The first Logistic support system set up by the Canadian government to support research in the high Arctic

1. …or how to claim sovereignty on the cheap
…ou la souvereineté à bon marché!
“we can assert our presence in the Arctic
Islands with scientists, they work hard and
are inexpensive” (A federal DM)

2. Dr. E.F. (Fred) Roots
1st Director PCSP
1er Directeur de l’EPCP

4. Resolute 1959

6. Isachsen 1959

10. Frank Hunt
Pre-eminent surveyor
And all around nice guy.
Don Smith (gravity)
Adam Kerr (hydrography)
Frank Hunt
Cape Isachsen
Ellef Ringnes Island

11. Dr. Art Collin in charge of field operations 1960 and Denis St-Onge

12. The idiot machine!
The Rat!

15. DS and Dick Moskal

16. Doug Granger and DS at a Decca site

25. Some elements of the landscape of Ellef Ringnes
A CUESTA

26. Hogback

27. Sandstone pillars

29. Adam and Eve

30. He mistook a man in a sleeping bag for a seal!

31. The “Tuk” base

32. Polar Shelf Eureka, Ellesmere Island

38. Some old (?) timers:
Frank Hunt, Chris Barmig, Denis St-Onge, George Hobson & Fred Roots

39. 1959
Merci
Thank you
Nah ko rhami
So little
change!