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tested for growth in the Northern areas. A small area for experimental plots has been started at Inuvik also. Dawson and Whitehorse owe their origin to the discovery of gold at the Fort turn of the century. To these settlements add the old trading posts Resolution, Fort Providence, Fort Norman, Fort Good Hope, Fort McPherson, Aklavik (the former administration centre for the Delta), Tuktoyaktuk with its famous ice cellars, and Cambridge Bay. Then over in the Eastern Arctic are Baker's Lake, Rankin Inlet, Cape Dorset, Frobisher Bay, craft centre, and other settlements including Alert, a military base, the most northerly inhabited place in Canada. SPECIAL EVENTS All these Northern settlements have special events. In winter there are dog team and skidoo races, curling bonspiels, ski-ing contests and hockey league play-offs. In summer these are replaced with baseball tournaments, swimming, boating and picnicking. We also hear of Klondyke Days when all the residents turn out in the garb of the "Gay Nineties" and a Muskrat Jamboree, when hot-dogs vie with roasted muskrat for refreshments. Annual Reindeer Day at Reindeer Station used to attract visitors from far and near. Mrs. Sheena Thomas, former secretary of the Women's Institute there, told the story of her first experience for the Northern Lights Bulletin readers. This round-up of 2,000 of the 7,000 reindeer herd took place the last weekend in March. The herders set up their tents on Reindeer Lake, eight miles north of Inuvik, and then set out with walkie-talkies to locate the reindeer on their grazing area. The herd dogs, collies, brought them down to feed near the Station. Next they were driven onto the frozen lake and kept moving in a counter-clock-wise circle, called a wheel. By noon, the visitors began arriving by car, taxis, tractor drawn wagon, skis, dog teams and on foot. The children and adults enjoyed dog-team rides. "On these rides we were very close to the herd which had become quite tame by now and we could hear their horns clicking like thousands of knitting needles", states Mrs. Thomas. Those remaining over night stayed in tents in the Camp. Quite an experience in zero weather with a wind blowing. The Reindeer Station Women's Institute members and their husbands worked all winter to provide souvenirs such as reindeer horn buttons, zipper toggles, pendants and butter knives, fur mitts, shoes, iceworms and Reindeer Dolls (their specialty) for sale at their craft booth. From these sales a goodly sum was realized by the W.I. for their community work. Now this Station has been taken over by the Federal Wildlife Branch and the residents have settled in other communities in the Delta. Mrs. T. L. Veal', Discovery, the field worker appointed by the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada to carryon the extension work in 1968 in the Northwest Territories, tells the story of a northern picnic arranged in her honour at Fort McPherson: Here it is in her own words. "I have just come from a picnic (26 adults and about as many children) put on for me by the members of the Fort McPherson Women's Institute. At 2.00 p.m. we met and walked to a beautiful little lake. When we arrived the wood for the fires was ready and willow branches cut for us to sit on . . . these were our table cloth too. "Immediately the women commenced filleting white fish, which they had caught this morning. These 20 inch long fillets were placed between the wires 6
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Transcript | tested for growth in the Northern areas. A small area for experimental plots has been started at Inuvik also. Dawson and Whitehorse owe their origin to the discovery of gold at the Fort turn of the century. To these settlements add the old trading posts Resolution, Fort Providence, Fort Norman, Fort Good Hope, Fort McPherson, Aklavik (the former administration centre for the Delta), Tuktoyaktuk with its famous ice cellars, and Cambridge Bay. Then over in the Eastern Arctic are Baker's Lake, Rankin Inlet, Cape Dorset, Frobisher Bay, craft centre, and other settlements including Alert, a military base, the most northerly inhabited place in Canada. SPECIAL EVENTS All these Northern settlements have special events. In winter there are dog team and skidoo races, curling bonspiels, ski-ing contests and hockey league play-offs. In summer these are replaced with baseball tournaments, swimming, boating and picnicking. We also hear of Klondyke Days when all the residents turn out in the garb of the "Gay Nineties" and a Muskrat Jamboree, when hot-dogs vie with roasted muskrat for refreshments. Annual Reindeer Day at Reindeer Station used to attract visitors from far and near. Mrs. Sheena Thomas, former secretary of the Women's Institute there, told the story of her first experience for the Northern Lights Bulletin readers. This round-up of 2,000 of the 7,000 reindeer herd took place the last weekend in March. The herders set up their tents on Reindeer Lake, eight miles north of Inuvik, and then set out with walkie-talkies to locate the reindeer on their grazing area. The herd dogs, collies, brought them down to feed near the Station. Next they were driven onto the frozen lake and kept moving in a counter-clock-wise circle, called a wheel. By noon, the visitors began arriving by car, taxis, tractor drawn wagon, skis, dog teams and on foot. The children and adults enjoyed dog-team rides. "On these rides we were very close to the herd which had become quite tame by now and we could hear their horns clicking like thousands of knitting needles", states Mrs. Thomas. Those remaining over night stayed in tents in the Camp. Quite an experience in zero weather with a wind blowing. The Reindeer Station Women's Institute members and their husbands worked all winter to provide souvenirs such as reindeer horn buttons, zipper toggles, pendants and butter knives, fur mitts, shoes, iceworms and Reindeer Dolls (their specialty) for sale at their craft booth. From these sales a goodly sum was realized by the W.I. for their community work. Now this Station has been taken over by the Federal Wildlife Branch and the residents have settled in other communities in the Delta. Mrs. T. L. Veal', Discovery, the field worker appointed by the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada to carryon the extension work in 1968 in the Northwest Territories, tells the story of a northern picnic arranged in her honour at Fort McPherson: Here it is in her own words. "I have just come from a picnic (26 adults and about as many children) put on for me by the members of the Fort McPherson Women's Institute. At 2.00 p.m. we met and walked to a beautiful little lake. When we arrived the wood for the fires was ready and willow branches cut for us to sit on . . . these were our table cloth too. "Immediately the women commenced filleting white fish, which they had caught this morning. These 20 inch long fillets were placed between the wires 6 |
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