Commentary
“He’s a strong guy … a real Bernier!” exclaimed Jean-Baptiste Bernier, the proud grandfather. He and the boy’s father, Thomas Bernier, were confident the lad would grow up to be a sea captain.
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The Greatest Navigator of Canada’s History Who Laid Claim to the Arctic Archipelago
Master mariner and Arctic explorer Joseph-Elzéar Bernier’s most famous ship, the CGS Arctic, at anchor in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, in 1923. Public Domain
C.P. Champion
Author
C.P. Champion, Ph.D., is the author of two books, was a fellow of the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen's University in 2021, and edits The Dorchester Review magazine, which he founded in 2011.
