Very old slides do not copy very well.

Barney

Don't give up on those old slides yet Barney, a little post processing can sometimes do wonders - lo and behold, the hangar doors are actually green...
Art

As posted by Canuck_Plumber back in 2014:

Very interesting plane. I flew with a guy named Ghislain Arsenault (Chief Pilot). He did not speak any English so our conversations were non-existent but he had a picture of a Barkley Grow that he had flown (likely in Quebec). It was funny because it had a bill board for Belvedere cigarettes on it....

Just did an online check - it appears that the Canol reconnaissance flight photos were released at some point from the Finnie family photo collection at the Yukon Archives and have appeared in various places on the web since then. The Yukon Archives caption list indicates they are all of CF-BTX and ...

I wondered about the origin of the name as well. Don't know. However isn't it usually the last name of a deceased person given to an unnamed lake? AP It appears that Sheldon Lake was named after U.S. "sportsman and amateur naturalist" Charles Alexander Sheldon, with the name becoming official March...

The Canol Road project is not well known by a lot of folks. I have read that it was a tougher project than building the Alaska Highway in the early to mid 1940's. In May 1974 I was part of a crew flying an Otter out of Ross River YT along the old Canol Road pipeline route to the Godlin Lakes area. ...

Not in the helicopter business, AP. Fixed wing license 1972, only used it a few times and never owned a plane. However I'm avidly interested in local history (any locality). I got interested in the Barkley Grow after flying in to Kakwa Lake with friends for a backpack trip south down the Continental...

Hi again! It appears that CF-BTX was used in scouting out a route for the Canol oil pipeline in the Yukon during World War II. Canol surveyor Guy Blanchet is in all these photos. The interior photo can't be unequivocally identified as CF-BTX but the other two can be. In the last photo you can see a ...

Final 3 photos of CF-BTX at Kakwa: Wing used as a map table by my hiking friends; view out left flight deck window; and a closeup of the memorial plaque to Carl Brooks, which was attached to the fuselage at that time.

You're welcome AP.
Might as well go inside CF-BTX... some photos of flight deck and cabin.
Art

For geolocation enthusiasts, CF-BTX in 1945 came to rest at approximately N53.99608 W120.17316. That's decimal degrees; you can cut & paste it directly into the Google Earth search box. To me the scene suggested that the pilot had been making a final attempt at a left turn back to the lake. The plan...

Fourth and fifth photos of Barkley Grow T8P-1 CF-BTX in the spot where its career ended in 1945, Kakwa Lake, BC. Photos taken summer of 1988. Haven't seen the first photo show up on his forum yet but it seemed to go through OK. Photo shows right engine (had no propeller as found). The left engine ha...

CF-BTX in summer 1988 - second & third photos - got it figured out now I think. There was a trail of aluminum bits about 200 feet long leading to the plane - first came parts of floats, then parts of the underside, then the two Pratt & Whitneys that had twisted under the wings and been knocked off. ...

Seems like it's been a while since the Barkley Grow T8P-1 has been discussed, but as soon as I came across this discussion I felt I should share some photos of CF-BTX inside and outside, at Kakwa Lake, British Columbia in the summer of 1988 (about a year before Coulson salvaged it). It seems like th...