Home movie footage of the Foxe Basin Expedition Geodetic Survey in the Arctic in James Bay, Baffin Island and Foxe Basin areas. Shot list provided by Donald B. Coombs includes scenes possibly from two separate expeditions, the first from 1947-1948, and the second, in 1949 (Reel #1C and Reel #2D). Expedition members for the second expedition include: Donald B. Coombs, geographer and geodesist, Thomas H. Manning, geographer, vertebrate zoologist and expedition lead, R.W. (Bob) Packer, geographer, Curt Merrill, geographer and engineer, Pat Burns, geologist, Bill Baldwin, botanist, and Andrew Macpherson, assistant zoologist and cook. Reels are not arranged in chronological sequence. Reel #1A - Baffin Island 1948 - Coral Harbour Airport, buildings and aircraft, South Hampton Island [sic]; Foxe Basin ice; Pond Inlet, Bylot Island in background, Canso aircraft take-off; glacier at end, North Arm fiord; glacier formations, North Baffin, Coutts Inlet area; seal hunting, North Arm fiord; Cape Coutts area; black and white film, Pond Inlet, settlement and waterfront; narwhal hunting at Pond Inlet; annual supply boat arrival at Pond Inlet - Clarenville; Pangnirtung, arrival of annual supply boat; unloading annual supplies at Hudson's Bay Company post in Pangnirtung; Reel #1B - James Bay 1947 - Waskaganish (formerly known as Rupert House), James Bay; South Twin Island; Chisasibi (formerly known as Fort George); waterfront scenes at Chisasibi; shipwreck scenes at Grey Goose Island; on deck of the Nascopie; islands south east area; Bear Island; hauling in dead polar bear on Bear Island; expedition members' names painted on rock at campsite: "D.F. Coates, D.B. Coombs, 1947". Reel #1C - Manning Foxe Basin Expedition 1949. Expedition had dual purpose of mapping and conducting trials of service clothing under wet conditions. Moosonee railroad station, arrival of Ontario Northland Polar Bear Express, MS (Motor Ship) Nauja on flatcar; unloading Nauja and launching on slipways; tide gauge readings Trodely Island, measuring storm beach elevations for crustal uplift activity; Bear Island, hoisting anchor; glacial striations on Bear Island, coastal scenes; black guillemot colony, Island James Bay between Bear Island and Little Bear Island off Cape Jones, collecting bird specimens, colony scenes; Whapmagoostui (formerly known as Great Whale River), harbour scenes and settlement; stockpiling logs for winter fuel supply at Whapmagoostui; Nastapoka Islands, Richmond Gulf area and Hudson Bay; coastal scenes, Richmond Gulf to Inukjuak (formerly known as Port Harrison), east coast of Hudson Bay; baby ringed seal at Cape Smith area; excavations of old Inuit (eskimo) sites, Cape Smith area on Smith Island, bone artifacts; thick billed murre colony, Diggs Island and Cape Walstenholme [sic] area; Reel #2D - Manning Foxe Basin Expedition 1949 - Air Force Island, Foxe Basin, setting up camp; sailing through ice to Spicer Islands; snow bound on Rowley Island; hunting scene, polar bear at very close range, Rowley Island; camp on Prince Charles Island, skinning caribou; surveying, sun shot, Rowley Island; camp at Rowley Island; Arctic fox colour phase change; Calthorp Island [sic] coastal scenes at Foxe Basin; approaching Igloolik, depth sounding; Igloolik townsite; lemming; sailing south Parry Bay in Foxe Basin; water falls coastal scene, Barrow River; at anchor Repulse Bay, taking on fuel; Inuit (Eskimo) at Repulse Bay; Marble Island, Hudson Bay, camp site setting up tent; tide gauge readings at Marble Island; approaching Churchill Harbour, Manitoba; Fort Prince of Wales at Churchill; harbourfront at Churchill and hauling out MS Nauja from water. <1h 53mn>
