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Northern Nights Festival celebrates dark skies in the Yukon

Sissi De Flaviis, CBC News @sissideflaviis
Posted: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 13:31
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Marie-Eve Owen and Tim Taylor wanted to spend one last family vacation outdoors as the midnight sun fades away and

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Business Business (Canada) Canada Countries General Society Society (Canada) 

Inuvik, Canada, braces for surge in tourism

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 11:45 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 09:08
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Tourism officials and operators in Inuvik, N.W.T., are ramping up for an expected surge in bookings this summer. “It’s looking good

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* Featured * Art (Canada) Art and Culture Canada Countries General 

Commemorative Canadian coin aims for more ‘inclusive’ history of Klondike Gold Rush

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 13:35
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New loonie incorporates Indigenous perspectives in stylized depiction of gold discovery For most Canadians, the story of the Klondike Gold

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

DNA confirmed identity of HMS Erebus engineer — and raises more questions in Franklin Expedition mystery in Arctic Canada

Janet Davison, CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 23, 2021 at 11:58
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Pandemic forces another delay in exploration of shipwrecks but other work continues Jonathan Gregory didn’t think too much about the

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 News RCI Society (Canada) 

Northwest Territories residents experience “another world” in Ivvavik National Park

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 8, 2021 at 12:52
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Seven-year-old Lindyn Fraser is the youngest visitor to Ivvavik National Park in Yukon this summer. “I’m having a lot of fun here,”

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Northern Canada’s national parks will be a different experience for visitors this year

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 27, 2020 at 16:43 — Last Updated: Monday, July 27, 2020 at 17:24
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Going to any national park across the North is going to look different this year amid the pandemic. In the Western

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

More national parks reopening in Canada’s North, but Chilkoot will remain closed for rest of season

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at 16:24
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Parks Canada is opening up more Yukon parks and services in the coming days. One major exception is the Chilkoot

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

Métis in Northern Canada disappointed by Northwest Territories’ handling of the Thaidene Nene reserve

Hilary Bird, CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 22, 2019 at 16:09
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The Northwest Territory Métis Nation (NWTMN) says it’s disappointed in the way the territorial government has handled the proposed Thaidene

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

Parks Canada battles Arctic ice to explore crumbling Franklin expedition wreck

Dean Beeby, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 15:35 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 15:39
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Parks Canada may be in a race against time to research the HMS Erebus as rough Arctic weather conditions badly

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Canada General News Science Science (Canada) 

First Canadian and Inuit-owned artifacts from Franklin wreck revealed to public

Michael Hugall, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 27, 2018 at 16:10 — Last Updated: Friday, September 28, 2018 at 15:42
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9 artifacts jointly owned by Canada and the Inuit Heritage Trust were revealed to the world Tuesday. Nine artifacts from

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Google Street View takes you to Canada’s northernmost Arctic park

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 17:39 — Last Updated: Friday, October 13, 2017 at 08:58
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Even if you had thousands of dollars to get to Canada’s northernmost nature reserve, Quttinirpaaq National Park on the northern

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Arctic shipwreck confirmed as Franklin expedition’s missing HMS Terror

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 16:00
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Canadian officials have confirmed that a shipwreck found in uncharted waters of a remote Arctic bay earlier this month is

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General Society Society (Canada) 

Feds announce $23M to upgrade Wood Buffalo Park road and trails

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 20:23 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 20:35
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Visitors to Canada’s largest national park will soon have an easier time accessing the wonders of this UNESCO World Heritage

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Sir John Franklin led an ultimately doomed 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage. (Hutton Archive/Getty Images)
Canada Society Society (Canada) Special Features 

Canada to launch new search for Arctic shipwreck

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, June 30, 2014 at 14:48
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Sixth time a charm? Canada recently announced that it will launch a new search for an Arctic shipwreck that remains

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1851 painting of HMS Investigator trapped in ice, some 850 km north of the Arctic Circle (Samuel Gurney Cresswell)
Blog Canada Society (Canada) Special Features 

Canada: The discovery of an Arctic shipwreck

Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International
Posted: Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 12:58
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Over 160 years ago, a large 3-masted sailing ship was in the high Arctic searching for the lost Franklin expedition.

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