the St Lawrence River toward the Gulf of St Lawrence and down to the distant east coast, the cousins dreamed of French restaurants and red maple leaves.Iqaluit the frozen town The reporter, Beth Allen, arrived in a northern community called Iqaluit in Nunavut. Nunavut was created in 1999 as a special area for Inuit people. Its name meansOur Land in their language. It is in the farthest northeastern area of Canada, north or the Arctic Circle, and is very cold the average witer temperature in Nunavut is 35 degrees below zero. Beth said, I knew it would be could in January, but not this cold! Maybe there is a dog sled that can take me into town. The quiet man who had been on the plane with her said, ll take you into town, but I don hace a dog sled. Most people only use the dogs for competitions, why are you visiting Iqaluit? Beth answered, Im writing a story for my newspaper about Iqaluit w like to advertise it as a holiday place, but I think its too cold. The man laughed. My name is Simon and I am Inuit, he said.I think it too far north here for holidays but more and more tourists are coming. They like ice fishing and photographing polar bears. I star as far away from polar bears as possible. I like my warm office and my warm house.m business man. My grandfather would live in ice houses when he hunted in winter, but not so many people do that now. the old men used to make one in a few hours. They used to live in skin tents in summer the tents were easy to move so the people could follow the animals. A few minutes later they arrived in Iqaluit, a town with a population of 6000, on Simons snowmobile. It was two oclock in the afternoon, but it was already...
