Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to The Northern Waters And Arctic Archipelago of the D.G.S. 'Arctic' 1910

By Captain J.E. Bernier

Ottawa, Department of Marine and Fisheries, [1911], First Edition thus. 8vo; [xii], (5) -161 pp, 87 b/w photographic illustrations, 6 maps — 3 are fold-out, tables, 11 Appendices, Index. Publisher’s brown cloth, bright gilt title lettering on spine and cover, subtle crease on front cover, else clean and Near Fine; Internally with no prior ownership markings, strong un-cracked hinges.

‘Contains a report of a whaling patrol and exploring cruise, 1910-11, compiled from the log of J. E. Bernier; an account of ship’s track as far as the west coast of Melville Island on McClure Strait (with map); the wintering in Arctic Bay (east side of Admiralty Inlet, with map), and explorations along the shores of that inlet and eastward to Bylot Island; an overland trip to Fury and Hecla Strait and shores of the eastern part of Boothia Gulf, 1910; the crossing of Brodeur Peninsula and the surveying of east shore of Prince Regent Inlet, 1911’.— Arctic Bibliography 2718