Northern News

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: North America, Arctic Institute of
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1954
• Subjects: Age; Caucasians; Geological time; Geology; Glaciology; Granite; History; Ice islands; Ice shelves; Indians; Inuit; Metamorphism (Geology); Movement; Population; Size; Social surveys; Structural geology; Arctic Ocean; N.W.T; Nunavut; Nunavik; Québec; Alaska; Greenland; Russian Arctic; Ward Hunt Ice Shelf; United States Range; Arctic; Canada; Ellesmere Island; Northwest Territories; eskimo*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; inuit; James Bay
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66877

The items include: 1) an update on the position of ice island T1; 2) details of the first official census in the Northwest Territories (i.e., N.W.T, Nunavut, Nunavik, and the James Bay region of Québec) which recorded 3,215 persons; 3) a note on the population of Eskimo people including those of Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and the Soviet Arctic; 4) information on the summer 1953 expedition to north Ellesmere Island to carry out glaciological and geological investigations; and 5) a request from Lieut. G.J. Raymond for Arctic postal information for an Arctic postal history and postmarks study.