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Report, 28 November 1831
FC 3207 F85 1.6.14 · Item · 28 November 1831
Part of Fur Trade Collection

A report from Fort Simpson to the Chief Factors and Chief Traders of the Hudson's Bay Company Northern Departments.

The report describes trade at Mackenzie River since the sender's last communication with the recipients. The report includes details about the movement of goods and the employment of Indigenous people.

TL 540 D53 C64 2.1.130 · File · 1929
Part of Clennell 'Punch' Dickins fonds

Envelope labelled "First mail flight from Edmonton Fort Simpson via Fort McMurray - Chipewyan - Fort Smith - Fort Resolution - Hay River Fort Providence - Fort Simpson - on the McKenzie [sic] River - Jan 1929", contains:
b&w ; 9 cm x 14 cm print of group of men, sleds, and dog teams next to aircraft in snow, registration G-CASN, caption reads "Fort Resolution, Resolution 1929"
b&w ; 9 cm x 15 cm print of group of men next to aircraft, one standing out of cockpit, caption reads "Getting started - after over night temperature of -56˚F - below zero. CHD in cockpit with top section of engine cover. Crew man mechanic on ground with lower section" [has negative]
b&w ; 9 cm x 11 cm print of dog team pulling man and sled from aircraft, caption reads "On the river Fort Simpson Jan 1929" [other prints appear in 6-140] [has negative]
b&w ; 9 cm x 14 cm print of group of people around aircraft in the snow, mail bags beside, one man stands out of cockpit, caption reads "Fort Resolution NWT, Jan 25th 1929 first flight with mail. [Insp. Reilly]"

TL 540 D53 C64 2.1.132 · File · 1929
Part of Clennell 'Punch' Dickins fonds

Government of Canada envelope labelled "Jan 1929 First flights Edmonton to Simpson, via McMurray, Chipewyan, Ft Smith, Ft Resolution, Hay R., Providence", contains:
b&w ; 9 cm x 11 cm print of group of people next to aircraft in the snow, registration G-CASN, caption reads "Fort Simpson NWT, Jan. 1929. -33˚F"
b&w ; 6 cm x 13 cm print of group of people standing next to aircraft in the snow, buildings in background, registration G-CASN, caption reads " C.H Dickins Fort Resolution Jan 1929, Starting up. -42F"

TL 540 D53 C64 2.1.143 · File · 1929-[1931]
Part of Clennell 'Punch' Dickins fonds

A B.C. Hydro envelope labelled "prints and negatives McKenzie [sic] Riv Winter - 29/30", containing:
b&w ; 7 cm x 12 cm print of Bishop Breynat and 3 men [2 copper prospectors and Punch?], Fort Smith? October 1929. Caption on reverse: "Dovner prospectors brought out from Coppermine - Oct 1929, and Bishop Breynat in fur parka, arrival at Fort Smith?" [another print appears in 6-127]
b&w ; 7 cm x 12 cm print, group portrait of men and one child in front of an HBC Fort Hearne sign. Caption on reverse: "Riley Cooper, Alan Cameron, Barney Day, CHD [Punch] N.W.T. about 1930" [another print appears in 6-147] [has negative]
b&w ; 8 cm x 11 cm print of pontoon plane on shore, registration G-CASM, caption reads "East end Great Slave Lake - only [ruin?] left - October Fort Reliance 1929 CH Dickins Searching for McAlpine [sic] party" [another print appears in 6-127] [has negative]
b&w ; 8 cm x 12 cm print of group of men sitting near buildings at waterfront, caption reads "Typical northern trading post Fort Rae, north side of Great Slave Lake N.W.T. about 1931 CH Dickins" [another print appears in 7-156] [has negative]
b&w ; 7 cm x 12 cm print of group of men tending to an aircraft with skis equipped. Caption on reverse reads "CHD [Punch] in cockpit taking off engine cover. Lew Parmenter on ground on left. -52[degrees]F. Ft Simpson - Jan 1929"
b&w ; 9 cm x 11 cm print of dog team next to aircraft, caption on back reads "Simpson Jan 1929"
b&w ; 8 cm x 13 cm print of a group of men and boys standing next to an aircraft with cargo bags on the ground. Caption reads "First mail by plane in N.W.T. - Jan 1929 Fort Resolution NWT CH Dickins. 1st trip - mail @ Resolution Jan 25/29"
b&w ; 7 cm x 12 cm print of group of men next to aircraft in the snow
b&w ; 8 cm x 13 cm print of group of men and boys standing next to an aircraft with cargo bags on the ground. Caption reads "First air delivery of mail - Jan 1919 - Fort resolution - N.W.T. Canada - CH Dickins Pilot"
b&w ; 9 cm x 15 cm print of group of men next to aircraft in the snow (duplicate)
b&w ; 13 cm x 9 cm print, group portrait of 3 men standing under wing of aircraft. Caption reads "Coppermine - (Fort Hearne) March 1930. L to R CHD Pilot west. Can. Airways, Reeves propietor [sic] Dominion Explorers Ltd., Bill Tall Mechanic West. Can Airways [has negative]

TL 540 D53 C64 2.1.148 · File · 1929-[193-?]
Part of Clennell 'Punch' Dickins fonds

b&w ; 9 cm x 11 cm print of aircraft in snowy field with dog team and men approaching, caption reads "Fort Simpson, Jan [Feb?] 1929"
b&w ; 13 cm x 18 cm print, group portrait of Aboriginal people standing on shoreline in front of the tail of an aircraft, caption reads "Eskimos, Bellanca, Cdn Airways, Coppermine?" [other prints appear in 6-146 and 6-147]
b&w ; 13 cm x 18 cm print, group portrait of Aboriginal people standing in front of tents at camp, caption reads "Eskimos, Coppermine?"

PE002630 - Canada, 1930-1933
Item · 1930-1933
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

A personal photograph album recording the travels of an unidentified person from the United Kingdom [England or Scotland?] throughout Canada between 1930-1933, with a large focus on the time spent in Western Canada. Most photographs are neatly captioned in white ink.

Images include: steamship ["C.P.R. Duchess of Richmond", Canadian Pacific ocean liner] and the ocean journey from England [Liverpool] to Atlantic Canada [Newfoundland and Labrador]; trains and the railway journey across Canada; locations in Ontario; post office and rail yard in Alberta; cabins and personal dwellings in Alberta; a house fire [captioned "It lasted twenty minutes"]; landscapes; automobiles and roads; commercial street in Grande Prairie; a ferry boat; Hudson's Bay Company buildings; posed photographs of individuals; horses; dogs; dogsleds; wildlife; a bivouac; Indigenous people [identified in captions as "Beaver Indian" and "Cree Indian"]; individual identified as "Johnny Bremner"; camping; a trapper's cabin; trappers and animal furs; ship ["Northland Echo"]; fishing; canoes; seaplanes [captioned "Fire Ranger, Mail Carrier"]; sports [captioned "Football in the territories"; Royal Canadian Mounted Police [RCMP] officers; hunting; ice break-up on the Mackenzie and Liard rivers; and the return ocean journey [to Scotland].

Item · May 1936
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Illustrated booklet prepared by Right Reverend Arthur Henry Sovereign, Bishop of the Diocese of Athabasca, and published by the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada in May 1936. Contains information on the Diocese of Athabasca, including its geographical area, history, the Anglican Church's missionary activities in Athabasca [including the operation of residential schools at Wabasca, White Fish Lake, and Hay River], and the church's needs [prayer; financial support].

Contents:
This Diocese ...; Bishop; For God and His Church in Athabasca By the Bishop of the Diocese; Yesterday and To-day; The Peace River District; "Canada's Last Great West. A Land of Invitation."; Indian Missions; Additional Problems [1. Newcomers; 2. The Challenge of the unprecedented mineral discoveries and commercial developments; 3. Fort McMurray and Waterways]; Our Special Needs.

Illustrations:
"St. James' Church, Peace River, Diocese of Athabasca"; "This map shows the geographical position and the extent of the Diocese of Athabasca"; "A raft bringing out lumber on the Athabasca River"; "... a million acres of arable land - in the great Peace River area"; "The visit of a missionary is eagerly welcomed by a lonely pioneer"; "Easter congregation at a little church in South Athabasca"; "Polish and Ukrainian children who come 4 and 5 miles over bad trails to school at Narrow Lake"; "... sometimes a wet season means "too much of a good thing" on a new road"; "After a confirmation service at St. John's Indian Residential School at Wabasca"; "A tea-party of Indians to meet the Bishop on his visit to Fort Simpson last summer"; "Covered wagons" bringing settlers from the South"; "The long, long trail" from the South ends with the arrival at their new home"; "A fine family who came in about two years ago"; "The prospector and those who follow him are increasingly to be found in widely scattered areas in the mineral belt"; "Map Showing Aerial Routes into Northern Canada"; "Wedding of a "Mounty" and his charming bridge at the beautiful little Church at Fort Simpson"; "Celebration of the Holy Communion in the woods, at a "[Sunday] School by Post" camp"; "Who will help us to open the closed door of the Church at Fort Norman?"

Sovereign, Arthur Henry, Right Rev.