[Alexander Forbes—home movies] Reel 11, Accession 2533

Date1935

AbstractCan notes: "Labrador 1935 Reel 2 Dr. Forbes" Intertitle: "LABRADOR, 1935- PART 11[sic]" Intertitle: From the camp at Nachvak Lake. Late afternoon sunlight." Views of very tall rocky mountains rising from the lake. Intertitle: "Over the Torngat Mts. from Nachvak Lake to Port Burwell." Views of a waterfall falling over a mountain cliff edge to the ocean or lake below, views of the lake at the foot of steep mountains, icy shoreline, and small icebergs. A very small village lies at the end of a long inlet. POVs from the plane as it starts to land and taxi on the water. Views of Port Burwell at the end of the inlet. The Torngat Mountains are a mountain range located on the Labrador Peninsula at the northern tip of Newfoundland and Labrador and eastern Quebec and are part of the Arctic Cordillera. The Torngat Mountains cover 30,067 square kilometers (11,609 square miles), including lowland areas and extend over 300 km (186 mi) from Cape Chidley in the north to Hebron Fjord in the south. The Torngat Mountains have the highest peaks of eastern, continental North America. Intertitle: "Examining harbors and channels around Cape Chidley." POVs from airplane of islands and coastline with a few small ice floes. Intertitle: "Southward over the 'Four Peaks' and Kangalaksiorvik Fiord." POVs from airplane over very high mountains and mountainous coastline. Intertitle: "Return to Hebron after non-stop flight from Port Burwell over Cape Chidley, August 7." Views from the harbor of buildings in Port Burwell, including one at a dock with name "Hudson's Bay Company" written on the side. View of man and woman walking down the dock toward the buildings in the harbor. Pans of the harbor with a seaplane anchored in the harbor (Forbes' plane used for aerial mapping?). Pans of the rugged coastline and the fenced yards of buildings in the village. Port Burwell is a harbor on western Killiniq Island, formed as an arm of Ungava Bay, at the mouth of Hudson Strait. Previously within Labrador, and then the Northwest Territories, it is now situated within the borders of Nunavut, Canada. Cape Chidley is 25 miles (40 km) to the northeast. A Hudson's Bay Company expedition in 1885 on the Alert, established an HBC trading post within the harbor. In 1904, Moravian missionaries established a mission and trading post at the northwest corner of the harbor. Twelve years later, the HBC moved one of their trading posts to the northeast area of the harbor. Intertitle: "Flying south to Nain, August 8. The Kaumajets, late afternoon." The Kaumajet Mountains are a dramatic compact range rising directly out of the sea on the northern Labrador coast. The range boasts one 4,000-foot peak, the highest island peak on the east coast of North America between the Caribbean and Hudson Strait, and several peaks with very high prominence. The highest mountain in the Kaumajet Mountains is Brave Mountain at 1,300 m (4,265 ft). POVs from plane of the dramatic rugged mountains at the shoreline, with little vegetation, and a little snow on some of the faces, and small lakes amid the mountains. Intertitle: "Departure from Nain, southbound." View of Nain harbor from a boat; one of the buildings has "Hudson's Bay Company" written on the front. Small sailboats are moored in the harbor. For other views of Nain, summer 1934, see Holbrook collection. Aerial views of the rugged coastline from the airplane. Intertitle: "Inland to Cabot Lake." Cabot Lake lies southwest of Nain. Aerial views from airplane of rugged mountains below and the coastline nearby. High aerials of the long thin lake among the mountains. Intertitle: "Back at Hopedale and St. Mary's River." Hopedale is located on the northern Labrador coast, amongst the large bays that open up to the Labrador Sea. Hopedale, originally called Agvituk meaning 'a place where there are whales', was first established in 1782 by Moravian Missionaries. The Hopedale Mission building, which is still standing, is considered one of, if not the oldest building east of Quebec. POVs from airplane as it taxis along the shoreline of the village. Intertitle: "Prince Edward Island" High aerial views from airplane of Prince Edward Island, showing flatter landscape and farmland and forests below. Intertitle: "Bay of Fundy, approaching St. John, N.B., August 14; the Puffin." High aerial views over the Bay of Fundy. CU of a human hand feeding a puffin chick on a dock.