My blog title means Hello in Inuvialuktun. This week was pretty busy at work...next week the Beaufort Sea Partnership meeting is happening, which means 50 people are coming to Inuvik from all over Canada to talk about the Beaufort Sea Integrated Management Plan. Wildly busy work week.
The highlight of my week was Aklavik. Aklavik is another one of the six Inuvailuit Settlement Region communities that I am travelling to for the community consultations. It is in the delta, and not on the Beaufort coast, which means it has winter ice road access. So we drove the hour to Aklavik on the ice road, and drew nearer and nearer to the Richardson Mountain range, of which you can see in the second photo above. The first photo was taken 'downtown' Aklavik. Have you heard of Albert Johnson? He's otherwise known as the 'Mad Trapper' and of course is famous up here and especially in Aklavik where he was eventually caught, killed, and buried in the cemetery that is just behind the sign in the first photo.
Funny thing, I'm off to the Mad Trapper tonight...the bar in town here owes its name to Albert Johnson, the crazy fugitive whom killed two mounties, and to whom no one knows the ancestry of.
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That's quite the story! Do you remember the song "The Cat Came Back"? Well, in case you don't, it goes like this: "Old Mister Johnson had troubles of his own, he had a yellow cat that wouldn't leave his home... One yellow cat how hard could it be, how hard could it be?... And the cat came back the very next day, the cat came back - they thought he was a goner - but the cat came back, he just couldn't stay away." It's pretty funny. Anyway, just thought I'd share that. Maybe it was about Albert the mad trapper-fugitive!... e
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