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

VOL. )O(\/ NO. 3 TTIE ARCTIC CIRCUIAR44with radio aids , airstrips and rnany other nucdern installations, travellingin the far lbrtLr is no tbnger hazardous. " He ov'res his life to Captain BobBartlett, and his Scottish fortitude and a little help frcm thre Bible' PsalmL2Lz "I wiII lift. up rnine eyes to the hillsrfrcnt whence qcnethr my help- "******TIMBER FROM TIIE FOXlVkren thre Governor of Greenland, Hans Lassen, visited thre lilcrthwest Territoriesin I'lay be brought, as a gift to the people of tLre territory, a buc-foot-longtjmbei from tlre keel of Sir Francis Leopold ttttClintock's ship Fox. In abrief cererrnny at ttre end of his tour thre Governor presented tlre relic toConntissioner Hodgson. Thre Fox, a steam-powered yacht, built in Aberdeen in1855rwas used by M'Clintock's 1857-59 voyage to the Canadian Arctic, ttte lastof Lady Franklin's searching e>peditions. The Fox eventr:ally for:nd her wayto Denmark and later in tkre cenlurlr was used toEarry mining rnaterial betweenIvigtut, Greenland and Denrnark. She was purchased in I9O5 by the RoyalGreenland Trading Ccnparry and for several years sailed along the westerncrcast of Greenland as a trading vessel. In L9L2 she ran agror:nd, artd wasdeclared unseaworthy.*****CAPTATN JOSPFI BERNER TIOIilCURED ON CA}BDIAN STAI4POn 16 Septernber Canada Post issued a stanp featr:ring a portrait of CaptainJoseph-E|z6ar Bernier, with his skr-ip tlre CGS Arctic in tLre backgror.rnd.Captiin Bernier ccrnnanded several- o