It’s known as Tinde’e, Tucho and Tu Nedhé. Settlers named it Great Slave Lake. It’s the deepest lake in North America and the second-largest (after Great Bear Lake) within Canada’s borders. For the people living here these waters are indescribable.
Photo By Pat Kane
Transporting a juvenile humpback whale sculpture made out of salvaged ocean plastics to the Yukon is a delicate operation, even without a global pandemic going on.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KANINA HOLMES
Abraham Okpik helped give an identity to a generation of Inuit.
PHOTO COURTESY CHARLES GIMPEL/ LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA / R10187-924-2-E ABE OKPIK AT HOME, FROBISHER BAY, NWT, [NOW IQALUIT, NUNAVUT]
Twenty minutes north of Whitehorse, the close-knit staff of this family-run enterprise is quite literally finding new ways to grow during a period of profound contraction.
PHOTO BY KANINA HOLMES
As the world’s largest uninhabited island, Devon Island’s unique landscape offers insight into life on other planets.
PHOTO COURTESY OF HOUGHTON-MARS STATION
There’s still a lot of mystery and intrigue about the time Cosmos 954 crashed into the Northwest Territories.
ILLUSTRATION COURTESY NICK MACINTOSH
Dene constellations show a new way of understanding our relationship with the world.
ILLUSTRATION COURTESY MARECA GUTHRIE
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