This album, comprised of 114 pages on which 407 photographs are mounted, consists mainly of: Christian missions, churches and schools for Native children, treaty activities, Inuit and Native people, and scenery/landscapes of the Northwest Territories. Photos by J.F. Moran. There are indications that a murder trial took place in Fort Providence.
The following places can be found in the album: Aklavik; Providence, Mackenzie district; Resolution; Great Slave Lake (and islands in); Fort Smith; McPherson; Yellowknife settlement, N.W.T.; Pine Lake; Fitzgerald, Alberta; Shingle Point; Bernard Harbour; Bloody Falls; Coronation Gulf; Fort Norman; Waterways, Alberta; Salt River; Good Hope; Rapids of the Drowned, Fort Smith; Fort Rae; Wood Buffalo Park; Slave River; Herschel Island; Baillie Island; Coppermine; Wilmot Island; Cambridge Bay.
The following events can be found in the album: cutting timber; fishing; drying fish; pedigree bull presented to mission by government; arrival of Mother General in Providence; medically examining Native children; "taking evidence" at Fort Providence; dismantling Fort Brabant, Victoria Island; securing cord wood for river steamer; canoeing; distributing hospital supplies; paying treaty money to Natives; Natives travelling by boat for treaty; church being constructed; Mr. Dawson of Atlas Exploration Co. leaving for zinc mines; Natives gambling.
The following objects can be found in the album: tractor; oil camps; Inuit schooners; scow; boats; Native teepee; churches; Mackenzie River, boat; Indian agency at Fort Smith; government sawmill; old fur baler; S.S. Slave River; Norman oil well; operating room; wheat field of Indian agency; cattle barns; cabins; hay and salt camps; Native and Inuit encampments; S.S. Northland Trader; lynx skins; ice house; S.S. Baychimo; Christian Mission residential schools; police boat; Hudson's Bay Company buildings and posts; trails; mission farm at Fort Smith; irrigation ditch on mission farm; rapids; gravestone for 4 R.C.M.P officers; Roman Catholic church at Good Hope (interior views); gravestone of Otto Binder; gravestone of Corporal W. Boak.
The following animals can be found in the album: husky dogs; cross foxes; young black fox; horses; cattle (at mission farm); pelican; buffalo.
The following people can be found in the album: W.J. Munroe; L.T. Burwash, mining recorder; Major Gooch; J.F. Moran; Jack Rangford; Bourget brothers; Father Mansoz; R.C.M.P officers; Native chiefs; W.L. Woofter; G.P. Murphy; park wardens; R. Romanet, district manager, H.B.Co; Billy Thrasher, interpreter at murder trials; Gerald O'Connor, Edmonton barrister; Kar-kuk-tin-ak from Aklavik; Slim Rader; Denis Anuktuk; Inuit officer with Native wife; Alikomiak; J. Wada; H. McGurran and daughter, trader; Fred Stewart; W.L.L. Cassels; F. Siebert; Pennyglabuck and her son; Mrs. Marian G. Ellis; Dr. (and Mrs.) Bourget, Indian agent; George Sanderson, pilot; Natives; von Hammerstein; Dr. MacDonald, medical health officer; A. Brabant, fur trade commissioner, H.B.Co.; Inuit; Ikayena from Aklavik; Archdeacon Whittaker at graves of his children; Patsy Klengenburg; Native children at mission schools; sisters and priests.
Missing Photographs:
1. 3601-1928-J.F.M. "Mr. Braynton with catch of white fox at Herschel Island" (see negative).
2. 3641-1928-J.F.M. "At Klengenburg's post - Wilmot Island" (see negative).
