Word: aklavik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who live beyond the reach of fast surface mail get their copies of TIME Canadian each week by air-so that they can read the news while it is still fresh. For instance, eight copies go via Canadian Pacific Air Lines to subscribers in Aklavik above the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories near the Beaufort Sea, where Subscriber J. C. Callaghan claims that not even good radio contact can be guaranteed. Other copies are flown to subscribers like George Pinsky at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake in the District of Mackenzie, across the lake to Gordon...
...hardy inhabitants* of isolated Aklavik at the mouth of the Mackenzie River own 220 radios. But for a long time they could tune in regularly on only one station, at Fairbanks, Alaska, and it broadcasts only in the winter. Now, thanks to a burly, good-natured Canadian soldier named R. A. ("Red") MacLeod, Aklavikans have a full-fledged station of their...
...MacLeod, a sergeant major in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals stationed at Aklavik, built the transmitter with odds & ends from a ham set, a few parts scrounged from Army discards and about $100 worth of equipment that he bought himself. He talked Sergeant Jack Willis into being the station's announcer because Willis, a Nova Scotian, could pronounce Eskimo names like "Plluluk" (pronounced Pell-oo-look) without a bobble. Last winter they set up their equipment in the second floor of Aklavik's Signals Station, and by December they were broadcasting with 30-watt power...
...Aklavik's station CHAK, "The Friendly Voice of the Arctic," has no sponsored broadcasts, makes no money. Because Signals Corpsmen have the Army's work to do, too, this northernmost commercial station in the Western Hemisphere is on the air only three nights a week, gives its only day programs Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Programs consist chiefly of records, most of them old numbers donated by Aklavikans. Eskimos and Indians, says MacLeod, like cowboy songs best; whites prefer Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and boogie-woogie. Sundays the station airs one church service after another-some in Eskimo...
...life is its free broadcast of personal messages. Every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Aklavikans can get in touch, via CHAK, with friends or relatives out trapping in the Mackenzie River delta country. Thus Nels Hvatum learned one night that his house in Aklavik had been destroyed by fire and two of his children killed. Last week, CHAK's listeners heard such messages as these...