 The ship was based at Quebec City, Quebec and saw service in the St. Lawrence River and Gulf of St. Lawrence.In 1953, on the icebreaker's first Arctic voyage, "D'Iberville" helped establish the Royal Canadian Mounted Police post at Alexandria Fjord on Ellesmere Island.That year, "D'Iberville" and the Arctic patrol vessel participated in the controversial forced resettlement of Inuit families from Port Harrison in Northern Quebec to Ellesmere Island.