This album, comprised of 116 pages on which 419 photographs are mounted, is a continuation of album one, consisting of landscapes and people of the North. Photos by L.T. Burwash, special 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 a small boat with an Inuit crew. There are photographs of whaling and hunting activities, as well as images of the S.S. Nascopie, both while on board and sighting it from afar. There are many photographs of Rigolette, Labrador, especially the children and Natives who lived there.
The following places can be found in the album: Pouluse Noona; Okita Noona; Schooner Harbour; Dorset; Amadjuak; Dorset harbour; Pond Inlet; Rigolette, Labrador; Hudson Strait; Fox Channel; Mill Island; Salisbury Island; Baffin Island; Lake Harbour; River Clyde; Cartwright, Labrador
The following events can be found in the album: travelling along coast; Shapa building a blubber fire; white fox furs drying for H.B.Co.; kayaking; church parade, Rigolette; harpooning narwhal; hauling and stripping narwhal; cutting up and skinning walrus; unloading Newfoundland firewood
The following objects can be found in the album: cairn; ground ice and ice floes; Burwash's boat, 'Metek'; camp tents; varicoloured rocks, Grotto Bay; MacMillan's winter camp from 1921-22; S.S. Baychimo; icebergs; Anglican mission house, Lake Harbour; Newfoundland customs house, Rigolette; salt salmon for export; monument to Cartwright brothers; kayaks; Inuit encampments; grave of Ook-took-e, made by MacMillan party; Hudson's Bay Company posts and bldgs.; S.S. Nascopie; Anglican church, Lake Harbour; Lord Strathcona's house, Rigolette; Cartwright cemetery; Anglican church, Cartwright; new community hall, Cartwright; wood piled for fuel
The following animals can be found in the album: narwhal (dead); caribou; H.B.Co. reindeer; polar bear (shot); walrus (dead); dogs
The following people can be found in the album: John Livingstone, H.B.Co. agent; Noonesweetik; Kilakuk, part of Burwash's crew; Ikale, part of Burwash's crew; Harry, Inuit boy; L.T. Burwash; Mr. Atkinson; Ben Pallaser; Dr. Douglas; Pouluse; Inuit; Akatooga, part of Burwash's crew; Mukpola, part of Burwash's crew; Shapa, part of Burwash's crew; Shapola, part of Burwash's crew; A. Miles, H.B.Co accountant; John Oliver and family; Mr. Learmouth, H.B.Co. agent; Mr. Parsons, collector of customs; children of Labrador
Print 278-1924 is missing "Native man in kayak, Dorset" (PA 099104)
There are references to Arctic slides in this album.
