History

Royal Northwest Mounted Police (RNWMP) Monument to the 1911 Lost Patrol in the Fort McPherson Anglican Church graveyard.

Margaret (Stewart) Firth and John Firth.

John Firth. This photo was taken in 1929, a few weeks after Mr. Firth received his 60 years of service pin from the Hudson's Bay Company. The pin appears on his lapel. (According to information from "Our Metis Heritage," edited by Joanne Overvold (Burger) 1976.

Kootchin [Gwich'in] hunters, 1847-48.
Original sketch by Alexander Murray, in "Journal of the Yukon", 184-748.  Colour lithograph by M&N Hanhart in Richardson, John, "Arctic Searching Expedition: A Journal of a Boat-Voyage through Ruperts Land and the Arctic Sea in Search of Sir John Franklin," London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851, vol. 1.

Hudson's Bay Company manager's house in Fort McPherson.

Dance of the Kootcha Kootchin [Gwichyah Gwich'in], 1847-48.
Original sketch by Alexander Murray, in "Journal of the Yukon",  1847-48.  Colour lithograph by M&N Hanhart in Richardson, John, "Arctic Searching Expedition: A Journal of a Boat-Voyage through Ruperts Land and the Arctic Sea in Search of Sir John Franklin," London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851, vol. 1.

Western Gwich'in winter camp drawn by Alexander Hunter Murray in 1848.