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Michell Pierce was a geologist who worked in the Coppermine River area in the late 1920s and early 1930s. After service in World War I, he joined the Hudson’s Bay Company and was sent to Coronation Gulf to establish Tree River and other Hudson’s Bay posts. Before going to the Arctic, Pierce met with UBC Dean Brock and M.Y. Williams about collecting items for UBC (for the UBC Geological Museum). Pierce collected sets of Copper Inuit clothing and implements, however, the first collection he assembled was lost when the boat carrying it was caught in the ice, so he had to assemble a second collection. Pierce later tried to find work in Siberia, then went to Central America, the West Indies, and Colombia, eventually settling in Brewster, New York.