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Yesterday leaves today behind as a party of men from the Muskox expedition tries out the Arctic method of transportation. The team of nine husky dogs (...)
Yesterday leaves today behind as a party of men from the Muskox expedition tries out the Arctic method of transportation. The team of nine husky dogs (...)

Yesterday leaves today behind as a party of men from the Muskox expedition tries out the Arctic method of transportation. The team of nine husky dogs (...)

Date4/9/1946
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Original Toronto Star caption: Yesterday leaves today behind as a party of men from the Muskox expedition tries out the Arctic method of transportation. The team of nine husky dogs pulls them past the modern snowmobiles in which the operation has covered half its 3;100-mile trek into Canada's northland. In background is famed R.C.M.P. ship St. Roches in the ice
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0002254F
Unloading supplies and a new snowmobile motor from a glider, members of the Muskox expedition completed the job in half an hour, and the craft was the(...)
Unloading supplies and a new snowmobile motor from a glider, members of the Muskox expedition completed the job in half an hour, and the craft was the(...)
4/29/1946
Within sight of Port Radium this Muskox expedition snowmobile crashed through a wide crack in the ice
Within sight of Port Radium this Muskox expedition snowmobile crashed through a wide crack in the ice
4/27/1946
Looking like a native, F.O. Bill Alwood of St. John, N.B., a member of Muskox expedition, posed with two Eskimos at Baker Lake. The first half of the (...)
Looking like a native, F.O. Bill Alwood of St. John, N.B., a member of Muskox expedition, posed with two Eskimos at Baker Lake. The first half of the (...)
4/3/1946
Suspended by pulleys the snowmobile is being recovered from the huge crack as the Muskox travellers beat their way south through deep mud and soft snow
Suspended by pulleys the snowmobile is being recovered from the huge crack as the Muskox travellers beat their way south through deep mud and soft snow
4/27/1946
Home economist Jeri Johnson explains Arctic char cookery to men in Canadian Armed Forces Arctic display at CNE
Home economist Jeri Johnson explains Arctic char cookery to men in Canadian Armed Forces Arctic display at CNE
8/17/1971
CPL. Frantz enjoys taste of freshly cooked Arctic Char. When men have time on Arctic exercises, they supplement rations with fish
CPL. Frantz enjoys taste of freshly cooked Arctic Char. When men have time on Arctic exercises, they supplement rations with fish
8/17/1971
CPL. Gordon D'Andrea displays one man's daily food rations. Men serving in the Arctic devise ways to make regulation foods more interesting
CPL. Gordon D'Andrea displays one man's daily food rations. Men serving in the Arctic devise ways to make regulation foods more interesting
8/17/1971
Simulated arctic environment beats the heat on hot day
Simulated arctic environment beats the heat on hot day
8/17/1971
Unusual vacation. Not many women spend their summer vacation out on the rifle range unless they're on the Canadian Forces militia, like Pte. Mayo Sche(...)
Unusual vacation. Not many women spend their summer vacation out on the rifle range unless they're on the Canadian Forces militia, like Pte. Mayo Sche(...)
7/26/1979
Master Cpl. Jim Breakey coaches Pte. Michele Ball, 19, in use of her rifle. Classes run from July 2 to Aug. 10
Master Cpl. Jim Breakey coaches Pte. Michele Ball, 19, in use of her rifle. Classes run from July 2 to Aug. 10
7/26/1979
Capt. Jerry Shellington, from London, Ont. second in command on Grizzly-Armor car
Capt. Jerry Shellington, from London, Ont. second in command on Grizzly-Armor car
8/24/1984
A smokescreen keeps the young volunteer reservists in the trenches from seeing the approach of the 'enemy' in attacks that are as realistic as possible
A smokescreen keeps the young volunteer reservists in the trenches from seeing the approach of the 'enemy' in attacks that are as realistic as possible
8/24/1984