Animal Crossing

Looks like there’s been a lot of fox traffic here!

All was quiet, except for boots crunching in snow and the camera shutter.

I think my favourite part of living in Inuvik is the absolute silence.

If you walk outside of town, there will be moments where you can’t hear anything except natural sounds like birds or wind.

Decorative plates of the NWT

These novelty plates are pretty common in town.

Wierd Inuvik product: “The whole chicken in a can.”

This is a pretty strange product from North Mart, which retails for $10.99.

It’s a whole chicken in a can.

It turns out, it’s exactly as advertised — it’s just a whole chicken, with bones and ribs and skin, shoehorned into a can and covered with chicken broth.

The meat was slimy but it made a good meaty soup.

Has anyone ever seen this elsewhere? Just seems like a wierd product.

NWT Power Corp building

On the shortest day of the year, (where Environment Canada doesn’t officially register one hour of sunlight for Inuvik, though this is exaggerated) here’s a toast to the NWT power corp keeping the lights on.

The best selection in town (on account’a it’s the only liquor store in town.)

Here’s the Inuvik Liquor Store on Friday at 5pm.

Nuclear fox

Foxes have appeared everywhere in the community lately. Check out those hi-beam eyes!

This one was outside my apartment building before 9am today.

A dark and mysterious hotel

Notice the Gwich’in words on the Capital Suites hotel sign. I believe it’s the name of an organization which partly owns the hotel, rather than a translation of “hotel” itself.

This is either going to be sour, or really sour

This grapefruit juice was purchased today at Arctic Foods. It’s expiration date is September 4th! That’s four months ago!

Transportation to the north is sometimes a slow process, but this is definitely a record.

Christmas fiddlin’ with the little ones

Steve Slade and Keitha Clark (both musicians travelling from the Yukon) held a fiddle workshop last week.