On the run from the KGB, a Soviet nuclear physicist takes the only job he can get—teaching junior high science in Canada’s North.
Written by Herb Mathisen
NWT ARCHIVES/YK PHOTO FONDS/N-2019-001:0662
On a storyteller’s irresistible impulse to find the moment that started it all.
Written by Herb Mathisen
Photo from NWT Archives/McMeekan Family/N-1998-008-0021
Ambitious adventurers tell us about their wildest, most wonderful northern experiences—and share the one thing they’d probably do a little differently now that they think about it.
Written by Herb Mathisen
Photo Courtesy of Jenny Wong
Joe Kitekudlak on his hand at building a big part of Ulukhaktok, NWT
Written by Herb Mathisen
Photo by KAREN KITEKDULAK
How an army of home builders could solve the North’s housing woes
Written by Herb Mathisen
Illustration by Beth Covey
The COVID-19 pandemic landed hard on the mineral exploration community in March. It left carefully laid plans for 2020 in tatters and a sense of the future entirely uncertain. Will junior miners make it to the other side intact? They just might.
Written by Herb Mathisen
PHOTO BY CATHIE ARCHBOULD
Curling was more than a game to northern miners.
Written by Herb Mathisen
PHOTO BY Up Here/John Pekelsky
When unpredictability is routine, it's the small things that bring order.
Written by Herb Mathisen
PHOTO BY UP HERE/JOHN PEKELSKY
