AHM 'Pete' Stevens, MD

Arnott Hume Macgregor 'Pete' Stevens, MD

A summer aboard the CD Howe in the Eastern portion of the North West Passage

In 1958, Dr. AHM 'Pete' Stevens joined the crew aboard the CD Howe for one memorable summer. The ship's crew included medical doctors, dentists, X-ray technicians, nurses and translators. Their mission was to visit the remote communties in the Eastern Arctic with a trained medical team. Sadly, because of TB amongst the Inuit, the mission included immediately removing those individuals who were diagnosed with TB. They were not allowed to return to their community for fear of infection and were taken south, to Winnipeg, Ottawa or Montreal. Many of those removed for treatment never fit back into their communities.

As Bob Williamson, one of Pete's friends, described it ... "It was a sad ship."

All of the photographs in this Web site were taken by Pete Stevens.

Black Ice

Arctic Bay

Examining a child

While anchored off Cape Dorset

The ship sailed p the St. Lawrence, around Labrador and into the Northwest Passage.

The St. Lawrence River