In 1960, Rosemary got an opportunity to enjoy a longer time in the north taking lots of photos and creating stories that would provide future saleable material, from the Arctic Char fishery being set up in Killinek, by Northern Affairs, to Cape Dorset where Jim and Alma Houston had invited her to record their work with Inuit artists setting up the now famous native print making industry. Reporter Barbara Hinds was her companion on this trip and they had a great time in the planning, soliciting assistance, gathering equipment and generally preparing for their big adventure. During the three months spent in the north they would be camping and responsible for their own needs, to say nothing of the load of photographic equipment that would be required.

In Iqaluit they arranged with some Inuit hunters to take them out with them to hunt seal and bear on Frobisher Bay but got more than they bargained for when caught in a storm and almost drowned. At Cape Dorset they were well received and got to know many of the artists and craftspeople. In her element, Rosemary took hundreds of photographs and made copious notes. Many of these are available in the Rosemary Gilliat Eaton fonds at the National Archives and give wonderful, observant and never-to-be-repeated accounts of the times, places and circumstances. Some of the artists she photographed, like Kenojuak, were to become some of the most famous. After three months of absorbing as much as she possibly could of the Inuit experience she returned via Pangnirtung on the last voyage of the Hudson Bay Company supply ship 'Rupertsland'.