Ken Weaver remembers a time when he and his seven siblings would come home after school and get to work at his parent’s store. They would bag groceries, stock shelves, clean coolers and generally tidy the store. In the evenings his youngest sister could be found curled up with a blanket in a cozy corner of the store. When Yellowknife’s first general store opened its doors in 1936, its owners Harry Weaver and Ellis “Bud” Devore, had no way of knowing that it would sustain four generation of family.

Canada looked North on Feb 8th as Scotia Bank’s “Hockey Day in Canada” celebrated its 20th iteration in Yellowknife and points further North. (Délı̨nę is the location of the first recorded ice hockey game in North America.)

You will be hard pressed to miss any of the 388 NWT athletes at the 50th Arctic Winter Games.  Their new stand-out uniforms show off not only bold colours but an in-demand fur trimmed hood.

Watching kids in Tuktoyaktuk gobble up peas from their community greenhouse while the summer snow fell was something Ray Solotki will never forget. She is the Executive Director of the Inuvik Community Greenhouse and over the last five growing seasons, has spent her time with her hands in the dirt across the Beaufort Delta Region.