Surveying the post-Rob-Shaft horizon
Written by Herb Mathisen
"If I have to, I'll run for mayor and I'll save this damn headframe." - Walt Humphries, prospector and local historian.
Some say the shimmering Northern Lights dance through the sky. The Inuit say they play ball.
Written by Tim Edwards
The aurora shimmer over Pangnirtung, Nunavut in winter. www.michaelhdavies.com
For eons, dreamers and schemers have imagined a polar utopia – a Shangri-La as pure as the driven snow. But for every promised land they’ve envisaged, the cruel north wind has blown their plans apart.
Written by Tristin Hopper
What could have been. Image by Fantasy Art Design
What would you do for a chance to play for the Stanley Cup?
Written by Herb Mathisen
A little bit of the North, inscribed on the cup. Photo: Hockey Hall of Fame
A look back at the wildest 20 minutes in Yellowknife hockey history
Written by Herb Mathisen
The agony of defeat--shellshocked Molson's players drink bubbly from a gallon pail. Photo courtesy Ron Sulz
Whalers at a 19th century Arctic outpost keep (relatively) sane with America’s pastime
Written by Daniel Campbell
Whaling crews in the 1890s played an extreme version of baseball on the winter sea ice around Herschel Island, off the coast of the Yukon. The local Inuit were their biggest—and rowdiest—fans. Image from National Baseball Hall of Fame, BL-2540.93
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?
Written by Randy Freeman
To 18th-century voyageurs, Inuit were mythic savages, dangerous and strange. Did they kill Duncan Livingston and his crew?
On an icy October morning, two Igloolik hunters set out in their boat, looking for walruses. What happened next was part horror story, part miracle: One of the most difficult - and ultimately deadly - life-saving efforts in Arctic history.
Written by Katherine Laidlaw
The inland sea of Nu-thel-tin-tu-eh had long been a place of legend. One man was dying to find it.
Written by Conor Mihell
Prentice G. Downes, intellectual and adventurer, was in love with the romance of the 'Old North.' His passion for the place very nearly got him killed. Photo courtesy McGahern Stewart Publishing
How an ingenious hunting practice let the Tłįchǫ survive in the harsh North
Written by Daniel Campbell
Once the herd was spotted, the men would make wolf sounds to scare the caribou into the corral. Women and children would line the fence to keep the caribou headed towards the ambush point, where a team of men would be ready with spears and arrows to slaughter them. Illustration by Beth Covvey
