Local Resident Ed Phelan Completes Arctic Boat Journey

community · June 10 to October 5, 2019 · Mackenzie River to Tuktoyaktuk, Arctic Ocean

Long-time Denman resident Ed Phelan restored a historic clinker-built fishing boat and undertook a 1100-mile journey down the Mackenzie River from Slave Lake to Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic Ocean in June 2019. After leaving the boat on the beach in Tuktoyaktuk, he returned in September 2019 to retrieve it and bring it back to Denman Island for restoration.

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Sources

• “He arrived at Tuktoyaktuk on June 28th... last September he set off again for Tuk and returned on October 5th with the boat in tow.” — The Islands Grapevine – January 30th, 2020 (January 30th, 2020)

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