Bruce Ritchie with the Bell helicopter at Taye Lake. We had to land about
two miles from our camp where a Beaver float plane had brought in the
equipment. We found a small punt at the trapper's cabin and used it to
move our gear to the camp. |
 A major challenge was cutting, pushing, pulling, dragging the loaded punt through this huge reed bed. |
 Our home at Taye Lake. You may use unoccupied buildings but you must restock whatever you use. Gophers chattering under the floorboards at 3 a.m. provided local colour. Excellent surface artifact collecting on the cabin roof. |
 The dig site was across a small river from the cabin. Our bridge was for the nimblefooted. |
Scotty MacNeish, Bill Baker, Charles Martijn and Ron Chambers at the Taye Lake dig site. The occupations were relatively recent, not more than 400 years, so the holes were shallow. |
Taye Lake |
 The front yard from the trapper's cabin |
 View from the cabin. |
View from the cabin. |
 Taye Lake |
 Bruce Ritchie at Taye Lake |
 Bill Baker with the Beaver float plane, Taye Lake. It brought in our equipment and took us out at the end of the dig. |
 Whitehorse, Yukon Territory 1959 |
 Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, late August 1959 , Department of National Defense Base. |
The return journey to Ottawa was with the National Museum's truck, across the northern U.S.A. (North Dakota, Minnesota, etc.) My Yukon adventure was published in The Sun Life Review, October 1959 issue. |
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