indian woman finishing deer
skin

Man taking out a huge catch 
of fish from boat.

Indian boys examining a huge
load of fish, Fish Point near 
Hay River.

Indian men cleaning a large
catch of fish at Fish Point.

Man with large fish at Fish
Point.

Fish just before hanging, near
Fish Point

The HBC steamer WRIGLEY 
on the Mackenzie , taking a 
moose aboard which was 
shot from the deck.

Indians packing goods up 
from shore of Great Slave 
Lake, Ft Resolution

portaging a 50-foot scow on 
the Montoise portage, goods 
and boats are portaged four 
times in 25 miles on account 
of the Slave River rapids.

Indian packer with an average
pack of 200 lbs.

Stacks of pitchblende 
concentrate awaiting 
shipment at Port Radium, 
Echo Bay, Great Bear Lake

Johnny Hotty, Indian Guide,
Fort Norman

Man gutting fish. Eskimo 
prisoner, Fort Resolution, 
June 1919

Indian Residential school in 
Fort Resolution, NWT

Mrs. Charlotte Jones (married
to Harry Jones), collecting
birch tree sap, Fort
Resolution

Indian women dressing moose
skin, Fort Resolution, NWT

Bishop Breynat giving 
evidence before Government
agents at Ft. Providence, 
NWT, 1927. First Dominion of
Canada court enquiry in the
far north (Treaty Party).

Ballanca "Pacemaker" aircraft
of Commercial Airwa;ys Ltd.
Making first airmail flight to 
Aklavik and Fort Resolution

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