Yellowknife (Mar 26/03) - A museum in Ontario is researching a virtually unknown saga in the history of the North.

The Kingston-based Military Communications and Electronics Museum wants to create an Internet archive of information about the Royal Canadian Signal Corps' Northwest Territories and Yukon Radio System, which operated from 1923 to 1959, said retired signaller Michael Martin.

The information will be used for a CD-ROM history of the radio system in time for next year's 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals.

Martin is calling for personal stories about the activities or daily lives of the signallers, photos and archival documents.

"There are large gaps in the information base, especially concerning the personnel who served in those remote stations," said Martin.

"Over the next six or seven months we will be posting to these pages all the relevant information that we can dredge from the museum's archives and whatever comes from our contributors."

Martin can be reached by e-mail at nwtandy@rcsigs.ca and the Web site archive can be seen at www.nwtandy.rcsigs.ca.