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
![HOMUNCULUS. BY FRANZ XAVER SIMM (1853-1918) [PUBLIC DOMAIN], VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS](/sites/default/files/styles/card_desktop/public/census_0.jpg?h=215a277b&itok=URIqVeuN)
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
