Canada's greatest lake; 50 years on - the story of the Dene Nation; and northern arts after the apocalypse. Our arts issue decodes Dene music, highlights Indigenous names in the stars, and records a summer of switching from hosting northern visitors to growing food.

Women leaders in the North, the rise of midwives, a dedicated nurse practitioner, looking back at Nanisivik, Aufeis, hiking the Akshayuk Pass in Auyuittuq National Park.

Canada's Last Great Wilderness: Hiking among grizzlies,  skiing northern landscapes, 14 wilderness parks, the Trans Canada Trail, and visit the North Pole before it disappears.

Northerner of the Year: Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada. when the Cold War came to Yellowknife, An Inuk youth keeps feet in two worlds.

The art issue features northern murals, world class carvers; the Ruben brothers, a resurgence of hide tanning, high fashion from Canada's North and the North's recording labels.

Sandy beaches in the Arctic,  Kugluktuk's honourary Inuk, Farmer's Markets, and diving under Arctic Ice, are just some of this summer issue highlights. Also, read about roaming the North on two wheels, and training an adventure pup. 

Northern living challenges, commercial fishing on Great Slave Lake, food from the wilderness, and a mother moose protects her young.

Canadian Arctic Sovereignty, plus Northern Scrabble, the best mitts for the cold, how Nunavut residents coped with lack of water in Iqaluit, and a science feature on foxes. Whatever happened to Pine Point?


Special Northern Travel and Adventure issue - Arctic Dream Trips,  Northern snow and Arctic ferry captains, headline this issue.  Northern luxury travel and Inuktitut baseball are featured. Also,  the story of a summer storm and a gold strike that must have made Yellowknife  prosperity possible.

Our Northerners of the Year issue delves into Canada's largest prize, the Arctic Inspiration Prize. Germaine Arnaktauyok, master artist, is profiled, and a roundup of musicians from the North, past and present.

Up Here's housing issue: From tiny homes to log homes to dream homes, we've got you covered. Also six fixes for our northern housing problems.  Plus historical landings, and pesky weasels.

Travel through northern time, exploring events and people for across three Canadian territories.  Also a northern plant guide for visitors, farewell  to Thomas Berger. Opinion: Treaty 11: was it a true treaty or legalized thievery?

The Internet is critical  to northern life - from home and school to plans for global  satellite links. Meet some social media stars, and look at some undersea plans for closer ties to the rest of the world.

Education is featured. From the North's new university to the challenges of teaching in a small remote community, to northern scientific research, Up Here covers the field. Bonus profile of James Raffan, a northern expert who maintains hope for the people and the climate he's grown to know.  New ventures in Arctic food production.

Northern travel and adventure issue featuring great ideas from northern tour guides, favorite paddling rivers of the Canadian North rated for difficulty, mountains to climb,  a first glimpse of the Nahanni, and lots more.

Winners of the Up Here Northerner of the Year 2020 - the people who got the COVID message out across the North. We rate the toughest animals in the North, with surprising results. We track the origin of eskers, those sinuous landforms on the barrenlands, and we learn how to throat sing in a face mask.

Our summer special highlights what to do and where to stay across Canada's North. See where Northern residents would choose to go for a Staycation, or to get married, then catch up on the impact of COVID 19 in the North, and see how northern artists interpret soccer, the beautiful game.  Includes a Bonus northern bird guide describing unusual summer visitors from all over the world.

Puppets, lichens and wolverines, join sled dogs and university students in our annual Up Here reader photo contest issue.

Our northern travel special features visits to three unique communities, tries out ultra luxury travel, and ice fishing with an expert. There's outdoor adventure for women, and the excitement of fat biking below zero. Visit with Yellowknife's Snowking, and join the debate about where Canadian ice hockey originated. Then travel to historic Carcross, Yukon where the gold rush era Carcross Hotel is rising once more.

Up Here's Northerner of the Year is Vuntut Gwichin Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm, who is working to protect the lands of his ancestors, in Old Crow, Yukon, and Alaska. We also feature new Nunavut parks, how to photograph the aurora, and the tale of the NWT Legislative Assembly's missing polar bear hide.

The arts issue celebrates rising stars in a variety of media. There's fibre art and film and television and a quick look at some of our young recording stars. There's public art too, across the Arctic. Join a workshop and learn how to spin qiviut in Iqaluit. In Pangnirtung an Inuit sci-fi feature film takes shape. We also provide a glimpse of the latest in northern souvenirs.

Up Here's 35th anniversary issue. The last 35 years in Canada's North in review. Plus, growing apples in the Yukon, a hot young northern NHL draft choice, and the future of NWT's  consensus government. We explore Inuit legends designed to keep kids safe.

Research - where they go and what they're looking for is featured in this issue of Up Here.  From whale snot to red squirrels, Canada's new Arctic research station, to the familiar smell of KFC, scientific researchers are combing the north for essential clues this summer.  We also cover community research, a tale of a red boat, the sudden appearance of ice age fossils, and Iqaluit's newest hotspot, a brewpub.  

Canada's North is getting smaller. Not just coastal erosion, but increased infrastructure brings the distant north and northerners much closer. But "northerness" lives on - we still care about one another, we are adaptable, inventive and dependable survivors of all manner of delays, accidents and weather. And we continue to harbour the odd mosquito, too. Join us at a land camp for northern kids,  and in the Belcher Islands, reclaiming traditional basketry.

Happy birthday, Nunavut! Up Here celebrates the territory’s milestone 20th anniversary by visiting its vibrant communities and asking what the future holds for the next generation of Nunavummiut. Also in this issue, follow along as trail-runners tackle the 53-kilometre Chilkoot Trail in a single day, the Yellowknives Dene consider the future of their felled sacred tree, and Cullen Crozier recounts a story from his grandfather, the legendary Peter Fraser, in the winning entry of this year’s Sally Manning Award for Indigenous Creative Non-Fiction.


We profile several of the North's smallest communities, look at one Yukon town's battle with the United States government to protect the Porcupine caribou herd and showcase the winners of our annual Up Here photo contest—including our sleepy little cover model. We also listen to Pat Braden and the North's music history, and stop by Churchill, Manitoba as the tourist town celebrates its first passenger train in 18 months. Plus, everything you need to know when nature calls in the tundra.

This issue showcases some of the most breathtaking landscapes of northern Canada designedto inspire your own adventures.  Read our profile of the curling Koe family, and plan a trip with our month-by-month guide to unique events across the North in 2019. Search for the origins of life on the Coppermine River.

The north is changing—from Tuktoyaktuk’s shoreline slowly falling into the ocean, to warming Northern air and its effect on weather patterns across the country. We take a look at the Greenland shark, a species that can live for more than 200 years. We also showcase our 2018 Northerners of the Year, the Yellowknife Women’s Society,  a group of tireless advocates that has spent 30 years listening to women and getting things done.

Nunavut is the only Canadian province or territory without an arts centre. Inuit artists present the pitch for a new centre.  We review the activities of northern stars from dance and traditional Tlingit arts in Yukon, to today's music in NWT and Nunavut, to  film - yes, home-grown feature films - right across the North.  The Inuvik warming centre welcomes  the homeless, and in Nunavut, a new lab is preventing trichinella among Inuit who eat a traditional food.

In our September issue we look at food grown, foraged and hunted across the North and we search for the meaning of a Northern cuisine. We follow a Dawson City filmmaker who spent a year eating local. We have a solution for what to do with all the berries that crop up in Northern backyards. We also talk to the biographer of a legendary RCMP officer, trapper and sailor and to a Northwest Passage guru who guides ships from the comforts of his (southern) basement.

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