Volume 24-25, 1976-7 - The Arctic Circle - Home

TTIE AREIIC ETRCTJI,AR 92Frobisher BayFrcbisher BayAfrrd-ralty Inlet:3315: :333ffi:73039' - 83or3'After Inspector Alfred Herberb Joy who senred in tlre Force frcm 1909to 1932. He successfully eonpleted variorrs Arcbic Snstings frcnt tlreLiard to tle Belcher Islands and into tLrc eastern Arctic. In L92Lhe sailed on the S.S. BAYCHU"IO to establish the Pond Inlet post, frcntrafiere his patrol included ttre tenritory aror:nd Lancaster Sor:nd ardPrince Regent fnlet. Follorring Snstings at fraig Harbor:r, BachePeninsr:la and Drndas Harbor.r , JW took ccrmnand of the Eastern ArcticSubdivision in 1929.Mor:nt Millen: Richardson I'lcurrtairrs 6702g, - L3Go25,l{amed for RO4P Constable Edgar lfiillen shot on a triJcutarlz of thre RatRirrer by albere Johnson, the "Mad T?atr4Er", dr:ring his prrrsuit throughtlre Riclrardson lbr:ntains in JarrrrarT L932.Cape Tarsen:Larsen Sor:nd:Dolphin and UnionStraitBetrrreen Boothia Peninsulaand VictoriaIsland690 47' - u7o15'7oo3o' - 98045'Name- for Sgt. Hen4r Asbjorn Tarsen, conrnan&r of tlte RO,IP vesselST. ROCH, the first to trarrel thre lbrtlnrest Passage in both directions(1940-1944\. Tarsenr born in Nonnray in 1899, served in tlre RoyalNorrrcgian Narryr & nerctrant marine before jcining tlre RCMP in 1928.l{aterial derirred frcxn:(1) records of the Canadian Permanerrt Ccnnrittee on CeographicalNanes and RCMP.(2) Horrall, S.W. (1973) . Thre Pictorial History of tLre RoyalCanadian lbr:nted Po1ice. IrKraw-Hill Rlzerson Ltd. 256 p.******INUTT SCUTPT'ORS IN PARLIAI4HVIry. hlally Firth, M.P. (nortLrr,,est lteritories) recently annor:nced thathe had received a letter frqn tlre Speaker of the Hor:se, Janres Jerone,to the effect tiat there should be canrings done by Cana,Ca I s nativepeoples in ttre Parlianent Buildingls. Ttre Hor:.ses oi Parlianent areadorned by a great deal of decoratirre canrilg, but there is stillmuctt to be conpleted. lnlr. Firth first sugrgested tr,ro years ago thattlle craftnanship of Inuit sculptors eould be utilized- to enrictr tlrecanrings on view.