This morning I drove out to the Churchill Northern Studies Center, some 20 kilometers out of town, where I had an appointment to meet with Michael Goodyear, executive director of the center. His facility is home to students and scholars and researchers with a common passion: learning more about this vast area and how to…
The ride from Winnipeg up to Churchill – some 1050 miles and almost due north – takes almost two days. We left Winnipeg at noon on a Sunday and arrived in Churchill the following Tuesday morning. First impression of the scenery along the way — pretty bleak, mostly flat terrain with scrubby trees that got…
VIA Rail train # 693 arrived in Churchill this morning at about 8:15, more than two hours behind schedule and that was fine with me. At 7:00 a.m., our scheduled arrival time, it would have been cold and dark. At 8:15, it was merely cold – 27 degrees with a 40 mph wind blowing in…