Item is a photograph of the Anglican church in Fort Chimo, Quebec. There is a sign in front of the church that says "The / Anglican Church / welcomes you / St. Stephen's Fort Chimo / Visit by Moravians 1811 / Visited and taught by / Dr. Peck 1884 / Mission established 1899 / Church built 1902."
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.
File contains a photocopy of a manuscript called "Collision in the Arctic," written by Barbara Hinds. There are corrections on the manuscript as well as separate pages of editing suggestions. The last three pages are originals, not photocopies. The file also includes correspondence about the manuscript from the MacMillan Company of Canada Limited, Rosemary, Shannon Perry, and Mike Eaton; comments and suggestions for photographs from Rosemary Gilliat Eaton; and a description of a 1960 visit to the eastern Arctic, as told to Michael Eaton by Barbara Hinds in 2008.
Item is correspondence about the manuscript Collision in the Artic from Anne Perrie, Editorial Department of the MacMillan Company of Canada Limited to Miss Hinds.
File contains a the September 6, 1966 issue of The Norther, a publication from the Northwest Territories. The cover of the issue features a photo story by Barbara Hinds called "When the Tide Comes In: Effects of Nouveau Quebec on Eastern Eskimos."
File contains three photocopies of newspaper articles written by Barbara Hinds. The articles include "Life at Frobisher: Traffic Signs Invade Far North," from the the July 9, 1960 issue of the Mail-Star; "Ship's Arrival Eskimo's Delight," from the November 3, 1960 issue of the Chronicle-Herald; and "Port Burwell: Gateway To Eastern Arctic."
File contains a draft of an article about George and Joanna Koneak; a newspaper clipping of "Ookpik's Success Seen as Boon to Eskimo Co-ops" by Alan Dawson Jr.; and several pages of typed rough drafts about Inuit people. The rough drafts have many corrections written on them and the pages have been cut into sections and sometimes reattached.
File contains a typed draft of a talk about Eskimo clothing, which was presented to the Antiquarian Society, and several pages of photocopies from a book about Eskimo clothing. The talk is printed on the back of documents from the Friends of the Public Gardens.
Item is a photograph of a page from Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald's diary. The diary entry shown was written while Fitzgerald's patrol was traveling between McPherson, Northwest Territories and Dawson City, Yukon. The entry mentions that they had to eat one of their dogs. Some parts of the photograph are filled in the with off-white paint. A piece of translucent paper and a sticky note are attached to the photograph. A typed cutline describing the photograph is attached to the back.
Item is a photograph of the will of Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald, written with a charred stick not long before his death in the western Canadian Arctic. Parts of the photograph are filled in with off-white paint. A typed cutline and a cutline clipped from a newspaper are attached to the back of the photograph. A piece of translucent paper and a sticky note are attached to the front.
Item is a photograph taken at the burial of Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald, S. Carter, C. F. Kinney, and R. O. H. Taylor at McPherson, Northwest Territories. The photograph shows a priest in white robes, a row of men with rifles, and several other people standing around the burial site behind a wooden fence. There is a piece of translucent paper and a sticky note attached to the photograph.
Item is a photocopy of "A Hero for Centennial" by Barbara Hinds, published in the August 1967 issue of the Atlantic Advocate. The article is about Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald. The article includes several photographs.
Item is section B (The Novascotian) from the February 5, 1993 issue of the Chronicle-Herald and Mail-Star. The section features an article called "Lost patrol: Arctic hero died seeking help" by Barbara Hinds. The article is about Francis J. Fitzgerald and the Lost Patrol. The article features photographs of Fitzgerald and the Dempster rescue patrol.
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.
Item is a photograph of the graves of Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald and his party in McPherson, Northwest Territories. There are small headstones for Francis J. Fitzgerald, S. Carter, C. F. Kinney, and R. O. H. Taylor on either side of a large stone cross. There is a chain barrier around the graves.
Item is a photograph of the graves of Francis J. Fitzgerald and the three other men in his patrol. The graves are located in McPherson, Northwest Territories. The graves include four smaller gravestones for Francis J. Fitzgerald, S. Carter, C. F. Kinney, and R. O. H. Taylor, as well as a large stone cross with the names of all four men. They are surrounded by a white picket fence. The photograph is covered with a piece of translucent paper and there is a sticky note on the front.
Item is a collection of proofs of photographs related to Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald attached to sheets of paper. The photographs show Fitzgerald's grave, will, diary, portrait, and funeral, as well as a bridge and plaque dedicated to him in the Halifax Public Gardens and the Dempster patrol. One of the proofs of Fitzgerald's portrait has a rectangle cut out of the middle of it.
Item consists of three pages of typed notes about Francis J. Fitzgerald and the Lost Patrol. The pages are made up of several pieces of paper glued together.
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."
Item is a newspaper clipping of part of an article about Francis J. Fitzgerald, the Lost Patrol, and Fitzgerald's mother. Part of the article is missing. The date, author, article title, and newspaper name are unidentified, although it was probably published in a Halifax Newspaper.
Item consists of five pages of typed notes about Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald and the Lost Patrol. There are many corrections written on the notes in pencil.
Item consists of two pages of typed notes titled "Lost Patrol." The notes contain information about Francis J. Fitzgerald's extended family, Corporal Dempster's rescue patrol, and Fitzgerald's lost patrol.
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 recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with George Koneak. Koneak talks about a period of time when his family was going hungry and about a measles epidemic in the 1950s.
File contains two reel-to reel tapes containing recordings of people singing hymns; huskies barking and whining; and Barbara Hinds' interview with George Koneak about a period of time when his family didn't have enough food and a measles epidemic in the 1950's.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds telling a story about an Anglican church that she attended in Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories. The story is about an Inuit man named Putuguk (uncertain spelling) who built the church, how the missionary Mike Gardner came to Cape Dorset, how his son Kananginak bought the organ for the church, and how Hinds ended up playing organ at the church.
File contains two reel-to reel tapes containing recordings of Barbara Hinds talking about the history of the church in Cape Dorset; a grade 2 reading lesson at a school in Frobisher Bay; students singing God Save the Queen; and Barbara Hinds interviewing Gordon Goward, a teacher in Frobisher Bay.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Pierre Williamson, the chief air traffic controller at the Frobisher Bay airport. Williamson talks about the runway at the airport, emergencies, power failures, and his work week. The interview is followed by the sound of a helicopter from an icebreaker called the John A. MacDonald, which is in Frobisher Bay.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Mr. Challace about what signals from a weather balloon indicate. Signals from the weather balloon can be heard in the background.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Noah Groves about North West River; Barbara Hinds' interview with Joan Cotton about Inuit children and living in Labrador; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Ross King, from Northern Labrador Affairs.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Bob Green, superintendent of the Rehabilitation Centre in Frobisher Bay. Green talks about the history of the rehabilitation centre, the centre's workshops, a young man who was a resident of the centre, and other topics.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Pierre Williamson, air traffic controller; sounds from a helicopter; Barbara Hinds' interview with Mr. Challace (uncertain spelling) about weather balloons; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Wayne Wilson about weather balloons.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Mrs. Dodds talking to her daughter Marion over a two-way radio; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Mrs. Sam Dodds in Fort Chimo about about teaching Inuit women to cook with new foods and make handicrafts.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording children singing the alphabet and other songs in school; children yelling while playing in a water hole; children singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"'; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Joan Ryan, a school teacher in George River, about what it’s like to teach up North.
Item is a recording of Mrs. Sam Dodds talking to her daughter Marion over a two-way radio. Marion is at school in George River. They talk about cookies and boots that Marion would like to have sent to her.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Mrs. Sam Dodds in Fort Chimo, Quebec. Mrs. Dodds talks about teaching Inuit women to cook with new foods and make handicrafts.
File consists of short clips of Barbara Hinds' interviews with pilots in Fort Chimo, Quebec. There are two men being interviewed on the recording but the reel is labeled with the names Michael Ross, Gordon Braley, and Jacques Dumas. The pilots tell stories about being pilots in the north. The recording is preceded by pilot talking over a radio.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with George Koneak. Koneak talks about polar bears, rigid frame and snow houses, fishing programs, and a measles epidemic.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Marion Dodds, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dodds. Marion tells Hinds about her school in George River.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Max Budgell. Budgell talks about the aging population of Port Burwell, the challenges of living there, the fishery, and other topics.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Mrs. Sam Dodds. Mrs. Dodds talks about when she first got married and moved up north to Port Harrison. She also talks about the challenges of living up north, including food, receiving visitors, and schooling.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Mr. Graves, the principal of the school in Frobisher Bay. Graves talks about woodworking and other vocational training at the rehabilitation centre in Apex Hill. The recording includes sounds of students working in the wood shop.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Frobisher Bay general contractor Bryan Pearson; and Barbara Hinds' Interview with Mr. Graves about carpentry and other vocational training at Apex Hill school.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Bryan Pearson, a general contractor in Frobisher Bay. Pearson tells a story about a disaster while baking bread. He also talks about the challenges of building houses in Frobisher Bay.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of an unidentified man speaking Inuktitut; two unidentified men speaking over a radio; Barbara Hinds' interview with Mrs. Dodds about living in the North; Barbara Hinds' interview with Mrs. Dodds' daughter Marion about her school at George River; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Max Budgell.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Bryan Pearson, a general contractor in Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories. Pearson talks about how he came to the north, employing Inuit people, his past jobs, and other topics.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with George Koneak. During the interview Koneak tells a story about when his family was going hungry.
