Photo Gallery
The Expedition included scientists and ship crews, plus local Aboriginal peoples hired as guides, hunters and translators. The 10 scientists who accompanied Stefansson and Anderson were chosen from an international group of eager applicants. The crews were no less interesting but were assembled with greater haste, a few hired at dockside just before the ships set sail. The Aboriginal members included men and women—and in some cases families with children—from Arctic communities in both Canada and Alaska. The exhibition features more of these remarkable, adventurous souls.
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Stefansson on the Karluk just before departure from Victoria, with a Canadian flag presented by the Premier of British Columbia.
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The expedition’s flagship, the Karluk, heading out to sea.
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First meeting between the members of the expedition and the local people at Herschel Island, Yukon.
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Members of the Southern Party meeting for the first time with the Copper Inuit soon after the arrival of the Alaska and North Star at Bernard Harbour.
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A deck-load of lumber was carried in on the Alaska for use in building secure headquarters for the Southern Party. With outside walls packed with sod in summer and blocks of snow in winter, it was a snug, if cramped, shelter.
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Manigurin, her husband Kohoktok wearing Inuit goggles, and Ikey Bolt wearing expedition goggles.
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Anavik wearing snow goggles made of wood.
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Copper Inuit sealskin “shoes” laid out to dry on rocks at spring camp.
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Ayallit, cradling the hand with the missing thumb, accompanied by Algiaq, Taptuna, Qamingoq and Kallun.
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Peter Bernard building a sled for the expedition in his workshop.
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Laying the sod foundation for the expedition house near Cape Kellett on Banks Island.
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Ikpukkuaq and Higilaq accompanied Diamond Jenness and helped him collect stories, place names and objects that represented their culture.
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When travelling on the sea ice and faced with channels of open water, a sled could be converted into a sled boat by wrapping it in a waterproof canvas.
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The Arctic wolf that bit Diamond Jenness at the expedition camp near Bloody Fall on the Coppermine River.
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Patsy Klengenberg and Dr. Anderson preparing mammal skins, Bernard Harbour, Nunavut.
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Photo: Rudolph M. Anderson August 1916
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Inuit expedition members in front of the winter house at Victoria Island, NWT.
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Captain Henry Gonzales and Lorne Knight clearing snow from the schooner Polar Bear at Victoria Island, NWT.
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Emiu, Natkusiak and Karsten Andersen in front of a rickety sled, Borden Island, NWT.
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Inuit family near the Northern Party camp on Victoria Island, NWT.
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The Polar Bear at the Northern Party camp on Victoria Island, NWT.
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Pannigabluk, Jennie Thomsen and Elvina Storkersen with their children, two of them born during the expedition
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Within months of the Southern Party's abandonment of its headquarters at Bernard Harbour, the Hudson's Bay Company opened a trading post there, and an Anglican mission was established.
