This album, comprised of 105 pages on which 547 photographs are mounted, documents a government expedition to the Arctic, travelling on the S.S. Beothic, an ice breaker supply vessel. Photos by L.T. Burwash. The album also includes: Burwash's trip with R.S. Finnie to find relics from the Franklin expedition, portraits of Inuit, whaling operations and Dominion Explorer's depot at Fort Release. There are 2 photographs from D.L. McKeand as well.
The following places can be found in the album: Bernard Harbour; Fort Smith; Hay River; Fort Norman; Great Bear Lake; Thelon Game Sanctuary; King William Island; Adelaide Peninsula; Perry River; Wilmot Island; Coronation Gulf; Cape Parry; Indian River; Inman River; Richardson Island; Cambridge Bay; Stromness Bay; Parker Bay; Andersen Bay, Victoria Island; Dominion Explorer's depot, Fort Reliance; Richardson River; Bloody Falls; Coppermine; Victoria Island; Gjoa Haven, King William Island; Burnside River, Bathurst Inlet; Bathurst Inlet; Boothia Peninsula; Fort Reliance (aerial too); White Bear Point; Fort Simpson; Providence; Fort Wrigley; Peel River; Fort McPherson; Aklavik; Baillie Island; Musk-Ox Lake; Northern Trader's Co., Hay River; Dominion Explorer's Co., Burnside River; Oscar Bay, Boothia Peninsula; Magnetic Pole, Boothia Peninsula; Rymer Point, Victoria Island
The following events can be found in the album: whaling operations; drying seal skins; hunting square flipper seal; preparing to launch S.S. Medico.
The following objects can be found in the album: Native cabins and tents; S.S. Medico; Baymaud, H.B.Co ship; schooners; Hudson's Bay Company posts; mission school; Ptarmigan, schooner; Ford snowmobile; igloos; airplanes; outcropping copper ore; fish racks; R.C.M.P. posts; snow house observatories; cache; barges; Baychimo, vessel; caribou skin tents; Franklin cairn.
The following people can be found in the album: Patsy Klengenberg and family; Constable Wild; Ikey Bolt; Inuit police servants; Mr. & Mrs. Bonshor, H.B.Co. agent; George Porter; Aladenek and wife; Harold Lucea; crew of Fort James, schooner; Charles Lewin; Richard Finnie; Inuit from Krusenstern; Inuit from Cambridge Bay; Fred Crisp, wireless operator; John MacKinnon, agent; crew of Nigalik; C.H. Clarke and wife, Canalaska Co. manager; Colonel Cornwall; Molly Goose and son; Jurgen Klengenberg; L.T. Burwash; Florence Hurst.
Print 5537A-1930-L.T.B. is missing "Lake trout caught at Hay River" (p.77)