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- Source of title proper: Title taken from Bill Cormack interview transcript.
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[ca. 1936 or 1937] (Creation)
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1 photograph : b&w negative ; 60 x 61 mm
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Caption Source: Bill Cormack interview and Bill Addison
Photographer: unknown but likely G.C.F. Dalziel
WDA's Comments, 2013 Oct. 12: G. C. F. Dalziel (Dal) pioneered a trapping method that only Bill Cormack, Nazar Zinchuk and a few others were able to emulate. They were normally out on the traplines sleeping in half a Hudson's Bay blanket with a light tarp under and over them even at -50 °F. Their ability to tolerate such condition meant they had little gear to carry and therefore they could travel great distances and trap a huge area, quickly skimming off the easy-to-trap marten, As soon as catches dropped off slightly, they moved on. Their system required paring everything to an absolute minimum. Note the similarity of this main camp to Dalziel's in a previous photo. The tent was only used occasionally
Bill Cormack identifies this camp as at Porcupine Lake in his interview but I do not know where the lake is. I could find no such named lake either in the South Nahanni watershed or in its vicinity on topographic maps or in the NWT Gazetteer. It is one of several lakes along the YT-NT boundary in prime marten trapping territory.
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CREDIT: NWT Archives/W.D. Addison Nahanni collection/N-2022-003: 0620
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