Issue dated February 1990 - Mel Crothers penned this article
The northern runway is barely visible through the ice fog and blowing snow as Flight 414, Aircraft 752 with Captain Andre Grenier at the controls descends through 800 feet on final approach. At the tiny airport terminal, a Canadian North ramp crew unloads the cargo; working in the minus 44C weather might bean exceptional hardship in other parts of the world, but for this crew in this northern community its just another day on the job.
Early explorers called this settlement "Great Whale'' after the river on whose banks it nestles on the shore of Hudsons Bay, but it is known by two other names. The Cree call it Whapmagoostui and the lnuit call it Kuujjarapik, which is the formal name now adopted by the community. Located 700 miles north of Montreal with no road access, Kuujjarapik depends on Canadian North as its vital link to the outside world. Dressed for another day in the North is, from left, Elijah Shem, Dillon Salt and Mike Shields.
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