How brushing up on your deutsch lessons might help you get by in Northern Labrador
Written by Daniel Campbell
A Moravian missionary meets with Inuit in the mid-1700s outside of Nain, Labrador. Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1986-35-1
Canada's post-WWII military drives across its Arctic. It probably won't try that again.
Written by Daniel Campbell
An "Penguin" snowmobile/tank falls through the ice. NWT Archives/Henry Busse/N-1979-052-2141
Greenland's former prime minister Aleqa Hammond is the loudest, most insistent voice calling for Greeland's independence.
Written by Samia Madwar
Aleqa Hammond, former prime minister of Greenland. Photo by Ellen Emmerntze Jervell/The Wall Street Journal
A hockey player reflects on his short—but triumphant—stint with one of Yellowknife's old mining company teams.
Written by Herb Mathisen
A hockey player reflects on his short—but triumphant—stint with one of Yellowknife's old mining company teams.
Caught between global powers, Canada's North in wartime was a place of incredible feats, ravaging disease and irreversible change.
Written by Tim Edwards
Alaska Highway, 1942. The first vehicle to traverse the Alaska Highway was a U.S. Army jeep. Library Oof Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSH/OWI Collection, LC-USW 33-000941-ZC
How Norway and Nunavut give indigenous people a say in the justice system
Written by Samia Madwar
This carving, of Judge J.H. Sissons’ first trial in the NWT, depicts an early interaction between Canada’s legal system and the Inuit. An Inuk, Kaotok, stands before Sissons to answer a charge that he murdered his father on the sea ice. Part of the Sissons/Morrow Collection. © Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories
Without luck, determination and Darrel Nasogaluak, the Mackenzie Delta Inuvialuit may have lost their qajaq forever.
Written by Daniel Campbell
Photo by Nathalie Heiberg-Harrison
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Tips to help the NWT cash in on transfer payments.
Written by Herb Mathisen
HOMUNCULUS. BY FRANZ XAVER SIMM (1853-1918) [PUBLIC DOMAIN], VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
She hauled radioactive ore, nearly blew up on Great Slave Lake, and changed shipping in the North forever.
Written by Daniel Campbell
The captain of the Radium King with passengers in Yellowknife in 1954. Credit: NWT Archives, Henry Busse fonds, N-1979-052: 0611
