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Excerpt from The Belcher Islands of Hudson Bay: Their Discovery and ExplorationThis seaboard bounds an area miles long by 600 miles wide, square miles of inland sea, and embraces the semi-arable hinterland of northern Ontario and northwestern Quebec, the semi-barrens of the Indians, the barrens of the Eskimos, and an arctic area of perpetual ice-bound sea. Nearly two-thirds of this region, indeed, lies within the subarctic and arctic zones of ...

Excerpt from The Belcher Islands of Hudson Bay: Their Discovery and ExplorationThis seaboard bounds an area miles long by 600 miles wide, square miles of inland sea, and embraces the semi-arable hinterland of northern Ontario and northwestern Quebec, the semi-barrens of the Indians, the barrens of the Eskimos, and an arctic area of perpetual ice-bound sea. Nearly two-thirds of this region, indeed, lies within the subarctic and arctic zones of ...

Excerpt from Two Traverses Across Ungava Peninsula, LabradorThe lake's length, as I have mentioned, was found to be approximately 115 miles. The elevation of the surrounding country does not exceed a maximum of 400 feet, the average being 100 to 150 feet. Trees occur only at. Widely separated points, often from three to five miles apart, and never grow thickly enough to afford the slightest wind' shelter. As the general map on Plate VII shows,...

Excerpt from Two Traverses Across Ungava Peninsula, LabradorThe lake's length, as I have mentioned, was found to be approximately 115 miles. The elevation of the surrounding country does not exceed a maximum of 400 feet, the average being 100 to 150 feet. Trees occur only at. Widely separated points, often from three to five miles apart, and never grow thickly enough to afford the slightest wind' shelter. As the general map on Plate VII shows,...

In 1912, on the edge of the North American frontier Robert Flaherty was there on a hunting expedition. Flaherty, an American-born prospector and a pioneer filmmaker, chanced to see the landing of an overcrowded, leaking, sealskin vessel, that held an Inuit hunter named Comock, his wife & their 11 children, this is their story.