Gordon Rolfe's NWT and Y Photo Album 1933-37

This page presents photos from a personal album of Gordon Rolfe covering his time with the Northwest Territories and Yukon Radio System from 1933 until 1937.

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  Gordon Rolfe's NWT and Y Photo Album 1933-37

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 00b)

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 01)

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  HB Co Staff - Ft McMurray Alta. July ?? 1933. Ken Spencer, Gerry Clark

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  "Northland Echo" Route Athabaska River Ft McMurray - Fitzgerald. 1933

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  July 1933 - Athabaska River Alta

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  1933 - Athabaska River Alta

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  1933 Ft Fitzgerald Lake Athabaska Alta

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  1933 Ft Fitzgerald Lake Athabaska Alta

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  Ft Fitzgerald July 1933

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  Ft Fitzgerald July 1933

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  Sawmill Ft Fitzgerald July 1933

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 02)

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  Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - H B Co Post

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  Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - Tennis Court

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  Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - Road to Slave River

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  Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - H B Co Warehouse

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  Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - Float Plane

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  Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - Native Sports Day

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  Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - View from hilltop

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  Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - Scow at warehouse

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  Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - Plane on Slave River

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 03)

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  Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Dog team at H B Co enclosure

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  Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Native home

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  Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Road to Slave River

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  Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - H B Col warehouse

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  Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Slave River

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  Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Slave River

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  Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Awaiting break-up - Boat "Pelly Lake"

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  Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Winter home

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  Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Awaiting break-up

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 04)

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  RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Main building

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  RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Main building

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  RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Station crowded - my tent

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  RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Excavation

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  RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Excavation

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  RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - 100' tower

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  RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Main gate Winter 1934-35

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  RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Antenna Winter 1934-35

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  RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Antenna Winter 1934-35

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 05)

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  Ft Smith 1933 - Jap Streeter - Wireless Operator

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  Ft Smith 1933-34 - Jap Streeter

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  Ft Smith 1934 - Jap Streeter as civilian

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  Ft Smith 1934 - GMR sunbathing - local maiden hurrying by

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  Ft Smith June 1934 - Ivor Mast (RCMP) and GMR (RCSigs)

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  Ft Smith 1934 - GMR's dog Fanny with Ross Gourley's son

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 06)

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  Fort Smith 1933-34 - Inspector Currie RCMP

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  Fort Smith 1933-34 - RCMP Police Detachment - ?, Bill James, ?, Ivor Mast

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  Fort Smith 1933-34 - RCMP sleigh dogs

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  Fort Smith 1933-34 - Inspector Currie's residence

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  Fort Smith 1933-34 - GMR on 9 hole RCMP golf course!!

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  Fort Smith 1933-34 - Jack Taylog NWT Administrator

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 07)

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  Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934

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  Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934

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  Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934

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  Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934 - Pearl, ???, Phyllis

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  Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934 - Two R.N.s: Pearl, Phyllis

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  Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934 - "Pelly Lake" in drydock

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  Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934 - "Mackenzie River" in drydock

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  Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934 - "Mackenzie River" in drydock

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  Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934 - "Dease Lake" with Phyllis and GMR

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 08)

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  Summer 1934 - Charter trip

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  Summer 1934 - Charter trip

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  Summer 1934 - Charter trip

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  Summer 1934 - Charter trip

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  Summer 1934 - Charter trip

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  Summer 1934 - Charter trip

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  Summer 1934 - Charter trip

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  Summer 1934 - Charter trip

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  Summer 1934 - Charter trip

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 09)

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  Summer 1934 - GMR and Phyllis Foraker

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  Summer 1934 - Phyllis Foracker; NWT - Alberta border

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  Summer 1934 - GMR; NWT - Alberta border

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  Summer 1934- Phyllis midway between Ft Fitzgerald ALTA and Ft Smith NWT

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  Summer 1934 - Phyllis, Wop May and Paul Trudel, Mining Resources

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  Summer 1934 - Wop May's plane

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  Summer 1934 - GMR and R.N. Phyllis Foraker

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 10)

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  R.N. Phyllis with baby Joe Ryan

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  The Ryan children

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  Phyllis Foraker in Edmonton

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  Newspaper article about Phyllis moving to Edmonton

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 11)

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  Miles Balwin prepared for masquerade dance

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  Miles Balwin prepared for masquerade dance

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  GMR ready for masquerade party

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  Steve Popyk our new cook

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  New living quarters Fall 1934

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  New living quarters Fall 1934

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  New living quarters Fall 1934

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 12)

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  Billie Walters Fall 1934

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  Billie Walters Fall 1934

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  Winter 1934-35 Fort Smith NWT

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  Winter 1934-35

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  Shades of spring 1935

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 13)

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  June 1936 outing on the Slave River

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  June 1936 outing on the Slave River

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  June 1936 outing on the Slave River

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  June 1936 outing on the Slave River

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  June 1936 outing on the Slave River

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  June 1936 outing on the Slave River

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  June 1936 outing on the Slave River

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  June 1936 outing on the Slave River

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 14)

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  Newspaper article about serum needed for Mrs Ted Stroud

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  Newspaper article about call for serum needed for Mrs Ted Stroud

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  Wireless operator J Milo from Mercoal Alta

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 15)

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  Mrs Muriel Stroud Fort Resolution 1935

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  Muriel and Ted Stroud, Fort Resolution 1935

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 16)

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  Radio Station Fort Resolution NWT

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  L/Cpl Stafford - Cpl Rolfe

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  Breakup 1936

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  Breakup 1936 Slave Lake

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  GMR and Joseph (?)Fallis

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  with Gertrude Amyot

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  Breakup 1936 Slave Lake

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 17)

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  Broken aircraft ski February 1937

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  Broken aircraft ski February 1937

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  Broken aircraft ski February 1937

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  Fort Resolution equipment - Summer 1937

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  Art Stafford Ft Resolution Dock

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  Norseman aircraft

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  Norseman aircraft

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  Norseman aircraft

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 18)

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  Our next door neighbours

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  Our next door neighbours

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  Our next door neighbours

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  Our next door neighbours

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  Our next door neighbours

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  Our next door neighbours

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 19)

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  Fort Resolution Signal Station - Kitchen - 1937

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  Fort Resolution Signal Station - Living Room - 1937

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  Fort Resolution Signal Station - Operating Room - 1937

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  Fort Resolution Signal Station - Kitchen - 1937

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  Fort Resolution Signal Station - Living Room - 1937

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  Fort Resolution Signal Station - Operating Room - 1937

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 20)

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  Outpost Island - Slave Lake

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  Outpost Island - Slave Lake - Spring 1936

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  Slave Lake travel - Spring 1936

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  Wedding announcement - Donald Brady and Georgina McIlmoyle

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 21)

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  Visit of Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir to Fort Resolution

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  Visit of Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir to Fort Resolution

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  Eddie Jones (independent fur trader) and family - Fort Resolution

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 22)

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  Fort Norman RC Sigs Radio Station 1933-37

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  Fort Norman RC Sigs Radio Station 1933-37

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  Fort Norman RC Sigs Radio Station 1933-37

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  Fort Norman RC Sigs Radio Station 1933-37

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  Fort Norman RC Sigs Radio Station 1933-37

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  Fort Norman RC Sigs Radio Station 1933-37

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 23)

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  Dawson City and Radio Station 1933-37

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  Dawson City and Radio Station 1933-37

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  Dawson City and Radio Station 1933-37

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  Dawson City mining sluice 1933-37

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  Dawson City RCCS Station 1933-37

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  Dawson City RCCS Station 1933-37

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  Dawson City RCCS Station 1933-37

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  Dawson City 1933-37

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  Dawson City 1933-37

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 24)

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  SSgt Ross and L/Cpl Lang at Fort Rae

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  "Pelly Lake" at Fort Rae

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  Roy Hallin, Edmonton Radio Station

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  Fred Lane and bride

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 25)

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  Western Canada Airways holiday card 1933

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  Wop and Mrs May holiday card 1933

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  Mackenzie Air Service holiday card 1933

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  Canadian Airways Ltd holiday card 1933

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 26)

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  Canadian Airways Ltd holiday card

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  Wop and Mrs May holiday card 1934

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  Wop and Mrs May holiday card 1934

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  Wop and Mrs May holiday card 1934

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  Holiday card

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 27)

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  Canadian Airways Ltd holiday card

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  Mr and Mrs Farrel Canadian Airways Ltd holiday card 1935-36

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  Mr and Mrs Farrel Canadian Airways Ltd holiday card 1935-36

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  Mr and Mrs Farrel Canadian Airways Ltd holiday card 1935-36

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  Mr and Mrs Wop May holiday card

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  RCMP holiday card 1935

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 28)

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 29)

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 30)

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 31)

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  Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 99)

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