| Summary: | The peninsule of Labrador-Ungava* (Map 1) is a population desert, having harsh, cold winters and brief, warrn, fly-cursed summers, but offering the glacial geomorphologist ample scope for working on virgin territory, with abundant landforrns often of textbook simplicity. However, it is only in recent years thot extensive aerial photography has been undertaken, and this, together wlth certain military and economie developments within the peninsule, has led to an increasing awareness of the significance of the glacial history of the a rea. These developments led ultimately to the establishment in 1954, of the McGi Il Sub-Arctic Research La bora tory, through which it was proposed to develop a scientific research programme related to this little known a rea. With the establishment of the Laboratory, a Field Director was appointed by McGill University to supervise the studies of the younger workers on the staff. A natural outcome of the system was for an emphasis to develop along the lin es of the research interests of the senior man. Under the direction of Dr. J. D. Ives the system developed into what Matthew (196la) has termed the 1 McGill Programme in relation to the deglaciation of the peninsula. [.]
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