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The graves of Eliza Simon and Edouard Simon, in the graveyard at Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. Edouard's marker reads 'enfant de E. Simon et de Josephine Simon decede le sept novembre 1911 a l'age de deux ans'.

Men carrying wooden boxes of supplies, piled on the riverbank where they were unloaded from a steam wheeler, into camp. Such deliveries were infrequent and necessarily large. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured.

A horse and rider, stuck in the soft mud of the riverbank in an attempt to ford the Salt River in the Northwest Territories. The photo captures the motion blur where the distressed horse is thrashing its head. This image is also represented among…

The main street of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

Major Burwash, arctic explorer, poses with Ethel and Mrs. Gooch in the woods near Wrigley, 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…

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…

Miriam Green Ellis in a canoe crossing the Salt River in the Northwest Territories. This makeshift 'ferry' was pressed into service when fording the river by horse proved risky due to the soft mud of the bank. A coloured version of this image appears…

Miriam Green Ellis poses with W. F. Stevens at breakfast at a Hay Camp.

Miriam Green Ellis poses with her trademark rifle and a horse and carriage in front of a sod cellar. The white blur in the middle of the image shows where the photographic plate was overexposed.