Arctic Journey

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Canadian Teachers Breaking the Ice

• Arctic Journey
• aboard the
• Sir Wilfrid Laurier
• August 2006

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At last! Off to the Arctic!
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First Stop! Kugluktuk
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Getting to the Ship!
Flight to ship via Helicopter
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
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Coronation Gulf and Bathurst Inlet
A wet and windy day!
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Jimmy Hikok Ilihakvik (Kugluktuk Elementary
School)
School Banner
Inuktitut Alphabet
Principal and Kg Teacher
Inuktitut Teacher
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Next Stop Umingmaktok
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Traditional village, Umingmaktok
Drying char!
Snow sleds
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Sunset over the Arctic
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Arctic Animals
Musk Oxen
Caribou
Arctic Lemming
Siksik
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Polar Bears!!!!
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Next stop Cambridge Bay
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Cambridge Bay ElementarySchool
Kullik (lamp) Ilihakvik (place of learning)
Library
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Cambridge Bay
Old Town church
Main Street
Deck décor! Caribou antlers
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Quartermaster steering the boat!
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Ralph, the Ice Specialist
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ET in the ice!
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Arctic Birds!
Young Peregrine Falcon
Baby Tern
Duckling
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Love those helicopter rides!
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The helicopter hangar
All ready for an emergency!
Tools of the Trade?
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Ships Tour
How SLOW can you go??
Always Eating!
Always cooking!
Bake those buns!
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The Ship at work
Tim, the winch man!
Buoy anchors!
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Keeping the boat afloat!
Thats one big wrench!
Billy the Electrician, crossing wires!!!
Gary, Senior Engineer, calling the bridge!
Whats Don incinerating now?
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More, keeping the boat afloat!
Is this the right way?
I love radar!
Cap Hull in his seat!
Chief in his seat!
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Building beacons and dropping buoys.
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All those ranges!
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Shore trip to King William Island
I cant get up here but Paula can!
One lonely Inukshuk
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Wildflowers, Berries Lichen
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Next Stop Gjoa Haven
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Quqshuun Ilihakvik
Front of School
Grade 2 Students
Drum Dance
Mural
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Gjoa Haven
A happy class!
Back onboard-up Jacobs ladder!
A ride with Pat!
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Visiting the Bremen(a German Cruise Ship)
The Bridge
Bremen at anchor!
Is that a swimming pool?
Wheres the helicopter?
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Next Stop! Taloyoak
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Netsilik Ilihavik
Mary, a traditional Inuit!
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Life on the Laurier!
Rich, on line!
Boatswain retiring on the aft deck!
Graeme, in the electrical closet!
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Cruising the Arctic coastlines -love those rides!
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Last Stop Back to Cambridge Bay
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Goodbye and thank you

• I have enjoyed every minute and appreciate you
  making me feel so much at home.
• Thank you for sharing your pictures, music,
  videos, ship and friendship.