Collection search - A bogged down truck and a tractor that came to its rescue on the west bank of the Mackenzie River near Norman Wells

Typewritten, pasted on verso : "This was a period before special equipment and skill for heavy hauling and construction in permafrost areas had become generally available." " A familiar scene in the western Canadian Subarctic during the early days of the Canol Project before the term "permafrost" had been coined and the hazards of permanently frozen ground were learned the hard way by catskinners and truck drivers from the south. A permafrost area stripped of its insulating cover of vegetation quickly became a quagmire"

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