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 1950
• Subjects: Animal diseases; Archaeology; Artifacts; Atmospheric temperature; Caribou; Dogs; Expeditions; Food; Foxes; History; Human physiology; Hunting; Innu; Inuit; Ptarmigan; Ross; John; 1777-1856; Seals (Animals); Snow; Surveying; Survival; Testing; Alaska; Labrador; Northern; Nain region; King William Island; Nunavut; Boothia Peninsula; Nunavik; Québec; N.W.T; Mackenzie Highway; Alberta/N.W.T; Alaska Highway; British Columbia; Yukon; Foxe Basin region; Arctic; Canada; Foxe Basin; Nain; William Island; caribou; inuit; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67010

The news items include: 1) a report by K. Rodahl on a field test in Alaska to establish proper survival rations; 2) Labrador winter notes for 1950 by J.E. Frazer which include information on winter weather, dog deaths from an unknown disease thought to have been contracted through foxes, and the ava...