Identification of Petitot's Riviere La Ronciere-le Noury

Contains a study of explorations in the Horton and Hornaday River regions of northern Mackenzie District. Evidence is presented to suggest that the river discovered and mapped (excepting lower reaches) by the Oblate missionary Emile Petitot in 1868 is identical with the Hornaday. The latter, discove...

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Published in:ARCTIC
Main Author: Fraser, J.K.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1952
Subjects:
Biographies
Costs
Crime
Curricula
Economic conditions
Education
Employment
Food
Formation
Government
Health
Health care
Ice cover
Inuit
Inuit languages
Literature
Lutheran Church
Marine navigation
Melting
Mental health and well-being
Movement
Sea ice
Spatial distribution
Teachers
Trapping
Tuberculosis
Welfare
Canadian Arctic
Canadian Arctic waters
Greenland
Arctic
Darnley
Darnley Bay
Hornaday River
inuit
Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66963
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Summary:Contains a study of explorations in the Horton and Hornaday River regions of northern Mackenzie District. Evidence is presented to suggest that the river discovered and mapped (excepting lower reaches) by the Oblate missionary Emile Petitot in 1868 is identical with the Hornaday. The latter, discovered by A.J. Stone in 1900 was explored only near its effluence into Darnley Bay. Recent mapping from aerial photographs show the source of the Hornaday (68 40 N, 120 20 W) and features of its course as similar to those recorded for La Ronciere-le Noury by Petitot in his Geographie de l'Athabaskaw-Mackenzie.1875.(Arctic Bibliography, No. 13406).

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