Snow houses

Collection

“Snow houses,” Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Digital Library, accessed January 14, 2026, https://inuvialuitdigitallibrary.ca/items/show/3188.

Snow houses

1958-01-29

The snowhouses where 18 people lived. This was the first day the sun came back, the temperature was minus 35 degrees F.

This photo collection was used during the interviews of the Aulavik Oral History Project to get the names of people previously not identified.

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N1993-002-0113 (NWT Archives)

Physical collection housed at the NWT Archives.