The file consists of "A Woman's Log of an Arctic Voyage" by Gladys O'Kelly, detailing a voyage she made on the Lady Kindersley in 1921. The Lady Kindersley left Vancouver on her maiden voyage for the Hudson's Bay Company on 30 June 1921 bound for Victoria Land in the North West Territories and returned to Vancouver on 4 November 1921. However, Mrs. O'Kelly and her husband, T.P. O'Kelly (a Hudson's Bay Company employee) left the ship at Akutan whaling station and returned on the US Coast Guard cutter Unalga to Juneau and thence the Princess Mary to Vancouver, arriving 5 December 1921. This file also contains notes regarding the voyage by T.P. O'Kelly and notes by Provincial Archives staff on the O'Kelly family.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The voyage of the St. Roch, 1940-1942 : part 1 & 2 RECORDED: Halifax (N.S.), 1943-12 & 1944-01 SUMMARY: Interview of Sergeant Henry Larsen, skipper of the RCMP patrol boat St. Roch, by Helen Creighton, folklorist, about: the St. Roch and her journey through the Northwest Passage in 1940-1942; the climate, topography, flora and fauna of the Northwest Territories; the hunting and fishing practices, society and religious beliefs of the Inuit; and relations between Inuits and whites in the Northwest Territories. (NAC on-line description.)

SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Henry Larsen describes a job as a navigator in the Arctic in the 1920s aboard "The Old Maid", getting stuck out at sea in 1926, establishing a post at Wilmont Island, his time in Vancouver after his voyages in the Arctic in 1928, getting a job as a Constable for the RCMP aboard a ship, an experience at Herschel Island and the influenza epidemic there, a description of his boat, police work in the Arctic around Herschel Island, how they tried to cater to the Eskimo administration, his twenty year stint working in the Arctic, how he had no power to be an administrator so all he could do was report, experiences in the Arctic, bad ice seasons, how 1940 and 1941 were bad seasons and stories about them, and his voyage on the "St. Roch" from the Pacific to the Atlantic and the trouble getting through.

TRACK 2: Henry Larsen continues by describing his journey including places they stopped and an anecdote about when they thought they would overturn in the ice, experiences between Eskimos and white men, the stable population in the Arctic, a man named Father Henry, freezing fish in the ground, more anecdotes, including one about Canon Turner and more on Eskimos.

SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Henry Larsen continues by discussing his trip from the Arctic to Halifax, his time in the King William Island area and his opinions on the John Franklin expedition, including where Franklin was buried, an experience in 1946 sailing in Siberia, the first oil well being drilled in the MacKenzie in 1921, change in 1946 in the Western Arctic, his last voyage into the Arctic in 1947, and the possibility of industry in the Arctic. TRACK 2: Henry Larsen discusses long distance navigation by submarines in the Arctic, a projection that oil in the MacKenzie Valley will be transported under the ice by pipelines and will be transported by submarines so that weather will no longer be a factor, the trouble getting young Canadians interested in science in the north in contrast with how it is in Russia, doctors in the Arctic. including several anecdotes concerning helping Eskimos, Dr. Borden of the "Neptune" who found that Eskimo health was exemplary with no cancer but after 1925 they have become increasingly less healthy and now they need doctors, oceanographers venturing up north and more scientific research, and an anecdote about a 1944 trip to Washington to meet J. Edgar Hoover. [End of interview?]

RECORDED: [lOttawa], [1962] Vilhjalmar Stefansson also takes part in interview [referred to as “Stef”].

The file contains photocopies of correspondence between Sir Charles Wright with Griffith Taylor and Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 1923-1949, regarding Arctic and Antarctic conditions and expeditions.

The item is a microfilm copy of a thesis by Gordon Ward Smith titled "The historical and legal background of Canada's Arctic claims." vi, 496 leaves: map. Thesis (Ph.D.), Columbia University, 1952. Bibliography: leaves 464-496. University Microfilms, 4597.

SUMMARY: "The Bush and the Salon" was a CBC radio series that recreated early Canadian life from letters, diaries and other sources. This episode (Polar Saga number two), "Journey to a Still Point on the Turni;ng Earth", a sound play by Michael Mercer, begins with the American expedition to the Arctic in 1871 on the USS "Polaris" with Commander Charles Francis Hall, Hall's death, and the later determination; of his poisoning. Other Arctic explorations are remembered, including that of Sir John Franklin, and the subsequent search parties for the lost explorer. Actors include: Joseph Golland, Walter Marsh;, Otto Lowy, Merv Campone, Barney O'Sullivan and Eric Schneider. The music is by George Crum.;

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. "Franklin and McClintock", by Dav;id West and Regina Puckett. A poem for voices, set in the Canadian Arctic at the time of Admiral John Franklin's ill-fated expedition in search of the Northwest Passage.;