Listen Up! Update, or An Embarrassment of Riches
It’s been a busy not-quite-two-months since returning from Yellowknife and the Northwest Territories Listen Up! tour. I came back home to Vancouver with (yes, [...]
Back on the Deh Cho: Fort Simpson
On another plane to head back up along the Mackenzie River to the sixth and final Listen Up stop, Fort Simpson. The only village [...]
Alpacas and Auroras: Fort Smith
Road trip! Back in Hay River, we’d been met by Summer Meyer from NACC, who had driven in from Yellowknife in the NACCmobile. Now [...]
The Big Purple School: Hay River
From Inuvik back to Yellowknife, then on to a Buffalo Airways plane waiting to whisk us to Listen Up stop #4, Hay River. Apparently, [...]
North of North: Inuvik
Stop #3 on the Listen Up tour: Inuvik. At 68.4°N latitude, we were a couple of degrees north of the Arctic Circle, and as [...]
Way Up River: Norman Wells
Our next Listen Up stop was Norman Wells. Only accessible by air for much of the year. Population ca. 800. Norman Wells is an [...]