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23 Aug 2019 | Arctic History

Arctic Peoples: History of the Dorset and Thule Peoples

Arctic Kingdom Inuit in traditional Clothing DSC 9004 1

Ever wondered how the ancestors of the Inuit came to the Canadian Arctic? Did you know there were people there already, the Dorset civilization, that would mysteriously disappear around 1500 A.D.? Like the plot from a movie, it’s believed that the Thule civilization may have expanded east with rumours of steel from trade with Vikings! […]

16 Aug 2019 | Arctic History

Baffin Island: The Vikings’ First Stop to the New World

I. E. C. Rasmussen Sommernat under den Grønlandske Kyst circa Aar 1000

Many people now recognize that Vikings were the first Europeans to reach the new world but did you know that it was Baffin Island that they first saw as they left Greenland. Some even know the story of Leif Erikson, but he wasn’t the first to set eyes on the Americas. He was retracing the […]

30 Oct 2018 | Arctic History

The Mystery of the Northwest Passage: Past and Present Explorers

The Northwest Passage is one of Canada’s most exciting chapters of discovery, history and exploration. The Northwest Passage is a sea corridor connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Canada’s Arctic Archipelago islands and along the northern-most coast of North America. Europeans searched for 300 years to find a viable sea trade-route to Asia. Names of adventurers, like Henry Hudson and Sir John Franklin, are etched into […]