Hector Pitchforth (1886-1927)

. Although deaf from a very early age, he qualified as an engineer and in the First World War served with the fishing fleet. In 1918 he sailed for Baffin Island in the auxiliary schooner Erme for the Sabellum Trading Company, which was quite the most irresponsible of the various concerns trading bet...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:ARCTIC
Main Author: White, Gavin
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1985
Subjects:
Biographies
Expeditions
Explorers
Fur trade
History
Pitchforth
Hector J.H
1886 or 1887-1927
Starvation
Baffin Island
Nunavut
Cumberland Sound region
Arctic
Cape Henry Kater
Cumberland Sound
Hector
Kater
Kivitoo
Pond Inlet
Traveller
Baffin
eskimo*
Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65168

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