Word: baffin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur J. Boncot '49 of Leverett House and Germantown, Pa., and Peter B. Roll '48 of Lowell House and Scarborough, N. Y., will join 72-year old McMillan and his crew of 14 in the northern track to chart the seaward move of four massive glaciers which end in Baffin...
After observing the glaciers and attempting to record their speed, the expedition, under the flag of the Chicago Geographical Society, will head southward in a race to clear Baffin Bay before icefields form...
...Eskimo idea of what it takes to feed a baby on Baffin Island is different from that of a mother in Ontario. Since the Eskimo boy early learns to stalk his meals he needs a rifle, but the Government says no rifles can go to children under ten. Last week the council was faced with a poser: some Eskimos wanted to pool their allowances to buy a boat -to help get food for their children. The council was not sure. It put the question over, to see if the money could not be raised elsewhere...
Specifically U.S. and Canadian troops, with uniform equipment, would be stationed at big bases like Churchill, Manitoba (tentatively, Canada would have 500 men there, the U.S. 100), at forlorn little landing strips like "Crystal 1," at Fort Chimo in northeastern Quebec, and "Crystal 2," on Baffin Island's Frobisher Bay. Soldiers of both nations would also staff a ring of weather stations and radar listening posts all across the continent's bleak Arctic vastness and down the east and west coasts to the U.S. The suggestions sounded simple. But the arguments pro & con were complex...
...them. At Winnipeg 300 young Canadians and Newfoundlanders quickly filed applications for places with the "Company of Adventurers" that since 1670 has been "trading into Hudson's Bay." Accepted applicants will follow the sort of life already begun for young Tinling, who is destined for a post on Baffin Island, possibly Arctic Bay at the northern...