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Canadian Ranger Josephie Kiguktak fires his .303 Lee Enfield rifle as Ranger staff and fellow Rangers look on at Grise Fiord, Nunavut, 1988.
Canadian Ranger Eli Weetaluktuk brings back the catch near Inukjuak, Nunavik, along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Quebec.
Canadian Rangers on Operation Kigliqaqvik Ranger celebrate reaching the magnetic North Pole off Cape Isaachsen in 2002.
Canadian Rangers Paul Atagootak, Uluriak (Star) Amarualik, and Caleb Sangoya on Operation Nanook, Resolute, Nunavut, August 2010. Women started joining the Rangers in the late 1980s.
Canadian Ranger Paul Atagootak instructs members of the Arctic Response Company Group on Operation Nanook 10 in Resolute, Nunavut, August 2010.
Canadian Ranger TooToo, an Inuk from Churchill, Manitoba, relays information to Mobile Striking Force personnel in a Penguin snow vehicle during Exercise Bulldog II in 1954.
by Nelle Oosterom
Armed with Lee Enfield rifles and dressed in distinctive red ballcaps and sweatshirts, today’s Rangers continue to play an important role in establishing Canada’s sovereignty over the Arctic. These photographs highlight some of the activities of the force.
To learn more about the Canadian Rangers, read historian P. Whitney Lackenbauer’s article “Sentinels of Sovereignty.” And for more historical photographs of the Canadian Rangers, see Lackenbauer’s The Canadian Rangers: A Living History UBC Press, March 2013.
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