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The tents and residents of Aklavik, Northwest Territories.

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B. Beuer, the Manager of the Union Bank of Canada in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, pictured inside the bank.

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A boat hanging in midair as it is navigated over a short waterfall. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured.

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The Fire Rangers' camp near Fort McMurray, Alberta. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured, and is also available as a photo print in Miriam Green Ellis' photo album.

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A First Nations woman tending a camp cookpot at Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured, and is also available as a photo print in Miriam Green Ellis photo album. The slide shows the delicate shading possible in the…

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A First Nations woman tends the cookpot at Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis' hand-coloured magic lantern slides.

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The community of Fort Norman, Northwest Territories.

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Freight piled on the shore, freshly unloaded from a steam wheeler, at Providence, Northwest Territories.

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A man works with a massive wooden mechanism, used to press furs into bales for trade.

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The grave of Marie Fischer, identified as the wife of Charles Gaudet, in the Gaudet plot in the Fort Good Hope cemetery, Northwest Territories. She lived from 1841-1914; Miriam Green Ellis' inclusion of her birth name could suggest she knew her prior…
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