Arctic Moment: Shoulder Season
Location: Tibbitt Lake, North Slave Region
Photo by Tashina Weagle/NWTT
Features
How The North Fought Off The South
Prairie leaders wanted to annex the territories. But Yellowknife's mayor beat them at their own game.
Ted Horton, Yellowknife's newsman-turned-mayor, wasn't about to let the provinces take over the NWT. He fired up his printing press and went to battle. NWT Archives/N-1979-052-6574
A Hudson's Bay Boy Shacks Up
To please his Scottish bride, a Wrigley fur trader learns to stitch and sew
Patrick Kane
The Shepherd Of The High Arctic
A ruthless shaman leads his people to the ends of the Earth and back
A gang of Inuit boys posing for Commander Inglefield near Baffin Island. National Maritime Museum-G4266
Boozing Burgalars Botch The Job
Three fools attempt a heist of one of Yellowknife's first banks, but are too drunk
The hastily constructed banks of early Yellowknife were easy to rob. NWT Archives/N-1979-053-0079
The Trailblazers' Terrible Fate
It's the North's coldest cold case: Two centuries ago at the mouth of the Mackenzie, six bold fur traders came to grief. Did 'Eskimos' murder them? Or was it an inside job?
To 18th-century voyageurs, Inuit were mythic savages, dangerous and strange. Did they kill Duncan Livingston and his crew?
