Alexander, Scott E.

He worked in canneries as a a young man, and became a Coastwise Master.

In 1932 he served in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police serving in the RCMP St. Roch for four voyages.

He commanded the RCMP Detachment at Cambridge Bay NT.

In 1942 he joined the RCAF as a Flight Lieutenant.

In 1942 he served in RCAF Goose Bay as Security Officer.

He was considered as one of the RCAF's experts on the Arctic.

He organized and headed the RCAF's Arctic Survival School, and helped invent the nylon-pile fabric which substituted for caribou skin in Arctic clothing.

He served three summers as Arctic pilot for U.S. task forces.

In 1955 he served in the Distant early Warning Line Project Office in New York City.

In 1957 he piloted the USCGC Storis with U.S. Navy vessels following in line astern. (He was released.)