Life at 76°N: Inside Canada's Arctic Outposts
Canada's Arctic Archipelago is the largest on Earth, and it holds civilian communities at latitudes no other country can match. This episode explores two radically different models of Canadian presence on Ellesmere Island: Grise Fiord (Ausuittuq), an Inuit hamlet of 144 people with no roads, one airstrip, and a single sealift a year — and CFS Alert, the northernmost permanently inhabited place on Earth, staffed entirely by rotating military and government personnel. We trace the 1953–55 High Arctic relocation, when Inuit families were moved roughly 2,000 kilometres north and told they could…
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