The Use of Snowmobiles for Trapping on Banks Island

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Usher, Peter J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1972
• Subjects: Icebreaking; Ice pressure; Ice-structure interaction; Louis S. St. Laurent (Ship); Manhattan (Ship); Marine transportation; Pressure ridges; Sea ice; Winds; Baffin Bay-Davis Strait; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Northwest Territories; Sachs Harbour; Arctic Fox; Baffin; Banks Island; caribou; Davis Strait; Subarctic; white fox
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66011

The village of Sachs Harbour on Banks Island, Northwest Territories, has been the outstanding example of a successful trapping community in northern North America for a generation . Trapping is still the full-time occupation of virtually every active male, and per capita income from trapping is high...