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PM's northern tour

  • Nov 30, 2013
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper, John Geiger, the chief executive officer of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and Ryan Harris, a Parks Canada underwater archeologist, discuss the search for the Franklin expedition ships aboard the Sir Wilfrid Laurier, near Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, during the prime minister’s eighth annual tour of the North last summer.

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