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COOMBS, D.B [moving images]

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

[1947-1949].

Reference:

R14851-0-2-E

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4619415

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COOMBS, D.B
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Date(s):

[1947-1949].

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

2 film reels (1 h 53 min) : b&w ; 16 mm.

Language of material:

no language

Scope and content:

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Home movie footage of the Foxe Basin Expedition Geodetic Survey in the Arctic in James Bay, Baffin Island and Foxe Basin areas. In the two b&w films titled "Foxe Basin Expedition" and "Geodetic Survey", expedition members film towns and coastal areas around Baffin Island and Nunavut. Inuit in several communities (present-day Coral Harbour, Pond Inlet, Pangnirtung, Chisasibi, Whapmagoostui, Repulse Bay, Igloolik, etc.) are depicted aiding supply ships and hunting seal, narwhal, and caribou. Polar bears and lemmings are filmed along with thick-billed murre and black guillemot bird colonies.

The expedition had dual purpose of mapping and conducting trials of service clothing under wet conditions. Team members are depicted taking tide gauge readings, measuring glacier formations, measuring storm beach elevations for crustal uplift activity and collecting animal and bird specimens.

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Coombs, D. B

Additional name(s):

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Nauja (Ship)

Biography/Administrative history:

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Coombs, D. B : D. (Donald) B. Coombs was a geographer and geodesist with the Geographical Bureau's Expedition to Foxe Basin, and later on was the director of Land Evaluation and Mapping Branch at Environment Canada.

Finding aid:

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(Electronic) See MISACS for item level description. (90: Open)

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Accompanying material note:

Shot list provided by donor. Original shot list located in acquisition file.

Arrangement note:

Reels are not arranged in chronological sequence.

Language note:

The films are silent.

Reproduction note:

Film originally in two parts; consolidated into one reel by NFA.
Subject heading:

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Geology Arctic regions

Glaciology

Nunavut

Inuit - Nunavut
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1976-07-15)
1976-0252 MISA

Other accession no.:

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1976-0252 MISA
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Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Copyright: Expired.
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