Caption
Maintenance of the law at Great Whale, as it is throughout Canada's vast northland, is in the hands of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, The Mountie and his dog above are great friends of the local Eskimo and Indian children.
Release Date
January 19, 1960
Materials
Typescript with illustrations
Photographers
MalakCollection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Caption
A hardy breed of men, modern adventurers, man Canada's Mid-Canada Line, stretched roughly along the country's 55th parallel from Dawson Creek, B.C., across Hudson Bay to Hopedale, Labrador. One of a trio of electronic curtains strung across the top of the North American continent to warn of attack across the polar ice cap, the 2,600-mile Mid-Canada line is dotted with radar stations manned largely by civilian personnel who find life in Canada's gale-lashed northland a challenge and an adventure. Above, at Great Whale on Hudson Bay, the ubiquitous helicopter is indispensable for transporting men and materials.
Accession Number
LAC-NFB91123
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177253
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
At remote, snow-swept Great Whale station food supplies are brought in once a year; for six months at a time its tiny bind of inhabitants live on deep-frozen meat, dried fruit, dehydrated vegetables and powdered milk.
Accession Number
LAC-NFB91122
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177252
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
After every snowfall the airport's runway must be cleared -- a herculean task calling for the muscles of a huge snowplow which tosses a spume of snow high into the air.
Accession Number
LAC-NFB91121
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177251
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
The men who man Canada's radar stations are tough; each day they pit their strength, their wits, their intelligence and their endurance against savage weather conditions, where the temperature drops mercilessly to 60 degrees below zero, and against the inevitable loneliness which accompanies the desolate isolation of these vital outposts. Only a few crack, the majority grow tall.
Accession Number
LAC-NFB91125
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177255
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
At one time Canada's radar stations were staffed entirely by service personnel but today the picture has changed. Civilian teams of skilled technicians have taken over the complicated maze of electronic equipment.
Accession Number
LAC-NFB91127
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177256
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory #245: Men Who Man Mid-Canada Line
Photographers
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
January 19, 1960
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
Maintenance of the law at Great Whale, as it is throughout Canada's vast northland, is in the hands of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, The Mountie and his dog above are great friends of the local Eskimo and Indian children.
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