Thomas Henry Manning

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Thomas Henry Manning (born December 22, 1911 in Dalling , Northamptonshire , Great Britain; † November 8, 1998 in Smiths Falls , Canada) was a British-Canadian polar explorer who carried out his research trips mainly alone, with dog sleds and canoes. He earned merits in mapping previously unexplored areas in northern Canada .

Manning was born the son of a farmer in Northamptonshire, UK, and studied zoology at Cambridge University . At the age of 20, he traveled alone and on foot to Iceland , the Faroe Islands , Norway , Finland and northern Russia . In 1933 he explored the Southampton Island in Hudson Bay on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society . Further expeditions to the Canadian Arctic followed with zoological and geographic studies.

In 1938 he married the nurse Ella Wallace Jackson, known as "Jackie". Immediately after the wedding on Cape Dorset , Baffin Island, the couple embarked on a year and a half expedition to map Baffin Island . After another expedition that took him around the Foxe Basin by canoe and dog sled for a year , he joined the Royal Canadian Navy , where he initially worked for a short time as a decipherer . In 1942 he was taken over by the US Army Corps of Engineers , for which he planned military airfields in arctic regions. After the end of World War II, Manning worked for the Geodetic Survey of Canada, mapped previously unexplored areas of James Bay and Hudson Bay, and led several expeditions to Arctic Canada in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s, he became involved in the Canadian Wildlife Service for the protection of polar bears.

Manning was Executive Director of the Arctic Institute of North America and an honorary doctorate from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and has received multiple awards for his scientific work.

"Jackie" Manning processed the adventures with her husband in two autobiographical books: Igloo for the Night (Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, London, 1943) and A Summer on Hudson Bay (Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, London, 1949).

literature

  • Short biography in English in Arctic . Volume 52, No. 1, March 1999, pp. 104-105
  • Ella Wallace Manning: Bridal trip to the Arctic. Translated from Theo von Knoop. FA Brockhaus-Verlag , Mannheim 1951 (Igloo for the Night)

notes

  1. ↑ Ella's Life Data: October 26, 1906, Mill Village, Shubernacadie, Nova Scotia - September 25, 2007, Ottawa
personal data
SURNAME Manning, Thomas Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Canadian polar explorer
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Dalling , Northamptonshire , UK
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1998
Place of death Smiths Falls , Canada