tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18086284.post3641562264021184497..comments2023-12-05T06:43:30.070-05:00Comments on Canadian Ckayaker: Kangirsuk HBCMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632365495050691161noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18086284.post-55859087447492548432008-01-20T00:21:00.000-05:002008-01-20T00:21:00.000-05:00Hi Michael,I have been preoccupied by work and fam...Hi Michael,<BR/><BR/>I have been preoccupied by work and family lately. I let reading blogs slide, as a consequence. I just finished catching up your last week. It was great reading and viewing! Knowing Kangirsuk today and seeing the way it was just 30 odd years back is very enlightening. You are one of the few quallunat people I "know" from those years. There is only one quallunat man left working up here from those years and, if the rumours are true, this could be his last year too. Two others from the days of the Federal Day School and Provincial School's retired just this past summer. The stories I have heard from them of the ski planes were definitely enlivened by your photo and addition to the tales. Perhaps oddly, I can relate to what it must have been like to come up here and work back then. I think living in Quaqtaq for four year, experiencing the land with Inuit, and sharing in the ups and downs of the seasons - as opposed to the time clock world of the south - helps me make that connection to the stories of the past. Kuujjuaq is far removed from that world, in so many ways, for the quallunat today. I will always be grateful for the experiences I had in a small community first. Kangirsuk, despite all its social ills today, is still a place where one can make those connections too.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06140472323335715965noreply@blogger.com