Activities of the Geographical Branch in Northern Canada, 1947-1957

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Fraser, J. Keith
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1957
• Subjects: Age; Animal population; Animal tagging; Arctic char; Beluga whales; Benthos; Biological productivity; Biological sampling; Coregoninae; Dentition; Fish management; Fisheries; Fishes; Fishing; Hydrography; Ivory; Lake trout; Measurement; Ocean temperature; Oceanography; Oxygen; Plankton; Salinity; Seals (Animals); Subsistence; Walruses; Whales; Mackenzie Delta; N.W.T; Firth River; Alaska/Yukon; King Point waters; Yukon; Pelly Lake; Nunavut; Garry Lake; Mackenzie River; Kugluktuk region; Rowley River; Hudson Bay; Foxe Basin; Newfoundland waters; St. Lawrence; Gulf of; Canada; Fury and Hecla Strait; Arctic; Bathurst Inlet; Boothia Isthmus; Darnley; Darnley Bay; Ellesmere Island; Eureka; Fury; Garry; Hudson; King Point; Kugluktuk; Mould Bay; Newfoundland; Southampton Island; Beluga; Beluga*; Mackenzie river; Subarctic; Wager Bay; Alaska; walrus*
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66820

The Geographical Branch of the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys was created in 1947. Under its terms of references, part of its responsibility is the collection and analysis of geographical information on northern Canada, in particular the territories under the jurisdiction of the federal g...