Day: January 16, 2011

  • So where are you really?

    Oh just a little north of the Arctic Circle.....

    Hall Beach (Inuktitut: Sanirajak (the shoreline), Syllabics: ᓴᓂᕋᔭᒃ) is an
    Inuit settlement, Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut, Canada, established in 1957 during the construction of a Distant Early Warning     (DEW) site. Currently the settlement is home to a North Warning System



    Probably about twice a year, I do a work stint as a child protection social worker to one of the hamlets in Nunavut, Canada's newest territory. The other two are the Yukon and Northwest Territories.

    Being casual, somewhat like a substitute teacher, each trip is for a fill in position and a new contract with Health and Social Services. This time round there has not been a permanent social worker in the community since October.

    Hall Beach is a new community for me and will probably be here until mid-February.

    Hall Beach NUNAVUT
    Hall Beach is located in Canada
    Hall Beach
    Coordinates: 68°46′38″N 081°13′27″W

    It has been exactly a week since I left Edmonton and been one of settling in.

    Mornings are joint meetings at the health center which is a three nurse station and then off to my office building which is shared with the Income Support worker.

    Sharing a house across from the Northern Store with Mysti who is a mental health worker here for about two weeks from Igloolik. Mysti and her two 3-yr old husky dogs have been a great welcome committee, as I miss my own two huskies. They are so similar in behavior with their whines, growls and howls.

    Yes, I did bring the cross country skis and really, no regrets, as I have been out twice on them this weekend, although only a few hours of light each day.

    The colors, the ice and snow and patterns that they create is really a different world. Like this shot of snow blown against the stop sign.

    This morning the crew from the Health Center was invited for Sunday brunch at the (DEW) line site.

    Learned there are 47 stations across Canada with prime funding coming from Americans...all in all they stretch from Greenland to Alaska.

    Underneath the building were Arctic white foxes.

    Very cute but not pets as often can be rapid ( carrier of rabies ).

    There has been some socializing as well with the teachers and RCMP joint dinner on Saturday.

    Monday I suspect is going to be the beginning of serious work.

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An Albertan & Canadian, definitely a northern gal. Social worker by profession, this blog has included some of my work over 10 years in Nunavut from 2002 on. Passionate about slowing down & taking time to appreciate the beauty of the outdoors or kindness in relationships as gifts & blessings; injustices against children in situations beyond their control; my faith; Nature, experiencing the outdoors whether cycling, walking. x-c skiing or gardening, my dogs, capturing on film God's beauty, experiencing life intensely & with the senses, richness of late afternoon light, wind in my hair cycling with my dog on a beach road, couching inches from an arctic flower or alpine lichen to capture it with my camera, insight of a student's new learning, a good conversation over a coffee.

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