My Sweat Lodge Prayers
2017 Great Northern Canada Writing Contest Winners
above&beyond, Canada’s Arctic Journal, is proud to bring our readers the stories chosen as winners of the 2017...
Listening to the Silence of the Central Arctic Ocean
Throughout human history, the Central Arctic Ocean (CAO) has sat relatively undisturbed at the top of the world, protected by a perennial shield of...
Martha Flaherty
A voice for the relocated
Martha Flaherty’s landing on the beach at Grise Fiord, Nunavut, in August 2017 couldn’t have been more different than her...
Sky above, sea below
Inuit Wayfinding
To survive, any organism must explore its environment, and for thousands of years, circumpolar peoples have excelled at both.
During William Edward Parry’s...
At the Floe Edge
On a trip to Arctic Bay, Nunavut, I had the opportunity to visit the “Sinaaq” (Inuktitut for Floe Edge, where the melting ice meets...
Collecting lichens in Canada’s High Arctic
It’s 1:36 in the morning on July 16, 2017, and in the orange tent-tinged midnight sun, I’m face to face with a curious wolf,...
The Pangnirtung Weave Shop
The Inuit-owned and run Uqqurmiut Centre in Pangnirtung was built in 1991 to house the weave shop and the print shop, with a small...
Canada’s C3 Expedition Meets the Arctic
A polar bear cub and its mother lounge on sea ice off the coast of Baffin Island. A zodiac with binocular-clad passengers pulls up...
Arctic Research Our Way
Learning from one another
Igor Kolesov, an Evenki reindeer herder from Siberia, demonstrates his lasso techniques and learns how to scrape a sealskin. Mirva Haataja,...
Auyuittuq National Park
Auyuittuq means “the land that never melts” in Inuktitut, which couldn’t be more true. The Park is 19,089 square kilometres and is accessible by outfitters...