QUEBEC — The government of Canada on Saturday apologized to the Inuit of northern Quebec for the mass killing of sled dogs in the 1950s and 1960s, which devastated communities by depriving them of the ...
For centuries, the Inuit or indigenous peoples of Arctic regions like Greenland, Canada, and Alaska, relied on sleds, often pulled by dogs like huskies, to haul heavy loads across vast, frozen terrain ...
Rex Holwell has spent his life on the sea ice that forms each winter off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador in eastern Canada. Like other Inuit, he learned to hunt seals and fish from his father ...
Her sled moves out easily, past a team of huskies curled in the snow, past the boats beached on the frozen shore, over the tundra and onto the sea ice. The sled crashes onto a slab of ice, jolting two ...
It gives new meaning to dog years. Various types of sled dogs have been used by humans across the Arctic for almost 10,000 years, but new research reveals one particular type to be the oldest ...
NAIN, Newfoundland (Reuters) - Rex Holwell has spent his life on the sea ice that forms each winter off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador in eastern Canada. Like other Inuit, he learned to hunt ...