Identification of Petitot's Riviere La Ronciere-le Noury

• 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

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).