Volume 4, 1951 - The Arctic Circle - Home

ln the spring J.P. Kelsall, biologist at Yellowknife,
nd his assistant, N.G. Perret, made extensive field studies
of oaribou in the region between Coronation Gulf and Great
Slave Lake. Reoently these officers completed an investigation
of musk oxen and other wildlife in the district east
of Gr~at Slave Lake. ln carrying out this work, they
travelled by canoe along the Thelon River route to Baker
Lake.
'lN.A.Fuller, mammalogist at Fort Smith since 1947,
and his assistant, G.A. West, have made brief investigations
of beaver, marten, and muskrat conditions in southeastern
Maokenzie Distriot. They are making ecologioal studies in
Wood Buffalo National Park with regard to the problems of
management and utilization of these animals.
Between April and September of 1951 J.S. Tener,
mammalogist for Franklin and Keewatin districts, completed
a survey of the wildlife of western Ellesmere Island, with
special reference to the musk ox.
Ji Dewey Soper, who has had many years of arctic
experience, has been Dominion vvildlife Officer for Alberta
and the Northwest Territories since 1949, with headquarters
at Edmonton. ln 1951 his investigations have centred on the
Hay River and Mackenzie Delta districts.
ln July 1951 two trials for murder were held in the
north: one off Resolution Island, aboard the C.D. Howe, the
other at Eskimo Point.
On 14 December 1950 the R.C.M. police detaohment at
Lake Harbour, Baffin Island, reoelved a wireless message
from the Officer in Charge of Resolution Island weather
station that the station cook, T. Saunders, had been shot
by the wireless operator,H.B. Pollard, and had died from
loss of blood.
As it \!Vasimpossible for an aircraft to land at
Resolution Island during the winter months and too hazardous
to oross Gabriel Strait because of open water, the Officer
in Charge of the weather station was instructed to preserve
the body ln a frozen state until the Coroner, Magistrate,
and police party came north in the C.D. Howe. ln the meantime
Operator Pollard was to carry out his regular duties.