LIVED IN IGLOO

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 102, 24 January 1933, Page 9

LIVED IN IGLOO

Englishman’s Eskimo Life

FOR THIRTEEN YEARS

(Reuter—Special to “Dominion.”)

After living the life of an Eskimo for ’thirteen years, in an ice hut within 300 miles of the magnetic pole, an Englishman has come back home.

Mr. Bertram Banker, of Longford, Coventry, went out to the North-West Territory to do some trapping and prospecting. He lived ail alone for those 13 years in a place so remote that he only received mail twice a year at Hudson Bay. For ten months out of twelve Ije was out of touch with civilisation. But in spite of his exile, Mr. Banker can whistle and sing all of the popular songs now being played in Lon (on He knows the words to “UnderneiX' the Arches” and “Lullaby of the Lea Vi's” “I had a portable radio, and during the long evenings I listened to the dance music broadcast from the London hotels,” he explained. On his homeward voyage Mr. Banker was in a shipwreck. He was on the freight steamer Bright Fan, when it was wrecked and sunk in the middle of Hudson Straits after a collision with an iceberg. The ship sank within fifteen minutes, and the crew of the Bright Fan was picked up by an ice patrol steamer.