stefansson-wrangel-09-36-012

HOUSE OF COMMOHS DEBATES

May 31,1923

p. 3360

In Supply on Department of Marine and Fisheries Estimates:

Item: Patrol of northern waters of Canada, $15,000

Mr. Bancroft: Will the Minister explain this item?

Mr.Lapointe: It is to provide for the publication of reports of the Canadian Arctic Expedition.....

Mr. Hanson: I am not interested in the names of all the volumes, but I would like the Minister to tell us who owns Wrangel Island.

Mr. Lapointe: I should like to know myself.