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Books

Northern Party
DIUBALDO, R.J. 1978. Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
IRWIN, V. 1925. The Shaman's Revenge. New York: Macmillan (children's book).
MASIK, A. and I. HUTCHISON. 1935. Arctic Nights' Entertainments: Being the Narrative of an Alaskan-Estonian digger, August Masik, as told to Isobel Wylie Hutchison during the arctic night of 1933-34 near Martin Point, Alaska. London: Blackie and Son.
MONTGOMERY, R.G. 1932. "Pechuck" Lorne Knight's Adventures in the Arctic. New York: Dodd, Mead.
NOICE, H. 1924. With Stefansson in the Arctic. New York: Dodd Mead.
STEFANSSON, V. 1921. The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions. New York: Macmillan.

Southern Party
ANDERSON, Rudolph Martin. 1917. Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913. Report of the Southern Division. Ottawa: King's Printer.
JENNESS, Diamond. 1957. Dawn in Arctic Alaska. Chicago: University of Chicago. (reprinted 1985).
JENNESS, Diamond. The People of the Twilight. New York: Macmillan. 1928.
JENNESS, Stuart E. (editor). 1991. Arctic Odyssey: The Diary of Diamond Jenness 1913-1916. Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization.

General Sources
CONDON, Richard. 1996. The Northern Copper Inuit: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
FINNIE, R. 1940. Lure of the North. David McKay: Philadelphia.
GILLINGHAM, D.W. 1955. Umiak! Museum Press: London [S.S. Baychimo]
KIRBY, R.M. 1994. Paulatuurmiut Inuusiat: the History of Paulatuuq. Inuvik: Beaufort Delta Divisional Board of Education.
LARSEN, H. 1967. The Big Ship: An Autobiography by Henry A. Larsen. McClelland and Stewart: Toronto.
MacINNES, T. (editor). 1932. Klengenberg of the Arctic, An Autobiography. Jonathan Cape: London.
MADSEN, C. 1952. Arctic Trader. Dodd, Mead: New York.
MORRISON, D. 1992. Arctic Hunters: The Inuit and Diamond Jenness. Canadian Museum of Civilization: Hull.
NAGY, Murielle. 1994. Yukon North Slope Inuvialuit Oral History. Whitehorse: Yukon Tourism, Heritage Branch.
NAGY, Murielle. 1999. Aulavik Oral History Project on Banks Island, NWT: Final Report. Inuvialuit Social Development Program
NULIGAK (Translated and edited by M. Metayer). 1966. I, Nuligak: The Autobiography of a Canadian Eskimo. Peter Martin: Ontario.
STEFANSSON, V. 1913. My Life with the Eskimo. New York: Macmillan.
USHER, Peter J. 1970. The Bankslanders: Economy and Ecology of a Frontier Trapping Community. Ottawa: Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
WASHBURN, Tahoe. 1999. Under Polaris: an Arctic Quest. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Karluk and Wrangel Island
BARTLETT, R.A. and Ralph T. HALE. 1916. Northward Ho! The Last Voyage of the Karluk. Boston: Small, Maynard.
McKINLAY, W.L. 1976. Karluk - The Great Untold Story of Arctic Exploration. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
NIVEN, J. 2000. The Ice Master: the Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk. New York: Hyperion.

Expedition Reports
Canada, Department of Mines. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Volumes 3 to 14. Ottawa: King's Printer. Various dates, 1922 to 1944.

Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1918
Volume I: General Introduction, Narrative, Etc. (not published)
Volume II: Mammals and Birds (not published)
Volume III: Insects 1919-1922
Volume IV: Botany 1921-1924
Volume V: Botany 1921-1924
Volume VI: Fishes, Tunicates Etc. 1922 (Fishes section not published)
Volume VII: Crustacea 1919-1922
Volume VIII: Mollusks, Echinoderms, Coelenterates, Etc. 1919-1924
Volume IX: Annelids, Parasitic Worms, Protozoans, Etc. 1919-1924
Volume X: Plankton, Hydrography, Tides Etc. 1920
Volume XI: Geology and Geography 1924
Volume XII: The Copper Eskimos 1922-1923
Volume XIII: Eskimo Folklore 1924
Volume XIV: Eskimo Songs - Songs of the Copper Eskimos 1925
Volume XV: Eskimo Language and Technology
Volume XVI: Archaeology (not published)

Diaries of Canadian Arctic Expedition Members
1. At National Archives of Canada: Most members of the Northern Party, some of the Southern Party: Karsten Andersen, Baur, Castel, Chipman, Cox, Hadley, Jenness, Knight, Noice, O'Neill, Stefansson, Storkersen, and Wilkins.

2. At Canadian Museum of Nature Archives: R.M. Anderson, Blue, Nahmens, and Sweeney.

Online resources

Natural Resources Canada. Earth Sciences Sector. 2000. ESS Photo Database (search for "Canadian Arctic Expedition").
http://geoscan.ess.nrcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/starfinder/
0?path=esicphoto_e.txt&id=webuser&pass=&OK=OK

Natural Resources Canada. Earth Sciences Information Centre. 2000. Encounters.
http://ess.nrcan.gc.ca/esic/encounters/index_e.php

Gateway to Aboriginal Heritage. 2005. Canadian Arctic Expedition Photos and Papers.
https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/ethno/etp0200e.html

Virtual Museum of Canada, 2013. History Matters - Northern Knowledge: The Canadian Arctic Expedition.
http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/application/nouvelles-news/anglais-english/?p=5410

Virtual Museum of Canada. 2002. Life in Holman: Music and Dance
https://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Holman/english/life/music.php3

McSherry, Jack. 2002. Stefansson 1913 Expedition Directory.
http://www.arcticwebsite.com/stefansson1913directory.html

ExploreNorth. Ca.2000. The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk (book review).
http://www.explorenorth.com/library/weekly/aa120800a.htm

Myerson, Ralph. 2002. The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk (book review). Frederick A. Cook Society.
http://www.cookpolar.org/karluk.htm

Dyar, Harrison. 1919. The Mosquitoes collected by the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18. Smithsonian Institution, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit.
http://lrs.afpmb.org/PVU96SEPV9NBS4ZKFBMD64ZP/
arc/al_06_tit_fetch/1/038400-20

Enchanted Learning. Vilhjalmur Stefansson: Arctic Explorer
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/s/stefansson.html

Stefansson Arctic Institute. Ca.2000. Vilhjalmur Stefansson Web, Explorer and Anthropologist, 1879-1962
http://www.svs.is/Vefsetur%20Vilhjalms%20Stefanssonar/ehome/

Cook, Maria. 2000. "The scandal that grips our 'Prophet of the North'". Ottawa Citizen, 31 December.
http://www.2think.org/karluk.html

Lescouflair, Edric. 2003. Vilhjalmur Stefansson: Arctic Explorer 1879-1962. Harvard Square Library.
http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/stefansson.html

Hunt, William. 1998. Les grands explorateurs du Canada : Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Université Mount Alison, Centre d'études canadiennes.
http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/francais/
realites/multimedia/explorateurs/stefansson.html

Pálsson,Gisli. 2000. The Legacy of Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Stefansson Arctic Institute.
http://www.thearctic.is/articles/topics/legacystefansson/enska/index.htm

University of Calgary. Library. 2006. Special Collections: Johansen, Frits, b.1882.
https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/1880/43633/1/
Historical%20Archives%20-%20Frits%20B.%20Johansen.pdf

Ohio State University. Byrd Polar Research Center. 1994. Register of The Sir George Hubert Wilkins Papers.
http://polarmet.mps.ohio-state.edu/Archival/Wilkins/

Hipwell, John. 2002. Sir Hubert Wilkins: Australian Pioneer Polar Explorer. Hipwell International Production Services.
http://www.sirhubert.com/sirhubert.htm

Appleton, Thomas. "Bob Bartlett" in Usque Ad Mare: A History of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services. Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/usque-ad-mare/chapter10-07_e.htm