Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-12-09 | Page 3 | Little Known Land Visited

LinLE KNOWN LANDV1SITED First White Men Land on Belcher Islands, Sighted by Capt. Cook 150 Years Ago. t Johns. X F, Dec. 9 The Bel cher islands, a group some SO miles off the southeast coast of Hudson bay, long charted, but little known, were ylsited in September last by an exploring ex-ploring party on the Neyv Foundland schooner Laddie. Members of the part j have just arrived here Al thouph the islands were sighted by Captain Cook 150 years ago. and by other explorers since it is said that the members of the Laddie expedi- i tion were the first white men to land there. The islands, which lie in latitude lati-tude 56 north, were found lo be in a somewhat different position and in greater numbers than marked on the latest charts In its fifteen da S exploration of the group, the party found It to be barren, but abounding in wild life, including foxes. Arctic hares and geese. The Laddie left St Johns on July I 15 last yvith supplies for Messrs. Fill- I ers and Ledue who went north in j 1903 on an expedition for the Can.: dlan Northern railway. One of their chief objects was to endeavor to locate coal beds in some part of the Hudson bay region which could b utilized in connection yvith the railroad rail-road now being projected to run from Lepas Manitoba to Port Nelson on the south coast of the bay