To Relieve Party on Wrangel Island: Canadian Government Supplies Money For Expedition to North.
Date24 August, 1922
ms numberStefansson Mss-98, Box 9, Folder 9
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[gap: damage] TO RELIEVE PARTY ON WRANGEL ISLAND
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Canadian Government Supplies Money For Expedition to
North.
OTTAWA, Aug. 24. (Canadian Press).—Relief for four men, stated by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canadian explorer, to be
now in danger on
Wrangel Island, has been provided by the
Canadian Government, the sum of $3000 being advanced to Mr. Stefansson
for the purpose of taking the necessary relief measures.
The matter of the ownership of
Wrangel Island was brought up in
Parliament last session, when it was stated that the Stefansson party of four men, headed by Allan Crawford
of Toronto, haid raised the British
flag and claimed sovereignty over the
island as a British possession, though
there were at the time conflicting claims as to ownership.
The relie fexpedition arranged by
Stefansson on the provision of the money by
the government is stated to have sailed from Nome,
Alaska, yesterday. Nothing has been heard of the
Crawford party since September last, and
the ship which sailed is carrying fresh supplies and a new party to
continue occupation of the island.
Wrangel Island is claimed to be rich in
fur and mineral deposits.
Did not use this.
R.B.
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