Crystal Two: The Origin of Iqaluit by Robert V. Eno Downloadable article at: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63662 “Iqaluit is unique among Canadian Arctic communities in that it originated not from a commercial venture, such as mining or the fur trade, or as a… Read More »Crystal Two: The Origin of Iqaluit
Clenched in the JAWS of America? Canadian Sovereignty and the Joint Arctic Weather Stations, 1946-1972 by Daniel Heidt Climate change is transforming the Arctic. Questions abound about what this will mean for the Canadian Forces, for Canada’s sovereignty position, for… Read More »Canadian Sovereignty and the Joint Arctic Weather Stations, 1946-1972
A number of papers related to Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security: Historical Perspectives are available online at the Calgary Papers in Military and Strategic Studies website at: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cpmss/issue/view/2442 Introduction (to the papers) by Whitney Lackenbauer Abstract: “Climate change is transforming… Read More »Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security: Historical Perspectives
“Operation Muskox was the largest military exercise ever held in the Canadian Arctic and the fourth of four military expeditions held in the region in the 1940s. The previous three, Eskimo, Polar Bear and Lemming, had been on a far… Read More »Operation Muskox – Canadian North – 1946
The Establishment of Alert, N.W.T., Canada by J. Peter Johnson, Jr. 1989 ABSTRACT. The Joint Arctic Weather stations of Canada and the United States were built in the Queen Elizabeth Islands of northern Canada. The Eureka and Resolute stations were… Read More »The Establishment of Alert, N.W.T., Canada
Northwest Staging Route The route wаs developed іn 1942 due tо several reasons. Initially, the United States Army Air Corps 7th Ferrying Group, Ferrying Command аt Great Falls Army Airfield wаs ordered tо organize аnd develop аn air route tо… Read More »Northwest Staging Route
The Origin of Canol’s Mackenzie Air Fields This article by Richard S. Finnie is a riposte to Barry’s “Punch” Dickins and the Origin of Canol’s Mackenzie Air Fields. It is available in Arctic VOL.33 NO. 2 (JUNE 1980) p.273-279
Abstract: Correspondence between the Canadian flyer, C. H. “Punch” Dickins, and government officials in Ottawa during the early summer of 1942 reveals that the United States Army began building an “unauthorized” military air route to Norman Wells much earlier than… Read More »“Punch” Dickins and the Origin of Canol’s Mackenzie Air Fields
The DEW line was a set of early warning radar sites built in the Arctic by USA in the 1950s.