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Tuk and the Dempster

35 images Created 28 May 2017

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  • The ice road to Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories connected the town on the edge of the Arctic Ocean to the main highway system only in winter. It is now linked by an all-weather road.
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  • A man fills up his snowmobile at a gas station in Tuktoyaktuk.
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  • Tuktoyaktuk is the most northern settlement in Canada that is road accessible, but only in winter when the Mackenzie River is frozen.
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  • Drummers perform during the Inuvik Muskrat Jamboree. Communities in the Mackenzie Delta all hold celebrations when longer daylight hours return, heralding the impending onset of spring weather.
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  • Trees along the Dempster Highway, the only road connecting the Mackenzie Delta to the outside.
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  • A building is shovelled out in Tuktoyaktuk.
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  • Reindeer cross near the Tuktoyaktuk ice road to get to their spring calving grounds on the Mackenzie Delta.
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  • The herd of about 2,000 reindeer was brought from Scandinavia to the Mackenzie Delta many years ago.
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  • Inuvaluit herders on snowmobiles direct the reindeer towards their spring calving grounds.
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  • A woman dressed in traditional Inuvialuit outerwear watches the reindeer crossing north of Inuvik.
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  • Snowmobiles jump off the starting line during the Inuvik Muskrat Jamboree snowmobile races.
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  • The Dempster Highway stretches winds through the Richardson Mountains near the NWT/Yukon border.
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  • Fuel trucks drive on the Tuktoyaktuk ice road. With the completion on an all-season road, fuel and food in the community will be easier to transport in.
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  • A trucker waits for the Dempster Highway to open up north past Eagle Plains, the road's only truck stop. Blizzards and accidents can leave the highway closed for days.
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  • Inuvialuit drummers perform during the Inuvik Muskrat Jamboree's opening ceremony.
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  • Children play on snowbanks near the Muskrat Jamboree's river site.
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  • A snowmobile is parked at the Muskrat Jamboree festival site.
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  • The snowmobile races during the jamboree draw big crowds, and the winners pot is in the thousands of dollars.
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  • The Muskrat Jamboree holds community games such as log sawing, tea boiling, and snowshoe races.
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  • A team falls over during the plank walk.
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  • Trees spread out along the side of the Dempster Highway near Eagle Plains. Despite a harsh climate and permafrost, short, scrawny trees still grow.
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  • Ships line the riverbank in Inuvik. When the ice road melts away, ship traffic starts up again.
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  • A limo drives down the ice road in Inuvik
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  • Danny Gordon holds a pair of muskrat tails twisted together to hang and dry. Danny, an 81-year-old Aklavik resident still gets out on the land to hunt every summer.
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  • Annie Gordon laughs inside her home in Aklavik. Her and Danny sell handcrafts, pelts, and clothing out of their home.
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  • Danny makes caribou antler snow goggles, just like the ones he used as a kid to help ward off snow blindness while hunting.
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  • Snowshoe races during the Inuvik Muskrat Jamboree are held with traditional snowshoes only – no aluminum allowed.
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  • The Our Lady of Victory Catholic church in Inuvik was built to resemble an igloo.
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  • Building are seen covered in snow in Tuktoyaktuk.
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  • A pingo rises outside of Tuktoyuktuk.
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  • The moon rises over the Mackenzie Delta.
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  • The Richardson Mountains form the border between the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, and are often impassible on the Dempster Highway due to high winds and whiteout conditions.
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  • A truck climbs the pass into the Richardson Mountains.
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  • The snowmobile races take advantage of the later sunsets – even in April the sun goes down around 11 pm.
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  • The Tuktoyaktuk ice road stretches down the Mackenzie Delta.
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