Weekend Video: Life at the end of the road — a journey to Tuktoyaktuk

For this weekend’s feature, we’re highlighting a powerful short documentary that takes viewers to one of the most remote communities in Canada’s North: Tuktoyaktuk, a small Inuvialuit settlement on the Arctic coast of the Northwest Territories.

In this film by Destination Adventure, we follow the long journey north through the Mackenzie Delta to Tuktoyaktuk — a place that, until recently, was only accessible by ice road or plane. Since the completion of the Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway in 2017, it has become the first place in Canada where you can drive year-round to the Arctic Ocean.

Life in Tuk is shaped by its extreme climate, isolation, and deep cultural roots. Fewer than 1,000 people live there, many of them Inuvialuit. Traditional knowledge and ways of life still define the community, but Tuk is also on the front lines of climate change. Coastal erosion is advancing rapidly — threatening homes, the shoreline, and the very ground the town stands on.

The documentary offers an honest and human look at what it means to live at the edge of the continent. It explores the connection between people and land and the unique challenges of surviving and thriving in the Arctic today.

Watch the full video below: