Fonds contains the personal papers, photographs and sound recordings of Barbara Hinds. The personal papers primarily comprise research material, article drafts, and newspaper clippings related to Hinds' journalism career, but also correspondence, research notes, diaries, maps and manuscripts. Sound recordings were largely created during Hinds' travels in the Canadian Arctic and include several interviews. Photographs include prints, slides, negatives and proof sheets, and were mostly taken in the Canadian Arctic, but also include research and personal photographs.
Item is a photographic slide depicting a streets lined with trees displaying fall colours. There are cars parked along the street and a person walking across the street. The location of the street is unknown, although it may be in Halifax.
Item is a photographic slide depicting an unidentified woman standing on train tracks in an unidentified location. The woman is holding a telescope and there is snow and a frozen lake nearby.
File contains 11 proof sheets of 116 photographs taken during a trip to northern Quebec taken by Barbara Hinds in 1965. The photographs were taken in Fort Chimo, Povungnituk, Sugluk, and Wakeham Bay. Most of the photographs are of residents of those towns. The photographs also show houses, churches, other buildings, construction sites, boats, and cars. Each proof sheet has a sheet of paper attached to it with descriptions of each photograph.
Item is a photographic slide depicting an unidentified man sitting in a barber chair having his hair cut by a barber. The photograph was taken somewhere in the eastern Canadian Arctic.
Item is a photograph showing a young girl who has string wrapped around her fingers. She is manipulating the string with her mouth. The photograph was taken somewhere in the eastern Canadian Arctic.
Item is a photograph showing Barbara Hinds standing in a store somewhere in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Hinds is holding a pair of fur slippers. There are several fox furs hanging on a pillar nearby.
Item is a photograph showing Barbara Hinds and an unidentified girl standing at a counter. The girl is making something in a bowl. There is a box of salt and a pail on the counter. The photograph was taken somewhere in the eastern Canadian Arctic.
Item is a photograph showing an unidentified girl putting white laundry on a clothesline. The photograph was taken somewhere in the eastern Canadian Arctic.
Item is a photograph showing George Koneak wearing embroidered boots and a red plaid shirt. The man is holding a coil of rope make out of leather. The photograph was taken somewhere in the eastern Canadian Arctic.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified man standing in front of a white house. The photograph was taken in an unidentified location in the eastern Canadian Arctic.
Item is a photograph taken from on board a ship in Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador. The ship is next to wharf that has some cars on it. There is an unidentified man in uniform on the deck of the ship.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified man in an American uniform standing in front of a building with corrugated steel walls. The photograph was taken in an unidentified location in the eastern Canadian Arctic.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified man wearing glasses and a leather jacket. The photograph was taken in an unidentified location in the eastern Canadian Arctic.
Item is a photograph showing a light-coloured dog standing outdoors. The photograph was taken in an unidentified location in the eastern Canadian Arctic.
Item is a photograph of a woman named Lipitia who is wearing a traditional white parka with embroidery. Lipitia is holding a sealskin stretched on a wooden frame. The photograph was taken on Baffin Island in the Northwest Territories.
Item is a photograph of Mosesee wearing a parka and standing next to a small boat. The boat is sitting in shallow water next to an ice floe. The photograph was taken somewhere in the eastern Canadian Arctic.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Abraham Okpik about the problems facing Inuit people after being relocated to Frobisher Bay.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interviews with Mrs. Sam Dodds and her daughter, Marion Dodds in Fort Chimo, Quebec. Mrs. Dodds talks about about her wedding in the Arctic. Marion Dodds talks about her school.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds talking to Major Longan laughingly about what he'd like to say to the public and how he talks to his crew. The recording was made on Independence Day in 1960.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of a meeting of the Brownies and Girl Guides Frobisher Bay pack; Brownies and Girl Guides singing and playing games; Barbara Hinds' interview with Mrs. Delouite, the commissioner of the Brownies and Girl Guides; Barbara Hinds interviewing Mr. Belleville about waste disposal; Barbara Hinds interviewing Mr. Sacré from Carter Construction Company about runway construction at the airport; Barbara Hinds talking to children; and children singing.
Item is a recording from a meeting of the Brownies and Girl Guides Frobisher Bay pack. The recording includes Brownies and Girl Guides singing in English and Inuktitut; Mrs. Delouite talking; Brownies playing games; girls reciting the Brownie motto; girls being enrolled as Girl Guides; and Barbara Hinds talking to Annie and Lucy, who were selected to go to a Guide camp down south.
Item is a recording of some rumbling sounds, probably from the airport; Barbara Hinds' interview with Phil Sacré from the Carter Construction Company about the construction of the new runway at the Frobisher Bay airport; men talking over a radio asking for permission to blast in a hill; and sounds from the blasting.
Item is a recording of children singing in English, French, and Inuktitut. The recording is probably from Mrs. Delouite's Brownies and Girl Guides meeting in Frobisher Bay.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Panee (or possibly Pina) Elisapee, a 13-year-old girl from Cape Dorset. Panee was helping to carry bags of sugar from a barge in Apex Hill, near Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Alma (or possibly Allie or Ellie) Houston in Cape Dorset. The interview is about Houston's life in the Arctic.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds telling a story about a man named Kilabuk Pik in Pangnirtung; Hinds talking to an unidentified man in Pangnirtung; Hinds talking about the journey to Pangnirtung on the Rupertsland; sounds from the Rupertsland; and Hinds talking to an unidentified man on the Rupertsland.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds describing a group of children playing in a water hole; sounds of children playing; Barbara Hinds talking about her visit with Keith Crow in George River; Keith Crow playing the guitar; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Keith Crow about shipping fish.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Bob Green from a rehabilitation centre in Frobisher Bay; and Barbara Hinds' interview with George Koneak about a German measles epidemic.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Bob Green, from the rehabilitation centre in Frobisher Bay. Green talks about education and training programs at the rehabilitation centre.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of sounds from an airplane; Barbara Hinds' interview with Jacques Dumas about the challenges of being a pilot in the north; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Gordon Braley about flying in the north.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Mr. Page in Frobisher Bay. Page talks about a laundromat in Frobisher Bay. The beginning of the recording introduces George Crow from George River, but Hinds refers to the interviewee as Mr. Page later in the recording.
Item is a recording made by Barbara Hinds while on board the Rupertsland, near Savage Island. The recording includes Hinds describing the voyage, Hinds talking to an unidentified man, and sounds of the wind.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Captain Doug Creaser, the area superintendent in charge of the department of transportation's sea lift. Creaser is from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Creaser talks about shipping in the north.
