Lecture: RCMP Schooner St. Roch — Workhorse of the North

3 Oct

The Scan­di­na­vian Cul­tural Soci­ety presents a lec­ture by Daniel Lemieux. A 40-minute Pow­er­Point pre­sen­ta­tion about the ship spe­cially designed to sup­port norther RCMP police detachments.

Among other things, the lec­ture describes how police offi­cers con­ducted patrols with Inuit guides, the hard­ships of liv­ing in the North and the dan­gers and dif­fi­cul­ties of mak­ing exten­sive patrols by dog sled.

Date: Sun­day Octo­ber 3, 2010
Time: 14:00 (2pm)
Place: Scan­di­na­vian Com­mu­nity Cen­tre
Cost: Admis­sion by donation