This album, comprised of 112 pages on which 401 photographs are mounted, consists mainly of landscapes and people of the Arctic. Photos by L.T. Burwash, investigator for the Department of the Interior. Burwash was sent on government expeditions to investigate a number of issues, such as wild life, biology, natural resources, as well as an Inuit census. He travelled on the C.G.S. Arctic and by dog sled while on land. There are photographs of the Inuit of Pond Inlet who murdered hunter R.S. Janes in 1920. There are many photos of Dorset and its surrounding area.
The following places can be found in the album: Gaspe, Québec; Godhavn, Greenland; Disko Island; Smith Sound; Ponds Inlet; Angmalla Noona; Kekerton; Dorset harbour;North Beacon Hill, Dorset; Pangnirtung; Pangnirtung Fiord; Kingua, Cumberland Gulf; Imegen; Netselik Lake; upper Sukla, Netselik Fiord; Amadjuak; Dorset; Enukso Lake
The following events can be found in the album: loading sled dogs; taking sounds on C.G.S. Arctic; hauling bear off ice floe; sealing on Netselik Fiord; loading and hauling seal; Inuit spearing fish through ice; travelling by sled (komatik); caribou hunt (using spyglass); building igloos; building snow over shack; Inuit ball game
The following objects can be found in the album: C.G.S. Arctic; Jacques Cartier Hall, Gaspé; Baker's Hotel, Gaspé; fishing docks, Gaspé; glacier, Ellesmere Island; grave of R.S. Janes; old whaling station; limestone cliffs; H.B.Co. buildings, Dorset; seal skins nailed on wall to dry; L.T. Burwash's camp, Dorset; kayaks; Danish patrol ship "Islands Falk"; ice floes and sea ice; official's residence, Godhavn; church, Godhavn; Inuit caches; enuksos [inukshuks]; blubber house, Dorset; bear skins drying on roof; iceberg;stone beacons
The following animals can be found in the album: dogs; polar bear (dead); caribou (dead); seals (dead); fox in trap; deer
The following people can be found in the album: Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Craig; Dr. Porsild; Constable Fairman; Mr. Levesque; Mr. Lemieux, second officer; Inuit prisoners - Attela, Nuqallaq, and Oo-ne-ungna, murderers of Janes; Wallacey; Akatooga, Onga and family; Angmalla's wife and grandchildren; John Bull with toy boat; Elie and wife with H.B.Co. foxes; C.G.S. Arctic passengers; G.H. Valiquette; Dr. Livingstone; Mr. Chasse; Natives of Godhavn; wife of Nuqallaq; Touka; Konnau; Naking?a and Naking?a Junior; Inspector Wilcox; Kilabuk (with caribou); Ikale; L.T. Burwash; Inuit
There are references to Arctic slides in this album.
