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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
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
