Rangers off to Alert

A team of Rangers from across the North are snowmobiling from Resolute to Alert to back up the government’s promise of longer and bigger sovereignty patrols in the region.

According to a press release from the federal Department of National Defence, the patrol will be the longest one-way sovereignty patrol in Canadian history.

“Bigger and longer patrols establish a highly visible military presence and confirm Canada’s sovereignty over these vast areas of the North,” said Major Stewart Gibson, the patrol’s commanding officer.

The patrol, made of Rangers and regular members of the armed forces from Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and the Yukon, left Resolute on April 1, and expects to arrive at Alert by April 12.