[1] In February, 1940, Porritt's Fort Resolution Lumber Company received a contract to build a school in Yellowknife.

[2] In February 1962 the Edmonton Journal quoted Porritt on the imminent completion of a railway line to Hay River, NWT.

[3] The projected completion of the route in 1964 would make Hay River the northernmost terminuses of the North American railgrid.

The Edmonton Journal noted Porritt had represented the Mackenzie District in the legislature.

In the 1993 profile of the Dene people, Drum Songs, author Kerry Abel quoted Porritt as an example of a white legislator who called the Dene people "wards of the Canadian government", who hadn't learned to speak for themselves.