visited. In 1934 Nascopie took for the first time a Governor of the Company to ever visit Hudson Bay. HBC Governor Patrick Ashley Cooper and his wife joined her in Montreal and sailed as far as Churchill. In 1937, the ship enabled the Hudson's Bay Company in establishing Fort Ross. Sailing from the east, she met the schooner Aklavik, which had sailed from the west into Bellot Strait. This meeting of the two ships at Fort Ross, brought into reality for the first time the Northwest Passage. During the second World War, she was fitted with anti-aircraft gun, and a 3.7 inch Naval gun, she was used to ship carry cryolite for making Aluminum for the war effort. Nascopie was wrecked near Cape Dorset near the southern tip of Baffin Island on an uncharted reef, July 21, 1947. References External links Icebreakers of Canada Steamships Maritime incidents in 1947 Shipwrecks of the Canadian Arctic coast 1911 ships Hudson's Bay Company ships