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Voyage to Great Bear Lake and the Eldorado Mine

Item number (ISN):

107479

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1933/1935?

Item number (ISN):

107479

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

REID, Fraser Daniel

Accession:

1977-0263

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1933/1935?

Production company:

Fraser Daniel Reid (Photography)

Description:

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Home movie of an expedition of prospectors to Great Bear Lake and Eldorado Mine. Footage includes: contingency seeing off group of prospectors; views of Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake; members of First Nations community (natives), missionaries and school children, and a fur press owned by the Hudson's Bay Company, used to bail furs; aerial views of Fort Rae on the North Arm of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories; members of Tlicho Nation (also referred to as Dog Rib or Dogrib Indians) during Treaty Day(s); youngsters playing games; terrain, lakes and approaches to Great Bear Lake; scenery along the way to Cameron Falls on 18 July 1933; trading post, "Murphy Services Limited" and post office; the last footage of the motor schooner, Speed, before she blew up in the fall of 1933; sign stating that the area has been set aside for a public park (most probably the designation of Wood Buffalo National Park?); the El Dorado Mine at Great Slave Lake, and men posing; scenes on the way back to Cameron Falls; the Hudson's Bay Company post "Fort Smith" and an Arctic supply ship, paddlewheeler Northland Echo, Kenora, at the wharf; "from Fort Smith to Aklavik at the mouth of the McKenzie"; footage of Cooking Lake, Alberta, a summer resort near Edmonton, and wharf, ship leaving Cameron Bay; throughout the film are shots of a seaplane moored to shores, wharves, etc. <19mn 41s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Intermittent pink tint stock.~2. An error was located in the collection name field and was therefore changed in December 2019 from: Fraser Daniel Mowat to Fraser Daniel Reid.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

99999

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8812-0012

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

158990

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8303-0048

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

314794

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7706-1188

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ORIG

Technical description:

POS

Max. shrinkage:

1.5%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

314795

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8109-0274

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

7706-1188

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

314796

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8109-0275

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.5%

Made from:

8109-0274

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

314798

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8109-0276

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8109-0274

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8812-0012
V1 8303-0048

Restrictions on consultation:

Open

Donor restrictions:

Reproduction with permission of Fraser Daniel Reid or his estate.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Original copyright owner: Fraser Daniel Reid.~Copyright owner is either Fraser Daniel Reid or his estate.

Reproduction access:

copyright expired : no donor restrictions : with credit to Fraser Daniel Reid

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Date modified:: 2024-05-10