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.
Russell Bernard
MUNISING, MI – Russell Lloyd Bernard, aka “Russ” passed away December 3, 2020 at his winter home in Panama City Beach Florida, with his precious wife Bonnie at his side. Being born August 22, 1929, Russ lived a good long life. He’d turned 91 this past summer.
Most people in Munising knew Russ as the friendly meat cutter from Hub’s SuperValue where he’d worked for 30 years not only serving the public but endearing himself to everyone who met him. Everybody liked Russ. He was an outgoing kind and gentle man. After retiring he often had little garage sales at his home, more to meet and visit with people than to disperse his old treasures. He just liked being around people.