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...week at a Pan American Day celebration in Washington. ". . . By every rule of righteousness [Canada] is eligible to this association. ... I would welcome the final and total New World unity which will be nobly dramatized when the 22nd chair is filled and our continental brotherhood is complete from the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn...
Credit for the Arctic new deal goes to Dr. Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, new Deputy Minister of Mines & Resources, Commissioner of the Territories, and chairman of the council. He sees no need for secrecy. The mantle of mystery which has shrouded the Arctic is being stripped away by radio, airplane and Caterpillar tractors, and its government may as well be exposed, too. No less important, the council roster now includes for the first time a representative of the people governed: hulking (6 ft., 227 Ibs.) John G. McNiven, mine manager for Negus Mines, and-as a fellow councilor describes...
...stations will be more than just weather eyes. Their studies (plus practical flying tests such as U.S. Army B-29 crews are now making in the Arctic) will determine whether or not commercial airliners (and, of course, bombers) can fly over the Arctic to Europe and the Far East. Eventually some of the stations will be equipped with radar which can search out and plot the path of distant storms, and incidentally can be used for military observation posts if the need arises...
...stations will be located somewhere in the frozen splash of islands north and west of Arctic Bay (see map). Only two of them have been pinpointed yet. The headquarters station will be at Winter Harbor on Melville Island and will be in operation by next August. The other will be still further north-700 miles from the North Pole-at Ellesmere Island's Eureka Sound. It will be set up probably in April. Exploratory parties will recommend sites for the other seven stations later...
Lest the new stations rouse up sensitive Russia, Minister Howe held out an offer of help. He did not know how many weather stations Russia has in its own Arctic regions (she had 137 in 1940). But he hoped that some day Canada would be able to interchange the new Arctic weather information with the U.S.S.R. in the same way the two countries now exchange general weather reports...