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VOL Xl No 3 THE ARCTIC CIRCULAR 57<br />
Appointment to the Northwest Territories Council<br />
On 6 December <strong>1958</strong> Mr. E.J. Gall was appointed to<br />
the Northwest Territories Council to represent the constituency<br />
of Mackenzie North to fill the seat left vacant when Mr. John<br />
Parker was appointed Judge of the Yukon Territorial Court in<br />
June. <strong>The</strong> appointment brings the Council to full strength: four<br />
elected and five appointed members, who have about two years<br />
mOre to serve.<br />
Scotty Gall was born in Aberdeen and joined the Hudson's<br />
Bay Company in 1923. Most of his life has been spent in the Western<br />
<strong>Arctic</strong>. At first he served aboard the Company vessels Bay Maud<br />
and Bay Chimo and was later captain of the Aklavik. It was in 1937<br />
that he took the Aklavik through Bellot Strait for the historic meeting<br />
with the Nascopie. This was the first time a ship had passed through<br />
the strait and the first time a ship from the west had made contact<br />
with a ship from the east along the Northwest Passage. Since 1951<br />
he has been manager of the Company's store at Yellowknife.<br />
Gazetteer of the Northwest Territories and Yukon<br />
A provisional gazetteer listing names and geographical<br />
features in the Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory with<br />
their latitude and longitude has been compiled by the Canadian<br />
Board On Geographical Names from names appearing on maps of<br />
the Territories. <strong>The</strong> great majority of thes e names, but not<br />
necessarily all, have been approved by the Board. Some 10,000<br />
names are listed in the gazetteer. Copies can be obtained from<br />
the Queen's Printer, price $1.00.<br />
"New Aklavik" postmark<br />
Mr. Gale Raymond, one of our members, is seeking a<br />
(<strong>1958</strong>) envelope bearing the "New Aklavik N •W • T ." postmark. This<br />
postmark was in use for a short period before the name ''lnuvik''<br />
was officially adopted for the new site of Aklavik. Mr. Raymond<br />
would be very grateful if any reader could give him one of these<br />
envelopes for his collection of polar postmarks. His address is:<br />
6035 Hornwood Drive, Houston 36, Texas. U.S.A.
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