WHAT IT'S LIKE IN NUNAVUT'S ONLY CITY | Iqaluit, Nunavut
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Ever wondered what Iqaluit, Nunavut is like? I (Tom) got to spend a short amount of time exploring the sights and sounds of the arctic city Iqaluit. It's the only community and city in the whole Nunavut territory in Canada and it's really something else. Join me on this little arctic adventure that I wanted to share with you all.
For those wondering, I was on my way to Alert, Nunavut and even made a video of what it's like there.
Check it out: • World's most northern ...
Filmed: March 2022
---
Hi, we're Tom and Angel.
Our hometown is Toronto, Canada and we've always had a love for travel and adventure. Together, we've travelled to 26 countries and lived in 2 cities.
In 2019 we moved to Kelowna, British Columbia. Join us on our adventures in Western Canada and beyond as we explore our new home.
📸 Follow us on Instagram - [ / anywhere__goes ]( / anywhere__goes )
---
#travel #travelCanada #yukon
I believe Iqaluit Nunavut is the most expensive place to visit in Canada starting whith the plane ticket with First Air/CanadianNorth, food and lodging. I had the opportunity to live and work in the city for 6 long years. I made wonderful friends. In the summer time is an exotic place to visit. You can see the true beauty of the North. All the hills are full of purple flowers and blue berries. There are no darkness is daylight all day long for almost 4 months.The river Silvia Grinnell is beautiful you can spot a lot of arctic salmons a really big ones, there are willow Ptarmigan , the caribou return on their migration and some artic fox are visible as well , The ice in the Frobisher bay melt and the white beluga whale returns ,I had the wonderful opportunity to see the Narwal whale or unicorn whale . Thanks for sharing.
Thank YOU for sharing that!
You had a great opportunity that not everyone has it in life. I'm gonna work hard until I live there, my soul and spirit tell me I should live there. I'm convinced I'll do it at some point of my life. Thank you so much for sharing your story. 🇨🇦 🍁
@@wilmerhersa1808 how's your journey?
@@SirManfly don't judge without knowing
There is no midnight sun here.
Iqaluit is a special place and I’m glad to say I’ve had the privilege of living there for about a year. It’s very remote, and very expensive and surviving the winter is no joke. But the Inuit culture is unique and the nature is unspoiled. For those few that can get a chance to travel up there and get passed the isolation it’s an experience you’ll treasure for a lifetime!
I couldn't agree more! I'm excited to get back up there one day
How much would eggs be in the winter and milk???
if one has lived in northern ontario, its globally in the middle of no where. so you can experience isolation outside nunavut.
I have lived in Nunavut my whole life so some good places to visit are the snack (it’s a restaurant) for their poutine, the awg during the many hockey tournament during the year, and the astro theatre.
Hopefully next time I'm there I'll have more time
What are you eating there guys? Is there really lots of fish? Do you have beets and carrots? Are vegetables expensive? Thank you!
@@miloslavskiy873we eat normal food and if you want fish just go fishing and you will get lots. Vegetables are a bit expensive but they are available
Watching this video was like going through a Time Machine. I lived there with my family for 9 years until I moved. It’s been 5 years since, and it’s great seeing it again. At 1:35 those big tanks were right beside the dump, where me and my siblings drove with my dad, where he would sing “To the Dump” every Saturday. Sadly, I didn’t see Joamie School, but that’s alright. Thank you for this video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have a goal of visiting all of Canada's provinces and territories. (I did the 50 states long ago.) Nunavut and the NWT are yet to go. I'm 85 though, and running out of time.
You're an absolute legend! Best of luck friend! Book that flight!
I just came back from Barrow Alaska for visit. Lots of similarities, they have a Chinese food, sushi bar, tacos restaurant and a coffee food truck, one Wells Fargo Bank, cemetery one post office and police station closed on weekend and airport close daily at 6pm. I was 450 miles north of Arctic Circle and pretty much like where you are standing
Interesting!
*Utquigvik, Alaska
Chances are that I will probably never visit due to the costs and remoteness. However, I really do find such places incredibly fascinating, much more than Rome, New York, London and Paris. Thanks for posting.
It's definitely not somewhere I ever expected to get to visit either, but sometimes life has different plans.
@@AnywhereGoes are there any non inuit living in iqauit,Nunavut
WHY?@@mehchocolate1257
@@mehchocolate1257generally government workers my parents met as social workers in the arctic provinces and my dad worked in Iqaluit for a while as it was being incorporated as an official territory.
@@d.g4466 how many white people live in igaquit anyway
I lived in Iqaluit for a while, for about my whole life. Its safe but fires often happen, for example the North Mart caught on fire once. Though no major disasters happen, but blizzards often happen a lot. If you ever want to check out some boats that crashed, go to Apex beach. But just look out for polar bears. Even though i never seen one while i was there, its still something to be cautious about
I had lived in Ontario for two years and your video made me know more about this country. It’s fascinating. Thank you.
Canada is so diverse it's wild
Before Covid, I used to travel all over Nunavut every single month. Covid killed this job entirely and it doesn't look like it'll ever return. I miss it tremendously. Nothing else like it. You have to go to Pangnirtung and climb mount Duval. Just do it trust me.
One day! Thanks for the tip
What was the job?
@@noelvalenzarro Inuit inseminator.
I piloted a twin otter into Frobisher Bay from the south shore of Hudson Strait3-4 times a week in the early 70’s.
I went back for a visit in 1999. So fresh. I miss the north.
The air really is different
One day. One day soon, I will visit Nunavut.
I love the North so much. I miss the North even more.
You should!
I have a client that trains firefighters for airplane fires and he was training people in a town like this for 2 years. He said they had to stay indoors for 3 days because a group of polar bears was roaming the town.
Sounds like Churchill, Manitoba.
Such a great video! It is my goal to visit all of Canada's Provinces/Territories and when I found out that there are no roads leading into Nunavut, I was kinda shocked. I have been to 7/13 Provinces/Territories in Canada but find Nunavut the most interesting due to its remoteness. Thank you for uploading a very quality video of a place I can dream to visit!
Glad you liked it! We have the same goal, hopefully we can reach it one day.
"when I found out that there are no roads leading into Nunavut, I was kinda shocked."
It is kinda shocking at first, but Iqaluit is technically on a very large Arctic island - Baffin Island - so it's understandable why there would be no roads or rails going in or out.
@@scsi_joe but even the second largest settlement in Nunavut, Ranklin Inlet has no roads leading to it even though it is on mainland Canada
@@Ithoughtthiswasamerica I could see someone be shocked at that, but why was the original comment about being shocked there's no roads going to an Arctic island
This dude made a video showinf the city, but was recording his face 90% of the time. Incredible.
You saw the city
Lived there for over two years. Never paid full fare on the plane trips, friends and relatives at First Air gave me their ID90 reductions (and I'm thankful). When I lived there shipping and mail was subsidized and again, thank god. Used a two palette sea lift to full advantage each year to reduce dry goods costs. Traded with other Southerners and local Inuit for other food and groceries and fish and game. Ate lunch at the hospital, which was 10 bucks as opposed to 30-70+ dollars at a conventional restaurant. Bargain hunted and took advantage of every sale day at stores or restaurants. Vividly remember my brother walking out of the Northern store with two grocery bags and an 800 dollar charge. Think that's expensive? Head up island to Pond Inlet. Those prices will shock you. The entire produce section at the coop fit on a pool table sized table. The joke was when they were finished with the cabbage, nobody bought, they passed them off as brussel sprouts.
That's impressive, and $800 is enough. Pond Inlet... idk
@@AnywhereGoesWhy is it so expensive there?
Oh, I thought it was Greenland at first. The same grey slushy streets that nobody seems to bother to plow as it snows so often... I wonder where you were headed if this is where they decided to make a stop-over.
Same Arctic region I guess. I don't blame them for not plowing much, although it did make walking more difficult. I was headed to Alert. There's a video for that too.
My 1 year old gets fussy sometimes before bed. When she does, i used to tell her, "None of that." It morphed into me saying, "Nunavut, Nunavut." To sooth her. Anyways, I looked up videos about Nunavut to put on for her, and she is out like a light.
I love seeing remote and isolated settlements like this. I was surprised to see it's bigger than my town, but having a military connection does that. Having worked in small nontourist focused towns in the rockies, i can tell you after awhile, you stop using addresses, and start using, "That barn missing it's side door where the Smiths car broke down last summer" dirrections. They just work.
Wild how it just gets easier after a while
First off, great video bud. Love your energy, the facts that you gave, and just the whole flow of the video. As a Pakistani kid who immigrated in 2001 to Canada, and consider myself a Canadian(now living in Japan) I regret not travelling Canada more when I was living there. But oh well, now time to explore this country with my family. Fills me with pride to see through your video.
A Paki claiming to be a Canadian living in Japan 🤔
@@deja_snitty4100 are you really that dense?
@@deja_snitty4100 I immigrated from.....THE USA as I was born there.
Not Canadian whatsoever.
@@smidgenhea 100%. If you were not born in. Country you are not of the country. Takes 3 generations typically before people no longer care about county of origin. Look at the problems Canada has with Chinese nationals and India separatists
I live in the outback and my greatest trip was to NWT, Hay River in 1987. The Inuit had so much in common with us first people's from the desert. I'm mixed with French mother so Canada always had appeal.
I started collecting postmarks from Nunavut, NWT, Yukon as things that were truly from that place with some of its spirit. My dream, Nunavut. Thx !
That's really cool!
@@AnywhereGoes thx !
Wow! You could hardly have wandered further from home, eh? That's a really cool story - you went to the opposite end of the earth, in the opposite climate, and found familiarity
@@ianweir3608 yes, familiarity of spirit or what you guys call soul
Really cool video. Thanks for sharing and shout out from Dallas, Texas 🇺🇸.
No problem 👍 what's up Dallas!!
Dallas rep
This was awesome! I was curious what life was like in Nunavut and searched it up on youtube and your video popped up and is very well done. Thanks!
My friend Tracy was born in iqaluit
Thank you so much for posting this!! I have always been fascinated with extremely northern cities.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Me as well!
Back in the 1990s before the US Federal Government destroyed C band Satellite TV, we could get Inuit TV and News programming from Iqaluit and Inuvik. As a Choctaw (Native American) I loved it!
Sounds awesome
That would've been so cool!
I did too. I watched NTV all the time which at that time was in the clear, but my dish had to be pointed almost on the horizon to get Anik the satellite that carried a lot of CBC North.. I always liked the music on OZFM too. Yes, on my BIG dish I got a lot or European television and the real BBC as well as TV from Ireland. It was a wide open field of tv! I almost forgot, BCTV out of British Columbia.
Beautiful place. My favourite thing In the world is visiting small historical towns. I'd love to be able to visit every province and territory in Canada...being a canuck myself...I feel I should! Anyways wonderful video lad! Cheers.
This is a nice little video. You deserved more time to make a more thorough tour, and to talk to local folk. A balanced video showing the good and bad.
I do hope to visit again with more time. Thanks for watching!
You can always tell a noob in the Arctic. Many of us lived and worked farther north year round. For myself it was Arctic Bay, for 2 1/2 years often flying patients to Iqaluit, as a medic. Either by jet or most hated, by twin otter.
Very cool
Nice video! Someday I'll go to Nunavut. Beautiful place!
Definitely something to see
Thanks for coming to my home city you are one of my favorite RUclipsrs
So nice of you
🇨🇦
Thanks for your info packed vid. I live in South Western Ontario. Recently found out a friend of mine is moving to Pond Inlet😲😲. Someday, I'll visit. In sooooo curious of the way of life so far up North 🤔 Undoubtedly, a very different way of life, eh😁?. Oh!! A Timmies 😮😮❤❤🎉🎉. 👍👍
Way different, but the Tim's made it feel familiar
I've lived in Pond Inlet for 6 years! The people are very welcoming and friendly. Also yes its different living in Nunavut but in some way the same as any small town in the south. You adapt to differences and often come to prefer them over the the south. Such as a very short work commute and no traffic jams.
Thanks for sharing! Greetings from the US. 🇺🇸
Thanks for watching! Where in the US?
I remember going up there in the early 2000s. Use to buy arctic char from the locals for $5-$10 per fish! We use to fly the beer in every spring. Can of beer was $9 back then.
The char is so good!
It takes Strength to live here. Very nice video.
Yes it does! Thanks for watching!
Been there twice, on the way the Alert with the military. The food is great, very expensive, but great anyways, and I understand it's because of the logistics. Also, I've never seen so many bicycles left in the creek that runs through town lol.
Lol I didn't see the bicycles.
@@AnywhereGoes I was there during August both times, not much snow, if any. There had to have been 30 small bicycles every fifty feet down in the creek, It was hilarious lol.
this is amazing. wow wow wow. love the northern parts of canada. so mystical
Nunavut feels so much like home for me . I need to get back
this dude seems so chill
super chill
I liked the canada goose snow mantra face flap slap at the end, used to happen to me too.
Those jackets are amazing!!!
Love how you showed what it has to offer. Can’t wait to see these Iqaluit in person in a few months
You're going?! That's so exciting! Hopefully the weather is nicer than when I went!
The city is Iqaluit, The people are Inuit.
Oh God, I always have wanted to be humbled by the most wondrous of experience. Thank you for sharing this content.
Our pleasure!
Thanks for the tour!! That was awesome
there are different games in Iqaluit there are throat singing and 2 foot high kick and There is natural resources and languages and they have a a a short city.
2 foot high kick sounds interesting
Nice video, very interesting, greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽;)
Hey, thanks! We're excited to get down there one day!
HOW DO THEY GET A TIM HORTONS IF THERE ARE NO ROADS!!! THAT MUST BE SOOO EXPENSIVE! Honestly tho it's worth it!
I wasn't surprised at all! What Canadian doesn't like their Tim's
Tim hortons coffee is 1 of the few things that isn't super expensive compared to the rest of the country.
If you only transport the ingredients dry and use local water it shouldn't be prohibitively expensive
As a nova scotian I just can't fathom the mind of someone who lives in nunavut and thinks "yup. this is where I want to live my entire life"
I mean, we all gotta live somewhere, but I know what you mean.
Great video, and maybe the most 🇨🇦 thing I’ve done all day!! That you made it through the whole video without saying “eh” once was notable, but I found myself finishing your sentences myself with “eh”, eh! Would love to visit one day as things 8n the north will undoubtedly change with the Northwest Psssage being opened up to more shipping as the ice melts. Be great to see it before that has too much of an effect.
I've actually had to work on the eh thing haha. Hopefully you get the chance to get up there.
Its really interesting I will probably never go there in my life since I can’t afford it but its interesting to see the place in acway you make us travel with your video
Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it. I never would've afforded visiting if not for the layover, so I got lucky for sure.
Yeah if I had unlimited money, I would love to travel to far flung places like this
Me too!
I typed in "how to perform a handie to a dead walrus" into the youtube search bar......did not disappoint. Thanks.
lol
I worked in Iqaluit. So very cold. Excellent Artic Char on the menu.
I've lived in innuvik and Yellowknife. Been to many of these places.loooove it all
Nice! The territories are amazing!
Thank you for this fascinating video! It makes our 🇨🇦 northern areas more real to me now.
Glad you enjoyed it!
It's strange how diverse canada, and even countries in general, is, like you have major cities like Toronto and Vancouver, and then you have tiny remote places like Iqaluit
Decent video, thanks for showing this place
Glad you enjoyed it
I love Nunavut! Seems so cool, nice details too!
I only set foot in the airport twice (4), first time was to go to Qikitarjuaq and the second time was to go to Clyde River, both time during winter for work.
Wild!
I was there for the celebration in 1999 as military personnel. What a great place. Great people. Got to meet Polar Boy and got a taxi ride from the Legion to the Q. And to my surprise a Jamaican gave me that ride. Lol
That must've been so cool!
I am from St. John's, Newfoundland, a province of Canada. This is the first time I have seen Iqaluit. Thanks for the video.
I can't wait to visit Newfoundland!
@@AnywhereGoes Best to come here in the summer. More places to see and do.
4:39 fun fact: a lot of animals don't use blood pressure to pop a stiffy like we humans do. Dogs, bears, raccoons, walruses, etc all have baculum bones like that.
I did not know that
Been there a few times :) Was at the café and gallery as well.
Nice!
I find it more of a very big town, as it's missing highrises, subways & freeways.
You raise valid points
There really is something magical about this place.
What a neat, informative video! Thanks for sharing it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
very cool to watch from the tropical shores of sunny south florida, interesting about the addresses. you seem like a cool guy, safe travels!
Definitely different from Florida! Thanks for watching.
According to my astrocartography this is where I’ll find the most success but I don’t know if I wanna live here
Do what makes you happiest
6:16 of Nunuavut is about enough for me, thanks for the tour of a place I never want to visit, lol.
Haha and now you never have to
2 days there in June, cold and daylight at 2:00 am, never again.
The 24 hour day/night is so wild
Thank you for tour
Greetings from Kyrgyzstan
Please visit ❤
Oh my goodness! We want to!
Wow! I decided to go explore (google maps...) seems like a fairy place to visit...
It's pretty cool!
I have been there twice. My son and wife were there for five years. They wanted me to move happy I didn't they moved back to Ottawa. But must say it's lovely to see.
Very different from Ottawa for sure.
For those wondering, I was on my way to *Alert, Nunavut* and even made a video of what it's like there 🐻❄☃❄
Check it out ruclips.net/video/c4Ta9DEDnYc/видео.html
Thanks for sharing, I will definitely visit this city in the future 😀
Have fun!
this place is awesome, want to visit so bad. resolute too
As I hve been to Narvik Municipality in Norway and Rovaniemi
City in Finland I was curious so Your video was suitable. Thanks.
We would love to visit Norway and Finland! Where are you from friend?
Any cannabis shops? Curious becaus i work in the cannabis industry, and we do supy to nunavut, but its SO RARE i was curious if they even had a dispensary or if its some other means of distribution
From what I saw I think there was one, but I can't say for sure
Thanks for the video. I have a dream of visiting all the provinces and territories of Canada. I am sure its beautiful for photography in summer (and winter).
You should!
I'm from BC but I've always wanted to go up to the north of the country, it's so beautiful, and it always really bothers me how underrepresented the indigenous people up there are in politics and media here in Canada.
Great video, thanks for sharing! I'm curious what your final destination was, because not many flights have a stopover in Iqaluit
I was headed to Alert
Always gotta have that Tim Hortons! Lol. Classic 😂❤
I’m hoping I can visit all 3 territories soon too. Honestly Iqaluit is definitely unique since I noticed it doesn’t really have buildings like Yellowknife and Whitehorse.
Very unique for sure!
I saw the White Stripes play in the Iqaluit hockey rink.
No way! I'm genuinely jealous! I never even got to see them. That must've been so cool!
Thanks for the video. I saw that town on the globe and wanted to see that it was like
That was cool, thanks for the look tom.
Thanks for watching!
I'm always intrigued by such places, but I always am scouring to find whatever vegetation I can see in the video. I will go on google earth and use street view in remote regions (when available) looking at the landscape.
Haha so fair to say I may not visit. I love trees. ❤ great video.
Haha I'm on Google Earth all the time doing the same thing!
Great video - thanks for this.
Hey man, that was awesome. This was well edited and easy to watch. I’ve been curious!
Hey man, you're awesome! I'm glad you liked it.
At 3:32 in the background to the right is Nakasuk School, which I attended from grade three to grade six, starting when it opened in 1973. At that time, Iqaluit was known as Frobisher Bay, thankfully that name is fading from memory now. The town then was less than 2000 people and many of the buildings in your video were not there, but the igloo church (Inuvik also has a similar one) was, and some others I recognize. There were far fewer cars, omg.
Wild!
But where do u live now sir ?
Edmonton area...@@ujjallayek785
First things first (COFFEE) You're a good man I can tell already
I appreciate that
Did i see a side by side ? Wow its super cold. Its beautiful
This was such a pleasant and immersive video ❤
I want Nunavit. You can have it.😅
Very cool travel vlog! I have been to Iqaluit multiple times and have good friends living there !
Cool! Thanks for watching
At my work we get Kalawit brand shoes. now i have to find out if they're from this city!
I wish there had been a few more shots of the area, maybe a few questions/answers with locals, and maybe a bit about that language listed at the bottom of the signs.
I feel you! I wish I had more time.
Saying that Iqaluit is the coldest city in Canada(depending of what's your population range for a city), Whitehorse and Yellowknife which are more populous I believe get colder winters.
From what I understood, it's the fact that they don't get warm summers, where Yellowknife and Whitehorse do.
Where was this plane going if it had a stopover there?
I was on my way back from Alert
It looks so cozy there not gonna lie
Cozy but cold!
I used to live there back in 2008. Nice to see some improvement to the town.
Been trying to get work for my old truck snd myself up there.. no luck to date.
It's tough for sure
Great video 👍
Thanks for the video! Any suggestions which month of a year is the best to visit so it's not that cold but still get you experience you want? And how many days did you spend there? Thanks!
I was there for a day in April and it was reasonable. If you go in the summer you get to see the grasses and flowers
@@AnywhereGoes Thanks for sharing it!!! That sounds like a great time to go!