Features
The State of the Hunt
Most years the porcupine caribou cross the Dempster. When they do, there's a harvest. Is this a healthy continuation of the old ways, or hi-tech slaughter?
Butchering is a family event on the river banks, with children playing, watching and learning. Photo Peter Mather
We’re Closer Than You Think
Seven Northern mining exploration projects that aren’t so high-maintenance.
Rush to Die on the Chilkoot Trail
They'd already risked it all to get this far. The red flags of an avalanche wouldn't stop them.
Bringing out the dead: hauling bodies by sled from the summit of the pass, April 3, 1898. Yukon Archives, Anton Vogee Fonds, #71
Hidden Among Us
The North has always been a refuge for misfits – a place of dark pasts and secret lives, a hideout for men on the run. For ages, they’ve fled to our hinterlands, taking on new names and new personas.
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The Hungriest Holiday
During a grim yuletide on Great Slave Lake, a team of starving explorers yearn for the gift of survival
In a drawing by explorer George Back, a band of British adventurers bunk down in the wintery north woods. Institute for Northern Studies Fonds, University of Saskatchewan Archives
Making The High Road
There's a highway being built to the Arctic Ocean. Finally, the national dream of 'coast to coast to coast' is coming true. The people making it happen? They're our Northerners of the Year.
Pingos dot the landscape along the road winding south out of Tuktoyaktuk. Ryan Yakeleya, an E. Gruben's employee, drives a grader toward the Tuk-Inuvik highway worksite. Photo by Angela Gzowski
