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MARC recordWhy the St. Roch? Why the Northwest Passage? Why 1940? New answers to old questions / Shelagh D. Grant.
| Title: | Why the St. Roch? Why the Northwest Passage? Why 1940? New answers to old questions / Shelagh D. Grant. |
| Author(s): | Grant, Shelagh D. |
| Date: | 1993. |
| In: | Arctic. (1993.), Vol. 46(1) (1993) |
| Abstract: | Discusses discovery in 1992 of two memos in archival files of Royal Canadian Mounted Police directly linking voyage of St. Roch through Northwest Passage to government plan to defend and occupy Greenland in spring of 1940. St. Roch was needed on east coast of Canada as support and patrol vessel. |
| Notes: | Arctic. Vol. 46(1) :82-87 (1993). |
| Keywords: | 355.48 -- Military history: 1939-45. 629.12 -- Vessels: St. Roch. 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1940-42 Larsen. 93"194" -- 1940-1949. W -- Expeditions and exploration. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*38) -- Greenland. (*41) -- Canada. (*48) -- Northwest Passage. |
| SPRI record no.: | 122297 |
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