Isobel Wylie Hutchison with trapped fox in Arctic Canada
For the start of her Alaskan-Canadian Arctic journey in 1933-34 the Scottish botanist-explorer Isobel Wylie Hutchison travelled by sea from Manchester to Vancouver via the Panama Canal. A further sea voyage took her up the west coast of Canada to Skagway, the gateway to Alaska and the Yukon. The next leg of her journey was by train inland to Whitehouse, where she transferred to river-boat, by which means she eventually reached Nanana, the river-port for Fairbanks. From there she went by plane to Nome, and thence round the north coast to Aklavik. Another plane took her south again to McMurray, from where she travelled south by rail to Edmonton. Here we see her with a fox-skin acquired during the trip.
