Canada Research Chair in the Study of the Canadian North Postdoctoral Fellow, School for the Study of Canada, Trent University And these problems have historical roots. Canada has been running federal ...

Inuit usually built their winter villages on sea ice in order to be as close as possible to their food sources—fish, seals, and whales. They looked for areas on the ice that provided some buffer ...

When building materials are hard to come by, you make do with what you have! We’re discovering how one of the coldest materials can help you stay warm at the top of the world. * The “igloo” -- the ...

The Aleut and Inuit have many names for snow; to one whose world is made up of snow, it is important to distinguish between the various forms. The best types of snow to use for building an igloo are ...

Unlike the leader of the doomed Franklin expedition, Roald Amundsen delighted in getting to know and learning from the Inuit.

Ask almost any experienced igloo builder and he'll tell you that igloo construction is something everyone can learn to do. Indeed, during his two years studying arctic survival skills from the ...