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Bernard Harbour

Bernard Harbour
Map of Nunavut
Map of Nunavut
Bernard Harbour
LocationNunavut, Canada
Coordinates68°46′00″N 114°42′00″W / 68.7667°N 114.7°W / 68.7667; -114.7[1]
TypeBay
Part ofDolphin and Union Strait
IslandsChantry Island

Bernard Harbour (Inuit: Nulahugiuq)[2] is a bay on the mainland of Nunavut, Canada. It is situated on Dolphin and Union Strait, southwest of Sutton Island. The closest inhabited community is Kugluktuk, about 100 km (62 mi) south of Bernard Harbour.

At one time, it was the site of a Hudson's Bay Company trading post. It is also a former Distant Early Warning Line (PIN-C) and current North Warning System site.[3] As of August 2004, there were several abandoned structures remaining at the site.[4]

The butterfly Colias johanseni is found in the area.[5]

Geography

Bernard Harbour is a bay that recedes southwestward about 3.2 kilometres (2 mi) from an entrance that is about 8.0 kilometres (5 mi) wide. Chantry Island and a smaller island extend nearly across the entrance of the bay. The mainland shore of the bay consists of numerous stony points and intervening bights, with beaches of sand or gravel, behind which the land, within a distance of 3.2 kilometres (2 mi), is intersected by many ravines and rises to elevations of 37 metres (120 ft).[6]

The harbour is well sheltered and can accommodate ships up to 6.1 m (20 ft) in draught.[7]

History

CAE house at Bernard Harbour, July 1916

From 1913 to 1916, Bernard Harbour was the base of the southern party of the Canadian Arctic Expedition (CAE), led by Rudolph Martin Anderson.[6] It was named by Anderson in 1914 after Captain Joseph F. Bernard.[8]

In 1916, a few weeks after the CAE had left,[8] the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) opened a fur trade post on Bernard Harbour, originally called Fort Bacon, after Fur Trade Commissioner N.H. Bacon. When James Thomson became commissioner in 1920, the post was renamed to Fort Thomson. Circa 1925, it became known as Bernard Harbour. In 1930, the Hudson's Bay Company vessel Aklavik over-wintered at Bernard Harbour, where she sank, but was refloated and repaired.[9] In 1931, an outpost was built on Read Island (also spelled Reid Island) on the opposite side of Dolphin and Union Strait, and the following year, all operations were moved to Read Island and the Bernard Harbour post closed.[10]

In 1957, a DEW Intermediate site was established at Bernard Harbour, designated "PIN-C". It was an expansive facility with airstrip and dock facility for resupplying. It was closed and site abandoned in 1963.[3] In September 1991, it reopened as an unattended NWS Short Range Radar site 5.0 kilometres (3.1 mi) southwest of the former DEW site.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Bernard Harbour". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  2. ^ Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254
  3. ^ a b "The DEW LINE Sites in Canada, Alaska & Greenland". Archived from the original on 2010-01-24.
  4. ^ "PIN-C Bernard Harbour, Nunavut". The DEWLine. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
  5. ^ Layberry, Ross A.; Peter W. Hall; J. Donald Lafontaine (1998). The butterflies of Canada. Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. University of Toronto Press. p. 108. ISBN 0-8020-7881-8.
  6. ^ a b Georgetown University, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (1956). Canadian North. United States: Technical Assistant to Chief of Naval Operations for Polar Projects (OP-O3A3). pp. 369–370. Retrieved 27 January 2025. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  7. ^ Canada. Dept. of the Interior. Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch, Lachan Taylor Burwash (1931). Canada's western Arctic: Report on investigations in 1925-26, 1928-29, and 1930 (Digitized May 30, 2007 ed.). F.A. Acland. p. 13.
  8. ^ a b Stuart Edward Jenness (2011). Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918 A Story of Exploration, Science and Sovereignty. Canadian Museum of History. p. 244. ISBN 9781772824186. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  9. ^ "Scotty Gall". Kitikmeot Heritage. Archived from the original on 2004-07-21. Retrieved 2017-04-29. Gall returned to the HBC briefly in 1930 or 1931 after the Aklavik was frozen in and sank at Bernard Harbour. He went in and got the Aklavik back afloat and working.
  10. ^ "Hudson's Bay Company: Bernard Harbour". pam.minisisinc.com. Archives of Manitoba - Keystone Archives Descriptive Database. Retrieved 2025-01-27.

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