Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration

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Henry A. Larsen interview : [CBC, 196-?]

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”].