Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1891- Sydney: Filling the Coal Bunkers
The town of Sydney in Nova Scotia, 1934
“On June 11th, the fifth day out from New York, we steamed into Sydney harbour, and while the crew spent a day filling the coal-bunkers, the members of the two expeditions enjoyed to the utmost their last days in civilization. By Friday evening, the 12th, 180 tons of coal from the Cape Breton mines had been taken aboard, giving us over three hundred tons in the bunkers and hold and on deck. Then, with a last glance at the hills around the bay, only recently reclad with verdure by the awakening touch of spring, we put to sea, and headed northward across the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the Strait of Belle Isle.” -Robert E. Peary in Northward over the “Great Ice”, published in 1898
"North Sydney, NS" by William R. Esson August 26, 1934, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections
