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This page features photos related to the Northwest Territories and Yukon Radio System which was in operation from 1923 to 1960. For photos from other periods please see the main photos page.

Aklavik wireless station c1925
Dawson City antenna system 1923
DeWitt on pole line near Dawson, 1923
Aubrey Griswold in barrack room at Fort Smith c1925
Nona Griswold, Fort Smith c1927
Aubrey and Nona Griswold along with baby Nadene, Salt Wells NWT c1928
Staff Sergeant Aubrey Griswold c1929
Picnic at Bell Rock, Fort Smith, 1929. Nona and Nadene Griswold along with Jack Taylor
Picnic at Bert Edge's Cabin - Nona, Nadene and Aubrey Griswold 24 July 1928, Fort Smith
Bert Edge's cabin outside Fort Smith, Fall 1930. Bert Edge, Walter Johnston, (holding Yvonne), Nona and Aubrey Griswold
Conibear's General Store, Fort Smith, c1928
Dance in Fort Smith 5 Oct 1929
The ferry, Salt River Farm, Fort Smith c1929
Front rrom of the Griswold home, Fort Smith, c1929
Front rrom of the Griswold home, Fort Smith, c1929
Government buildings, Fort Smith January 1928
Aubrey Griswold and an unidentified Sgt Maj - probably Bob Hastings - Fort Smith c1929
Hauling firewood at the radio station Fort Smith, November 1929
Aubrey and Nona Griswold's house, Fort Smith, 1928
Aubrey griswold's Ford Model T Sedan stuck in the bog, Fort Smith, 25 Sep 1929
Nadene Griswold, Wook Buffalo Park, Sep 16, 1928
Aubrey Griswold in her muskrat fur trimmed coat, Fort Smith, 11 Sep 1928
Nona Griswold and daughter Yvonne with Prince, Fort Smith, 1930
Plowing with dogs, Fort Smith c1928
Army built house RC Signals Station Fort Smith c 1928
Nona Griswold on the police boat "Calgary", Fort Smith, NWT, c1929
Looking across Slave River from picnic grounds 29 July 1928
Mickey Ryan's "Halfway" on the road between Fort Smith and Fitzgerald c1928
Mrs Connibear and Nona Griswold take a sleigh ride, Fort Smith 1928
Jack Taylor, Aubrey and Nona Griswold with baby Nadene. Picnic at Salt Wells, Wook Buffalo Park NWT, 16 Sep 1928
Wop May's departure for Fort McMurray, 14 Jan 1920
Wop May arrives in fort Smith in his Fokker Super Universal airplane c1928
Christmas 1929 - Evelyn Pearson, Aubrey Griswold, Jack Pearson
Christmas 1929 - Evelyn Pearson, Joe Dexter, Jack Pearson
Edmonton wireless station 1925 (1)
Edmonton wireless station 1925 (2)
Edmonton wireless station 1925 (3)
Erection of mast at unknown NWTandY station c1923-25
Fort Simpson NWT 1929
Fort Smith opening and flag raising
Fort Smith under construction 12 Aug 1925
Fort Smith under construction 20 July 1925
Fort Smith wireless station 1927
Governor General Byng at Fort Smith 1925 (1)
Governor General Byng at Fort Smith 1925 (2)
Heath, Frank Clement 1923
Heath, Frank Clement 1943
Herschell Island wireless station 1930
Hershall Island winter 1976
Hudsons Bay Co store and wireless station Aklavik NWT 1926
Mast of 500W transmitter at unknown NWTandY station
Mayo Wireless Station 1923
Mayo YT, 21 December 1924
Mayo new wireless equipment 1924
Mayo original wireless equipment 1923
Motorized schooner Velox
NWT and Y uniform Miller
NWT and Y work, Bruce Cameron
NWTandY Lr buchanan
NWTandY Stn dawson1 u105
NWTandY U 101
NWTandY U 102
NWTandY U 106
NWTandY U 109
NWTandY U 110
NWTandY U 112
NWTandY U 118
NWTandY U 121
NWTandY U 122
NWTandY U 123
NWTandY U-125a
NWTandY U-125b
NWTandY VEZ-Brochet---1
NWTandY VEZ-Brochet---10
NWTandY VEZ-Brochet---11
NWTandY VEZ-Brochet---12
NWTandY VEZ-Brochet---2
NWTandY VEZ-Brochet---3
NWTandY VEZ-Brochet---4
NWTandY VEZ-Brochet---5
NWTandY VEZ-Brochet---6
NWTandY VEZ-Brochet---7
NWTandY VEZ-Brochet---8
NWTandY VEZ-Brochet---9
NWtandy vc p11c
Nwtandy fh 12
Nwtandy fh 17
Nwtandy fh 25
Nwtandy fh 26
Nwtandy hs 1
Nwtandy hs 2
Nwtandy ks 10
Nwtandy ks 13
Nwtandy ks 14
Nwtandy ks 15
Nwtandy ks 16a
Nwtandy ks 16b
Nwtandy ks 17
Nwtandy ks 18
Nwtandy ks 19
Nwtandy ks 4
Nwtandy ks 5
Nwtandy ks 6
Nwtandy ks 7
Nwtandy ks 8
Nwtandy ks whitehorse1
Nwtandy rt pg 9a
Nwtandy vc p01a
Nwtandy vc p01b
Nwtandy vc p02a
Nwtandy vc p02b
Nwtandy vc p02c
Nwtandy vc p02d
Nwtandy vc p12a
Nwtandy vc p12b
Nwtandy vc p12c
Nwtandy vc p14a
Nwtandy vc p14b
Port Radium
Raising second tower at NWTandY Station Edmonton 24 Oct 1924
Gordon Rolfe's NWT and Y Photo Album 1933-37
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 00b)
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 01)
HB Co Staff - Ft McMurray Alta. July ?? 1933. Ken Spencer, Gerry Clark
"Northland Echo" Route Athabaska River Ft McMurray - Fitzgerald. 1933
July 1933 - Athabaska River Alta
1933 - Athabaska River Alta
1933 Ft Fitzgerald Lake Athabaska Alta
1933 Ft Fitzgerald Lake Athabaska Alta
Ft Fitzgerald July 1933
Ft Fitzgerald July 1933
Sawmill Ft Fitzgerald July 1933
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 02)
Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - H B Co Post
Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - Tennis Court
Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - Road to Slave River
Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - H B Co Warehouse
Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - Float Plane
Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - Native Sports Day
Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - View from hilltop
Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - Scow at warehouse
Summer Fort Smith NWT 1933 - Plane on Slave River
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 03)
Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Dog team at H B Co enclosure
Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Native home
Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Road to Slave River
Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - H B Col warehouse
Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Slave River
Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Slave River
Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Awaiting break-up - Boat "Pelly Lake"
Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Winter home
Fort Smith NWT Winter 1933 - Awaiting break-up
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 04)
RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Main building
RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Main building
RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Station crowded - my tent
RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Excavation
RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Excavation
RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - 100' tower
RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Main gate Winter 1934-35
RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Antenna Winter 1934-35
RCCS Radio Station Ft Smith 1934 - Antenna Winter 1934-35
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 05)
Ft Smith 1933 - Jap Streeter - Wireless Operator
Ft Smith 1933-34 - Jap Streeter
Ft Smith 1934 - Jap Streeter as civilian
Ft Smith 1934 - GMR sunbathing - local maiden hurrying by
Ft Smith June 1934 - Ivor Mast (RCMP) and GMR (RCSigs)
Ft Smith 1934 - GMR's dog Fanny with Ross Gourley's son
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 06)
Fort Smith 1933-34 - Inspector Currie RCMP
Fort Smith 1933-34 - RCMP Police Detachment - ?, Bill James, ?, Ivor Mast
Fort Smith 1933-34 - RCMP sleigh dogs
Fort Smith 1933-34 - Inspector Currie's residence
Fort Smith 1933-34 - GMR on 9 hole RCMP golf course!!
Fort Smith 1933-34 - Jack Taylog NWT Administrator
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 07)
Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934
Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934
Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934
Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934 - Pearl, ???, Phyllis
Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934 - Two R.N.s: Pearl, Phyllis
Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934 - "Pelly Lake" in drydock
Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934 - "Mackenzie River" in drydock
Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934 - "Mackenzie River" in drydock
Ft Smith NWT Spring Break-up on Slave River 1934 - "Dease Lake" with Phyllis and GMR
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 08)
Summer 1934 - Charter trip
Summer 1934 - Charter trip
Summer 1934 - Charter trip
Summer 1934 - Charter trip
Summer 1934 - Charter trip
Summer 1934 - Charter trip
Summer 1934 - Charter trip
Summer 1934 - Charter trip
Summer 1934 - Charter trip
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 09)
Summer 1934 - GMR and Phyllis Foraker
Summer 1934 - Phyllis Foracker; NWT - Alberta border
Summer 1934 - GMR; NWT - Alberta border
Summer 1934- Phyllis midway between Ft Fitzgerald ALTA and Ft Smith NWT
Summer 1934 - Phyllis, Wop May and Paul Trudel, Mining Resources
Summer 1934 - Wop May's plane
Summer 1934 - GMR and R.N. Phyllis Foraker
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 10)
R.N. Phyllis with baby Joe Ryan
The Ryan children
Phyllis Foraker in Edmonton
Newspaper article about Phyllis moving to Edmonton
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 11)
Miles Balwin prepared for masquerade dance
Miles Balwin prepared for masquerade dance
GMR ready for masquerade party
Steve Popyk our new cook
New living quarters Fall 1934
New living quarters Fall 1934
New living quarters Fall 1934
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 12)
Billie Walters Fall 1934
Billie Walters Fall 1934
Winter 1934-35 Fort Smith NWT
Winter 1934-35
Shades of spring 1935
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 13)
June 1936 outing on the Slave River
June 1936 outing on the Slave River
June 1936 outing on the Slave River
June 1936 outing on the Slave River
June 1936 outing on the Slave River
June 1936 outing on the Slave River
June 1936 outing on the Slave River
June 1936 outing on the Slave River
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 14)
Newspaper article about serum needed for Mrs Ted Stroud
Newspaper article about call for serum needed for Mrs Ted Stroud
Wireless operator J Milo from Mercoal Alta
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 15)
Mrs Muriel Stroud Fort Resolution 1935
Muriel and Ted Stroud, Fort Resolution 1935
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 16)
Radio Station Fort Resolution NWT
L/Cpl Stafford - Cpl Rolfe
Breakup 1936
Breakup 1936 Slave Lake
GMR and Joseph (?)Fallis
with Gertrude Amyot
Breakup 1936 Slave Lake
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 17)
Broken aircraft ski February 1937
Broken aircraft ski February 1937
Broken aircraft ski February 1937
Fort Resolution equipment - Summer 1937
Art Stafford Ft Resolution Dock
Norseman aircraft
Norseman aircraft
Norseman aircraft
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 18)
Our next door neighbours
Our next door neighbours
Our next door neighbours
Our next door neighbours
Our next door neighbours
Our next door neighbours
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 19)
Fort Resolution Signal Station - Kitchen - 1937
Fort Resolution Signal Station - Living Room - 1937
Fort Resolution Signal Station - Operating Room - 1937
Fort Resolution Signal Station - Kitchen - 1937
Fort Resolution Signal Station - Living Room - 1937
Fort Resolution Signal Station - Operating Room - 1937
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 20)
Outpost Island - Slave Lake
Outpost Island - Slave Lake - Spring 1936
Slave Lake travel - Spring 1936
Wedding announcement - Donald Brady and Georgina McIlmoyle
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 21)
Visit of Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir to Fort Resolution
Visit of Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir to Fort Resolution
Eddie Jones (independent fur trader) and family - Fort Resolution
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 22)
Fort Norman RC Sigs Radio Station 1933-37
Fort Norman RC Sigs Radio Station 1933-37
Fort Norman RC Sigs Radio Station 1933-37
Fort Norman RC Sigs Radio Station 1933-37
Fort Norman RC Sigs Radio Station 1933-37
Fort Norman RC Sigs Radio Station 1933-37
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 23)
Dawson City and Radio Station 1933-37
Dawson City and Radio Station 1933-37
Dawson City and Radio Station 1933-37
Dawson City mining sluice 1933-37
Dawson City RCCS Station 1933-37
Dawson City RCCS Station 1933-37
Dawson City RCCS Station 1933-37
Dawson City 1933-37
Dawson City 1933-37
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 24)
SSgt Ross and L/Cpl Lang at Fort Rae
"Pelly Lake" at Fort Rae
Roy Hallin, Edmonton Radio Station
Fred Lane and bride
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 25)
Western Canada Airways holiday card 1933
Wop and Mrs May holiday card 1933
Mackenzie Air Service holiday card 1933
Canadian Airways Ltd holiday card 1933
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 26)
Canadian Airways Ltd holiday card
Wop and Mrs May holiday card 1934
Wop and Mrs May holiday card 1934
Wop and Mrs May holiday card 1934
Holiday card
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 27)
Canadian Airways Ltd holiday card
Mr and Mrs Farrel Canadian Airways Ltd holiday card 1935-36
Mr and Mrs Farrel Canadian Airways Ltd holiday card 1935-36
Mr and Mrs Farrel Canadian Airways Ltd holiday card 1935-36
Mr and Mrs Wop May holiday card
RCMP holiday card 1935
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 28)
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 29)
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 30)
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 31)
Rolfe photo album 1933-37 (Page 99)
Station Aklavik 1947
Station Brochet 1948
Station Burwash Landing 1937
Station Camsell River 1936
Station Dawson City 1924
Station Edmonton 1947 (1)
Station Edmonton
Station Embarras 1950
Station Embarras in winter
Station Ennadai Lake 1952 (2)
Station Ennadai Lake 1952 (3)
Station Ennadai Lake 1952
Station Fort Chipewyan 1962
Station Fort Good Hope 1945
Station Fort Norman 1947
Station Fort Rea
Station Fort Reliance 1956
Station Fort Reliance c1950 (1)
Station Fort Resolution 1927
Station Fort Simpson 1952
Station Fort Smith 1925
Station Hay River 1948 (1)
Station Hay River 1948 (2)
Station Hay River 1949
Station Hay River 1950 (1)
Station Hay River 1950 (2)
Station Hay River 1950 (3)
Station Herschell Island 1998
Station Mayo 1947
Station Norman Wells 1947
Station Outpost Island 1938
Station Port Radium 1946
Station Providence 1957
Station Snare River 1946
Station Tuktoyaktuk 1938
Station Whitehorse 1948
Station Wrigley 1948
Station Yellowknife 1938
Station Yellowknife 1946 (1)
Station Yellowknife 1946 (2)
Station Yellowknife 1947 (1)
Station Yellowknife 1947 (2)
Station Yellowknife 1954 (1)
Tribe Chiefs at Fort Resolution NWT 25 July 1925
Windlass for erecting masts of the NWTandY stations
Wireless Mast at Aklavik NWT 1925

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