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 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
Item is a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds talking to three Inuit children. Hinds asks the children questions about their names, games that they like to play, and school. The recording also includes children singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and "Frère Jacques" in English, French, and Inuktitut.
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 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 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.
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 Ross King, who works for Northern Labrador Affairs. King talks about what his work entails and Inuit people living in Labrador.
File contains 130 photographic slides taken by Rosemary Gilliat during a 1960 trip to the eastern Canadian Arctic with Barbara Hinds. The photographs in this file were taken in Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories (now Iqaluit, Nunavut). The photographs residents of the area, ice floes in the bay, buildings in the town, the surrounding landscape, and Barbara Hinds herself. Some of the photographs were taken in Sylvia Grinell Territorial Park and the Inuit community of Apex.
Item is a photographic slide of several children facing away from the camera, perhaps watching a event. The children are in a room with buntings hanging from the ceiling. The photograph is dark.
Item is a photographic slide showing three men standing by a truck that has "Canada Northern Affairs and National Resources" written on the door. One of the men is opening the door.
Item is a photographic slide showing three men standing by a truck with "Canada Northern Affairs and National Resources" written on the door. One of the men in getting into the truck.
File contains 31 photographic slides taken by Rosemary Gilliat during a 1960 trip to the eastern Canadian Arctic with Barbara Hinds. The photographs in this file were taken in Fort Chimo, Québec (now Kuujjuaq, Québec). The photographs show residents of Fort Chimo, the landscape of the area, and Barbara Hinds herself.
File contains 116 photographic slides taken by Rosemary Gilliat during a 1960 trip to the eastern Canadian Arctic with Barbara Hinds. The photographs in this file were taken in George River (Kangiqsualujjuaq), Port Burwell (Killiniq), Ikkudliayuk Fjord, and Cape Dorset. The photographs show the residents of the towns that they visited, buildings in the towns, the surrounding landscape, forms of transportation, and Barbara Hinds herself.
Item is a photographic slide depicting a row of women and children standing near the shore and watching an airplane that is sitting on the water. The women are wearing traditional white tailed parkas and are carrying children on their backs inside the parkas. The photograph was taken in Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut).
