Copy of a letter from John Anderson to Harold Noice, 08 October 1923

The largest city in the United States. The home city of Vilhjalmur Stefansson in the 1920s.

Town that the Wrangel Island expedition and relief expedition sailed from.

The largest city in Washington state.

Lead the relief expedition to Wrangel Island in 1923.

Born William Stephenson in 1879 in Manitoba, Canada, Stefansson was an explorer, anthropologist, public intellectual, and policy adviser whose life work included several important expeditions to the Arctic. He began planning an expedition to Wrangel Island somewhat secretly beginning in the fall of 1920, hoping to definitively claim Wrangel Island for Canada or Britain. As his active exploring career had already ended, he stayed in Canada while the team went to Wrangel Island. Ill-equipped and inexperienced, all four men hired by Stefansson died in 1923; Ada Blackjack was the sole survivor of the trip. Stefansson had a significant association with Dartmouth College, beginning in the 1920s and 30s when he was an occasional lecturer. In 1947, he moved to Vermont with his wife, working on the Encyclopedia Arctica and becoming an Arctic Consultant to the College. Though the Encyclopedia Arctica project was canceled in 1951, its unpublished chapters and associated materials are now housed in the Rauner Library as part of the Stefansson Collection on Polar Exploration. Stefansson continued teaching and writing at Dartmouth until his death in 1962 in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he is now buried.

Funded the Wrangel Island relief expedition in 1923.

English aviator and patent agent associated with the Wright brothers.

General Manager of the North American Newspaper Alliance, 1923.

Employee for Alfred J.T. Taylor. Secretary-Treasurer of the Stefansson Arctic Exploration & Development Company, and the Combustion Engineering Company Limited, Toronto, Ontario.

Vice President of the Stefansson Artic Exploration and Development Company. Managing Director of the Taylor Engineering Company. Prominent engineering contractor and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada. Most famous for the Lion's Gate Bridge.