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Recording of a Brownies and Girl Guides meeting

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.

Recording of an interview with Pina Elisapee

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.

Recordings from a school in Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories

Item is a recording of a grade 2 reading lesson at a school in Frobisher Bay; students singing God Save the Queen; Barbara Hinds interviewing Gordon Goward, a teacher in Frobisher Bay; Barbara Hinds talking about end of term reports at the school; and a woman translating a report in Inuktitut.

Photograph of children and a dog

Item is a photographic slide depicting two children playing next to a white dog. There are people unloading boxes from a boat in the background.

Photograph of Allie saying goodbye to two women with three children

Item is a photographic slide depicting a woman named Allie saying goodbye to two women wearing white parkas. One of the woman is carrying a baby on her back and there are two children standing with them. The photograph was taken in Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut).

Photograph of several women and children watching an airplane

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).

Recordings from a meeting of the Brownies and Girl Guides Frobisher Bay pack

File contains a reel-to-reel recording from a meeting of the Brownies and Girl Guides Frobisher Bay Pack. The reel includes recordings of Brownies singing songs and playing games; girls reciting the Brownie oath; girls being enrolled as Girl Guides and saying the Guide promise; and Barbara Hinds interviewing Annie and Lucy, two Girl Guides who were selected to go to summer camp in Quebec.

Recording of an interview with Mrs. Delouite

Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Mrs. Delouite, the Guide commissioner for the Brownies and Girl Guides in Frobisher Bay. Mrs. Delouite talks about the girls in the Brownies and Girl Guides, particularly the Inuit girls, and their uniforms. She also talks about two girls, Annie and Lucy, who were selected to go to a Girl Guide camp down south.