CONTENTS NO. 1 JANUARY 1953 Thir~~-ninth Meeting of the Arctic Circle 1 Annual General Meeting of the Arctic Circle 1 Ioe i osland T.3 2 Cosmic ray observations in the Thule area 1952 4 Caribou calving studies, 1951. By .John P. Kelsall 6 Biological investigation of the Thelen Game &u1ctU8ry~ 1951. By .John P. Kelsall 7 The 1952 Easte:m Arctic Patrol. By J. G. Cantley 8 Lead-4inc rrine in Greenland 10 Subscriptions for 195.3 10 Change of Address 11 EditoriEll Note 11 NO. 2 FEBRUARY 1953 Forty-first Meeting of the Arctic Circle 12 The work of the Canadian Hydrographic Service in the north, swnmer 1952 12 Operations in Ungava Bay. By DIArcy H. Charles 12 Overations at Hopedale and Chesterfield Inlet." By J .E. V. Goodwill 13 A preliminary ~tudy of the Blue und Lesser Snow Geese on Southalflpton Island. By Graham Coocb 14 Report of cancer in a captive Varying Lemming, Dicrostonyx groenlandieus groenlandieus (Traill) 18 A new approach to sled design. By Lt. Col. A. G. Sangster 18 Address by the Honourable Robert H. Winters 21 Arctic S~minar at Dartmouth College 21 Subscriptions for 1953 22 Cr.ange of Addrldss 22 • :Dciitorial Note 22 I iii NO.3 MARCH-MAY 1953 Forty-second Meeting of the Arctic Circle 23 Forty-third Meeting of the ill'et..ic Circle 23 FOI't;t-fourth Meeting of the Arctic Circle 24 An attempt to circumnavigate Banks Isl&nd by canoe in 1952. By A. H. }/Bcpher'son 24 The Northern Insect Survey for 1952. By T. N. Freeman 30 Eskimo and Loucheux Indians in the Canadian Army. By The Rev. C. R. dontgomery 32 Unusual 'Wcather at Port Harrison 33 The effects of a seal bite at p0uld Bay. By S. D. 1'fLJ.cDonald 34 Change of Address 35 Editorial Note 36 NO.4 OCTOBER 1953 Forty-fifth ~ecting of the Arctic Circle 37 Special i'1eetine of the hrctic Circle 37 The 1951 Census in the Northwest Territories 37 Population of Eskimo peoples 43 Nm'thern activities of the Geodetic Survey, 1953. By J .LoR. Ross .h.crial reconnaissance by the Ceological Survey of Canada in the Districts of Keewatin and Mackenzie Annual R.C.M.P. walrus hunt in the vicinity of Coats IslomdJ 1952 47 Eskimo representation at the Coronation Naval Review 4B R.. C..A.F. fF!ll re-supp1y mission 48 Fourth }.la.skan Science ConferE:nc8. By 11bira Dunbar 4B Subscriptions fer 1954 49 Chang8 of Address 49 EditariaJ.. Note 50 • I iv NO. 5 NOVEMBER 1953 Forty-sixth Meeting of the Arctic Circle 51 Arr~ Survey operations in the north 51 Migration of Eskimo to tIle far northern islands 52 Epidemics in the lastern Arctic during 1953. By R. N. Simpson 53 The Na.tiorl.al ResBarch Council I s Permafrost Research Station a.t Norman Wells. By J. A. Pihlainen 55 Ozone over the North Pole. By D. C. Rose 57 S.A.S. tranDpolar flights 56 Eastern Arctic Patrol, 1953 59 Eskimo identifieo.tioD discs 61 Loss of the "Ie8hunter" 61 Request for arctic postal information 62 Subscriptions for 1954 62­ Change of Address 63 Edit~rial Note 6J • I o THE ARCTIC CIRCULAR VOL.VI NO.1 Publ1shed by The Arctic Circle JAN. 1953 Ottawa, Ontario I Thirty-ninth Meeting of the Arctic Circle The thirty-ninth meeting of the Arctic Circle was held in the let Corps Troops R.C.A.S.C. Mess, 216 Sparks Street, on Wednesday December 3. The President, Inspector Henry Larsen, was in the Chair and introduced the speaker, Lt. Col. J.O. Fletcher, U.S.A.F. Colonel Fletcher sho~d two flIma of the setting up of the U.S.A.F. researCh station on the ice island T3 and described the scientific programme on the island. A brief account of this work 1s included in this number. Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting of the Arctic Circle was held in the 1st Corps Troops R.C.A.S.C. Mess, 216 Sparks Street, on Wednesday 1 January 1953. The President, Inspector Henry Larsen, was in the Chair and opened the meeting by calling on the Treasurer, Mr. J. Cantley, to read the financial statement, which was then approved by the members. The Treasurer pointed out that there was a deficit of $19.00 during the year; this was partly due to increased costs of mailing and producing the Circular but was to some extent offset by large stocks of envelopes and paperw As there were still funds in hand from previous years it waa: decided that membership fees should not be raised. Membership has con­ tinued to increase slightly and at the start of the sixth year of the Club's existence there were 113 Ottawa members and 291 out-of-town members, m.aking a total of 464 compared with 461 at the Annual General Meeting in 1951. The President then asked the meeting to vote for Officers and I Committee members. In accordance with the Constitution the following members of the Committee resigned: Dr. Y.O. Fortier, Dr. George Hooper, and Mr. A.E. Porsild. FIL Scott AleXander, who had been posted to Edmonton, also resigned. To fill these vacancies, the Committee proposed the following members: The Rev. Father Gontran Laviolette, O.M.I., Dr. CooS. Lord, Dr. D.C. Rose, and Mr. \v.B. Smith, who were elected unan1mously. Following the meeting the Treasurer, Hr. James Cantley, resigned and Mrs. A.G. Sangster was appointed to succeed him. The Officers and Committee members for 1953 are as follows: VOL.VI NO.1 THE ARCTIC CIRCULAR 2 President.: Inspector Henry Larsen, R.C.M.P. Vice-President: HI' .. A.D. HeLean Secret'$(: Mr. A. StevenBon Publicat~ons Secretary; Mr. S.J. l1urp~ Treasurer: 1"1r5 .. A.G. Sangster Editor; Mr•• G.W. Rowley Camm1ttee members Mr. D'ArC)" Charles Mr. G.W. Rowley Mr.. Gordon Corcoran Lt.Col. A.G. Sangster Mr. Frank Davie. Dr. V. Solmlm Mise Uaira Dunbar Mr. W.B. Smith Mr. T.H. Manning Mr. J .A. Warwick Rev. Father Gontran Laviolette, D.H.I. Mr. J .A. Wilson Dr. C.S. Lord Mr. J.C. Wyatt Dr. D.C. ROBe FolloWing the election of Committee members the President thanked the Officers and members of the Committee far their work during the past year. A vote of thanks was proposed to the auditors, Dr. George Hooper and Ur. W.K.W. Baldwin, and the meeting reappointed them for 195). The President than expressed the gratitude of the Club to Lt.Col. J.R. Chisholm for the uae of the R.C.A.S.C. Mess and Major S.A. Jacques for making the arrangements at the Mess, and to the Scott Polar Research Institute for handling the subscriptions from European members. At the conclusion of the Club business Dr. V. Solman showed the colour film "Arctic Wildlife 11, which had been taken by members of the Canadian Wildlife Survey. Ice island T) On 14 August 1946 what appeared to be a new island in the Polar Basin, nearly JOO ntiles north of Point Barrow, was picked up on the radar scope of a U.S.A.F. aircraft. Subsequent flights showed that the new island was a huge maas of floating ice, which stood out from the surrounding pack ice by its 6ize, thickness, and strikingly ridged or rolling surface pattern. Since then the U.S.A.F. has followed the drift of three large ice islands in the Polar Basin, lmown as TI, T2 1 and T), which move at an a.verage rate of 1.2 miles a day, and a large number have been found on air photographs of waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago,. All these ice islands are readily recognizable and maintain their shape for several yeare>. They have been shown to have broken e:rlay from a belt of shelf ice 1 up to 10 miles broad, off the north coast of Ellesmere Island• • VOL.VI NO.1 THE ARCTIC CIRCULAR 3 During March 1952 the first larding was made on T3J or llFletcher I s i,. __,_ Islandll as it was known by members of the UeS .. A.F. in recognition of Colonel Fletcher I s contribution to the study of ice islands. One of the main purposes of occu~ an ice island was to establish a meteorological station from which weather data could be sent out at regular intervalse The island T3J the smallest of thE;t three Tls i was selectedJ as it was in the central and least known part of the Polar Basin. Colonel Fletcher, in his talk to the Circle, described the recormaissance flight and landing, after which Capte M. Brinegar, Dr. Ke RodahlJ and he himself remained on the island to construct Q temporar.r campe Late in April Mr. A.P. Crary and Mr. R.D. CotellJ civilian scien­ tists from the U.S.AeF. Cambridge Research Center, and Capt. Paul Green from Alaska Air Command. were flown in and Dr. Rodahl an:i Capt. Brinegar were taken out. In June a complete rawinaonde station was set up and two members of the 7th Weather Group joined the research party, which by December consisted of nine men under the conunani of Hajor H.G. Dorsey, Jr. Since that time a continuous programme of observations has been carried out and the U.S.A.F. plans to give facilities for one or two civilian scientists to make special studies. In addition to the meteorological observations the scientific work has been mainly directed towards studies of the following; the phyaical structure and movements of the ice island, the movements of the pack ice, and seismic profiles of the ice islam and the ocean floor.