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unusual facts about Northern Canada



Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith

Geoffrey Francis Hattersley-Smith D.Phil, FRSC, FRGS, FAINA (22 April 1923 – 21 July 2012) was an English-born geologist and glaciologist, recognized as a pioneering researcher of Northern Canada.

John Hornby

Apart from occasional trips to Edmonton and service in World War I, Hornby spent the rest of his life in the Arctic region of northern Canada.


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Air Charter Travel

One aircraft carried fuel and touched down near Resolute Bay in Northern Canada while the second plane, carrying passengers, travelled onto the North Pole.

Dani Reiss

In 2009, Reiss and his team established the Canada Goose Resource Centres in three locations in Northern Canada, along with partners First Air and the North West Company.

Eighteenth Air Force

It airlanded and airdropped equipment supporting the construction of the Distant Early Warning radar system across northern Canada in proximity to the Arctic Circle, 1955–1957.

First Choice Superchannel

Movie Central, a pay television service serving western and northern Canada (known as Superchannel 1983–1984 and 1989–2001)

Fort Saint Jacques

Called Fort Charles, it was the first European settlement in northern Canada.

Glenelg, Mars

The location was named Glenelg by NASA scientists for two reasons: all features in the immediate vicinity were given names associated with Yellowknife in northern Canada, and Glenelg is the name of a geological feature there.

Green brands

In August 2008 the British ASA ruled that Shell had misled the public in an advertisement which claimed that a $10bn oil sands project in Alberta, northern Canada, was a "sustainable energy source".

Lockheed CP-140 Aurora

In Greek mythology, Aurora is the Greek goddess who restored Orion's eyesight, and also the Aurora Borealis are the "northern lights" that are prominent over northern Canada and the Arctic Ocean.

Ole Jørgen Hammeken

In February 2009, Hammeken planned a centennial dog sled trip from northern Canada to the North Pole, 771 km (480 mi), one-way, minimum distance, retracing the footsteps of Robert Peary.

Paulette

Paulette Caveat - a caveat filed in 1973 by a group of Dene chiefs at the land titles office in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to gain a legal interest in 400,000 square miles of land in northern Canada

Scott Polar Research Institute

In particular, the group has been able to observe the melting of the Larsen Ice Shelf, the rapid retreat of ice in western Antarctica, and increased summer melting in northern Canada.

The Deadly Mantis

Soon after, the military personnel at Red Eagle One, a military station in northern Canada that monitors information gathered from the Distant Early Warning Line, realize that the men at one of their outposts are not responding to calls.