Richard Finnie, a Canadian Government explorer spent a year with inuits to learn their culture while Major L. T. Burwash had the unusual task of finding the position of the magnetic north pole.

“Two of them got the job of bringing 3,000 reindeer from Alaska to establish a game preserve in the Mackenzie River region; it took them three years to map the route and as long again to make the trip. Another party braved the rigors of frozen sleeping bags to map the wanderings of the rare musk-ox, also sought for herding. A winter on the sea ice with an Eskimo tribe was the lot of one explorer, whose mission was to obtain a pictorial record of the daily life, dances, and folk lore in a seal camp.”[Popular Science]

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