Guy Houghton Blanchet (1884-1966)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Finnie, Richard S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1985
• Subjects: Biographies; Blanchet; Guy Houghton; 1884-1966; Canoeing; Canol Project; Expeditions; Explorers; History; Mapping; Mineral resources; Surveying; Travels; Alberta; Northern; Coronation Gulf region; Nunavut; Great Slave Lake region; N.W.T; Hudson Bay region; Manitoba; Norman Wells region; Saskatchewan; Whitehorse region; Yukon; Arctic; Canada; Canol; Chesterfield Inlet; Coronation Gulf; Great Slave Lake; Hay River; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Mackenzie River; Norman Wells; Northwest Territories; Churchill; Coppermine River; Keewatin; Mackenzie river; Slave Lake; Subarctic; Whitehorse; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65208

Season after season, college students and others returning from part-time jobs with survey parties in northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba would tell how their leader, though older and half their size, would consistently outwalk, outpack, and outpaddle any of them. It was hard work for them...