Joseph Elzéar Bernier (1852-1934)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Finnie, Richard S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1986
• Subjects: Bernier; Joseph Elzéar; 1852-1934; Biographies; Expeditions; Explorers; History; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Sovereignty; Canadian Arctic Islands; Canadian Arctic Islands waters; Hudson Bay; M'Clure Strait; N.W.T; Antarctic; Arctic; Baffin Island; Hudson; North Pole; Northwest Passage; Pond Inlet; Antarc*; Arctic Archipelago; Baffin; inuit; Northwest passage
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65139

. Joseph Elzéar Bernier belonged to the fading era of wooden ships and iron men. His father and grandfather were sea captains and shipbuilders. He attended school in L'Islet until he was 14 and then went to sea. Three years later he became master of his vessel. After a hundred voyages to many p...