William Duval (1858-1931)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Harper, Kenn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1985
• Subjects: Biographies; Duval; William; 1858-1931; Expeditions; Explorers; History; Hudson's Bay Company; Whaling; Baffin Island; Nunavut; Cumberland Sound region; Pond Inlet region; Southampton Island; Spicer Islands; American Harbour; Arctic; Cumberland Sound; Dundee; Durban Harbour; Kinnes; Pangnirtung; Pond Inlet; Simmonds; The Old Man; Baffin; Davis Strait; inuit; inuktitut
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65166

. At the age of 21, William Duval shipped aboard a whaler for the Arctic; he arrived in Cumberland Sound in the summer of 1879 and remained there for the next four years. He was usually employed as second helmsman aboard the Lizzie P. Simmonds, a whaler owned by an American firm, Williams and Compan...