The Arctic Post

Life Adventures in the Canadian Arctic

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We have snow!!!

I’ve been patiently waiting for the white stuff to fall.

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A Great Day of Boating!

This morning, a friend of ours asked if we wanted to go out on his boat with his son and brother. I was totally excited and wanting to go, Etienne on the other hand, wasn’t excited at all.

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Terry Fox Chester Style…

Today, the school in Chester did the Terry Fox Run.

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Chester makes the news again….

The Kivalliq newspaper published the following article about the new Corporal in town. (Click on the image to enlarge it).

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Photo Gallery

Etienne has added a new “page” to our Blog. You can see a tab at the top of the page (next to the “Home” tab) that says “Photo Gallery”. Here he will put up pictures that we like but didn’t quite make it into a post. Check back often as he will add pictures to it frequently.

Enjoy :)

Is this what our future holds?

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The Thule People History

Today we took a Honda ride to an area just outside of town. It has a big Thule site. It was really neat to take a look around and see how the Thule people lived a thousand years ago. Below are a few excerpts from websites that I found with information regarding the Thule people. It is all so interesting.

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A first ever for me!!

While we were doing our Kayaking adventures, the teacher that was leading the activity asked me if I could send a few pictures we had taken during our time to the Kivalliq News.

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One of the reasons I love it up here….

…The amazing sunsets. We have seen some pretty impressive skies up here. The other night we drove out a few km’s from town to watch the sunset. It wasn’t the most impressive we’ve seen, but it was still pretty cool to watch.

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Out with the old!

I know I don’t write very often on the blog but I figured that I would write a little something today.

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