The first class in physics was offered during the 1910-1911 session. The department was charged with the task of developing classes designed to meet the physical science needs of all University colleges. The purchase of seismic instruments, the establishment of a campus weather station, and the planning and consttruction of the Physics building were achieved during the department’s first decade. Faculty interests in the 1920s and 1930s served as the foundation for much of the department’s future research. Expertise in meteorology, climatology, and the physics of aurora led to the creation of the Institute of Upper Atmospheric Physics (1956), the Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies (1965), and the Space Engineering Division (SED Ltd). in 1965. Interest in nuclear physics led to the Betatron (1948), the first non-commercial cobalt-60 unit for cancer treatment (1952), the linear accelerator (1964), and the Canadian Light Source (2004).
Series: Photographs.
ca. late 1800s-early 1900s - ca. 1940s.
86 glass slides, 337 lantern slides, 221 negatives, 15 glass plates, 15 contact
prints, memorabilia.
These images include materials used for teaching purposes; images taken during research trips; etc. Of the 7 subseries within this series, the 3 represented on this site relate to the work done by Frank Davies, Balfour Currie, Stuart McVeigh and John Rae during the Second International Polar Year (1932-1933) at Chesterfield Inlet. The resources listed here are not the complete record from that year; images of aurora, field data, and reports are also available.
Subseries:
A. 2nd International Polar Year - Davies Slides
B. 2nd International Polar Year - Currie Slides
C. 2nd International Polar Year - Other Slides
Box 1
Subseries A. Second International Polar Year 1932-33: Frank Davies slides.
70 glass slides, 7 lantern slides, 9 negatives.
Titles taken from list prepared by [Davies], in Walter Kupsch fonds, MG 146, vol. 3, Davies/Currie Series, file “FT Davies - Miscellaneous Reference (& Photo Index).”
1. Polar Year Director with technical advisors and staff, 1932. - 5x5cm glass
slide.
Back row: BW Currie, EH Vestine; Stuart McVeigh; JE Lilly; RC Jacobsen.
Front row: JP Rea; WEW Jackson; J. Patterson; Andrew Thompson; FT Davies.
2. View of Churchill. - 5x5 cm glass slide; 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
Image taken from top of grain elevator; showing railway, buildings, etc.
3. Canon, ‘Ft. Prince of Wales.’ - 5x5 cm glass slide; 8x8 cm lantern slide.
4. Ship’s Names of 1741 Inscribed on Rock. - 5x5 cm glass slide; 2 negatives.
5. Samuel Hearne’s 1767 Inscription on Rock, Churchill. - 5x5 cm glass
slide.
Duplicate of BW Currie slides # 39.
6. Robert Smith 1776 Inscription on Rock. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
7. Chesterfield Supplies at Churchill Dock. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
Boxes, barrels, mattresses etc. piled up; buildings in background.
8. Tug Ocean Eagle, towing the scow Neophyte. - 5x5 cm glass slide; negative.
Commander of the Ocean Eagle was Captain Poole.
9. Supply Crates, Chesterfield Inlet. - 5x5 cm glass slide; negative.
Crates on rocks; two unidentified men sitting on crates.
10. Hand Drawn Map of Chesterfield Inlet. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
Showing radio station; hospital; mission; “Eskimo igloos;” RCMP
barracks;
[HBC].
11. Chesterfield House, Instrument Room. - 5x5 cm glass slide; 8x8 cm lantern slide.
12. Magnetic Hut. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
Built by Currie and Davies; FT Davies and JP Rea standing beside hut.
13. Magnetic Hut in Winter. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
Davies standing in front; second building visible to the right.
Duplicate of BW Currie slide #11.
14. Winter View: Living Hut, Magnetic Hut, Store Hut. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
15. McVeigh, Davies and Rea Hauling in Kite. - 5x5cm glass slide; negative.
16. McVeigh Retrieving the Kite. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
17. Rae and McVeigh at Balloon Station, Summer. - 5x5 cm glass slide; negative.
18. [Rae and McVeigh] at Balloon Station, Winter. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
19. McVeigh, Spring 1933 - Base Line Survey. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
20. McVeigh and Sik Sik. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
21. Missing.
22. Currie Measuring Atmospheric Potential Gradient. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
23. Missing.
24. Chart: Temperature Comparisons. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
25. Two Inuit Children. - 5x5 cm glass slide; negative.
“Boy in old RCMP tunic half negro.”
Duplicate of BW Currie slide # 29.
26. Three Inuit Children. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
27. Four Inuit Children. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
28. Six Inuit Children. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
29. Duplicate of # 26.
30. Two Inuit Children. - 5x5 cm glass slide; 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Church in background.
31. Grandmother with Three Inuit Children. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
32. Four Inuit Children. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
Standing in front of wooden building with long stairway.
33. Five Children. - 5x5 cm glass slide; 8x8 cm lantern slide.
One Caucasian, four Inuit.
Duplicate of BW Currie slide # 25.
34. Special Constable Parka. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
35. Singatuk in front of Sled. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
36. Tent Nearly Buried in Snow. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
37. Father Henri, Brother Paradis and Two Inuit [Parishioners]. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
38. BW Currie and Unidentified Inuit Man Outside Igloo. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
Mission visible in background.
39. ‘Homogeneous’ Pup. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
40. ‘Homogeneous’ Adult Dog. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
41. HB Post: Lofty Stewart, Mac McLeod and [Bob Stewart]. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
42. ‘Chain Gang’ - McVeigh, Rose, Brown, Rea. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
BW Currie visible at far right.
43. Sled to Ft. Sik Sik: Yates, Currie, Singatuk. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
44. Sled to Ft. Sik Sik. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
45. BW Currie at Ft. Sik Sik, Summer. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
46. BW Currie at Ft. Sik Sik, Winter. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
47. Aurora Station, Ft. Sik Sik, Winter. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
48. BW Currie at Ft. Sik Sik, Winter. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
49. Aurora. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
50. Marble Island, Summer 1933. - 5x5 cm glass slide; 8x8 cm lantern slide.
51. Graves, Dead Man Island. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
52. Graves, Dead Man Island. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
53. Magnetic Station, Dead Man Island. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
54. Rae Standing on Moraine, Marble Island. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
55. Expedition Canoe at Inner Harbour, Marble Island. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
56. Map of Marble Island, Dead Man Island. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
57. Map of Marble Island, Dead Man Island. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
58. Air Photo by RCAF, 1940s. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
59. Air Photo by RCAF, 1940s. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
60. Aboard the Lady Willingdon. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
Sergeant Wright, Constable Yates, Special Constable Parka, Superintendent Martin;
en route to Baker Lake.
61. Baker Lake RCMP Dog. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
62. Baker Lake: Constable Taggart, Reverend James, and Unidentified Inuit Man. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
63. Ruins of Stone Hut at Baker Lake. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
64. Whale Bones, Chesterfield Inlet. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
65. Aboard the Fort Severn. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
Corporal Nichols, Hugh Conn, Archie Hunter.
66. Aboard the Fort Severn. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
67. Mission Schooner Ste. Therèsé. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
68. Inuit Hunter With Two Arctic Swans. - 5x5 cm glass slide; 8x8 cm lantern
slide.
Onboard mission boat.
69. Walrus Heads on Rocks, Chesterfield Inlet. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
70. Walrus Meat on Rocks, Chesterfield Inlet. - 5x5 cm glass slide; negative.
71. Missing.
72. Aboard the Fort Severn. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
73. Missing.
74. Rea and McVeigh aboard the HBC schooner, Fort Severn. - 5x5 cm glass slide.
Subseries B. Second International Polar Year 1932-33: Balfour Currie slides
44 lantern slides, 18 negatives.
Titles taken from list prepared by [Currie], in Walter Kupsch fonds, MG 146, vol. 3, Davies/Currie Series, file “BW Currie - Negatives, Slides, Lists, etc.”
1. Aerial View of Chesterfield, Looking North. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Mission Lake in centre; inlet in background. Buildings from left to right: house
for resident physician and expedition quarters; Mission hospital; RC chapel
and quarters for Oblate Fathers; Hudson’s Bay post.
2. Aerial View of Chesterfield, Looking Inland. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Harbour to left and Mission Lake to right. Police quarters in distance to right;
radio station far right.
3. [Weather] Map of Canada. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Showing location of Chesterfield Inlet.
4. Unloading Supplies for Expedition. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
5. Unloading 100-lb Bags Hard Coal and Gasoline Drums. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Note: glass is cracked.
6. “Everybody Helped at Ship Time Including Women.” - 8x8 cm lantern
slide.
Women helping to unload supplies.
Note: glass is cracked.
7. “Everybody Helped at Ship Time Including Women.” - 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
8. Expedition Boxes Ready to be Taken to Fort Severn. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
September 1934.
9. Members of Expedition: McVeigh, Davies, Rea, Currie. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
10. Expedition Residence. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Coal bags stacked to shelter auroral camera and operator from the wind.
11. Magnetic Hut; Davies Standing in Front. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Duplicate of F Davies slide # 13.
12. Anglican Missionary Jaines and Unidentified Inuit Helper, Baker Lake. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
13. Currie and Rae at Fort Sik Sik. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
14. Inuit Igloos near Fort Sik Sik. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
15. Inuit Encampment, Chesterfield. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
16. View of Expedition Quarters. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Storage shed, house, magnetic hut.
17. Inuit Encampment, Chesterfield. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Mission in background.
18. Inuit Encampment, Chesterfield. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Mission in background.
19. Winter Scene, Chesterfield. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Includes Hudson=s Bay post.
20. Inuit Family at Entrance to Igloo. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
21. Inuit: from Coral Harbour, Southhampton; Centre: Hudson=s Bay Employee. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
22. Inuit Family Visiting Expedition. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
23. Inuit Seamstress. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Note woman with payment in goods.
Box 2
24. Inuit Children with Davies, Summer. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
25. Five Inuit Children. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Note several with Caucasian features.
Duplicate of F Davies slide # 33.
26. Inuit Family, Summer. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
27. Inuit Women, Summer. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Note: glass is cracked.
28. Inuit Girls in Mission Dresses. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
29. Two Inuit Children. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Boy and girl; boy wearing handout from RCMP; had Negroid ancestor (whalers).
Duplicate of F Davies slide # 25.
Note: glass is cracked.
30. Currie with Two Inuit Children. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
Note: glass is cracked.
31 Inuit with Harbour Seal. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
32. Cache of Seal Meat. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; 4 negatives.
Negatives include similar as well as identical images.
33 Husky Dog. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
34. Komatik. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
35. Ball Game Played by Women & Children. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; 5 negatives.
Negatives include similar as well as identical images.
36. McVeigh with Sik Sik. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; 3 negatives.
37. Davies: Wash Day. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
38. Inuit Burial or Shelter. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
39. Sloop’s Cove. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Duplicate of F Davies slide # 5.
40. Fort Prince of Wales (1932). - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
41. Churchill Elevator (1932). - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
42. Aurora, Churchill (1960s). - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
43. Perallactic Photographs (Aurora, 1933). - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
44. Fritz Isolines of Auroral Occurrence. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Subseries C. Second International Polar Year 1932-33: Additional Photographs.
16 glass negatives, 37 lantern slides,188 negatives
These images, while presumably taken during the IPY, were not specifically identified as having been taken by either Davies or Currie. Titles created based on image.
1. Two Inuit Children. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
2. Arctic Daisies. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
See Living Explorers, p. 212
3. Arctic Poppies. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
See Living Explorers, p. 212.
4. Auroral Images, Chesterfield. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Note: glass is cracked.
5. Graph of Height Frequencies, Aurora, Chesterfield. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
6. Boats. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
7. Brabant Rocket Launch, Churchill. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
8. Buildings, [Chesterfield and/or Churchill]. - 19 negatives; 8x8 cm lantern
slide; 2 4x6 cm glass slides.
Various images of buildings.
9. Mission Building, [Chesterfield or Churchill?]. - 8 negatives; 3 8x8 cm
lantern slides.
Images include groups standing outside the building: natives and mission staff.
10. Expedition Quarters, Chesterfield. - 3 negatives.
11. Quarters, Magnetic Hut, Shed. - 5 negatives, 4x6 cm glass slide.
12. Cribbage Board. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; 4x6 cm glass slide.
13. BW Currie. - negative.
14. F. Davies. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
15 Drying Fish. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
16. Electrometers - Chesterfield Observation. - 4x6 cm glass slide.
17. Graphs. - 2 8x8 cm lantern slides.
Percentage of auroral time; and hourly mean declination.
Note: one slide is cracked.
18. Husky Pup. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
19. [Rae] With Fish. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
20. [McVeigh] With Fish. - negative.
21. Hand-drawn Map. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Showing location of Churchill, Chesterfield Inlet, Marble Island, etc.
22. Men With Fishing Net. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
23. Expedition Members - Swimming/Bathing. - 4 negatives.
24. Expedition Members - Camp Life. - 5 negatives.
25. Expedition Members - Playing Hockey. - 2 negatives.
26. Expedition Members - Fishing. - 2 negatives.
27. Expedition Members - In Field. - 12 negatives; 8x8 cm lantern slide; 2 4x6 cm glass slides.
28. Expedition Members - In Inuit Parkas. - 3 negatives.
29. Expedition Members - In City/With Spouses. - 7 negatives.
30. Boats. - 8 negatives, 8x8 cm lantern slide.
Includes images of fishing; large group of people arriving [at Chesterfield];
etc.
31. Inuit. - 18 negatives, 4 8x8 cm lantern slides; 4x6 cm glass slide.
32 Rock Formations, Inukshuk. - 4 8x8 cm lantern slides; 2 negatives.
33. [Rock Circle]. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
34. Landscape. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
35. Landscape. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; negative.
36. Sik Sik. - 8x8 cm lantern slide; 5 negatives.
37. Inuit Encampment/Dog Sleds at Chesterfield. - 3 negatives.
38. McVeigh Retrieving Kite. - 1 negative.
39. Interior, Living Quarters. - 2 negatives; 1 4x6 cm glass slide.
40. Unloading Supplies. - 2 negatives.
41. Fish & [Ptarmagin]. - 9 negatives.
42. Huskies / Dogs. - 7 negatives.
43. [Ft. Prince of Wales]. - 8 negatives.
44 Miscellaneous - Equipment. - 5 negatives; 2 4x6 cm glass slides.
45 Remains of Inuit Dwellings. - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
46 Map, >Distribution of the Eskimo.= - 8x8 cm lantern slide.
47. Unloading Supplies. - 2 negatives.
48. Miscellaneous Landscape. - 33 negatives; 8x8 cm lantern slide; 2 4x6 cm glass slides.
49. Miscellaneous. - 3 4x6 glass slides; 2 negatives.