Weekend Video: Tuktoyaktuk, a journey to Canada’s Arctic edge

At the very top of mainland Canada, where the Mackenzie River meets the Beaufort Sea, sits Tuktoyaktuk, a small Inuvialuit hamlet and the northernmost community you can reach by road on the Canadian mainland. The tundra around it is studded with pingos, extraordinary ice-cored hills that swell up from the permafrost, some towering as high as 160 feet. But “Tuk” is no museum piece. It’s a working community built on hunting and fishing, where Inuvialuit traditions still shape daily life and whose history carries scars too, including the influenza brought by American whalers that tested the resilience of the people who call this coast home.

In this week’s Weekend Video, we take a look at life at the edge of the continent.