Tuktoyaktuk: Journey to Canada’s Arctic Edge

[@davidlaliberte1932]

Thank you for sharing this video! I’m 75 years old now and I worked in Tuk when I was 25 years old till the age of 31 working as a welder for Purvis Navcon shipyards from Selkirk Manitoba. We worked in the oil drilling industry with Dome Petroleum. Some of the most interesting years of our lives! Mostly during the winter months !

[@deaddegenerategeneration7441]

What was living up there doing work in the winter like

[@dusty1498]

Did you ever Work with Jim Merrick up there?

[@gerardvinet8448]

Father worked in Tuktoyaktuk as a helicopter pilot , tagging Caribou & Polar Bear , in the 1960-1990's . Myself never had a chance to visit , but visited Ellesmere Island , Alert Bay & built military fort , communication towers at Eureka , NWT , in 1985 .Born in another northern frontier town in Quebec , Sept-Iles , but not as far north , as these beautiful sites .

[@to532]

I spent two years, 1990 and 1991, working for Halliburton on oil exploration in the Mackenzie Delta and Beaufort Sea. A lifetime experience.

[@peezim]

The single biggest threat to the Mackenzie Delta is the Alberta tailings ponds. (look at the satellite photos)

[@davetaddeo]

i drove to Tuktoyaktuk for summer solstice, festival of the sun, this year from just north of Toronto. the locals welcomed all the solstice visitors with a parade. put festival of the sun in Tuktoyaktuk on your bucket list!

[@peezim]

Get a t-shirt from the University of Tuktoyaktuk?

[@canoeman1961]

I imagine that took a few hours.

[@lino9222]

@@peezim Tuck U

[@sergentbrocoli3962]

Hi, I would really love to go there. Do you have any advice? In which year did you go? The Sun Festival must be really great. Also, is the road fully completed? What is look like?

[@Jingling-MelO]

It Tuk more than a ​few @@canoeman1961

[@tyee4u]

I had been planning on riding my motorcycle to Tuk for quite a while and while watching videos on the subject my wife took an interest in coming along so the motorcycle trip got changed to an RV adventure! We did it in the summer of 2022 from Bamfield BC on Vancouver Island. It was honestly a life changing trip and I can’t wait to go back. The people were amazing. We bought way too many hand made crafts from the local artisans and have them proudly displayed in our home to remind of us our trip. We camped right on the Arctic Ocean where the locals have built a beautiful campground. My wife is a First Nations principal at an all First Nation school on the island so she really connected with all the kids in the village which we were astonished to run in to well after midnight while out for a walk in the 20° sunshine. They would be out riding their bikes and playing on the beach or walking with their parents. Such a different way of life and you can see how the community really celebrated the 3 month stretch of 24 hr sunlight. I mentioned to one of the elders that I really wanted to come back and see the ocean frozen and she suggested I return in March to watch the snowmobile races on the ocean !! That sounded right up my ally so I’m preparing my Tacoma and camper as we speak for the trip this March. The new road from Inuvik is fantastic and has some of the most beautiful scenery you could imagine. The whole trip is very well worth the effort. The town is beautiful and the people are amazing. Just do it.

[@patprop74]

A motorcycle ride up there is the first thing that popped in to my mind, I think that would be a really amazing ride.

[@tyee4u]

@ it’s a pretty popular ride. We were camped beside a group of riders. People come from all over the world to ride “the top of the world”🌎

[@jaytaylor629]

Ah yes, Canada's Timbuktu. Tuktoyaktuk looks so interesting!

[@haydenbsiegel]

This spot has been on my bucket list for years but no one wants to go ice fishing in the arctic with me.

[@Ken-rv2qg]

I worked with Grubens off and on driving truck building the new highway and just general trucking moving equipment and end dumps from 2011 till last year 2024 off and on mainly winters but some summers, My dads first cousin Albert had planes the flew crews back and forth up to TUK and surrounding areas he’s a year younger than my mother moms 96 still drives, it was great working with most of the guys up there, can’t say I’ll miss driving the Dempster Highway in the winter any more. But will miss working with You Toby lol for those that see this I am back in MB and Red Deer trying my hand at retirement take care all

[@dmhq-administration]

THAT BEAUTIFUL ICE CRYSTAL THINGIES! 🥰🤗💖

[@leonanderson4727]

I've always wanted to visit Tuk. My second cousin, Kenny was there with his wife for many years. We grew up together in the Outback Alaska Highway between Ft St John and Dawson Creek BC. It was his Mission there along, apparently, with God.

[@kerijohnson48]

Beautiful introduction to the area! It makes me want to visit there.

[@dangrotrian9113]

When I was 22 years old I taught vacation Bible school in Tuk with LAMP. Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots. Sun at 2 AM was tough to get used to. We stayed with the Catholic mission there in Tuk. We tried some different foods. Carribou, Muk Tuk, Artic Char Fish, Canada Goose. The Carribou was good and the fish. It was wonderful spending time with the Children. That was the best part. That was 1987

[@dmhq-administration]

I love the sound of the name! 🤔🤣🥰🤗💖

[@AdventuresWithKatieinMaine]

First saw this place on destination adventure here to see how this version is

[@AdventuresWithKatieinMaine]

I'd say. WELL DONE! ❤

[@BrodyYYC]

That's where I just saw it too.

[@Jan-pw4po]

Already in the planning stages to drive from Southern BC to Tuk end of August 2025

[@sergentbrocoli3962]

​I am also planning to go there in early August, but I am leaving from Quebec. It seems like a fantastic place. @@Jan-pw4po

[@blessedbeauty2293]

- I live in New England && it gets into the minus ➖️ && *THAT* is cold. I can only imagine Canada. ❄️

[@PaulHodgson-gm6lg]

@@blessedbeauty2293 40 below is where the scales meet

[@peezim]

It is a dry cold

[@revans4774]

We went swimming not for long hahaha . Worth the visit, getting there is only the half of it . Then you have to get home

[@Badkitty17]

I was In tuk when it was -63 below ..

[@PaulHodgson-gm6lg]

@Badkitty17 you need a battery blanket, plugged in if you are driving, or your battery freezes.

[@pdterre5496]

Plenty of driftwood but does it get used for heating?

[@danielson101]

WoW! imagine digging in a block of ice?

[@Boofi-quat]

Thanks

[@KarolM1964]

Caribou Hills..a future site for renewable energy. That means windmills destroying the natural beauty. Also, it should be nonnegotiable that any oil exploration company return the site to it's original state. Even though I'm an American, I feel these beautiful spaces should be cared for and protected from human destruction. Canada is a gorgeous country.

[@jaybeecee1949]

A wonderful program and this region definitely goes on the bucket list, but that gawdawful music was so repetitive and mechanics sounding just about did me in,. It was great to see young people finding their way there and wanting to contribute to and grow their communities--not just explore or remove resources. I'm not opposed to using resources, just glad to see other things going on that are sustainable

[@budwalterhouse2310]

Millions of cubic tons of soil, I don't think that works. Either tons, or cubic yards.

[@OldBrownDog]

Yup the old qubic ton lol probably a Rubics Qubic

[@herzogsbuick]

what? of course it does. one cubic ton is exactly 1/26th of a library of congress. everybody knows that.

[@hhiippiittyy]

@@herzogsbuick That's ridiculous. This is metric. It's 1/10th of a Biblioteque Nationale de France.

[@Nookdashiddole]

Not a great deal of effort goes into these

[@Fossilsunleashed]

here 18 inches deep it gets warm 50 ish ? its something other than earth

[@johnstollery2076]

That’s odd, they didn’t mention the mosquitos.

[@tested123]

the new highway is that already finished? i see tons of channels of people driving there. is this an old video? am i a dumbass?

[@shawnsanborn2057]

Yes

[@NonNone-qm4zi]

​@shawnsanborn2057... 😂

[@fayebird1808]

Made in 2015.

[@Ken-rv2qg]

Yes it opened non 2017

[@Ken-rv2qg]

In

[@Traviskorns]

Is the cooler guy single? 😅

[@herzogsbuick]

hehehe gonna have to drive up there and find out. i've got my fingers crossed for green house girl...

[@Fossilsunleashed]

they have ropes and pullies

[@chattonlad9382]

This was filmed in 2015, I wonder where the little cutie in the greenhouse is now.🙂

[@bmac6679]

Kinda creepy 😬

[@FondelMikeRotch]

Not with you obviously.

[@bmac6679]

@FondelMikeRotch okay? Now, say it in English

[@perrycomeau2627]

The Saint.

[@jakhamar55]

A gawd awful place if ever there was one. January in particular whiteouts and nothing to stop the wind. If you want to see mosquitos go there in the summer. Flying over the Mackenzie delta is cool tho.

[@derekknight9789]

This documentary is so impressive. REPUBLIC OF ALBERTA needs to include NWT, SASKATCHEWAN & YUKON as well as INTERIOR BC. Can't let go of NWT as we become our own NATION.

[@seanhewitt603]

Hi ma.

[@andrewbrown6522]

Might have to move up there. South canada is too gross with drugs, gangs and politicians.

[@perrycomeau2627]

Think about it for once.

[@LooseCannon-s8f]

"Brought by American whalers" lol Canadians are American.

[@fayebird1808]

Hell NO.

[@LooseCannon-s8f]

@fayebird1808 😂 just on technicality. Peruvians are Americans as well. Never understood why I'm referred to as American. Kinda a lazy labeling of people honestly. I understand how it came to be...maybe on the next planet we will get it right lol

[@fayebird1808]

@@LooseCannon-s8f Well, the United Statesers used the Moniker first!

[@LooseCannon-s8f]

@fayebird1808 yes ma'am

[@Hollyucinogen]

This Canadian strongly disagrees. A lot of Americans just see us as "Arctic America", but we're our own thing. None of us are jealous of America or want to live there, either (contrary to what Americans believe).

[@78deathface]

Why is the narrator so breathy lol

[@norrislaitinen5011]

Who else turned this on and took bets as to how long before the video went woke or leftwing environmentalist?

[@gavinmccormick3658]

Let me guess, any mention of the very real climate crisis is too much for you? 😂

[@norrislaitinen5011]

@gavinmccormick3658 let me guess you can't define a woman lol.

[@andrewbrown6522]

I was hoping not but.... yea. Lol

[@andrewbrown6522]

@@gavinmccormick3658 Dinosaurs hadna climate crises but i see no dino cars or taxes. Maybe you need to reevaluate your 'freedom', cash pump.

[@brad6576]

Metallica! 1995

[@timothythegreat6294]

anything canada buzz off !

[@dimtso6107]

*** The indigenous peoples are not only not using their traditional ways of harvesting sustenance from the land but they are also not speaking their mother language....they might as well simply call themselves European peoples. Do not claim to be indigenous if you fully employ European ways of language, dress, religion and sustenance. I see nothing here but genetically Indigenous peoples behaving European. Suggestion: speak your native Indigenous tongue, live in whale bone iglu or snow igluvijaq, and use seal skin kayaks.

[@shawnsanborn2057]

Stop using just kilometers

[@ywgmb35]

The United States and a couple of other countries in the world are the only ones that still use miles. Every other country on earth uses kilometers. If you want to convert km to miles, it is 1 km = 0.62 miles. Or, to make it easier, just times the km number by 0.6.

[@shawnsanborn2057]

@@ywgmb35 back in the day the metric was forced down our throats. Most resented this. We do not care if it is more accurate or what the rest of the world does. Notice that for the most part here in America we still use knots, miles, inches, yards and acres. It is not too much to ask for American viewers to do both .

[@PaulHodgson-gm6lg]

​@@shawnsanborn2057get over it, the US military uses metric.

[@ywgmb35]

@@shawnsanborn2057 we did the same here in Canada only a generation ago, and even today we still prefer using inches and feet for measuring, we got used to using Celcius for weather, but use Fahrenheit for ovens. In the oil industry we have to know pressures in both kPa and psi because a lot of the boilers and valves are built down in the states. For distances we mostly speak in kilometers now, but sometimes you'll still hear miles, especially by older people.

[@shawnsanborn2057]

@ glad to hear it. Back in the day when they tried to cram metric down our throats it caused a lot of resentment. It did not work out the way they wanted. To this day for the most part knots, yards, acres, feet and inches are still mostly used along with mph.

[@martinlacouline2049]

i came to Tuk in 2011, didn't know about the cute girls out there!!!!!!

[@arlenes1048]

Beautiful video but can't watch because the background music is too loud and I can't hear the narration when I reduce the volume because of the music. 🫤