ARCTIC ANNEXATION

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 631, 7 October 1909, Page 7

ARCTIC ANNEXATION

. 7- — ■ CANADIAN EXPEDITION. NORTH-WEST PASSAGE RE-CONQUERED. (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright.) (Kec. October 6, 9.35 p.m.) , > • Ottawa, October 6. Uptain Joseph' Bornier, captain of the Canadian Government steamer Arctic, which left Quebeo in July, 1908, to take*.possession .of certain-Arotin. lands and to try. to, make the North-West ) Passage, has returned to Quebec. His expedition has succeeded in both its quests.. ■ ■ ■ Captain Bernier announces that ho has taken possession of Banks Land and many new islands for Canada. He discovered new landv and also a record left at Winner Bay in 1819 by;the English Arctio explorer Sir W. E Parry. . ' accompanied I ■ f>e I . . 10n i and took command of an il i 'j'r" m ilfiy, lsillf. Ho explored )5 Sbait, Prince Regent's IrteJ!' 1D Bton Sound, rea6hing Melvillo September, 1819, By crossing longitude 110 dcgrew west he won the prize offered By tho English Parliament.] -The North-West Passage (first, discovered by Sir John Franklin in 1847-48). was conquered by, Bernier s third mate and six sailors last May. rhey travelled over ice, and . regained the vessel after suffering terrible hardships. '

COOK CHARGES PEARY. TAXES STORES AND FORBIDS SEARCH BY ESKIMOS. , (Reo. October 6, 9.35 p.m.) ■ Ottawa,.October 6. . Captain Bernier publishes a letter , from Dr. Cf.ok, written on May 15, giving fnll details of his (Coolc's) journoy to the North Polo, and containing serious charges to the effect. that Commander Peary, had sought to deprive Cook of his stores and had forbidden the Eskimos to search for Cook's party. Bernier himself left stoVes .which enabled Cobk to travel from North /Greenland to Lpernavik (tho Danish Greenland port where Ccok took ship to Denmark). THE ARCTIC AND HER MISSION. ! The Canadian Government cruiser Arctic has four seasons been employed' in exploration }') , Canada, and;in the assertion i of British authority over the lands and waters binfc between Greenland nnd. .Beaufort Sea: Iht Arctic, formerly the German' cruiser Gauss, was built for exploratory work In the Antarctic. ' She is a woouen vessfil, and carries ft crew of about 30. - : season of 1906 she made her way through Davis Straits, Baffin fc&y, Ltincastcr Sound, and Melvillo Sound as: far ; west as Prince Patrick Island, having .on * the way hoisted the British flag and taKen formal possesion, of Bvlot Island, Leopold -Island, AVoolaston Islands, North Somerset, 'Griffith's' Is. land.Cornwallis Island, Bathttfst Istend, Bvam Martin Island, Eglinton Islafad, Prineo Patrick Island, Lowthor Island, Bcechcy Inland,' Uussoll 1 Island, the Emerald Islands, Richards Islands, anu Yeoman's Island. Afterwards she returned Pond's Inlet on Baffin Land,, where fihfe passed tho winter of 1900-1007. '• It is claimed,that the.regions visited.by the Arctic wore won for the British Crown by the skill and daring of a long lino of hardy Britim navigators, whoso: discoveries, however, havo never been followed up, either by settlement or the exercise of any of tho rights of possession. The present - assertion 'of Canadian rights in tho Far North is -prompted by the action of. United l States and other foreign explorers in laying, claim: to tenitory which, it is claimed, has belonged to the Crown of England for upwards of 100 years. 1 1