Meetings of the Arctic Circle
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Meetings of the Arctic Circle 1947 1 12 December Flt.Lt. A.H. Tinker Establishment of weather stations at Eureka and Resolute Bay 1948 2 15 January Sgt. F.S. Farrar, RCMP Film: St Roch 3 16 February R.G. Madill, Flt.Lt. J.F. Drake North magnetic pole 4 18 March Lt.Col. A. Croft Operation Musk-ox 5 13 April H.M. Raup Botany, geology, and archaeology, Alaska Highway 6 25 May J.G. Wright Film: RMS Nascopie 7 20 August Picnic at the Jenness's cottage 8 4 November C.S. Lord Mining in NWT 9 9 December P. Serson Operation Magnetic 1949 10 13 January B.J. Woodruff Geodetic Survey of Canada 11 10 February P.D. Baird Project Snow Cornice 12 10 March Cdr. D.C. Nutt, USNR Antarctica 13 14 April J.C. Wyatt Construction in the Arctic 14 12 May Mrs T.H. Manning Travels in Hudson Bay and Foxe Basin 15 10 November Dr. J.C. Callaghan Medical officer's experiences 16 8 December M.J. Dunbar Marine resources of the eastern Arctic 1950 17 12 January Flt. Lt. B. Hartman Search and rescue in the eastern Arctic 18 9 February A.E. Porsild Plant life 19 9 March D. Wilkinson NFB in the North 20 13 April T.H. Manning Expedition to Foxe Basin, 1949 21 11 May Miss M. Montgomery Ice in Hudson Bay 22 12 October Sqd. Ldr. A. Copland Fur-trading in the Arctic 23 9 November F.T. Davies 1932-33 Expedition to Chesterfield Inlet 24 14 December F.T. Davies USN film: Silent Land (Antarctica) 1951 25 11 January Maj. J.M. Berry RCASC tractor trains 26 8 February Flt. Lt. K. Greenaway Navigation in the polar regions 27 8 March P.D. Baird 1950 expedition to Baffin Island 28 12 April Dr. M. Brown Medical expedition to Southampton Island 29 10 May Fg. Off. P. Ste Louis Flying in Graham Land 30 14 November Dr. R. Fleming Medicine in the Mackenzie Valley Titles in these lists are for military rank, professional qualifications, and honourifics. Academic titles are omitted. Appellations are included for ladies, to distinguish them from the gentlemen, who were the majority of speakers in the early years of the Arctic Circle; later in the lists names are used for this, as customs changed. 1952 31 9 January Film: Greenland in the Sun 32 13 February G. Jacobson Construction of Sept. Isles to Schefferville railway 33 12 March M.J. Dunbar DFO research on Calanus, 1950-51 34 26 March V. Stefansson Canadian Arctic expedition 1913-18 and ice islands 35 9 April D. Wilkinson Filmmaking of Eskimo life, 1950-51 36 14 May V.E. Solman CWS Waterfowl breeding survey, NW Canada 37 1 October N.O. Christensen Greenland administration 38 2 November D. Wilkinson Filmmaking at Chesterfield Inlet, 1951 39 3 December Lt. Col. J.O. Fletcher, USAF Ice island T3 1953 40 7 January Film: Arctic wildlife 41 4 February C.S. Lord Operation Keewatin 42 4 March Various speakers Proposed projects in the North, 1953 43 1 April T.H. Manning Banks Island expedition, 1952 44 6 May Miss E.G. Graham Grenfell Mission nursing 45 7 October G. Hattersley-Smith N. Ellesmere Island ice shelf 19 October Count E. Knuth 1947-50 Danish Pearyland expedition 46 4 November Capt. W.W. Ker, RE Army surveying 47 2 December A. Loughrey Wildlife and Eskimo, Southampton Island 1954 48 6 January Film: Kumak the sleepy hunter 49 3 February K.B. Fenton Australian Antarctic science 17 February USSR Film: Life in the Arctic 50 3 March G. Jacobsen Axel Heiberg Island, 1953 51 7 April Rev. G. Laviolette, OMI Film: The Cross over the Arctic 52 7 May P.D. Baird Arctic Institute's Baffin Island expedition, 1953 53 6 October J.A. Houston Contemporary Eskimo art 54 3 November W.W. Mair Predators and their control in the Canadian Arctic 55 1 December R.G. Blackadar, et al. Geological Survey work in the Arctic islands, 1954 1955 56 5 January Film: US icebreakers in the North 57 2 February Hon. J. Lesage Press conference 58 2 March D.C. Rose Arctic cruise of HMCS Labrador, 1954 59 6 April Mrs G.W. Rowley Film: Perry River expedition, 1949 60 12 May Supt. H.A. Larsen & R.C. Powell Film: Highway of the atom 61 14 October J.S. Tener Canoe trip on Back and Thelon rivers 62 8 November C.L. Merrill Site selection and construction at Aklavik, 1954-5 63 13 December R.S. MacNeish New light on Arctic prehistory Special Meetings are printed in boldface type. 1956 64 10 January Films: Wind from the West; The new Greenland 65 14 February Y.O. Fortier Operation Franklin 66 13 March E.F. Roots Norwegian, British, Swedish Antarctic expedition, 1949-52 67 10 April W.M. Sprules Fisheries of the Great Slave Lake 68 8 May Dr. J.S. Willis The public health problem in the eastern Arctic 69 9 October D.C. Rose International Geophysical Year, 1957-58 70 13 November D.E. Wilkinson New town of Frobisher Bay, the first year 1955-6 71 11 December B.G. Sivertz Summer visit to Greenland 1957 72 8 January R.G. Robertson The future of the North 73 12 February J.L. Courtney Life at an Arctic weather station 74 12 March F.S. Nowosad Northern agriculture 75 11 April Wg. Cdr. G.J. Bury, RCAF The Mid-Canada Line 76 9 May Films: Wheels to the North; Northwest Canada 77 8 October G.W. Rowley The Eskimos 78 12 November D.E. Wilkinson The Inland Eskimo of today 79 10 December Cdr. A. Law, RCN Operation Bellot 1958 80 14 January Film: The Newfoundland scene 81 11 February W.E. Taylor Ungava archaeological survey 82 11 March R.G. Blackadar & E.T. Tozer Geological investigations 83 8 April R.F. Legget Across Lapland by bus 84 13 May Three Russian films on Russian Antarctic expeditions 85 14 October D. Fisher DFO research 86 9 December W. Phipps Light aircraft in the Arctic islands 1959 87 13 January Films: Dawson; Cape Dorset; The living stone 88 10 February K.J. Christie Mineral resources 89 10 March G.F. Hattersley-Smith Research near Lake Hazen in the IGY 90 14 April L. Lemieux Expedition to Bylot Island 91 19 May Hon. A. Hamilton First annual dinner 92 13 October B. Zaborski The population in northern Russia 93 11 November E.F. Roots PCSP 94 8 December C.F. Maclellan Transportation Some annual dinners have been numbered meetings, but the practice has been erratic. 1960 95 12 January Film: Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic expedition 96 9 February A.H. Macpherson Zoological reconnaissance of Prince of Wales Island 97 8 March G.W. Stead Northern sea supply 98 12 April Supt. W.G. Fraser, RCMP G Division patrols 99 5 May Comm. L.H. Nicholson Annual dinner. The North and Eskimos. 100 11 October J.K. Fraser Western Arctic 101 8 November W. Heikkila Rocket experiments at Fort Churchill 102 13 December R.L. Christie Geological reconnaissance of Ellesmere Island 1961 103 10 January B.G. Sivertz Challenge of the North to Canadians 104 14 February J.C. Reed Oil exploration, northern Alaska 105 14 March G. Jacobsen Expedition to Axel Heiberg Island 106 11 April H.B. Dickens Building in the North 107 9 May M. Freeman Ecology and society on the Belcher Islands 108 10 October S.D. MacDonald Wildlife of the Queen Elizabeth Islands 109 14 November J.R. Weber Penny ice cap 110 12 December Miss M. Dunbar Ice and other observations, CMS John A. Macdonald, 1961 1962 111 9 January Films: Caribou tagging; High Arctic; The Navy goes north 112 13 February R.D. Wood Plant photographs 113 13 March J.R. Mackay Pingos and other geomorphological features, Mackenzie delta area 114 10 April J.A. Downes Northern insects 115 8 May A.H. Macpherson Caribou, Caribou Eskimo and other Eskimo 116 10 October F.R. Crawley Filming in the North 117 13 November C.R. Harington The life of polar bears 118 11 December E.W. Morse Paddle and portage across the Barrens 1963 119 8 January Films from USSR: Atomic icebreaker Lenin; The Koryake 120 12 February J.D. Ives North central Baffin Island 121 12 March D.B.O. Saville Plant geography of the Queen Elizabeth Islands 122 9 April W.E. Taylor Archaeology 123 14 May Mrs A. Houston Impressions of living in the Arctic at Cape Dorset 124 8 October E.F. Roots PCSP film 125 12 November R. Slobodin Kutchin Indians and their contact with the Eskimos 126 10 December Lt. Cdr. N.S. Norton, RCN Antarctic cruise with Argentine Navy The AGM has almost always been held at the January meeting. 1964 127 14 January Danish film: Where mountains float 128 12 February HE J. Knox ( Denmark) Expedition of Jens Munk to Hudson Bay 129 13 March CANCELLED 130 14 April A. Mansfield Walrus 131 12 May Margaret Lantis Eskimos of Bethel Triangle, AK 132 13 October D. Dinely uOttawa expedition to Somerset Island, 1964 133 10 November V.Adm. J.B. Harvey Boy Scout Movt. In the Arctic 134 8 December F. Scott Bilingualism and biculturalism 1965 135 12 January Film: High Arctic 136 9 February M. Watts Mary River iron ore deposit 137 9 March W. Blake, Jr. North East Land, Spitzbergen 138 13 April Films: Arctic Outpost, Up North, Fur Country; Kumak the Sleepy Hunter 139 15 April E.