Dr. Shelley Sweeney, head archivist of the University of Manitoba Library & Special Collections talks about the new exhibition featuring the adventures of polar explorer, Dr. Andrew Taylor. The exhibition will be available until August 30th, 2015.
Her deck was originally built to support ten sailors in bare feet. Then, after 40 years of being trod on by over four million pairs of shoes, the wear and tear was starting to show.
Items including moccasins and a book that were used by Philip de Carteret when he worked as a trapper and fur trader for Revillon Frères and the Hudson’s Bay Company between 1929 and 1934 in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec are profiled.