Dip and swirl your pan in an icy creek and feel your heart leap at a sparkle of gold. Soar above glaciers and migrating caribou with a bush pilot at your side. Trek a trail in the footsteps of 19th-century Gold Rush stampeders. Ride a winding Klondike railway up a dizzying mountainside. Tap your toes in time to honky-tonk piano tunes. Welcome to Canada’s North, still home to the pioneer spirit.
Wander the ruins of an old whaling station and a post for North West Mounted Police whose beat was endless tundra. Jump on a dog sled and head into boreal forest to follow a trap line and learn about fur and humane hunting. Poke nostalgic through a paddlewheeler National Historic Site. Bale hay and build fences at a working homestead. Hover like an angel, then land on a dime in a legendary bush plane—and imagine going aloft with daredevil pilots who saved lives and opened up the North.
Feed your hungry mind on tales of the trials and rewards of pioneering Northerners. Then feed your stomach with a grilled Arctic char or muskox tenderloin before drifting off to sleep in what was once a remote Hudson’s Bay trading post and Roman Catholic mission church.
