Recherche dans la collection - Through the Northwest Passage 1940-1942 = À travers le passage du Nord-Ouest

ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE / GENDARMERIE ROYALE DU CANADA

1987-0087

Film

1 of 1

1947

RCMP Identification Services

producer, Corporal F.S. Farrar

Film record of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner St. Roch on its historic two-year voyage from Vancouver to Lunenberg, Nova Scotia through the Northwest Passage. Includes extensive footage of Arctic storms, wildlife such as seals, sea lions, walruses and polar bears, scenes of ice floes and icebergs, Inuit men, women and children, RCMP detachments at Cambridge Bay and Tuktoyaktuk and St. Roch held fast in the polar ice at the winter quarters at Walker Bay and Pasley Bay. Noteworthy scenes of police patrols by dogsled to remote Inuit settlements. Additional clips of stone cairns erected by Roald Amundsen in 1903 and burial cairn of deceased St. Roch crew member Constable Chartrand, who suffered a heart attack during the trip. Filmed highlights of the southward voyage include panoramic shots of the coast of Davis Strait; a wartime ship convoy en route to Europe; and Lunenburg, the final destination. <36mn>

ARCTIC REGIONS~CAMBRIDGE BAY ~DOGSLEDDING~NORTHWEST PASSAGE~OCEAN TRAVEL~TUKTOYAKTUK ~ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE~ST. ROCH

English

FE-55~FE-56~FE-57~FE-58~FE-59~1-E-51

Restreint par créateur/donateur

V1 8711-0021
V1 9511-0014
V1 2000-05-0026

GAD 0FD065

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