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The interior of the chapel of the Roman Catholic mission at Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, showing the friezes and extensive decoration by Father Emile Petitot, OMI.

The Northern Trading Co's steamwheeler "Trader", photographed on the Mackenzie River below Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories, under the Midnight Sun at 11:30pm. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis'…

The Midnight Sun sits on the horizon, reflecting on the water at 12:20am on July 5, 1922. Likely taken in the Northwest Territories.

A man stands at the riverbank accompanied by a skinny horse and a dog. This horse is said to be the only one north of Fort Smith, Northwest Territories.

Oil well at Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories.

Tents belonging to the Slavie First Nation at Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories.

A portrait of a Fort Norman man, McCleary. Originally from Pittsburg, McCleary suffered from gangrene during a particularly long, hard and isolated winter and was forced to amputate his own toes with a jackknife. He survived alone for over four…

Tobacco, hung to dry over a stovepipe in the First Nations camp at Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories.

Two First Nations women, one of whom holds the hand of a toddler, pose next to a number of skins drying on racks at Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories.

A First Nations women cares for her children within the family's tent at Fort Norman, Northwest Territories. A newborn baby sleeps in a makeshift hammock hanging from the roof support. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis'…