Canada's booth at the IPY Conference in Oslo. Credit: Mark Terry. CanadianGeographic.ca
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This 340-year-old bow was reconstructed from several fragments found near melted patches of ice in the Mackenzie Mountains in the Northwest Territories. (Tom Andrews)
Melting ice pockets high in Canada’s Arctic mountains are slowly revealing the habits of caribou hunters over thousands of years as they moved from attacking with spears to bows and arrows — and even set traps to snare smaller snacks while they waited for their main prey.
Since 2005, archeologist Tom Andrews and colleagues have been piecing together how hunters in the area adapted over many generations, studying bits of tools grabbed from melting snowy patches in the remote Mackenzie Mountains in western Northwest Territories along the Yukon boundary.
Mountain boreal caribou have long sought refuge on the cooling patches, escaping annoying bugs and warmer temperatures over the summer months. Over generations, humans learned to hunt them there and have left tools buried deep beneath years and years of winter snow.
Now, said Andrews, the ice patches are slowly receding each year, likely due to global warming, revealing perfectly preserved relics of the past. (more…)
Another great Arctic news resource is George Lessard, a journalist based in Yellowknife, Canada. He works like a real broadcasting company. He is everywhere on the Internet, on Yahoo!, Google, Flickr, YouTube & many other sites. His main website is MediaMentor.ca. Recommend to follow him on his Twitter channels @Northern_Clips & @mediamentor… It was George, who shared the link to the below personal story.
Sault Ste. Marie resident, Ryan Paquette shares his experiences from the far north.
Downtown Resolute Bay
I am writing from the far reaches of the Canadian North, from a place called Resolute Bay, on Cornwallis Island, in Nunavut.
It is also known by its Inuktitut name, Qausuittuq (pronounced “cow-swee-took”), which means “place with no dawn”. The Inuit name is appropriate because this arctic community, with a population of just over 200, gets over two months of 24-hour darkness in the winter, and an equal amount of 24-hour daylight in the summer. (more…)
Story courtesy of CBC:
A wildlife photographer who planned to spend the winter living in a remote trailer in the wilderness of northeastern B.C. narrowly escaped starving to death after he failed to pack enough provisions.
Hudson’s Hope RCMP say the 42-year-old man was trapped for more than two weeks without food in the Carbon Creek area near Williston Lake.
Police and rescue volunteers found the hungry man on Feb. 1, about 36 km from the W.A.C Bennett Dam, according to Hudson’s Hope RCMP Cpl. Darel Woroshelo.
‘He’d been without food for, I believe, 17 days.’—RCMP Cpl. Darel Woroshelo
“He’d misjudged the amount of provisions he’d need to make it through the winter. He’d been without food for, I believe, 17 days,” said Woroshelo.
Driven by hunger, the unidentified man attempted to snowshoe out by himself along the rough roads he used to get the trailer in during the summer.
“He made it several kilometers, but then was just too weak and he couldn’t continue and made it back to his trailer,” said Woroshelo.
Unable to escape the icy wilderness, the man lived on water melted from snow until he was finally able to signal his distress to a passing helicopter, which left him some food, and notified Hudson’s Hope RCMP.
“He did have a good supply of heat and water, which I’m sure is what kept him alive for those 17 days,” said Woroshelo.
Once notified of his plight, the RCMP and some volunteers launched a rescue mission by snowmobile to bring him out.
“He seemed to be in good spirits and, of course, he was happy to see them,” said Woroshelo.
But once back in town the man refused medical treatment and asked to be taken to a local restaurant and then a motel instead.
“He was going to get some food, and warm up and re-nourish,” he said.
The man plans to stock up on food and head back into the wilderness for the rest of the winter. But in the meantime the man has asked for privacy, and declined to speak with CBC News.
Yeah, I love beer, but it wasn’t the reason of republishing this video. That’s awesome snowy, cold, wild landscapes of Canada!
Photo: Ronald Menti - Flickr Source
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By Douglas Wilkinson, 1949, 10 min 32 s
A classic short film that shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife.
P.S. The link was shared by Yulia Dyndikova via Facebook.
Continue traveling in the world of winter.
Further find the slideshow with 88 photos of Canada’s snowy landscapes. (more…)
Edmonton, Canada. 15-16 December 2009.
That’s what I see in my backyard in Cariboo Region, British Columbia, Canada.
The snow will stay on the ground until April, then it will get warm quite suddenly and everything will thaw and melt. And then my basement will flood. (more…)
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