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Walter Kerr Queen fonds [moving images]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1937.

Reference:

R8801-0-0-E

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

189451

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Walter Kerr Queen fonds
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Date(s):

1937.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

3 film reels (30 min).

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of films shoot by Queen while a passenger aboard the R.M.S. Nascopie during its 1937 Eastern Arctic patrol. His films show the meeting with the schooner Aklavik from the Western Arctic, the construction of Fort Ross on Bellot Strait, scenes abaord the Nascopie and of port being re-supplied.

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Queen, Walter Kerr

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Queen, Walter Kerr : Walter Kerr Queen was born in Newcastle, Ontario in 1880. As a youth he and his family moved to the Boston area. Queen became captain of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company of Massachusetts. In 1933 he was part of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. In the summer of 1937 Queen was a passenger aboard the R.M.S. Nascopie, a Hudson Bay Company ship that made rounds of the Eastern Arctic collecting furs for trade.

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(Electronic) See MISACS for item-level descriptions.

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Custodial history:

Material was acquired in 1986 from Marjorie E. Adams and Juanita Queen.

Related material:

LAC holds another film by team member David A. Nichols of the same patrol. See the David A. Nichols fonds (R15145)., LAC holds another film by team member Richard Sterling Finnie of the same patrol. See the Richard Sterling Finnie fonds (R5516). Finnie also wrote an article about the patrol in the December 1937 edition of the "Beaver" titled "Trading into the Northwest Passage".

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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184 (1986-07-18)
1986-0482 MISA
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Moving images (film)

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Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the copyright holder, Marjorie E. Adams, and of the donors, Adams and Juanita Queen. Whenever material is published/exhibited/broadcast, it must be accompanied by a credit to Juanita Queen and her father, Walter Kerr Queen.

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