Canada’s newest capital city is a modest urban outpost smack in the middle of one of the world’s most rugged wildernesses. Along a small grid of streets an Anglican cathedral is shaped like an igloo and the Legislative Building includes modern lines resembling an Inuit sled. Iqaluit curves around the head of Frobisher Bay, a playground for fishing, kayaking and boating in summer, dog-sledding and snowmobiling under winter’s Northern Lights, and cross-country and kite-skiing during long spring days. Arctic hares and foxes, lemmings and snow buntings might make an appearance alongside a seaside trail to the former Hudson’s Bay Company post at Apex or amid tundra wildflowers in Sylvia Grinnell Park.
During summer carvers unleash polar bears and walrus from blocks of stone in the sunshine – make them an offer! Browse Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum and art shops for world class prints, tapestries, handmade jewelry and chic sealskin clothing and mitts. Traditional drum dancers and throat singers interpret the rhythm of the Arctic; join the parties during the Toonik Tyme and Alianait! Festivals. Then introduce your taste buds to something new, from muktuk to musk ox, in a part of Canada where surf ‘n turf means freshly hooked Arctic char and caribou served under the Midnight Sun.
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