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 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.
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.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Ross King, who works for Northern Labrador Affairs. King talks about what his work entails and Inuit people living in Labrador.
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 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.
Item is a recording of a meeting of the Brownies and Girl Guides in Frobisher Bay, led by Mrs. Delouite. The recording include Brownies and Girl Guides singing "Jesus Loves Me" in English and Inuktitut.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Abraham Ogpik in Frobisher Bay. Ogpik talks about Inuit people being taught to adapt to white people's lifestyle and the effects on Inuit culture.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Reverend Michael Gardner, an Anglican missionary in Cape Dorset Gardner talks about the relationship between the church and the Inuit people and how the church was built. The recording also includes people singing a hymn at the church
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with with Reverend Bill Peacock, who was a Moravian missionary for 26 years in Labrador. Peacock discusses the Inuit language and the way that the government has dealt with the Inuit people.
Item is a photograph of George Koneak with his wife (Joanna Koneak) and five children. George and Joanna are each holding one of the children and they are sitting in a group.
Item is a photograph of George and Joanna Koneak sitting with an older woman and five children. George and Joanna are each holding one of the children.
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 a group of children who are lined up outside of their school. The children and wearing parkas and some of them are looking at the camera.
Item is a photograph of a boy wearing a white parka with fur trim and holding a carving of a seal. The photograph was taken in Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories.
Item is a photograph showing a man named Henry Annatok wearing a white parka with fur trim and a sailor's cap while smoking a pipe. The photograph was taken in Port Burwell, Northwest Territories.
Item is a photograph showing three men making prints in an art centre in Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories. The photograph shows the men working at tables with several prints hanging on the walls behind them. The men are named Jolua, Luktor, and Eejiuudluk.
Item is a photograph showing a woman named Emily Annatok holding a toy goose made of fur on her lap. There are two boys looking at the toy. The photograph was taken in Port Burwell, Northwest Territories.
Item is a photograph of a group of children sitting with their teacher outdoors near their school. The photograph was taken in Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories.
Item is a photograph of a child leapfrogging over another child. There are other children in the background. The photograph was taken in Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories.
File contains photographs of sleds, dogs, George Koneak, and four other unidentified men. The photographs were taken during trips to the eastern Canadian Arctic taken by Barbara Hinds around 1960 and 1961.
File contains four photographs taken during a trip to the eastern Arctic. The photographs show a ship in Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador; an unidentified man; and a sled.
File contains five photographs taken during a trip to the eastern Arctic taken by Barbara Hinds and Rosemary Gilliat in 1960. The photographs show Barbara hinds on a scooter, a sign that says "Ice Cap Inn," Hinds with two dogs, a man holding some leather cord, and Hinds with a boy pouring water from a kettle. The photographs were taken in Frobisher Bay and other locations in the eastern Canadian Arctic. The photographs are reprints created at a later date.
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 a group of women and young children standing together next to a grey building in an unidentified location in northern Quebec. The women are wearing scarves over their heads in a variety of bright colours and patterns.
Item is a photographic slide depicting a man standing on a boat and emptying a metal bucket. The photograph was taken in an unidentified location in northern Quebec.
