CANADIAN NORTH-WEST TO BE VISITED BY DUKE OF EDINBURGH.—LEFT: Fort Simpson, which will be visited by the Duke of Edinburgh on August 9. Founded about 1820, the settlement is on an island near the confluence of the Liard and Mackenzie rivers, in the North-west Territories. It contains detachments of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals; also Anglican and Roman Catholic missions, a Government experimental farm, and a post of the Hudson’s Bay Company. RIGHT: A photographic survey aircraft flying over the Mackenzie river near Fort Simpson.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27415, 30 July 1954, Page 11
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92CANADIAN NORTH-WEST TO BE VISITED BY DUKE OF EDINBURGH.—LEFT: Fort Simpson, which will be visited by the Duke of Edinburgh on August 9. Founded about 1820, the settlement is on an island near the confluence of the Liard and Mackenzie rivers, in the North-west Territories. It contains detachments of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals; also Anglican and Roman Catholic missions, a Government experimental farm, and a post of the Hudson’s Bay Company. RIGHT: A photographic survey aircraft flying over the Mackenzie river near Fort Simpson. Press, Volume XC, Issue 27415, 30 July 1954, Page 11
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