Four Women On How To Thrive In A Nunavut Winter
We spoke to four Nunavummiut women in and from Iqaluit about living in and loving the cold. Anubha Momin Updated Photo by Erik Boomer, courtesy of Laura Pia Churchill.
A lack of daylight, freezing temperatures, dangerously icy (or, alternatively, over-salted) sidewalks; winter can be a trying time in the best of years, and this past year has not been that. Tighter restrictions as coronavirus case numbers increased in the fall all but cancelled Christmas, and now the majority of Canadians are staring at what will likely be a long lockdown winter. But for the 39,353 Canadians living in Nunavut, “winter” or at least, its hallmarks started months ago.