Come See us: Arctic Bay in Canada’s High Arctic

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  • One Year On…

    Today marks the one year anniversary of the murders of Brock Myrol, Leo Johnston, Peter Schiemann and Anthony Gordon, four members securing a crime scene near Mayerthorpe Alberta.  If you ever wanted to know how a member feels about the death of a colleague, friend, fellow member, I can think of no words more eloquent…

  • Now, where’s that lottery kiosk?

    I feel like a lucky man today. Oh I know, I am a lucky man, I have a great wife, two great kids, health and on and on.  But I’m talking about throw the dice kind of luck.  Two examples. Number one.  I was on the Mitre saw, working on a bench for the front…

  • The Sky this morning

    This is what my walk to work looked like this morning.  Unseasonably warm, it is only -2 C.  Time to break out the barbeque.As an added bonus here are three pictures of the House, taken today in the sun.

  • 75 Degrees South Northbound

    From pretty early on in this adventure one of my favourite blogs to visit has been Simon’s 75 degree South. Simon has spent the last couple of years living and working at Halley V, a British Antarctic Service research base in Antarctica. Antarctica is an incredibly austere, incredibly beautiful land. One that I was lucky…

  • House Hare podcast

    Here is a short, 15 second, Quicktime movie of the House Hare in lea of the house in today’s mini-blizzard. I actually went out to film some Ravens playing in the wind, but of course they disappeared by the time I freed myself. So here is our resident Arctic Hare.

  • Red Fox

    Last Sunday I took part in the Great Backyard Bird Count here in Arctic Bay.  I birded by truck (what can I say, I’ve got a BIG backyard, it was COLD, and I had Leah, Travis and Hilary with me). The results were pretty predictable for me, I didn’t add any species to my 2006…

  • Friday Construction Post – On Windows and whatnot

    Did I mention I no longer like surprises?  You would think that at this stage of the game we’d have run our course of them, but no. Three weeks ago we brought in the final interior window.  Now I believe that I’ve mentioned it before but there are five interior windows in the house. One…

  • I and The Bird #17.

    I’m a couple days late in posting this, but the latest I and the Bird is up over at WildBird on the Fly. Time to take in the first annual I and the Bird birding festival. Well worth the trip over.

  • Photocopy Boy

    When Kevin first arrived at La Ronge Detachment it was impossible to get information at a call. One of those people who was larger than life, he was also larger than the rest of us. Kevin stood 6 foot 7, and just after graduation at Depot, weighed 285 lbs. Walking into a call would go…

  • New Baby. New Amautiq

    I’ve been meaning to write about Amautiqs, the inuit woman’s parka, for sometime now. Really I was waiting for better pictures to post, but getting a picture of Leah is akin to getting one of the Loch Ness Monster, although I am sure that Leah exists. The amautiq is a marvel, capable of holding a…