NOTE: All Photographs are from the Prince of Wales Museum Collection, and remain property of the PWNHC.

PHOTOGRAPHER/COLLECTION PWNHC LIBRARY NUMBER ORIGINAL CAPTION

BUSSE, HENRY

N1979-052-
Original Caption
 

1601

Dene Woman

 

1629

Dene woman and child near fire

 

1637

Dene children with toboggan

 

1641

Dene woman with child shopping for clothing, Hudson’s Bay, Yellowknife,

 

1646

Portrait of Dene woman

 

1647

Portrait of Dene woman, Snowdrift

 

1655

Dene tea dancers

 

1661

Teepee at Burwash Point, Yellowknife, 1954

 

1682

Dene tents at Fort Rae, 1949

 

1705

Dene girl in snow

 

1722

Man with dog team, YK, 1949

 

1726

Dene at river’s edge, Fort Rae

 

1731

Dene Family Group, Fort Rae

 

1750

Drummer at Hand Games, Fort Rae

 

1753

Hand Games, Fort Rae, Treaty Day

 

1764

Dene Children on rock

 

1817

Dene family paddling canoe

 

1818

Elderly Dene woman

 

1838

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

 

1844

Tipi at lakeshore, Rainbow Valley, YK

MATHERS, CHARLES

N1979-058 Original Caption
 

0007

Skin Lodges of the Dog Rib Indians in front of HBC, Fort Great Slave Lake

 

0009

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

 

0014

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

 

0015

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

 

0022

Indian packer with an average pack of 200 lbs.

 

0023

A moose and teepee. The moose is not much used as it is difficult to train. Dogs are used now almost exclusively.

FINNIE, RICHARD STERLING
N1979-063
Original Caption

 

0034

Dogrib child sleeping in hammock.

 

0041

Old style Dogrib Indian grave, Fort Rae

 

0048

Treaty time, Fort Rae,

 

0050

Drummers and hand game players, Fort Rae

 

0057

Skilled Dogrib canoemen transport tent flooring, Fort Rae

 

006

Dr. L.D. Livingston’s cow, Clementine, nibbles at a wagonload of newly cut hay. Aklavik

 

0081

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

 

0084

Joe Saul, Indian Guide, Fort Norman

 

0090

Johnny Hotty, Indian Guide, Fort Norman

GUEST, ALMA
N79-067-
Original Caption

 

0041

These are nearly all Eskimo. I saw a number of them last summer. They come from farther north for the herring run at Arctic Red River. Summer of 1915, Arctic Red River.

 

0042

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

 

0045

Mackenzie Delta Dene. This tribe of Indian known as Loucheux is the finest in the north. They are much like the Aleutians of Alaska and not unlike the Huskies (Eskimo) though of larger build. I developed quite a respect for the Loucheux.

 

0046

Metis from Fort Chipweyan. Two older Metis ladies wrapped in shawls in the cold snowy weather.

 

0048

A larger group of skin tents, Fort Providence, July 1920

YK MUSEUM SOC
N79-054-
Original Caption

 

0063

Indian Way" – Winter fishing

YK MUSEUM SOC
N79-056-
Original Caption

 

0032

Indian woman carrying heavy load and snowshoes.

 

0033

Indian woman finishing deer skin.

 

0034

Man taking out a huge catch of fish from boat.

 

0035

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

 

0036

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

 

0037

Man with large fish at Fish Point.

 

0038

Fish just before hanging, near Fish Point

 

0039

Fish hung to dry a an Indian camp during fall fishery.

FLEMING, ARCHIBALD LANG N79-050- Original Caption

 

0001

Inuit Whaling Camp, Aklavik

 

0004

Sled Dogs, Aklavik?

 

0062

Kenneth Peclooluk, Aklavik

 

0092

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

 

0098

Loucheux Girl Guides

 

0100

Patsy with her snowman, All Saints School, Aklavik

 

0119

Group of Inuit, Aklavik

 

0191

Indian woman with child in rabbit skin jacket

 

0305

Man with reindeer

 

0309

Reindeer hitched to sled

 

0320

Reindeer herd, Reindeer Station

 

0551

Dried Muskrats, Mackenzie Delta

 

0982

Eskimo Dogs

 

1056

Mother and child in skin clothing

 

1069

Young child in a parka

 

1148

Coppermine – ice fishing with a net.

PUBLIC ARCHIVES

PWNHC REF NO: Original Caption
 

PA 42115

Indian women dressing moose skin, Fort Resolution, NWT

 

PA 48097

Jim Lafferty, Catherine Lafferty (wife of Napoleon) and Victor Lafferty, baby.

 

PA 48099

Indian woman fishing under ice in Great Slave Lake.

 

PA 42104

Bella Beaulieu, skinning a caribou, Fort Resolution

 

PA 42110

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

 

PA 48201

Indian Residential school in Fort Resolution, NWT

 

PA 45092

Fish stage at Fort Resolution, NWT.

 

PA 45020

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

 

PA 18643

Indians gambling at Fort Providence during treaty time.

  PA 18647

Albert LeBeau hung for murder of his wife and child, with Constable Corbin at Fort Providence, NWT, 1921

 

PA42084

An Indian Child at Aklavik

 

PA 18859

Fort Norman looking west from hill at Hudson’s Bay Post, Great Bear Rock in distance (NWT) 1921

 

PA 18578

Canoe about 30’ long made by Indians of untanned moose skins sewn together with hair on the outside and stretched over roughly made frame of large willow ribs. Fort Norman.

 

PA 61606

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

SARAH ANNE GARLUND

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

607

J. Kenai

 

592

William Firth
Sarah Simon

 

585

Maggie Wiedamen and Sarah Anne Garlund’s dog team. The lived between Aklavik and the mountains.

FRED GREENLAND

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

075

Joe Greenland (1890-1950) and Bella (Stewart) Greenland

PHILIP X. MANDEVILLE

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

322

Philip X. Mandeville, taken in 1915 in Arctic Red River

J.W. BALSILLIE

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

164

J.W. Balsillie, Wynn Sawmill, Fort Resolution

CHRISTINE FREY

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

386

Charles Philip Gaudet

JANE GAUDET

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

064

Fred Gaudet, taken in Fort Good Hope. He worked as a special constable for the RCMP for 17 years.

SARAH SIMON

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

594

Harriet Stewart

Alex Stewart

 

194

Annie Stewart, Sarah Stewart Simon, Kenneth Stewart, George Greenland, Joe Greenland, Catherine Stewart Sittichinli

WILLIAM FIRTH

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

001

Mable Sibbeston, Rosalie Sibbeston, (wife of James), James Sibbeston, Henry Sibbeston (far right)

 

250

Indian burial on the Mackenzie River. Taken about 1919

CHRISTINE KING

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

047

Ray Overvold at his cabin. Ray stayed in his cabin with his family until his children were of school age. He trapped and hunted for a living. His cabin was on the North shore of Great Bear Lake, Good Hope Bay, and as far as we know it still stands there today. He was killed in an accident about 1952. He left behind five children, two of whom worked for the Metis Association of the NWT and a wife who is now remarried.

VICTOR LAFFERTY

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

441

Louisa Menicho from Fort Norman. (Menicho means "eyebrow".)

ANGUS MCLEOD

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

278

Mail run at Fort Norman, NWT

ELIZABETH YAKELEYA

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

073

Gordie Yakeleya. Taken in about 1953 in Fort Norman. He is working for Eddie McPherson, hauling water, etc. He trapped. When he was about 12 years old his dad went to Camsell hospital and Elizabeth took him into the bush with her to show him how to trap and live in the bush. It was his first time.

CELINE LAFFERTY

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

034

Michel Lafferty (trapped mainly)

Boniface Lafferty

 

015

Leon Norwegian, Albertine Lafferty, Germaine Lafferty, Gabe Lafferty

 

036

Baptiste Sabourin, Francis Lepine, Joe Lafferty, Jim Cayen

NAPOLEON LAFFERTY

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

358

Dora Jones

CFATHER POSSET

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

638

Children and Nun at Fort Providence (?)

J. POCHAT COTILLOUX

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

618

Father Napoleon Lafferty, OMI was priest at Fort Chipweyan and Fort Fitzgerald. Here at Fort Rae.

 

599

Madeline Beaverhoe
-died in 1972 at over 100 years old
- taken in Lac LaMartre in 1970

BEATRICE DANIELS

PHOTO NO: Original Caption
 

045

Ellen (Fabian) Lafferty
Henry Lafferty

Ellen lives in Fort Rae. Henry (deceased) worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Rae for approximately 40 years. His father was Henri Lafferty, born 1853. Henry was born in 1879.

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES, ALBERTA

PHOTO NO: Original Caption

 

B 2940

Teepees at Fort Resolution, NWT


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