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The RCMP St. Roch is a sailing ship, which was the second vessel to transit the Northwest Passage.
She was especially designed for work in the Canadian Arctic, and was launched in 1928. For most of her first twenty years afloat she was commanded by Henry Larsen.
During World War II Canada cooperated with her American allies, including allowing American Construction battalions to build the Alaska Highway. Prior to the construction of the Alaska Highway the only way to ship cargo and personnel to and from Alaska was by sea. Shortly after America's entry into the war Japanese forces captured several islands in the Aleutian chain, demonstrating the risk the Japanese Navy could cut off Alaska -- unless a road or rail connection could be built.
Did you know ...
- ... that Kek is an internet meme that started in the gaming community?
- ... that the Dunning-Kruger effect is a horseshoe-shaped relationship between one's own self-perceived competence and their actual competence?
- ... that the Way Huge Aqua-Puss is an effect pedal for guitar or bass that produces a delay effect?
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