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  Not the first time.

  Amazing that the CBC would be so unaware of the facts.

  From 1937

  'Last week this new, shorter Northwest Passage's navigability was dramatically demonstrated as Hudson Bay Company's Eastern Arctic Patrol Nascopie sounded her way through Bellot Strait. Snow shrouded the Arctic dusk as head on through the haze came the bow of another ship. Nascopie's Captain Thomas Smellie's incredulous hail got a booming reply from veteran Arctic Trader Patsy Klingenberg, from the deck of the Schooner Aklavik, eastbound to Baffin Island, and astonished Eskimo cheers from both crews echoed through the rock-bound channel.'

  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,770864-2 ...

  The Southern route of the NW Passage was travelled every year by the HBC(Hudson Bay Company) in the 30's.

  Gjoa Haven(1930) and Cambridge Bay(1929) pictures showing low ice level. A lot more info in that link.

  http://www.kitikmeotheritage.ca/Angulalk/hudsons/hudsons. ...

  Info on the little boat the Aklavik that made it through the NW Passage in 1937.

  http://iain-cameron.blogspot.com/2007/07/test.html

  Nascopie and Aklavik meet from East and West in 1937
  The Nascopie commonly travelled through the passage in the 30's.
  http://iain-cameron.blogspot.com/2007/07/aberdonians-arct ...

  In 1944 Larsen took the St. Roch from Halifax to Vancouver in 86 days through the Parry Channel route.
  http://www.ucalgary.ca/arcticexpedition/larsenexpeditions ...

  The Arctic travelled the Parry channel route twice and could have travelled right out of the ice free McClure strait. This from 1908 to 1911.
  http://www.ucalgary.ca/arcticexpedition/icebreakers/cgs-a ...

  W.E. Parry travelled the length of the Parry Channel route and back in the early 1800's and McClure sailed right into the McClure strait from the West around 1850.

  Then there is Amundsen and a lot more evidence.

  This evidence is ignored by science, and it shows the conditions in the Arctic in the thirties were similar to today. And then in the late 40's the Arctic froze up and the HBC shut some of their posts due to the increased ice. On First commercial ship sails through Northwest Passage posted 12 months ago 4 Responses