NWT Archives

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police fonds (G-1979-046). Consists primarily of images.

Related items:

  • Sound cassette: Interview with Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Henry Larsen (N-1979-063: 0340), 1962. Trevor Lloyd interviews Vilhjalmur Stefanson and Henry Larsen in the spring of 1962. Stefansson and Larsen tell how and when they first went north. Steffanson describes his first, second and third expeditions. Larsen discusses his 20 years with the RCMP ship St. Roch. Stefansson discusses the last Franklin Expedition and Larsen discusses development in the arctic. Copyright NFB. Part of the Richard Finnie fonds.
  • 16 mm film: N-2005-001: 0319, [194-]. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Cyril N.K. “Nordie” Kirk took the film in July of 1947 and 1948. The small reel of film contains all colour footage of RCMP patrols by aircraft to Fort Norman (Tulita), Norman Wells, Camp Canol, as well as shots of Aklavik, including the All Saints Anglican Mission church, hospital and school, Aklavik residents cutting and hauling ice. In addition, there is footage […] RCMP Sub-Inspector Henry Larsen, skipper of the St. Roch

The archives also has a number of photographs.