REPORT ON THE DOMINION OF CANADA GOVERNMENT EXPEDITION TO THE ARCTIC ISLANDS AND HUDSON STRAIT ON BOARD THE D.G.S. 'ARCTIC.'
1910 · Ottawa
by Bernier, Joseph Elzéa
Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1910. xxix,529pp. plus two plates and four folding maps, with numerous in-text photographic illustrations. Large octavo. Original brown cloth, spine gilt. Front hinge cracked, minor shelf wear. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on front pastedown and front free endpaper. Internally clean. Very good. An account by Captain Bernier of the second Arctic exploration out of three made by the D.G.S. Arctic made under his command from 1906 to 1911. On this expedition, which took place in 1908 and 1909, the ship navigated the straits around some of Canada's northermost islands and their activities while en route. Profusely illustrated with photographic reproductions. Not in Arctic Bibliography, which does record the first and third of Bernier's voyages. (Inventory #: WRCAM51966)