To make your reading experience of reading "Stepping Stones of
Ungava and Labrador" more fun, we've presented some images here, with chapter headings and, when appropriate, the page number in the book. Scroll down! Images from the trip are positioned to the left, all others are set to the right. (To view a slide show of some of the images, without references, click here.)
(latest additions 27 June 2010)
Chapter 1 Going East
p22 left to right; Kristin, Ida, Sara.
p 24 Larry and Sara
p24 Sara
p 29 small freighter
p29
p31
p 30. Our Wild Country Quasar set on the rock above the fast-rising water...
We collect "fresh" water in a collapsible bucket..... this is a salty sample, so we need to camp higher up. Typically after letting sediment settle, we use a filter pump to clean what we need.
Ross Traverse in 2009 with fresh smoked salmon... he mostly smokes salmon and mackerel nowadays. Ross runs a garden nursery business in Newfoundland, "Traverse Gardens".
Ross Traverse's salmon, cold-smoked using alder...
Chapter 4 Polar Bears
p 51 quartz blocks?
Chapter 5 Hubbard Expedition
p 61 Near mouth of George River
p 61
Chapter 6 Moravian Missionaries
p 72 Suzie (left) and David (Center)
David with Nigel
Chapter 8 East and North along Ungava Bay
p 79
the gift of a duck...
page 92
After our escape but before the bear swam after us. Page 87
Our last camp before we reached Killinek
Chapter 9 Killinek and Polar Air Routes
p 105, church, Killinek
page 105, inside the church, Killinek
page 109, evening light, Amittoq Inlet
Chapter 10 Crossing Hudson Strait
Images from the 1981 trip are on the Baffin Island page of this site.
Chapter 11 McLelan Strait
McLelan Strait
McLelan Strait looking west
p.130
Amity Island
Chapter 12 Labrador Fog and German Weather Stations
Fog cleared to reveal the Torngat Mountains
Iceberg with Torngat Mountains
Chapter 13 Wind
Sheltering from the wind on Amiktok Island
page 147
Big White Bearskin Island (top left) off Deacon Head, see from Amiktok Island.
page 149
Stone armchair, page 154
Chapter 14 Ramah
p 157 waterfall pitching out onto the beach
p 161 remains of sod houses
p 163 brewing espresso
Chapter 15 Leaving the Torngats
Iceberg, Saglek Bay
Crossing Saglek Bay
Cliff on Big Island
page 175
Chapter 16 Saglek
p 179 Caribou in the shade around the temporary buildings
Caribou. page 179
p 183 the memorial plaque to the Marauder crew
Marauder wreckage p.183
PCB clean-up team by our kayaks
Chapter 17 Hebron
p 193 Moravian Mission building Hebron
Tom with his dog
The first Moravian building at Hebron
the camp of the restoration party
Checking out the houses once rented out by the Hudson Bay Company
Sem's home-built boat
Sem's other boat is anchored in the bay
Chapter 18 Kaumajet Mountains, The Shining Mountains
Cod Bag Harbor
Page 207
Inuit grave
page 208
Repairing a kayak page 209
Chapter 19 Okak
Okak Islands page 216
Chapter 20 Cabins
New paragraph
Cabin. page 219
Jako's cabin... Kiglapait Mountains in background page 222
Jako's cabin
Cabin, Kiglapait Harbour page 223
New paragraph
Chapter 21 Kiglapait Mountains and Village Bay
p 225 Entering Medusa Bay
Jim and Helena outside their cabin page 227
Chapter 22 Port Manvers Run
Early morning Port Manvers Run page 233
Uncanny calm page 237
Kristin with mussels she collected from the cold water Webb Bay page 238
Kristin cooking mushrooms and berries on a beach fireplace page 238
Frosty morning page 240
Best friends!
Chapter 23 Nain
p 248 April on ATV, with Kristin
p 248
Chapter 24 Northern Ranger
p 257
p 258 Legend hoisted aboard the Northern Ranger
The cargo hatch closes
p 259 Kristin leaving Nain on Northern Ranger
Chapter 25 The road of progress
p 265 Muskrat Falls
p 267-268, B17G search and rescue aircraft.
Links to some more of the history of this B17G... 1, 2,
p 267, Gary Shaw
Gary Shaw; the younger
The still-inflated tires
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