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On being thankful for a change in plans.

Determined to follow in her great-grandfather’s flight path, a young pilot plans a stop-over in the North to get experience before returning home. But after finding opportunity and adventure piloting vintage flyers in Yellowknife, she’s now in much less of a rush.

In a land where temperatures regularly drop to 40-below, real fur products continue to keep Northerners from shivering in the cold.

Crucial to North-proofing buildings, whitewash was produced on the Slave River. But by whom?

True, most of the humble and hastily built dwellings that helped trappers and settlers get through a winter or two have crumbled. But log houses constructed with love and attention still dot the urban landscapes, as some Northerners fall for homes with a more natural feel.

Charting the history of four novel Northern houses