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By the time we finished packing for our August weekend camping trip, it was 10:30 p.m., dusk in Igloolik. In the cold night, a wall of fog engulfs us. My friend Andy, Paulosie Attagutalukutuk's oldest ... [View full title] son, stops his 16-foot aluminum boat, looks around, motions a direction with his hand and then proceeds slowly through the ice-strewn waters. We are on our way across Foxe Basin to an old hunting camp called Oopingiviajuk on Baffin Island. Andy's wife Rebecca, who works as a teacher's aide at the school in Igloolik, rides beside him along with two of their children - Alice, 12, and Thomas, four - who sleep soundly at their feet swaddled in a sleeping bag laid on caribou skins on the bottom of the boat. Turton Bay, Igloolik, 1998.

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Item ID number:

3804986

Date:

1998

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

By the time we finished packing for our August weekend camping trip, it was 10:30 pm, dusk in Igloolik. In the cold night, a wall of fog engulfs us

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- By the time we finished packing for our August weekend camping trip, it was 10:30 p.m., dusk in Igloolik.
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Building an Igloo. "The snow is very poor here, too soft on top and too hard at the bottom ... but it is the best we have found," Andy says. "We have to cut blocks 'on the horizontal,' out of the midd ... [View full title] le." He spirals the blocks around himself, like a snail building its shell, which rises higher and higher; it's like a winding little womb in the wilderness. As he adds blocks, they shield him more and more from the wind, which is now very strong and so paralyzingly cold that even short exposures are lethal to living tissue. "Left-handed people build igloos in a clockwise direction, and right-handed people go counterclockwise, but there are not many people who build them properly anymore," he says.

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Item ID number:

3804942

Date:

1999

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

Building an Igloo. "The snow is very poor here, too soft on top and too hard at the bottom ... but it is the best we have found," Andy says

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Building an Igloo.
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Paulosie stands on the food box in his old boat, aptly called the "chugger." His neck strains high, and his eyes dart back and forth across the white icy seascape that suddenly engulfs us. He mutters ... [View full title] something in Inuktitut. Standing beside me at the gunwale of the heavy old Newfoundland fishing vessel, Andy shouts me a translation: "My father says he is afraid that we might get crushed by the ice." Paulosie was a profoundly calm man, and, seeing at this moment the uncharacteristic look of grave concern on his nearly always smiling face, I know that our situation is very precarious. We are 30 miles from the nearest point of land, in the northern reaches of Foxe Basin

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Item ID number:

3804981

Date:

1977

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

Paulosie stands on the food box in his old boat, aptly called the "chugger." His neck strains high, and his eyes dart back and forth across the white icy

Context of this record
- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Paulosie stands on the food box in his old boat, aptly called the "chugger." His neck strains high, and his eyes dart back and forth across the white icy seascape that suddenly engulfs us. He mutters something in Inuktitut. Standing beside me at the gunwale of the heavy old Newfoundland fishing vessel, Andy shouts me a translation: "My father says he is afraid that we might get crushed by the ice
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Eco-tourists: "If you watch closely you will see the ice move beneath us," says Leo, a 42-year-old Inuit man from the community of Arctic Bay. For weeks, he has a job for eco-tourists, who bounce alon ... [View full title] g on a sled behind his snowmobile over the transforming floe edge of Lancaster Sound, looking for wildlife. Three female narwhals, only their backs briefly visible, have just passed within 200 meters of where I stand. The only sounds come from water splashing on ice and, awe-inspiringly, from whales breathing

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Item ID number:

3804948

Date:

2000

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

Eco-tourists: "If you watch closely you will see the ice move beneath us," says Leo, a 42-year-old Inuit man from the community of Arctic Bay

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Eco-tourists: "If you watch closely you will see the ice move beneath us," says Leo, a 42-year-old Inuit man from the community of Arctic Bay. For weeks, he has a job for eco-tourists, who bounce along on a sled behind his snowmobile over the transforming floe edge of Lancaster Sound, looking for wildlife. Three female narwhals, only their backs briefly visible, have just passed within 200 meter
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The Twin Engine Otter soared over the mountains and fjords of northern Baffin Island, near Bylot Island, and then the pilot flew low along the rugged coastline that rises steeply to the tundra plateau ... [View full title] , as far as I could see. Nunavut covers 1.9 million square kilometres, one-fifth of all Canadian land, and is home to only 27,000 people, a population density of one person per 70 square kilometres. Eighty-five percent of the inhabitants are Inuit; more than half are under 25 years of age. North Baffin Island, 1999.

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Item ID number:

3804972

Date:

1999

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

The Twin Engine Otter soared over the mountains and fjords of northern Baffin Island, near Bylot Island, and then the pilot flew low along the rugged

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- The Twin Engine Otter soared over the mountains and fjords of northern Baffin Island, near Bylot Island, and then the pilot flew low along the rugged coastline that rises steeply to the tundra plateau, as far as I could see.
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Looking for seals. Cape Crauford, Lancaster Sound, North Baffin Island, August 2000

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Item ID number:

3804964

Date:

2000

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

Looking for seals. Cape Crauford, Lancaster Sound, North Baffin Island, August 2000. Credit: Robert Semeniuk / Library and Archives Canada / copy

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Looking for seals.
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Stopping for tea, Alain shields his camp stove from the wind in order to light it. A good way to start a cold primus stove is to punch a little caribou fur from your parka and lay it around the elemen ... [View full title] t. The fur ignites well. Harsh Arctic realities are nowhere more manifest than in winter, on either land or sea ice. The distinction between "land life" and "settlement life" becomes obvious when you return to Igloolik after sleeping in igloos or hunting cabins, with only a qulliq for light and warmth. Approached from a distance, Igloolik appears like a flickering jewel on the horizon, a grand spectacle. An intensely inviting womb of warm light that I am desperate to reach. North Baffin Island, Igloolik, April 1976.

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Item ID number:

3804970

Date:

1976

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

Stopping for tea, Alain shields his camp stove from the wind in order to light it. A good way to start a cold primus stove is to punch a little caribou fur

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Stopping for tea, Alain shields his camp stove from the wind in order to light it.
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One Sunday morning, after a brief church service in Deporah's tent, both Papa (centre left) and Deporah (right) illustrate to young people in the camp how to cut a caribou skin to make a parka. "The n ... [View full title] eck is the strongest part," Deporah says. Women are always busy in camp. I remember Papa, whom I knew and photographed twenty years ago, making what she still calls, "Eskimo popcorn." She cuts seal fat into pieces to fry, then renders the oil for burning in her lamp. When she's almost finished, she squeezes a few handfuls of well-chosen, very deep-fried, greasy but crisp morsels and passes them around to the children. It makes her happy to show me how to mix equal parts moss and Arctic cotton grass to make the wick for her seal-oil lamp. Oopingiviajuk, August 1998

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Item ID number:

3804963

Date:

1998

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

One Sunday morning, after a brief church service in Deporah's tent, both Papa (centre left) and Deporah (right) illustrate to young people in the camp how

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- One Sunday morning, after a brief church service in Deporah's tent, both Papa (centre left) and Deporah (right) illustrate to young people in the camp how to cut a caribou skin to make a parka. "The neck is the strongest part," Deporah says. Women are always busy in camp. I remember Papa, whom I knew and photographed twenty years ago, making what she still calls, "Eskimo popcorn." She cuts seal
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Canada. Industry, Science and Technology Canada collection [graphic material]

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Item ID number:

16701

Date:

1963-1988

Source:

Government

Reference:

R1395, 1990-618 DAP, 118-080292-6

Canada. Industry, Science and Technology Canada collection [graphic material]. Staff portraits and activities of the Department of Industry,
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Paulosie and sons Andy and Molokai hunting seals.

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Item ID number:

3804920

Date:

August 1977

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

Paulosie and sons Andy and Molokai hunting seals. Portraits. Credit: Robert Semeniuk / Library and Archives Canada Restrictions on use: Prints are supplied

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Paulosie and sons Andy and Molokai hunting seals.
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Palousie Attagutalukutuk, Andy's father (left), and Methusalah Kunuk approach a bull caribou Paulosie shot near his family's summer camping place. Here Paulosie grew up and lived in a sod house until ... [View full title] 1964, when his was among the last families to move permanently into Igloolik. The ice broke up in Foxe Basin only a few days before I took this photo. Kangilujak, Steensby Inlet, North Baffin Island, August 1976

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Item ID number:

3804993

Date:

1976

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

Palousie Attagutalukutuk, Andy's father (left), and Methusalah Kunuk approach a bull caribou Paulosie shot near his family's summer camping place

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Palousie Attagutalukutuk, Andy's father (left), and Methusalah Kunuk approach a bull caribou Paulosie shot near his family's summer camping place. Here Paulosie grew up and lived in a sod house until 1964, when his was among the last families to move permanently into Igloolik. The ice broke up in Foxe Basin only a few days before I took this photo. Kangilujak, Steensby Inlet, North Baffin Is
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Esra Kripanik rests with fresh caribou meat that he is carrying back to camp. He and his wife, Teporah Qaunaq, who ia Palousie's niece, walked about five kilometers from camp to shoot this caribou. O ... [View full title] opingiviajuk, Baffin Island, 1997.

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Item ID number:

3804989

Date:

1997

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

Esra Kripanik rests with fresh caribou meat that he is carrying back to camp. He and his wife, Teporah Qaunaq, who ia Palousie's niece, walked about five

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Esra Kripanik rests with fresh caribou meat that he is carrying back to camp.
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A "match box" house in Igloolik. These small houses with thin walls, little insulation and big stoves passed for housing in the 1950s. They were kept steaming hot in the winter, while outside it was b ... [View full title] itter cold and bone dry. At the time when everyone lived in these government-build houses, tuberculosis raged through Inuit settlements. Igloolik, 1977

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Item ID number:

3804938

Date:

1977

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

A "match box" house in Igloolik. These small houses with thin walls, little insulation and big stoves passed for housing in the 1950s

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- A "match box" house in Igloolik. These small houses with thin walls, little insulation and big stoves passed for housing in the 1950s. They were kept steaming hot in the winter, while outside it was bitter cold and bone dry. At the time when everyone lived in these government-build houses, tuberculosis raged through Inuit settlements. Igloolik, 1977
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I lived with Paulosie and his family in this tent for over four months in the summer of 1976. My only privacy was when I closed my eyes. Kangilujak, Steensby Inlet, North Baffin Island, 1976.

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Item ID number:

3804969

Date:

1976

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

I lived with Paulosie and his family in this tent for over four months in the summer of 1976. My only privacy was when I closed my eyes

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- I lived with Paulosie and his family in this tent for over four months in the summer of 1976.
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I spent many hours riding qamuti (sleds). Hanging on and contending with the biting wind chill is relentlessly challenging. With every turn, I adjust my caribou parka hood, and with it in the wind's a ... [View full title] ngle of attack against my face. When I feel solid spots-frozen flesh-I hold my mittens against my cheeks, but then there is a gap between my mitts and my parka, where searing wind bites a thin frozen ring around my wrist

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Item ID number:

3804976

Date:

1977

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

I spent many hours riding qamuti (sleds). Hanging on and contending with the biting wind chill is relentlessly challenging. With every turn, I adjust my

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- I spent many hours riding qamuti (sleds).
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A rock, deposited here by glaciers, is now a thin ecological niche that is home to lichens. Owls also perch, hunt and eat here. From decay comes delicate rings of moss campion that grow on the perimet ... [View full title] er of this fertile little oasis of graphic Arctic habitation. Cape Crauford, north Baffin Island, 1999.

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Item ID number:

3804934

Date:

1999

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

A rock, deposited here by glaciers, is now a thin ecological niche that is home to lichens. Owls also perch, hunt and eat here. From decay comes delicate

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- A rock, deposited here by glaciers, is now a thin ecological niche that is home to lichens.
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Boiling caribou meet and roasting marshmallows. Collecting enough small green sparse willow and bits of moss to make a fire, and keeping it going, are always challenging. Oopingiviajuk, North Baffin ... [View full title] Island, August 1997.

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Item ID number:

3804999

Date:

1997

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1, File number: 73

Boiling caribou meet and roasting marshmallows. Collecting enough small green sparse willow and bits of moss to make a fire, and keeping it going,

Context of this record
- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Boiling caribou meet and roasting marshmallows.
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Rebecca, Paapaaq Maliliki, "Papa" stands motionless over a seal's breathing hole. She carries a small baby on her back, inside her parka or amunti. When you're hunting seals on the rough sea ice, the ... [View full title] challenge is first to recognize and locate all the breathing holes within an area, and then to disturb most of them so that the seals are discouraged from using them. The seals will be forced to use the undisturbed holes. Here, one must stand very still, with a harpoon or gun, hoping that a seal comes up for air. Foxe Basin, Igloolik, 1976.

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Item ID number:

3804913

Date:

1976

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

Rebecca, Paapaaq Maliliki, "Papa" stands motionless over a seal's breathing hole. She carries a small baby on her back, inside her parka or amunti

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Rebecca, Paapaaq Maliliki, "Papa" stands motionless over a seal's breathing hole.
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Two Igloolik hunters have tea and wait by their qamuti for seals. Floe edge, Igloolik, 1977

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Item ID number:

3804917

Date:

1977

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

Two Igloolik hunters have tea and wait by their qamuti for seals. Floe edge, Igloolik, 1977. Portraits. Credit: Robert Semeniuk / Library and Archives

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Two Igloolik hunters have tea and wait by their qamuti for seals.
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Seal hunter Augustin Taqqaugaq and his son Lukie motor through the shifting autumn ice floes of Foxe Basin. At this time of year, seals sink quickly after they are shot, and many are lost before they ... [View full title] can be hauled into the boat. Foxe Basin, September, 1979.

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Item ID number:

3804882

Date:

1979

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

Seal hunter Augustin Taqqaugaq and his son Lukie motor through the shifting autumn ice floes of Foxe Basin. At this time of year, seals sink quickly after

Context of this record
- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Seal hunter Augustin Taqqaugaq and his son Lukie motor through the shifting autumn ice floes of Foxe Basin.
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We stop on pan ice to eat seal meat and collect fresh water for tea. The first time I ate raw seal liver I was very pleasantly surprised that it tasted so sweet and mild. It seemed like the perfect fo ... [View full title] od to eat out there. Foxe Basin, Igloolik, 1976.

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Item ID number:

3804958

Date:

1976

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

We stop on pan ice to eat seal meat and collect fresh water for tea. The first time I ate raw seal liver I was very pleasantly surprised that it tasted so

Context of this record
- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- We stop on pan ice to eat seal meat and collect fresh water for tea.
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Harpooning a seal after it has been shot and before it can sink. How quickly a seal sinks depends on the season, how fat the animal is, the currents, temperature and salinity of the water. Foxe Basin, ... [View full title] Igloolik, 1976.

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Item ID number:

3804835

Date:

1976

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

Harpooning a seal after it has been shot and before it can sink. How quickly a seal sinks depends on the season, how fat the animal is, the currents,

Context of this record
- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Harpooning a seal after it has been shot and before it can sink.
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Deporah fillets and prepares big red slabs of Arctic char, fresh from the nets in front of the camp. Often indistinguishable from the fish, her hands move with speed, precision and dedication, like th ... [View full title] ose of a sculptor. She reminds me that our needs are met by the Earth. Oopingiviajuk, August, 1997.

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Item ID number:

3804916

Date:

1997

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

Deporah fillets and prepares big red slabs of Arctic char, fresh from the nets in front of the camp. Often indistinguishable from the fish, her hands move

Context of this record
- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Deporah fillets and prepares big red slabs of Arctic char, fresh from the nets in front of the camp.
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Isaac and Rebecca Irngaut make bannock with flour and seal fat. Issac (Paulosie Attagutaluktuk's oldest brother) committed suicide by slitting his own throat. Rebecca Awa remembers him as a "very thou ... [View full title] ghtful man who cleared snow from the church and elderly people's steps all winter long." Kangilujak, Steensby Inlet, North Baffin Island, 1978.

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Item ID number:

3804961

Date:

1978

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1

Isaac and Rebecca Irngaut make bannock with flour and seal fat. Issac (Paulosie Attagutaluktuk's oldest brother) committed suicide by slitting his own

Context of this record
- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Isaac and Rebecca Irngaut make bannock with flour and seal fat.
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Arctic char drying on an old gas barrel and a rare piece of salvaged wood, from an old cabin, slung over one of the many abandoned fuel barrels that litter the Arctic. Oopingiviajuk, North Baffin Isla ... [View full title] nd, 1997

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Item ID number:

3804974

Date:

1997

Source:

Private

Reference:

R12446-6-5-E, Volume number: 1, File number: 58

Arctic char drying on an old gas barrel and a rare piece of salvaged wood, from an old cabin, slung over one of the many abandoned fuel barrels that litter

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- Robert Semeniuk Fonds
- Arctic char drying on an old gas barrel and a rare piece of salvaged wood, from an old cabin, slung over one of the many abandoned fuel barrels that litter the Arctic.

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