Along Uncharted Shores

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Along Uncharted Shores

Item number (ISN):

98582

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

98582

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: 1988

Accession:

1988-0329

Media:

Film

Release date:

1964

Production responsibility:

National Film Board

Production credit:

director/producer, David Bairstow; photography, Gilles Gascon,; Bernard Gosselin; Jean-Claude Labrecque; sound, Leo O'Donnell; George Croll; Ted Haley; editing, David Mayerovitch; Tony Lower; sound editing, Bernie Bordeleau

Country of production:

cn

Description:

Story of the British-Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1936-1940 that followed the uncharted shores of Foxe Basin in the Eastern Arctic. Three members of the British-Canadian Arctic Expedition discuss with Trevor Lloyd, Chairman of the Department of Geography at McGill University. Colonel Patrick D Baird, geologist and geographer, Thomas Manning surveyor and field naturalist, and Graham Rowley, archaeologist and session advisor on Northern Affairs in the Canadian Government. Opening sequence of a map of Foxe Basin showing Rowley Island, Bray Island, Baird Peninsula, Parry Point, and Taverner Bay. They discuss the expedition activities including: building a shelter as mosquitoes were unpleasant; making a camp at Eskimo (Inuit) ruins; digging at a site at Southampton Islands; astronomical fix with no maps, therefore need exact time, a radio chronometer and take position of the stars and altitude; challenges with not being able to see stars in the summer and radio freezing up in the winter; Walrus Island and walrus herd of 2,000; challenges with boat taking on water and supplies becoming low; falling asleep and waking up to find one tonne walrus sleeping beside Rowley; two members travelling to Duke of York Bay and two others joined later from Coral Harbour, then up to Repulse Bay, Igloolik, Piling, Pond Inlet, Ross Bay and Wager Inlet; springtime is continuous daylight but travelling at night is better as temperature cools down and makes for faster travel; carrying surveying equipment slowing them down; in spring and summer of 1937, surveys completed on Repulse Bay, Wager Bay and Committee Bay; in spring of 1938, Manning sailed over to Cape Dorset to meet the steamer Nascopie; Manning was married on board the Nascopie by Bishop Fleming of the Arctic; Rowley found two areas that may have had evidence of Cape Dorset people and wanted to excavate site at Avvajja, near Igloolik; Bray and Baird began to sail towards Igloolik and a tragic accident happened as Bray tried to manoeuver and sailed out to sea never to be found again; Baird's military service and Manning's service in the navy. <28mn>

Language:

English

Original number:

106B 0164 209

Notes:

1. See documentation~2. Description taken from The NFB Film Guide, page 14.

Detailed holdings information:

Vault ISN:

84974

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8222-1650

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ORIG

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

84975

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8222-1651

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ORIG

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

84976

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8222-1652

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

84977

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8222-1653

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

84978

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

8222-1654

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

84979

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8222-1655

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

598390

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2012-08-0008

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

30:00

Made from:

8222-1655

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

598391

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2012-08-0006

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

30:00

Made from:

V4 2012-08-0008

Status:

REF

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