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Henry A. Larsen interview : [CBC, 196-?]

SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Henry Larsen describes a job as a navigator in the Arctic in the 1920s aboard "The Old Maid", getting stuck out at sea in 1926, establishing a post at Wilmont Island, his time in Vancouver after his voyages in the Arctic in 1928, getting a job as a Constable for the RCMP aboard a ship, an experience at Herschel Island and the influenza epidemic there, a description of his boat, police work in the Arctic around Herschel Island, how they tried to cater to the Eskimo administration, his twenty year stint working in the Arctic, how he had no power to be an administrator so all he could do was report, experiences in the Arctic, bad ice seasons, how 1940 and 1941 were bad seasons and stories about them, and his voyage on the "St. Roch" from the Pacific to the Atlantic and the trouble getting through.

TRACK 2: Henry Larsen continues by describing his journey including places they stopped and an anecdote about when they thought they would overturn in the ice, experiences between Eskimos and white men, the stable population in the Arctic, a man named Father Henry, freezing fish in the ground, more anecdotes, including one about Canon Turner and more on Eskimos.

SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Henry Larsen continues by discussing his trip from the Arctic to Halifax, his time in the King William Island area and his opinions on the John Franklin expedition, including where Franklin was buried, an experience in 1946 sailing in Siberia, the first oil well being drilled in the MacKenzie in 1921, change in 1946 in the Western Arctic, his last voyage into the Arctic in 1947, and the possibility of industry in the Arctic. TRACK 2: Henry Larsen discusses long distance navigation by submarines in the Arctic, a projection that oil in the MacKenzie Valley will be transported under the ice by pipelines and will be transported by submarines so that weather will no longer be a factor, the trouble getting young Canadians interested in science in the north in contrast with how it is in Russia, doctors in the Arctic. including several anecdotes concerning helping Eskimos, Dr. Borden of the "Neptune" who found that Eskimo health was exemplary with no cancer but after 1925 they have become increasingly less healthy and now they need doctors, oceanographers venturing up north and more scientific research, and an anecdote about a 1944 trip to Washington to meet J. Edgar Hoover. [End of interview?]

RECORDED: [lOttawa], [1962] Vilhjalmar Stefansson also takes part in interview [referred to as “Stef”].

Jack Foster interview

CALL NUMBER: T0987:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-02-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. M.F. "Jack" Foster begins by discussing a boat called the "Maid of Orleans". Harry Larsen, who later became a skipper of a trading supply boat he worked on in the western arctic, a story; from 1927 about Larsen joining the RCMP as a navigator, and a man named Ernest Paisley who also worked for the RCMP, the building of the ship "St. Roch", working on the "St. Roch" in arctic condition;s, more details on the ship, what life was like on the boat, Mr. Foster discusses his background, coming from Fredericton, how he was recruited in 1919 by the RCMP, and that was how he came to western; Canada, more experiences working with Paisley, his qualifications, and more on the building of the "St. Roch". TRACK 2: Mr. Foster continues with more on life up in the arctic at Herschel Island, t;he Native people up there, details about what Herschel Island was like, the whalers buried there, more on the St. Roch, including the origin of its name and trips taken, and anecdotes about life aboar;d ship in the 1920s.;

CALL NUMBER: T0987:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-02-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Foster offers an anecdote about leaving Cambridge Bay with witnesses to an Eskimo murder, more anecdotes about travels and life in the arctic, troubles of life in winter, an anecdote abo;ut a missing trapper, surviving for nine months stuck in the ice, and Christmas while frozen in the ice. TRACK 2: Mr. Foster offers more anecdotes; a story about a forty-four day trip in 1934 from ;Herschel Island past Siberia to Vancouver to get a new prop, how local knowledge of navigation can be very helpful, more details about Henry Asbjorn Larson, including what he was like when Foster met ;him, more anecdotes about trips through the northwest passage, what happened to the "St. Roch" when war was declared as the ship was ordered to get to Halifax via the northwest passage; the trip took ;twenty-eight months from 1940 to 1942 and one man was lost; why the trip was kept a secret; things that went wrong on the trip; and how 1940 was one of the worst winters ever.;

CALL NUMBER: T0987:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-02-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Foster discusses the ice in the west arctic and how it can lift a vessel several feet out of the water; how the skipper is always jockeying for position to get around the ice; other issu;es of traveling in the ice; and more anecdotes about travels aboard the "St. Roch". TRACK 2: Mr. Foster discusses Father Henry who had a mission in the arctic at Pelle [?] Bay; a story about an expe;rience when Father Henry came to the St. Roch; a polar bear incident; an experience at the magnetic pole; and more anecdotes about life and travels in the Arctic.

CALL NUMBER: T0987:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-02-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Foster offers more anecdotes about life at Davis Strait; more trips in the Arctic; trips down the Baffin Island and Labrador coasts; what Halifax was like at war time; his retirement in V;ancouver in 1945 after 27 years service; and the return voyage from Halifax to Vancouver, including an examination of caches left by explorers of the north in the 1800s. [TRACK 2: blank.]