Author: PARNELL, C.; SORENSEN, A.; NEVIN, W.; MCCOWAN, D.; SQUIRE, L.; ELLIS, F.; WILSON, C.; CHARLTON, J.; MACLENNAN, M.; STEPHENSON, W.; RIGGS, T.; MARSH, D.
Title: The Beaver, a Magazine of the North, September 1945, Outfit 276 - Policing the Far North / Daniel "Nigger Dan" Williams at Fort St. John
Description: Canada: Hudson's Bay Company, 1945. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by Sauer, Max; Notman, William. 50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Founding Fort Edmonton; Policing the Far North - photo-illustrated article; One-page photo portrait of Sir George Simpson - the only known photo of him; "Nigger Dan" (Daniel Williams) - troublemaker at Fort St. John; Chevrons in the Sky - waterfowl article with photos; Arctic Airfield Survey - Craig Harbour, where the most northerly airport in the British Empire was surveyed in 1922; Summer at Temagami - photos with text; English River Hermit - An Indian named Mandayoh (stranger) lived 30 miles from the Trans-Canada Air Lines' field at Pagwa River; Through the Fjiords of British Columbia - photo-illustrated article with photo of the Union Steamship liner 'Cardena'; Northern Salvage - Claud K. Jones located sunken Canol machinery at the bottom of Great Slave Lake - fascinating photo-illustrated article describes how huge tracked vehicles were hauled up through the ice; Running the Alaska Boundary - great article with photo of Thomas Riggs and Jack Craig proudly displaying the flags of their countries and universities after setting the final point of the Alaska-Yukon boundary on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Photos of Eskimo tobacco substitute Atamaoya being harvested and smoked. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Beaver, A Magazine of the North, September 1945, Outfit 276 - Policing the Far North / Daniel "Nigger Dan" Williams at Fort St. John Canadian Government Steamer 'Arctic' Founding Fort Edmonton; Policing the Far North - photo-illustrated article; One. Good .

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