How the North’s greatest explorer escaped death at the pole
Written by
Roald Amundsen. Photo - Preus Museum/Paul Berge
This WWII ace would become a man of many firsts
Written by Tim Edwards
Lost? Never. Punch Dickins would just land, make a cup of tea and get his bearings. NWT Archives/Wop May Fonds/N-1992-213: 0188
Charles and his wife fly circles around the North
Written by Francis Tessier-Burns
The world’s most famous pilot flies into the North. Photo - Library and Archives Canada
The Yellowknife Golf Club’s strange relationship with airplanes
Written by Herb Mathisen
The original clubhouse of the Yellowknife Golf Club: the fuselage of a downed DC-3. Derek Bodington/Outcrop.
Max Ward took on the world with his airline, but it’s his time navigating the Northern wilderness he reveres most
Written by Daniel Campbell
Photo by Émilie Smith
On her 90th birthday, we look back at Queen Elizabeth’s four Northern visits
Written by Up Here
Queen Elizabeth II speaks to an Inuk woman during her 1970 visit to the NWT, and Jean Chretien (then minister of Indian and Northern Affairs) cracks a smile. Photo by Doug Griffin/Cp Images.
Grant McConachie could wheel and deal on the fly
Written by Daniel Campbell
Grant McConachie was what you might call a shrewd businessman. Photo courtesy of the Fort St. John North Peace Museum
The cold facts of flying learned on the Hudson Strait Expedition
Written by Herb Mathisen
A makeshift hangar for a Fokker Universal on the coast of the Hudson Strait. Photo - Canada Aviation and Space Museum
