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...with which the ticklish job was launched lent a blush of color to the proposed Moscow-San Francisco airline. The route is by far the most direct (6,050 mi. against the present 11,000), involves stops at Archangel. Franz Josef Land, the Pole and the mouth of the Athabaska River in Alaska. Of greater value, however, are likely to be the expedition's magnetic observations, investigations of the direction and speed of ice-drifts, depths of the polar ocean, chemical and physical properties of different strata of water...
...Home started work in the mines of Nova Scotia when he was young. In 1898 he went to British Columbia and worked in the mills of the Slocan Star and the Athabaska, then got a good position in a mill at Ymir. But he had "miner's foot." He went to California. In 1907 he went to Labrador. For a while he ran the King Edward Mill at Cobalt, Ontario, then was off to the Porcupine District, then the Kirkland Lake District. In 1911 he went to the Rouyn District of Quebec and found some gold. Nine years later...
...Professors Raymond and Mather remained in Jasper for a few days to carry on additional research under the auspices of the Shaler Memorial Fund. A party consisting of Professor Raymond, Dr. L. W. Collet, Dr. Parejas, Mr. Augustin Lombard, and Mr. Hutchins spent the next few weeks in the Athabaska Valley and the vicinity of Mount Robson, extending the investigations which had been begun during the progress of the summer school. The information obtained will serve as the basis for a geological report on the area which will eventually appear as a Shaler Memorial Research publication...
...Canadian shield and the western plains. Arriving at Jasper during the forenoon of June 25 the members of the school had just time enough to make final arrangements concerning camp equipment before they departed for the first camp, which was established near Pocohantas, some twenty-five miles down the Athabaska Valley from Jasper...
...Twin, was over 12,000 feet. The party left camp one morning at 1 o'clock and returned after many hours of hardship on the ice, having used flash-lights to guide their steps during the night. It was the first complete ascent to the ice-field from the Athabaska valley...