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...skinners" who drive the caterpillar trains (tractors and sleds) which bring supplies across the snow from Edmonton. Passenger service to & from Yellowknife, as well as to outlying claims, is furnished by Canadian Pacific Airlines and by bush pilots in small planes like ski-or pontoon-equipped Noorduyn Norsemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: The Forty-Sixers | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...engines came back across the ice. Five hours later a radio message from Commander Baird reported that the "snows" were 36 miles out. In the 80 or more days they would be gone, they would be supplied by four Dakota Transports (C-47s) and seven sturdy, single-engined Noorduyn Norsemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: Men against the Arctic | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

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