Hello
Is anyone interested in a .pdf copy of Northern Survival?
It was published in 1968 by the Education Division, Northern Administration Branch, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. (A branch of the Canadian government that doesn't even exist anymore)
It features sections on First Aid, Travel in Northern Terrain, Shelter (including a fairly detailed section on building igloos, and life inside one), Navigation, Knots, Water, Food (including identifying edible plants, hunting, fishing, foraging and trapping), Fire, Signalling, Care and Use of Equipment and Clothing, and a few other miscellaneous tips and techniques.
Brutal production value; double spaced, typewritten, single sided pages, illustrations are okay.
The Cerlox binding on it was as old as me, and had started to fall apart. I took it in to work, to make a double sided copy and re-bind it. I then had the bright idea to scan it in and turn it into a .pdf file. I figured others might like this, and when a slow afternoon rolled around There was no copyright on it, so thats not an issue. I haven't jazzed it up at all. If it was printed crooked on the page, it's crooked in the PDF. If the typewriter filled the counter of a letter with ink schmutz, it appears on the PDF.
Its by no means the greatest survival manual ever published. Not compared to the .pdf of the Swedish Army Arctic Warfare manual I got a while back. But its still got some useful stuff in it, and I guess it could also be viewed as a bit of history too. Plus its free. (although if you want to send something groovy back through the ether, thats always appreciated.)
If anyone wants it, let me know, either via PM or email me at exploriment at gmail dot com and Ill send it to you. Or alternately, does someone here have the capacity to host it? Its 17.5MB PDF file. Maybe posting it on the net somewhere, might give more people access to it.
Cheers,
Thomas
Is anyone interested in a .pdf copy of Northern Survival?
It was published in 1968 by the Education Division, Northern Administration Branch, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. (A branch of the Canadian government that doesn't even exist anymore)
It features sections on First Aid, Travel in Northern Terrain, Shelter (including a fairly detailed section on building igloos, and life inside one), Navigation, Knots, Water, Food (including identifying edible plants, hunting, fishing, foraging and trapping), Fire, Signalling, Care and Use of Equipment and Clothing, and a few other miscellaneous tips and techniques.
Brutal production value; double spaced, typewritten, single sided pages, illustrations are okay.
The Cerlox binding on it was as old as me, and had started to fall apart. I took it in to work, to make a double sided copy and re-bind it. I then had the bright idea to scan it in and turn it into a .pdf file. I figured others might like this, and when a slow afternoon rolled around There was no copyright on it, so thats not an issue. I haven't jazzed it up at all. If it was printed crooked on the page, it's crooked in the PDF. If the typewriter filled the counter of a letter with ink schmutz, it appears on the PDF.
Its by no means the greatest survival manual ever published. Not compared to the .pdf of the Swedish Army Arctic Warfare manual I got a while back. But its still got some useful stuff in it, and I guess it could also be viewed as a bit of history too. Plus its free. (although if you want to send something groovy back through the ether, thats always appreciated.)
If anyone wants it, let me know, either via PM or email me at exploriment at gmail dot com and Ill send it to you. Or alternately, does someone here have the capacity to host it? Its 17.5MB PDF file. Maybe posting it on the net somewhere, might give more people access to it.
Cheers,
Thomas
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