This album, comprised of 82 pages on which 305 photographs are mounted, mostly documents an expedition to Thelon Game Sanctuary, set up as a reserve for then endangered musk-ox by the government in 1927. It is the largest wildlife sanctuary in North America, and straddles the boundary between the current N.W.T. and Nunavut. Photos by W.H.B. Hoare, investigator for the N.W.T and Yukon Branch of the Department of the Interior, J.A. McDougal, G.M. Douglas, A.J. Knox, G.H. Blanchet, and J.D. Lee.
The following places can be found in the album: Kent Peninsula; Bathurst Inlet; Western River; Lake Finnie; Arctic Mountains; Bernard Harbour; Fort Enterprise; Cambridge Bay; Fort Resolution; Thelon Game Sanctuary (Campbell Lake, Lac Dubois, Sifton Lake); Baker Lake; Chesterfield; Kazan River; Pangnirtung Fiord; Ferguson River; Aklavik; Shingle Point; King William Island; Victoria Island; Coronation Gulf; Forsyth Bay, Victoria Island; Amundsen Gulf; Herschel Island; Fort Smith; Hanbury River (Macdonald, Helen, and Ford Falls; Dixon Canyon); Tavane, Hudson Bay; Padley [Padlei]; Churchill, Manitoba; Klengenberg's Trading Post; Maguse River.
The following events can be found in the album: hunting caribou; constructing a log store house; destruction of Roman Catholic Mission Hospital, Fort Simpson, 1930; sealing; constructing a small canoe; ice fishing.
The following objects can be found in the album: S.S. Baychimo, H.B.Co vessel; Kugyuk, H.B.Co motorboat; caribou skin tent (tupek); vegetation (e.g. spruce trees); snowmobile (1929); Inuit costumes and dress; Inuit "types"; beaver dam, Salt River; park warden's cabin; S.S. Baymaud; schooners; first Ford car in Arctic; Lake Hanbury monument; plough; igloo; airplanes; Hudson's Bay Company posts; H.B.Co. experimental fox farm; eagle's nest.
The following animals can be found in the album: young duck hawks; caribou; musk-ox; salmon trout; Baffin Island huskies; white and blue fox (experimental farm); marine life specimens from Hudson's Bay.
The following people can be found in the album: D.M Pierre; Noak-nek-kuk; Hon. Charles Stewart (Minister of the Interior); Hjalman Nelson; Inuit; priests at mission, Fort Resolution; park wardens; murderer on King William Island; Constable Wyld, R.C.M.P; Ike Bolt, brother-in-law of P. Klengenberg; Mrs. [Bishop] Stringer; Artikee, unmarried Inuit woman; W.H.B. Hoare; Colonel Cornwall; J.A. McDougal and daughter.
Print 32-1924-G.H.B. is missing "The Eskimo Igloo" (p.72). Says to "see negative".
