DCHP-3

N.S.O.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a federal government officer in charge of a district in the Far North.

Quotations

1958
NSOs are the senior field representatives of the department of northern affairs. They are stationed at several points in the Arctic, and their main job is to act as neighbors and friends to the Eskimos, to help them adjust to the changing way of life in which they find themselves involved as the frontiers are pushed back.