Fort Norman

Miriam Green Ellis' time in Fort Norman proved one of the most photographically prolific. This community was notable for both its First Nations community and the early oil extraction and refining industry based there.

Two Slavie First Nation women from Fort Norman.

A Slavie First Nation man, from Fort Norman.

First Nations Mother and Baby with Peaked Cap

A First Nations mother with a baby in a peaked cap.

Inside a family tent, with a baby sleeping in a hammock.

Slavie First Nation women and child, drying skins near Fort Norman.

Tobacco drying over a stovepipe in the Slavie First Nation camp at Fort Norman.

First Nations receiving communion at the Fort Norman Anglican Mission.

A birch bark canoe at Fort Norman.