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the 1930's, when main'land Inuit visited Banks Island for fox trappinq.
Cora Harbour N.tJ. Banks Island 74ot6' - 124035'
Tom llanning reprted that on the south sjde of the harbour the 40-foot vessel
C0RA 1ay wrecked "by two white trappers who had jllerally and unsuccessfully
attempted to visit Melvilje Island about 1937". The COM was second only to
the trNVESTIGAT0R along this part of the Banks Island coast.
Tarpon Lake I'1. E. of Great Slave Lake 640 4s' - 1o9oor] '
l+lS TARP0ii was a Trjton class subnnrine, bui'lt'in Greenock, Scotland in 1937,
and subsequently lost in April 1940, presuned attacked by German anti-subrnrine
vesse'ls off the i{orwegian Coast.
Thistle Lake, Sterlet Lake, Shark Lake, Seal Lake, Salmon Lake,0swald Lake
and Grampus Lake in thjs same qeneral area were a'lso submarjne names proposed
by iand surveyors jn 1941.
Raccoon Lake N. bl. of Great S'lave Lake 62o52i - 1I7o+3'
The HFICS RACOON (formerly the HAL0NIA) was built in Bath, l"laine, in 1931.
Cornm'issioned by the R. C. N. in 1940, she served as an armed yacht jn the Gul f
escort force. 0n September 7, 7942, urhile accompanying a Quebec-Sydney convoy,
she uas torpedoed and lost wjth all hands near Antlcosti Island.
l'leyburn Lake, Chedabucto Lake, Bras d'0r Lake, Windflourcr Lake and Lac Levis
are similar connnemorative nameS proposed in 1944'
Tanner Bay Home Bay, E. Baffjn Island 69023' - 6604ll
App'l ied by the Canadian Hydrographic Service after the USS TAI'INER, in the
area 'in 1955. The survey ship vas jn turn naned for U. S. naval off icer Captain
Zera Luther Tanner (1835-1906) r^rell known for h js deep sea expl oration
jn the waters off Alaska, Washinqton and 0regon between 1879 and 1894.
Source: Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical itlames records, inc'luding
correspon0ence.
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YUKOi'I PERIV1AFROST PRESERV ES OLD SILEi'IT I'IOV IES
l,lhen the sjte of an old hrckey arena in Davlson was razed this summer, some
500 old films dating from 1910 to 1921 were uncovered, still in their orjg'ina'l
tins. Some were long-iost newsreel of World War I as uell as feature dranns.
The films had been frozen into the permafrost, in the rennins of what had once
been a swimming poo1. The films had been turned over to the local library for
safekeeping after being shown, but after riany years the stacks of cans became
too great for the storage area, the library became impatient, and the tins
were &nated as landfjll in the o1d pool some tine in the 192Jrs. Sorne of the
films are danaged, some bleached whjte by dampness, others affected b;r their
rust'ing ree1s. The films have been sent to the Public Archjves of Canada for
restoration and oreservation.