NORTH-WEST PASSAGE
EAST AND WEST MEETING
(From "The Post's" Representative.) VANCOUVER, September 17.
Those who endeavour to associate history with these times experienced a real thrill during the past week when we learned that the Canadian Government steamer Nascopie, paying her annual visit to Arctic posts, travelled westward to a point where it met the R.C.M.P. schooner St. Roche. They exchanged greetings in .thus completing the North-west Passage. The event had only one parallel in history, approximately ten years ago, when the Government steamer, predecessor of the Nascopie, met the Hudson's Bay schooner Baychimo, which has since become the ghost ship of the Arctic. The Northwest Passage was a dream of explorer and navigators for 400 years. On the present occasion, the St. Roche had just completed an errand of mercy in picking up the crew of a vessel that had been crushed by the ice. The Nascopie is on her way back to her home port of Vancouver. They linked the two. cities by 10,000 miles of sea. j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 88, 11 October 1937, Page 8
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