Storage tanks and walking to Tuktoyaktuk on the ice. June 1961.

Banksland Ice breaker in the ice from Tuk, 1961

Cape Lisburne, west coast of Alaska. 1963

little boy in front of the Hudson Bay store in Tuktoyaktuk, 1961.

J.L.Ares in front of the Inuvik airport on the way to Tuktoyaktuk, First year working for NTCL 1961.

Banksland Ice Breaker in Tuk, June 1961.

LST inside the drydock and crane busy unloading.

Rocky beach and ice off Pin Main Radar site, Cape Parry

LST 1072, unloading cargo at Cam 3 Radar site, Shepherd Bay, 1962. We landed OK but overnight the ice moved in and trapped us. We waited for a day until the wind changed, the ice moved away and then we were ready to leave.

distant view of Pin Main radar site, Cape Parry, 1962

ARD -31 , empty drydock, 1961.

6 ships still in the ice, late June in Tuktoyaktuk, 1961

small iceberg off Point Barrow , Alaska, 1963

Engine room , one of the V-16’s on the Wacissa tanker. There was a Chief Engineer, 1 of the officers.

the front of ARD 31 Drydock with the 2 cranes, 1961.

LCM Landing craft Mechanical boat. there were 2 of these on every LST.

ice at Cam B Radar site, SE of Victoria Island and SE also of King William Island, Nunavut, August 1963.

Pin A Radar site, Pierce Point east of Pin main, from Wacissa tanker, 1963

Bell Helicopter on the LST 1072, Barter Island, 1962.There was a lot of ice to go through as we travelled west.

dead whale in the Bering Strait, 1963

LCM, landing craft boat, from the LST in Tuk.

lots of empty barrels on the beach at Cam Main Radar site, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.

along the south coast of Victoria Island

USNS Wacissa tanker at Shepherd Bay,Nunavut. This is the farthest east we went. 1963.

Wacissa Officers Mess table set up with printed menus. 1963. The food was always incredible with a full time cook and baker in the galley.

Unloading a barge in Tuktoyaktuk

Point Barrow, Alaska.

Radium Dew tug boat. It brings barges up the McKenzie River to Tuktoyaktuk.

Red Ensign flying on Wacissa tanker, Chukchi Sea, 1963

NTCL Tug Boat with cargo barge in front

Pin A Radar site, Pierce Point. Slightly east of Pin Main, Cape Parry.

LST 1072 at Cambridge Bay.

Pal, a drydock co-worker and Hungarian 1956 refugee, with Inuit woman and children, Tuktoyaktuk,1961

Northern caribou. From Google re:images for Arctic Caribou.

A co-worker on the ARD 31 Drydock feeding an Arctic ground squirrel in Tuk,1961

Inuit children at the cemetary in Tuktoyaktuk, note little boy with imitation hand gun, 1961. I was amazed at the number of dead children grave markers in Tuk , likely due to earlier mingling with white men and our diseases in the earlier years., THey had no resistance to these “white men “communicable diseases. . Very sad!

bar E Radar site, Horton River cliffs aka Malloch Hills, NWT.

looking towards the bow of the Wacissa tanker near Victoria Island, Nunavut, 1963.

2 little boys playing in the cold Arctic water in Tuk, pingos in background, 1961

Pin A Radar site, Pierce Point, NWT. Just east of Pin Main.

a freighter off Point Barrow, Alaska, 1963

2 Tuk pingos as seen from the ship

inside the LCM on the way to Tuk, Bar 3 Radar site.

Wacissa tanker at Pin main Radar site, Cape Parry. Cape Parry is a bird sanctuary.

leaving Pin Main,Cape Parry.

Mountains of ice and snow , Unimak Glacier, Unimak Pass, 1963. Photo by Barry Truter, vancouversun.com

Point Barrow, Alaska

barge on shore, ships in the ice and pingos in distance, Tuktoyaktuk, June 1961

NTCL Radium Dew Tug boat, Tuktoyaktuk

Going through Unimak Pass, Aleutian Islands.

USNS Wacissa tanker in Tuktoyaktuk, ship co-worker from Victoria in front.

Nuclear submarine in Seattle, end of trip returning the Wacissa tanker. 1963.

2 LCM’s ,by the drydock. They were used for landing troops in WW II

unusual cloud formation off King William island, south of Gjoa Haven ,Nunavut, a long way east of Cambridge Bay.

Tanker inside the drydock,1961.

Point Barrow, Alaska in the distance. The most northern point on the north American continent. There was a U.S. A. Strategic Air Command base there with B-52’s

Stern of an LST with landing craft boat

summer houses along the Artic coast

NTCL tug boat with barge loaded with barrels of oil, gas, and diesel. Banksland ice breaker in distance.