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Back and Bee family fonds
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- Source of title proper: Formerly known Ida May and Lois Back collection (Acc# 90/19), and the Austin Bee collection (Acc# 90/28). Title based on provenance of the fonds.
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330 photographs : 304 b&w, 26 col.
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Lois Austin Back travelled with her mother Ida May Back from Spokane Washington, where they had lived since 1907, to join their husband and father, Frank Henry Back in Carmacks in 1911. Frank had gone to the Klondike in 1907 with his father Captain Seymour Henry Back who first came north in 1898, and returned to Idaho in 1900. In 1913 Lois married Thomas Edward Bee who had served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Kluane Lake and Carmacks. Tom ran a general store in Carmacks from 1915-1921, and opened several fur trading posts in Ross River and Big Salmon. Tom and Lois had three children, Austin, born in Whitehorse in 1914; Keith, born in Spokane, Washington in 1916; and Shirley, born in Whitehorse in 1919. The family left the Yukon in 1921.
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The fonds consists of photographs taken from the Back and Bee family photograph albums by Austin Bee in 1989, and prints made of slides taken by Austin Bee on a return visit to the Yukon in 1963. The photographs album contained shots of the families' lives in the Carmacks area. Most of the photographs were taken by Lois Back Bee who was an amateur photographer and did her own developing and printing. Ida May Back and Austin Bee took some of the photographs. The fonds also includes letters written by Austin Bee in 1989 and 1990, to Yukon Archives and Pelly River Historical Society detailing his family's history in the Yukon. The prints of the slides from 1963 show Carmacks buildings, including the Goulter's cabin, the Post Office, the Carmacks Roadhouse, the diesel electric generating plant, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) building, Carmacks Hotel, Tom Bee's Trading Post, Howard and Alice McMillan's residence, the Carmacks school under construction, and Carmacks residents, Fritz Guder, Frank and Ida May Goulter, Bill Langham, and the postmistress, as well as Austin's travelling companion Colonel Frank Noyes. There are also views from the Mount Freegold area, Seymour Creek and the Nordenskiold River.
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Austin Bee identified each photograph in the accompanying finding aid. (see PHO 389). There is also a caption list for the prints of the 1963 slides.
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- Bee, Austin A., 1914- (Subject)