Item consists of several pages photocopied from a book titled "Reports and Other Papers Relating to the McPherson-Dawson Police Patrol - Winter 1910-1911 - And the Death of Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald and All Members of the Patrol," published by the Royal North West Mounted Police in 1911 and republished in 1919. There is a blank action request form from the CBC stuck to the first page that says "Thank-You. Bruce."
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Mike Bamblett, a barkeeper, and Albert Bentham, a theatre door keeper. The interviews are about working in Dawson City.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Robin Craven, an actor in Dawson City, about a musical stage performance called “Foxy.”
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Mrs. Elinor (Baker) Coakley at the Sunset Home in Dawson City. Coakley talks about her life in Dawson City, her past in Australia, and her past work. The interview is preceded by an introduction by Barbara Hinds.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds interviewing Alan Innes-Taylor. Innes-Taylor talks about how he came to Dawson City, his past employment as a police officer, gold mining, the Gold Rush Festival, and other topics.
File contains photographs, negatives, and proof sheets from Barbara Hinds' 1962 trip to the Yukon. Many of the photographs are portraits of people who Hinds met during her trip.
Item is a photograph of the patrol led by Dempster after returning to Dawson City, Yukon. The photograph shows the patrol's sleds, with the sled dogs still harnessed and lying on the ground. Some dogs have collapsed from exhaustion. A large group of men are watching the sleds from a sidewalk. There is a piece of translucent paper attached over the photograph, with a sticky note on it. A typed cutline and two cutlines clipped from a newspaper are attached to the back of the photograph.
File contains negatives, proofs, and prints of photographs related to Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald, including photographs taken around the time of his death in 1911 and more current photographs of the bridge and plaque dedicated to him in the Halifax Public Gardens. There are also some negatives showing a protest held by children in an unidentified location. The file also contains typed cutlines to accompany the photographs; typed drafts of articles about Inspector Fitzgerald; newspaper and magazine articles about Fitzgerald; a photocopy of a book called "Reports and Other Papers Relating to the McPherson-Dawson Police Patrol - Winter 1910-1911 - and the Death of Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald and all Members of the Patrol"; request slips from the Public Archives of Nova Scotia; volume 27, number 1 of the RCMP Quarterly; and a letter from Hinds to Anne.
Item is a photograph taken from an airplane flying over Dawson City, Yukon. The mountain next to Dawson City is visible but most of the view is obstructed.