This album, comprised of 69 pages on which 218 photographs are mounted, documents the Northern landscape with its various settlements and areas of development, or future development. Photos by J.F. Morgan and R.T. Porsild for the Department of the Interior, as well as by R.K. Carnegie, B.A. Haldeman, Edwin Mills, and Sister Frechette.
The following places can be found in the album: Chipewyan, Alberta; Fort Smith, N.W.T.; Pine Lake Trail, Wood Buffalo Park; Hay and Fish Camps; Great Bear Rock, Fort Norman; Mackenzie River and district; Arctic Red River; Fort McPherson; Herschel Island; Arctic Bay, Baffin Island; Churchill, Manitoba; Lake Harbour, N.W.T.; Pond Inlet; Fort Ross; Aklavik; Quatrefourches River; Hay River, N.W.T.; Fort Providence, N.W.T.; Fort Norman, N.W.T.; Good Hope settlement; site for new Indian agency, Good Hope; Shingle Point; Caribou Hills; Arparuaitsiak; Hudson Strait; Chesterfield, N.W.T.; Craig Harbour; Lancaster Sound; Bellot Strait.
The following events can be found in the album: tapping in on telephone lines; road construction; Natives gambling; making bannack; loading dogs on a cargo boat; picnic; R.M.S. Nascopie working through ice; R.S. Finnie shooting pictures; carrying dying woman to her people; plane wreck; hauling logs and lumber; Reindeer Camp under construction; Inuit musical on R.M.S. Nascopie.
The following objects can be found in the album: R.C. Native boarding school and mission; Dodge car; S.S. Medico; Slave River, boat; tennis court; beaver dam; Native houses and encampments; Native residential school and home for boys; Hudson's Bay Company buildings; airplanes; water pump; gypsym bank; warden's cabins; Roman Catholic missions; no. 1 discovery well (oil or gas); ramparts in Mackenzie district; S.S. Distributor; M.S. Aklavik; R.M.S. Nascopie; houses; Spring logging camp; spruce tree; R.C.M.P. buildings; Chesterfield hospital; Inuit schooners.
The following animals can be found in the album: dogs; reindeer; white fox; harp seal.
The following people can be found in the album: Colin Fraser; Park Warden Dempsey; Father Turcotte; F.J. Browning; J.F. Moran; Hon. Frank Oliver; Mr. and Mrs. John Firth; Loucheux infant; Father Biname; N.P. Hansen, trapper; Ekumak and Mukpak, mother and child; Robert Bentham, Oxford Exploration Club and Royal Geographical Society, London; Mr. R.K. Carnegie; P.C. Downs; A.G. Stanley, second officer on Nascopie; Native and Inuit peoples; Major L.T. Burwash; Mr. and Mrs. J.A. McDougal, and Mary; interracial children; R.S. Finnie; Spud Arsenault, engineer; Donald Bown, cook; Fred Berens, pilot; Father J.C. LeFebvre; Joe Illusiak and family, interpreter; Rev. A. Turquetil; Supt. F.G. Fletcher and employed Inuit families; G. Keary, nurse; Leo Manning, H.B.Co post manager; Major D.L. McKeand.
Missing Photographs:
Note at start of these photographs: "1 copy only. No extra prints or negatives of these".
1. 4-1936-B.A.H. "Pangnirtung, police, trading and missionary post on Cumberland Sound"
2. 6-1936-B.A.H. "'Grand Scramble' final event of Annual Eskimo sports tournament at Lake Harbour"
3. 7-1936-B.A.H. "Women's tug-of-war at Annual Eskimo tournament at Lake Harbour. Note women in tug with infants on back"
4. 9-1936-B.A.H. "Getting ready for the start of the small girl's foot races at the annual tournament, Port Harrison, Québec"
5. 11-1936-B.A.H. "Eskimo of Wolstenholme, Québec"
6. 12-1936-B.A.H. "Eskimo population of the district of Wolstenholme, Québec"
7. 15-1936-B.A.H. "Capt. T. Smellie of the 'Nascopie' and some of the passengers at Lake Harbour"
8. 16-1936-B.A.H. "General view of Hudson Bay trading post and surroundings at Lake Harbour"
Note written at start of these photographs: "1 print only. Negatives handed back to Mr. Carnegie".
9. 1-1937-R.K.C. "Rt. Rev. A. Turquetil, Vicar Apostolic of Hudson Bay, taken at Churchill, on steps of Mission House" "This print was given to Mr. Gibson"
10. 9-1937-R.K.C. "R.K. Carnegie and natives - Lake Harbour"
11. 10-1937-R.K.C. "Lake Harbour - Natives"
12. 13-1937-R.K.C "Eskimo woman and child on board R.M.S Nascopie entering Lake Harbour"
13. 14-1937-R.K.C. "R.K. Carnegie and natives - Lake Harbour"
