Photograph by Ilja Herb
“My Doomed Voyage” (July/August 2006)
Holidaying on a Russian freighter
by Helen Humphreys
Photography by RDM Studios
“The Hunter Who Happens to Make Movies” (May 2006)
The art of Zacharias Kunuk
by Denis Seguin
“Mush Rush” (April 2006)
Mushrooms in Canada
by Lawrence Millman
Photography by Darlyne A. Murawski
“At the Floe Edge” (September 2005)
On the hunt in Igloolik with Zacharias Kunuk
by Denis Seguin
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Arctic Facts, Figures and Archives
An excerpt from a miscellany of the Canadian North. The full set appears in the print edition of the November 2007 issue.
4 million people in eight countries live in or close to the Arctic. At 130,000, Canada’s Arctic population is the second smallest of any Arctic nation (only Denmark’s, in Greenland and the Faroe Islands, is smaller). Russia’s is the largest at almost 2 million, and Alaska is home to 670,000.
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Camp Nowhere
| MARCH 2006
—Somewhere in the Middle East, sparkling in the desert sun, is a piece of Canada no one can really explain. It is a single plastic tiara,
| MARCH 2006
—Somewhere in the Middle East, sparkling in the desert sun, is a piece of Canada no one can really explain. It is a single plastic tiara,
