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Arctic Gold and Silver Mines Limited collection

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  • Collection
  • 1968-1969

This collection consists of 97 maps of the Arctic Caribou Mine owned by Arctic Gold and Silver Mines Ltd.

Arctic Gold and Silver Mines Limited

Arctic Winter Games Corporation fonds

  • yuk yuk-74
  • Fonds
  • 1967-1990

The fonds consists of the corporate records of the Arctic Winter Games Corporation, from 1967-1990 and includes: films of the 1974 Arctic Winter Games held in Anchorage, Alaska, entitled "New Gold for Alaska" part 1 and part 2, distributed by the National Film Board and commissioned by the Arctic Winter Games Corporation; records of the Corporation and the Yellowknife Arctic Winter Games Society for the period leading up to and including the first staging of the Arctic Winter Games, 1967-1971, including incoming and outgoing correspondence, information about various events, lists of participants, clippings, AGW committee reports, rules and regulations and by-laws, 3 colour photographs of individuals modeling "arctic fashions". Files are arranged by subject; an album containing 106 photographs of AWG staff and volunteers, 1971-1972, clippings 1969-1972, minutes, 1973 terms of reference, promotional material; internal records of the corporation including minutes, financial records, reports, legal and incorporation documents, printed material, records of associated organizations, technical packages and correspondence, 1968-1986; Arctic Winter Games material collected from all AWG units, in the Sports, Arts and Recreation Branch of the Yukon Department of Community and Transportation Services, consisting of minutes, financial documents, correspondence, reports, published material and promotional material, 1972-1990. The records were acquired in 5 separate accessions. There has been no attempt to integrate the records, which originated from different sources.

Arctic Winter Games Corporation

Arctic Winter Games Host Society fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1972-1986

The fonds consists of records generated by the Arctic Winter Games Host Society in the course of planning and organizing the Arctic Winter Games in Whitehorse in 1972, 1980, and 1986. Includes letter patent, Arctic Winter Game by-laws, rule books and financial records, reports, correspondence and minutes of the Host society and its various sub-committees, correspondence and reports relating to donations, sporting events, the Arctic Winter Games Corporation, and the administration of the Games. The fonds also contains photographs of athletes and officials involved in the Games, newspaper clippings and a scrapbook illustrating the 1980 Winter Games, drawings depicting the AWG sports characters and logo for the 1986 Games, and sound recordings of the 1980 AWG theme songs.

Arctic Winter Games Host Society

Ardrie (Harbottle) Fraser fonds

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  • Fonds
  • Copied 1984 (originally created [ca. 1914-1925])

The fonds consists of copy negs and prints (20x25 cm) with views of Ardrie Harbottle (Fraser), her parents, Frank and Lillian Harbottle, George and Martha Black, and other friends of the family.

Fraser, Ardrie (Harbottle), 1912-1992

Art and Margaret Strong fonds

  • yuk yuk-811
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1907-1925]

The fonds consists of a copy of a 30 page typed manuscript, "Dawson Days", written by Margaret H. Strong. Mrs. Strong reminisces about going to Dawson City, Yukon as a newlywed with her husband Art and the years they spent there. She writes about people they met and socialized with, outdoor sporting activities, travelling to and from the Yukon and Oregon, and about the Twelve Mile Ditch. The fonds includes original photographs taken by Mr. and Mrs. Strong, which illustrate many of the people and places talked about in her manuscript. Images include Dawson City, roadhouses, the White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR) stage and a shot of Juneau from a steamer going up the inside passage. Captions accompany the photographs (82/524). The remaining original photographs in the fonds are prints and postcards of Dawson City, Fort Yukon in Alaska, sternwheelers, mining activity, Yukon Gold Company's 60 Mile Camp, and construction of the Yukon Ditch. Alfred K. Schellinger, an engineer for the Yukon Gold Company, took many of the photographs and Art Strong may have taken the remaining (78/50).

Strong, Art

Art Fry fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1929-1989

The fonds consists of photographs and films taken by Art Fry. The black and white photographs were taken 1929-1936 of mining in the Klondike gold fields, dredges, Bear Creek, Guggieville, Dawson City, Lousetown, North Fork, Jensen, Carcross and the steamer Nora. The colour photographs, taken 1962-1985, depict Fry's placer mining operation and two Dawson City old-timers, Aubrey Kendell Kelly and Harry Leaman. The video is a copy of home movies taken by Fry of the Yukon Invitational Boxing Championships, Whitehorse, February 13, 1982.

Fry, Art, 1913-1994

Art Johnson fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1942

The fonds consists of 23 original b&w photographs which deal primarily with the building of the airport runway in Watson Lake, Yukon in 1942. Images include the runway under construction, the radio shack, a U.S. Army road crew, a float plane on Watson Lake, and an Army camp on the shore of the lake.

Johnson, Art, b. 1920?

Art Knutson fonds

  • yuk yuk-976
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900-ca. 1953]

The fonds consists of the donor's research files on 138 sternwheelers in Alaska and the Yukon, ca. 1900-1953. The files include information about where each vessel was built, rivers it operated on, and the dates of operation.

Knutson, Art

Arthur Campbell collection

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  • Collection
  • Copied 1980 (originally created 1903, 1980)

The collection consists of a copy of a photograph and letter from Arthur Campbell. The photograph shows the Kinsey and Campbell family in front of a log building at Henry (Harry) Campbell's claim on 13 Gold Run Creek in 1903. The caption on the back of the photograph read "13 Gold Run Creek, Dawson City, Yukon Territory. Left to right - Will and Kate Kinsey; Henry (Harry) Campbell holding son, Arthur H. Campbell born Nov. 30, 1902; Ella Cooper Campbell and cat; in cart, Viola Mae Campbell, born her June 30, 1901; Hans Kiesaw. 1903 - claim of Henry Campbell". The letter was written by Arthur Campbell to MacBride Museum to give information about the photograph and the Campbell family.

Campbell, Arthur H, 1902-

Arthur F. and Elizabeth Daily fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1929-1951, 1979

The fonds consists of eighteen 16 mm film reels, 109 black and white photographs and 9 colour slides. The film reels contain footage of several northern communities: Dawson City, Whitehorse, Fairbanks, Eagle, Palmer and Bear Creek. There are scenes of activities such as river ice breaking up, flooding of Dawson City, construction of North Fork Power Plant, U.S. smelting operations on Cripple Creek near Fairbanks, steamers, Discovery Day Parade, airplanes, dredges and mining activity, and the White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR) railway. Many of these were taken while the Daily family was on vacation in the United States.

Daily, Arthur F. Daily, Elizabeth

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