This album, comprised of 87 pages on which 271 photographs are mounted, documents the first Canadian government expedition to the Arctic on the S.S. Beothic. Views of settlements from the water and the establishment of R.C.M.P. detachments at Lake Harbour and Bache Peninsula are main subjects. Photos mostly by G.P. Mackenzie and L.D. Livingstone, but also L.D. Morin, Captain Falk, G.T.M (last name unknown), Maurice Haycock and F.H. Stringer. Livingstone's photographs concern his 1,100 mile journey on land from Pangnirtung to Pond Inlet in 1927. There are photographs of Dr. Frederick Banting, and one of A.Y. Jackson, as part of a group of artists on a painting expedition sponsored by the government, who travelled on the Beothic as well. There are also photographs from the relics of A. Greeley's and Sir John Franklin's Arctic expeditions in the 1800s.
The following places can be found in the album: Pond Inlet; Bache Peninsula (including panoramas); Godhavn, Greenland; Arctic Bay; Port Burwell; Wakeham Bay; Cumberland Gulf; islands in the Arctic (Cocked Hat etc.); Beechey Island; Lake Harbour (also a panorama); Craig Harbour; Port Leopold; Pangnirtung, Baffin Island; Frobisher Bay; River Clyde; Hudson's Bay Company posts
The following events can be found in the album: S.S. Beothic caught in ice; building R.C.M..P. detachments; A.Y. Jackson sketching, Beechey Island; kayaking; Dr. Livingstone leaving for Pond Inlet; travelling by dog sled; loading freight
The following objects can be found in the album: S.S. Beothic; R.C.M.P. detachments; caribou skin tent; ruins of Greeley's winter quarters; Greeley memorial tablet; ruins of Franklin's headquarters; Inuit boats; igloos; church, Lake Harbour; old whaling station, Durham Bay; Livingstone's camps; iceberg; grave of Maisonneauve; map of route of S.S. Beothic in 1926; Franklin cenotaph, Beechey Island; Inuit graves; mission, Pangnirtung; Nanook, H.B.Co. schooner; frozen waterfalls; Anglican mission, Lake Harbour; Moravian mission, Port Burwell
The following wildlife can be found in the album: walrus (dead); snow goose; 2,000 fish in net; seals (dead)
The following people can be found in the album: Captain Falk; R.C.M.P. officers; Dr. and Miss Porsild; Captain L.D. Morin; Dr. L.D. Livingstone; Oo-shoo-tapic; Amadjuak; Mr. Troope, H.B.Co. factor, River Clyde; group shots in Godhavn, Greenland; Dr. Frederick Banting; A.Y. Jackson; Dr. Stringer; Rev. Jenkins; H.B.Co. post managers, Mr. Manning & Mr. Ford; Inuit from Frobisher Bay; Constable Dunn; Noo-koo-goak
Missing Photographs:
1. 1005-1926-G.P.M. "Grave of Const. Maisonneuve, R.C.M.P. - Dundas Harbour"
2. 1009-1926-G.P.M. "Group taken at New Detachment at Bache Peninsula"
3. 1009-1926-M.H. "Panorama of Bache Peninsula, taken from Cape Rutherford"
4. 2094-1927-L.D.L. "Sabellum Trading Co. post at Mingatoo near Frobisher Bay"
5. 2151-1927-L.D.L. "Abandoned whaling station at Padle, Durham Bay-east coast of Baffin Island"
