CF-MPY is still current as C-FMPY but left RCMP service in 1974. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

CF-IZQ written off when its undercarriage collapsed on take-off at Yellowknife on October 17, 1970. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

Charles Gimpel was an English photographer who travelled in the Canadian Arctic to capture Inuit life. The Otter was based here in then Frobisher Bay on a military contract to support a DEW Line radar site on Resolution Island. Photo by: Charles Gimpel / Library and Archives Canada

Canadian Forces CC-130 Hercules 130322 crashed on final approach 16km from Station Alert on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut Oct 30 1991. Five fatalities and 13 survived. The Hercules was carrying 3,400 litres of diesel fuel. Some of the survivors took shelter in the rear fuselage section until rescued some 30 hours later due to an intense blizzard. The wreckage remains at the scene to this day. This is the most remote crash site in the world. View of one of the fuel tanks. Photos by George Hoffman.

Canadian Forces CC-130 Hercules 130322 crashed on final approach, 16km from Station Alert on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut Oct 30 1991. Five fatalities and 13 survived. The Hercules was carrying 3,400 litres of diesel fuel. Some of the survivors took shelter in the rear fuselage section until rescued some 30 hours later due to an intense blizzard. The wreckage remains at the scene to this day. This is the most remote crash site anywhere in the world. Photo by George Hoffman.