During our free time before the briefing, we spent some time in the museum. It was very interesting. I like small museums that don't feel like they will take you days, weeks or months to see.
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| Just inside the museum entrance |
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| NWT is very important in terms of minerals |
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| labels running to all parts of the computer showing which minerals are used and where they are mined |
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| My reflection meets the lemmings. I would like to have seen a live one but didn't. |
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| I didn't know this information about how muskrats winter. |
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| The closest we got to a muskox, probably just as well. |
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| Interesting information about birch and spruce in making drums. |
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| Constructing and riding in this boat was part of the Nahanni River of Forgiveness Project. There is an NFB film called The Last Moose skin boat that follows the project from start to finish. |
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| This is not your tiny canoe! |
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| Most of the construction is done by lashing one part to another. |
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| Bow detail |
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| Thwart detail |
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| Looking along the length of the boat. |
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| De Haviland Fox Moth constructed from 3 separate wrecks. These bush planes were the workhorses of the north from the 1030's to the 1950's |
In 1949 at the height of commercial fishing on Great Slave Lake there were 14 fishing companies with processing plants in Hay River. The total catch for 1949 was 9 million pounds! That was the largest catch ever in a single season. In 1951 500 commercial licenses were issued and Great Slave Lake provided the largest trout and whitefish fishery in North America. Much of the catch went to New York so supply Kosher delis.
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