Show f ti 1 in Canada q w dt Mr J p f ya fr Ja Ait f AS i I a One Ono of Canadas Canada's Flung Far Trading Poets Poste I Prepared by tho the National Oeo Geographic Society Washington D D. C. C A the revised A Aary nry ary of Col and Mrs Charles A. A Lindbergh's vacation flight to Japan routed them over many practically unc unexplored territory in northwest Canada much of lot the country they traversed between between between be- be tween tween Washington D. D C. C and Baker Lake Late Northwest Territories has hns been flown by Canadian government go air surveys and by aerial prospect prospect- I ors rs The native Indians Eskimos and Royal Canadian mounted policemen of the Hu Hudson Json bay district have not before had nd such distinguished aerial visitors VIsitors but the sight of an nn air air- airplane plane Dlane either In winter or summer no new experience to them I J Few people e. e except those who have hue seen It realize the high degree degree dc de- de- de gree to which northern Canada has organized air nil transport Using Water water wa Wa- tel ter routes open In summer It has hns laid down a n alAe wide lAe network of fuel and supply stations at strategic points All AU around Hudson bay at convenient spots down the Mackenzie Macken Macken- zie Ie river to Lake about Great Grent Slave Slate and Great Bear Benr lakes Inkes and along the Arctic coast and down the Yukon these depots are set up Now Nov practically ery e district dis dis- it ie continental Canada Is within within with with- in flying range of one of these sta In fact If 11 you picture the Canadian airways ns as linked up with the air net In the United States the the broad brond statement Is true that i given good weather no place on the North American continent Is now more Dore m than one or two days' days flight from a 8 railway It was WIlS In lu survey work and In patrols of her millions of acres of forest reserves that Canada first used planes The first attempt to nse use a 8 plane on a 8 long distance commercial commercial com com- mercial mission was made by an nn oil on company in 1921 To meet an emergency It started two metal all monoplanes on skis from the railhead railhead rail rail- I head at Peace Pence river on a 1200 mile flight to Norman on the Mackenzie Mackenzie Mackenzie Mac Mac- kenzie river The weather was vile vUe blizzards bUzzards with v temperatures of 40 I and CO 0 below zero alternated with I mild mUd spring thaws a ws Pilots Are Arc Resourceful One plane landing o on n crusted snow Inow at Simpson broke through so that a ski collapsed and a propeller propel propel- I ler Jer blade struck the ground But the resourcefulness of Canadian pi pl lots In a smash far tar from shops and spare part stores Is revealed In Pilot Pilot Pi Pl lot Gorman's laconic report on this accident I March 30 Will try and have a new prop made here Oak I sleigh boards are available also some glue And a Hudsons Hudson's Bay company company man named Johnson Is an nn anold I old cabinetmaker We can use the damaged propeller as a pattern pattern pattern pat pat- tern and us use the Catholic mission workshop here March 31 Found glue some boat clamps so that the boards hoards can be clamped tightly together In making the laminated propeller y 15 Tested ested the t April new propel propel- ler It works satisfactorily The amazing degree to which planes now wipe out miles mUes and save lime time in Canada was shown by flights and photography work carried on from a base on the north shore of the the Gulf of St. St Lawrence From Irom this this stormy coast Capt Vernon I I Turk Robinson made flight ht niter flight bearing surveyors and Applies over a n mountainous coast const coastline line Une Into the interior plateau He carried drums of gas by air making mak mak- Ing caches at nt points far distant from these deposits planes could operate operate even farther Inland Thus Grand Palls Falls on the Hamilton river was as finally reached Then after a n days day's flight of miles starting starling from Burnt lake photographs were taken of the falls and the next net day the photographer engineer was as back in Quebec having his pictures de devel deel el By sea and canoe the only other means of travel this task would have taken all nil summer I Adventure grim and perilous Is I often the lot of ot pilots and passengers passengers gers In flight over the long stretches of empty wilderness which intervene Intervene intervene inter Inter- vene between fuel caches camps or settlements Meet With Perilous Adventures One On party from a base on the time Inhospitable In hospitable Gulf of St. St Lawrence was forced down doun by bad weather and had had to alight on an unknown lake A flouting floating log ripped the bottom from their bull an and J the flying boat hoat sank Casting aside their cloth clothO O gg g 5 the crew ma made e for tor the shore They ma made e land minus any food tood or equipment and spent a week naked In In the woods In the midst of ot th the fly black season The days were blazing hot but hut the nights freezing free cold Two men badly hurt In the crash reached the shore only with the greatest difficulty Happily h however we er In the party was a a land surveyor who managed to swim ashore with a hand ax and anda a water tight t bO box of ot matches UsIng Using Using Us Us- ing his ax he made a rude shelter By snaring rabbits In In the w woods lods and killing frogs with sticks the party kept alive for seven days till Ull rescued by another fi flying Ing boat sent to seek seck them The search for the lost French flyers Coll ColI and Nungesser In May 1927 1027 nearly cost the lives of Captain Cap Captain Cap Cap- tain faIn Robinson and his crew They had flown n along long the north shore asfar as ns far as ns the Strait of ot Belle Isle Islo then still full of ot Ice when a storm forced them down Anchoring late Inte In the evening In the shelter of a rocky ledge they curled up in their cockpit cockpit cockpit cock cock- pit to await better weather Suddenly Suddenly Sud Sud- denly the wind veered blowing a gale from rom the open sea Their anchor dragged and their ship smashed on the rocks They saved saed their emergency kits made a ft fire on OD shore from the wreckage of their plane and cooked breakfast They walked 20 miles along the beach to a lighthouse and signal station to report their whereabouts Returning from a flight up the river one pilot brought with him an nn old Indian When Invited to ride the red man seemed In no way perturbed at the prospect He calmly donned helmet helmet helmet hel hel- met and goggles and settled himself In the front cockpit as If It flying were an every day act with him In Ina Inn a n half baIt hour he flew fIew downstream a distance which Just previously It had taken him six days to cover by canoe Flying In Winter In north Quebec flying goes on summer and winter On a January morning Capt Kenneth Kenneth Ken Ken- neth Saunders chief pilot of ot the Canadian Fairchild company started started start start- ed north with an nn engineer engineer and a ft Hudsons Hudson's Bay company official ona on ona ona a visit to some of ot t the e northern trading posts Unless one flies It usually takes six weeks of ot on snowshoes with a dog team to haul baggage to reach these wilderness wilderness wilder wilder- ness outposts Regions between posts are wholly uninhabited Snow lies from four to six feet deep trails trolls such as they are usually follow fol tol fol- fol low lowthe the lakes lales and rivers through a 8 borken country of small timber When Saunders and party left Roberval the day was bright and fair ar but the the therm thermometer m er was 2 25 below An hour up the they sighted the first tradIng trading trad trad- Ing post and find circled to land on the frozen river Either they struck a n spot where a warm spring had thawed the Ice or else an nn early fall fallot of ot snow sno on the ice had prevented a thicker formation anyway the plane broke through The men had barely time to crawl from the cabin before the time whole fuselage was under under un un- der water Luckily LucIdly they were near the post and Tom roar Hoar the Indian in charge volunteered to walk out the hundred hundred hun hun- dred miles to civilization with a message He started away within half an hour taking only an ax some matches and a chunk of moose meat D He made the trip In the record record rec rec- ord time of five da days s 's sleeping twice on the second and fourth nights in holes In the snow lined with balsam balsom balsom bal- bal som sam som boughs and traveling continuously continuously contin contin- the th rest of the time the Cana Canadians set about salvaging their plane They made a platform of ot logs around the machine on OD which to work As the water was not deep a trIpod of poles cut from the woods was built over the aircraft and its wings were removed Salvage Their Plane Seven days later a n rescue machine machine ma ma- chine reached the scene with hoisting hoist hoist- hoisting ing tackle and tools The wrecked plane was moved safely to shore A tent was erected around the front of the time fuselage and the engine which was a solid mass of Ice This ice was chopped out and th then n a 8 stove was lit In th the tent and gradually gradually grad grad- the cabin robin and engine thawed tha out The metal propeller badly bent was straightened and the engine re re- assembled The carburetor though though frozen In a solid block of Ice for tor eight days again worked perfectly On the th sixth of February the pl plane ne was again ready for flight Accompanied Accompanied Ac Ac- companied by the rescue ma machine which had made mule s several trips to Terry ferry In gas provisions pro and und little gifts for or Mrs Moar and her family family fam tam lI ily on whose hospitality the crew had been depending during the tile sal sal- 3 cage age e operations rations It took off softly safely and aDlI flew fIew back k to nober Roberval |