Expedition Rediscovered

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The men in MacMillan's expedition, including Walter Elmer Ekblaw (right), donned furs during their years in the Arctic. Though some considered them smelly and hot, "I consider furs absolutely essential," MacMillan wrote, "and indeed indispensable for the hard, cold work of the early spring trips of February, March and April."

Information for the slide captions were excerpted from the book Four Years in the White North, written in 1918 by the expedition's leader, Donald B. MacMillan.