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Pioneer Women Pioneering Canada Arctic Frontier
The article profiles women moving to Cameron Bay and other northern posts to work as nurses, housekeepers, stenographers, and business aides. It highlights Mrs Byrne and Mrs Reed, local dressmakers, a portable North Country social life, and remote hospital fires, with pilots delivering supplies and evacuations across miles of ice and permafrost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arctic Circle
Cameron Bay
Great Bear Lake
T. O. Byrne
Toronto
Harold Reed
Lake Shore Inn
Spokane
Wash
Canada
Edmonton
Yes Byrne
Reed
W. H. McDougall
Hay River
Great Slave Lake
North West Territories
May Rice
Goldfelds
Alberta-Saskatchewan
May
Aklavik
Arctic
M. A. Solomon
Ruth Hamilton
Helen Hutcheson
Solomon and
Hamilton
Hutcheson
J. A. Urquhart
White Arctic
Pangnirtung
Baffin Island
Prudence Hockin
Western Arctic
Hoekin
Lake Harbor
Robert Stewart
Povungnituk
Ungava
Hudson Bay
Montreal
Port Harrison
James Bay