Film is colour, silent footage of rivers, mountains and lakes. Also shows some mechanical equipment for dredging and fishing in a river. The plane CF-BX1 is featured which was a Northern Airways Fairchild registered in the Yukon Territories.
Film begins with footage of the paddle boat Casca on the Yukon River. There is footage of vegetation and some birds. There is a northern settlement shown with smiling children, fish hanging to dry, sled dogs and wooden house. Float plane CF-BD? is shown right before a number of aerial shots of mountain ranges. There is also a sequence showing the packing of a smaller boat with what is presumably research gear in order to further in land with a local(?) guide.
Fonds consists of Dr. Ossenberg's data on her cranial project as well as other projects (she was a professor of anatomy and anthropology). There is also some correspondence, and some research notes for her projects. Also included are a few files on her family's genealogy of the Reid/Spence families.
The fonds consists of correspondence, draft of memoirs, speeches and articles on Canadian education, 1961-1968, and files relating to the Canada Council, the amendment of the British North America Act and the Institue for Research in Public Policy.