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...hung an airlines map of the U.S. on the living-room wall at home. Each trip, RM lined up the kids, varying in age from almost three to 20, for a briefing session on father Ogle's latest assignment. Once, when a uranium rush took him to Lake Athabaska in northern Saskatchewan, which would be about four inches above the top of the Ogle map, son Andy, 10, exclaimed : "This time daddy went clear out of this world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Jan. 14, 1957 | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

Moffatt, who had done extensive travelling in Canada, planned a route from Lake Athabaska down the Dubawnt River to Baker Lake that had last been travelled by James B. Tyrell in 1898, except possibly for unknown trappers and Eskimoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soph Describes Fatal Canoe Mishap | 9/29/1955 | See Source »

...expedition plans to start from Stony Rapids on Lake Athabaska in northern Alberta, and will then travel north via the Dubawnt River to Chesterfield Inlet on Hudson Bay, 20 miles south of the Arotic Circle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Plans Canoe Expedition To Uncharted Canadian Northwest | 5/19/1955 | See Source »

...Lake Athabaska Uranium project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...northern Saskatchewan wilderness, which once lured prospectors with a glittering promise of gold, was the scene of the world's first big uranium rush last week. Officials opened up a field on the shore of Lake Athabaska, and hundreds of prospectors swarmed in to stake claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Uranium Rush | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

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