Agency:.Sponsored by the Department of National Health & Welfare and by the Yellowknife Arctic Winter Games Society, and produced by Telecolor Films Ltd.

Director, Dennis Sawyer, R.C. Gibson ; producer, Dennis Sawyer, R.C. Gibson ; director of photography, Jean-Pierre Lachapelle.

Recorded 1970.

A short documentary film about the first Arctic Winter Games, held in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, in 1970. The inaugural edition of this international event was attended by more than 8,000 participants and spectators, including 750 Canadian athletes and 250 athletes from the US. The Games included many sports typically included in Olympic competitions, with a specific focus on Indigenous sports as well.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).