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...prospect of opening up the north land had long been tempting. Twice in the '20s and early '30s get-rich-quick speculators started rushes to neighboring Labrador in a fools' search for gold. Then, along the border between Ungava and Labrador, more serious prospectors uncovered an iron belt which looked like one of the biggest in the world...
...Labrador Mining & Exploration Co. got a concession to 18,000 square miles in the Labrador ore fields. Three years later big, rich Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd., of Ontario, took over and began exploring both sides of the border...
...company flew in diamond drills and other equipment at a cost of 73? a pound for shipping, spent $10 million just prospecting. Last May its chief geologist, Dr. J. A. Retty, cautiously reported progress: nine finds of high-grade iron ore bodies in Labrador, 15 in Ungava. Said the trade journal Northern Miner: "The most important iron ore discovery in America since the finding of the Mesabi range...
...Million Cash. Last fortnight the Quebec Government gave Hollinger an exclusive 20-year concession to explore and develop 3,900 square miles of Ungava directly across the border from its Labrador concession (see map). Hollinger and a U.S. associate, the iron mining firm of M. A. Hanna, agreed to spend upward of $300 million...
...establishment at Churchill on the west shore of Hudson Bay,* the $7,000,000 base at Southampton Island's Coral Harbor (socalled because of the tropical fossils found there). But the great air ferry route was hardly used: the route via Labrador and Iceland proved more feasible. The first job of the ten Army nurses stationed at the Churchill base was to deliver an Indian baby who was promptly nicknamed "G.I. Joe." The soldiers had time to learn how to harpoon whales from canoes. Sixteen married Canadian girls...