Snow was an accepted fact of life in Lake Harbour and didn't seem to present any great problems for the Post. In late winter it was necessary to remove excess snow from buildings and ships and it was banked against buildings for increased insulation in the early winter. Snow increased access to the interior and permitted travel between posts. Most of the snow fell after December and stopped by the end of April.
These 11 journal entries, surprisingly few, specifically deal with snow.
Sea and freshwater ice entries appear limited to periods
during freeze-up and thaw.
| 01-11-20 | S.J. Stewart, M.L. Manning and W.J. Peters visited their trap lines this morning and although good signs of foxes were to be seen none were got in the traps owing to most of them being covered by the recent fall of snow. |
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| 08-01-21 | S.J. Stewart, J. Cantley at work in the office. M.L. Manning and W.J. Peters after rationing Mess and servant's wives, cleaning up stores etc. set off to visit their traps up the lakes but found nothing but snow in their traps. |
| 07-02-21 | Narluktuk and Jamassie cleaning snow off Nannuk and getting water and firewood. |
| 09-02-21 | W.J. Peters and M. Leo Manning at office work in morning and cleaning roof of snow in the afternoon. |
| 04-04-21 | Jas. Palliser, Mattheusie, Sargieuktuk and Jamassie taking snow from the sides of the house, as spring is in the air. |
| 05-04-21 | James Palliser, Jamassie and Narlucktuk and Kipernik cleaning snow off the roofs of the stores. |
| 18-04-21 | Jamassie clearing snow off veranda and at Seal Nets. |
| 25-04-21 | Jas. Palliser and the Post Inuit employed clearing away snow, which fell last evening, from the doors of the house etc. |
| 28-04-21 | Jas. Palliser and the Inuit on Post clearing away snow from the House and Stores. |
| 02-05-21 | Jamassie, Kipernik and Sandy clearing snow from front of stores. |